Scott believes that Tanner is a superhuman and pleads for his life, but panics and is shot by the police. Surviving yet another attack, Tanner returns to the research center and confronts Talbot Scott with the police close behind. Van Zandt is revealed to be an ally of Hart, but is also murdered. Desperate to uncover the truth, he travels to Hallson's hometown and learns that Adam Hart is a superhuman, with different people providing different descriptions of his appearance and others still obeying commands that Hart gave them years earlier.Īs Tanner and Lansing search for the other committee members, Melnicker is murdered while Nordlund apparently survives another psychic assault by Hart. Tanner then suffers bizarre hallucinations and narrowly survives a psychic assault on his life. In fact, all records documenting his past have been inexplicably erased. Tanner speculates that a superhuman could exist with capabilities far in advance of normal humans, but Talbot Scott denies the possibility.Īs the police investigate Hallson's murder, Tanner immediately becomes the prime suspect when it is found that he apparently lied about his distinguished academic credentials. Hallson's widow Sally Hallson tells Jim Tanner that 'Adam Hart' was the name of her husband's childhood friend. Later that night, Hallson is found murdered in the laboratory's human centrifuge, with the name 'Adam Hart' scrawled on a piece of paper in his office. Stating that the test subject will never reveal himself, Hallson insists that all of them concentrate on it together, which sends the wheel spinning.

Melnicker suggests a telekinesis test using a simple psi wheel. When no one admits to having Hallson's theorized powers, Dr.

Hallson announces that someone on the committee possesses a super-intellect beyond human measurement, capable of controlling other human minds, including those of the committee. Norman Van Zandt, and government liaison Arthur Nordlund. Hallson reveals his findings at a meeting with chairman and biologist Dr. Henry Hallson, an anthropologist on the committee, has designed a series of anonymous questionnaires to screen people with greater survival capacity, using other committee members as preliminary subjects. The Committee on Human Endurance researches the human body's ability to survive pain and physical stress as part of the space program. The storyline concerns a hunt to find a man who seems to have the ability to control or slay others with his mind. It is based on the 1956 science fiction novel The Power by Frank M. The Power is a 1968 American Tech noir, science fiction thriller film from MGM, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin (his final film), that stars George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette.

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