It stars Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, and twins Chris and Martin Udvarnoky, with Victor French, John Ritter, and Jenny Sullivan in supporting roles.

Ada has taught Niles to astrally project his mind into the bodies of other living creatures, a spiritual ability that runs in the Perry family; they refer to this as "the Game".

Unfortunately, it's no innocent game, considering it leads to the freak "accidental" death of Cousin Russell, the paralysis of Alexandra, and a fatal heart attack suffered by their neighbor, Mrs. Rowe.

Niles adores the child, but "Holland", whose favorite fairy tale is The Changeling, steals his infant niece, replacing her with an angel-shaped lamp.

Meantime, the posse finds the baby drowned in a wine cask, and an alcoholic Italian immigrant farmhand, Mr. Angelini, is accused of the murder.

But later, when the charred remains of the barn are cleared away, it's revealed that Niles escaped the fire due to "Holland" previously cutting the padlock from the cellar door.

[5] Chris and Martin Udvarnoky auditioned for the roles of Niles and Holland after a grade-school teacher informed their parents about the production.

In an interview for the video essay The Making of The Other, Martin Udvarnoky recalls that Mulligan was mostly a nice director on the set, but that he got a little angry during the filming of a (deleted) swimming scene where the boys were struggling to act due to the cold outdoor weather.

Decades later, on an episode of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Ritter paid tribute to Robert Mulligan in a scene where his character quoted To Kill a Mockingbird.

[8] When the film aired on CBS in the 1970s, the final shot replaces Winnie's line with a voiceover by Niles: "Holland, the game's over.

The voiceover is dubbed by a different child than the actor and may have been edited into the television version to imply that Niles had not gotten away with murder, but was waiting to be taken to a mental health care facility.

Among the film's admirers was Roger Ebert, who wrote in his review, the movie "has been criticized in some quarters because Mulligan made it too beautiful, they say, and too nostalgic.

In the same interview, Tryon also hinted that he initially had been considered to direct the film before Mulligan was hired for the job: "It was all step-by-step up to the point of whether I was going to become a director or not.

Ultimately, they both decided not to pursue careers acting in movies, partially because they were disturbed by the attention which they received from fans when The Other premiered, and also because they preferred to resume normal childhoods.