CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Maneater (1973)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Maneater was on the CBS Late Movie on September 26, 1975 and May 9, 1977.

Directed by Vince Edwards — Ben Casey himself — and written by Edwards, Marcus Demian and Jimmy Sangster, Maneater is another retelling of The Most Dangerous Game, this time with two couples — Nick and Gloria Baron (Ben Gazzara and Sheree North) and Shep and Polly (Kip Niven and Laurette Spang) — who are on an RV vacation.

Look, if you go on an RV trip in a 70s movie, you’re dead.

As their camper breaks down, they’re helped by Carl Brenner (Richard Basehart), who is the owner of two tigers. As money is low, he’s been feeding them by causing accidents and having the tigers get a buffet of tourists. But first, he has his wife Paula (Claire Brennen) serve them a rattlesnake dinner. Then he shows them his private camp area and offers it to them, which they should have said no to, because after dinner he was going on about conversation starters like “Men kill for pleasure. Animals kill to survive.”

What follows is cats chasing humans and Ben Gazzara proving that while he’s a city boy, he knows how to survive.

You can watch this on YouTube.

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