Tag: 1971

The man named Matt Cavanaugh who wrote this doesn’t exist. It’s really Willie Gilbert, the author and playwright. After he left Cleveland for New York City, he discovered that his physician, Jack Weinstock, shared his dream of becoming a writer. They wrote for nightclub performers, Broadway reviews on early TV shows like Howdy Doody and Tom Corbett, […]

Qualcosa Striscia nel Buio may mean Something Crawls in the Dark, but the inexact translation of the original title is what it was played in the U.S. as. A group of travelers heads out into a foreboding evening — it’s a cold, dark night — when they realize that a washed-out bridge means they’re all finding […]

Shot in Hollywood, Florida, this tale of Stanley (Wayne Crawford, under the name Scott Lawrence; he also wrote Valley Girl, Barracuda and Jake Speed) and Paul (Abe Zwick in his lone acting role) begins after they escape from Baltimore and go on the lam. Paul begins to dress in drag and act as Stanley’s Aunt Martha while falling […]

La bestia uccide a sangue freddo (The Beast Kills In Cold Blood) was made by a director — Fernando Di Leo (Blood And Diamonds) — who claimed that he “didn’t have Dario Argento’s talent of believing in the absurd” and claimed that as he written the script himself “…I knew it would not be a […]