tugs@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Hull) (10/01/83)
Dark Star was a student project of (primarily) John Carpenter and Dan
O'Banion. Carpenter directed and did an adequate job; I think that he
is at best an adequate filmmaker, anyway. O'Banion, however, wrote the
script, edited the film, designed the set, starred in it (the chubby bearded
guy with the pet space beachball) and more; I forget all his credits.
Whatever happened to Dan O'Banion? Well, he wrote another science fiction
film a few years later. It's called "Alien"...
Note that Ridley Scott has NOTHING to do with Dark Star - O'Banion is the
connection. He did another film that was released recently, but I can't
remember what. Anyone know?
Orson Welles did a 1934 film called Things to Come?!?!?!
I assume you mean the Raymond Massey flick... I doubt that Welles had
much to do with it, since he was (give or take a year) 18 years old and
a nobody at the time.
A bad film I have fond memories of was a circa-1970 horror flick called
"The Young, the Evil and the Savage". Michael Rennie was a detective
investigating a bunch of bizarre murders at a girls' school - you know,
the usual things like a scythe through the thorax and stuff like that.
One by one you were introduced to the suspects. Could it be the (seemingly)
innocent poor little rich girl? How about the (seemingly) opportunistic
young stud that was courting her? The stereotypical frigid lesbo-bitch
schoolteacher? The wacky comic-relief prankster-nymphette? The lecherous
peeping-Tom gardener? Or maybe even the detective himself?
Who do you think it was?
(*SPOILER*)
Why none other than someone's cousin Clive, who's been in drag all through
the film somewhere on-camera...
Ah, life.
steve hull
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