secure additional French funding. Lemaire gives a strong, haunted performance but it’s one ingre- dient too many for an already teeming stew. Klaus von Rautenfeld’s camerawork has a real sense of spectacle, ranging from a panorama of charging elephants to a beautifully composed shot of Ann Smyrner walking into the ocean at magic hour. Add to this a finely supportive score by Gino Marinuzzi, Jr. (PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES) and you have a somewhat uneven but still superbly entertaining second-tier pulp adventure. Anolis seems alert to this film’s particular im- portance by selecting it for a full commentary by Brad Harris, who meets the challenge in a gre- garious, candid, talkative mood. Aged 78 at the time of the recording, Harris talks at length about the filming and his relationships with Kendall (evi- dently every bit the ladies’ man he portrays in this series), Vadis (whose involvement with heroin, first as a seller and later as an addict, had already started when this film was shot), “Siggy” Rauch and also his various leading la- dies, including some surprising revelations about
REPTILICUS star Ann Smyrner’s devotion to the Occult and a mystic amulet she wore. Harris is also forthright about his differences with Zehetgruber (“an asshole”), which led him to threaten to walk off the picture unless he could direct the stunt and action sequences as he saw fit. He also speaks generously about his fans, his dislike of smoking (the cause of the running ciga- rette-borrowing gag in the series) and celebrities who sell autographs at conventions. He also speaks truthfully about getting older, the bittersweetness of looking back at his younger self doing physical things he can no longer do, and the “sacred” time he reserves for himself each day. It’s also a plea- sure to eavesdrop on his enjoyment at seeing the quality of the disc’s image restoration. In one of the most amusing parts of the track, Harris remi- nisces about a thwarted plan of his and Parolini’s to make a film based on POPEYE, which leads to him commenting on Robert Altman’s POPEYE with Robin Williams: “Robert (sic) Williams is a very good actor, but the director of that was no Gianfranco Parolini!”
Tony Kendall discovers that someone has made a layaway plan for Jo Walker in this coffin shop in SO DARLING, SO DEADLY.
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