Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Yeah. After reading about this movie in sci-fi/horror books over the years, I was disappointed by it.
The actual premise was good - daughter hires gunman to kill the man who murdered her father and brother and he turns out to be a vampire, but they don't do anything with it.
The only person he preys on is the woman, and the two other kills happen offscreen.
In fact, it's only at the end, when the gunfighter dies, is it revealed he's a vampire.
Everything else that happens, he provides a rational explanation for, so, you're left wondering until the end if he really is a vampire, or someone who thinks he is.
Robert Lansing on this evenings episode of "Wagon Train" on the new WEST Channel.
Much like Ian Wolfe and John Hoyt, Robert Lansing looks like he was born middle aged.
Much like Ian Wolfe and John Hoyt, Robert Lansing looks like he was born middle aged.
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Huh? Robert "Gary Seven" Lansing? He never seemed old-looking to me. Kind of craggy-faced, maybe, but robust, even in his '80s or '90s roles.
More than likely, it's probably due to the cigarettes.
Interestingly, Svengoolie has his own version of "guest actors in maybe surprising roles", as you probably already know.
During breaks in the movie, Svengoolie would, among other things, give a brief filmography of the actors who appear in that night's feature film. It's one of the fun features of his show.
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There is a Trekbbs thread called "Theories about Control from Discovery season 2".
I like to joke that Gary Seven, aka Robert Lansing, is the brains behind Discovery's Control, because after all, Robert Lansing was Control in The Equalizer (1980s).
Gary Seven, with help from his alien technology, was able to get around different places and different time periods of Earth. He was in NYC helping Robert McCall in the 1980s; and in the 23rd century, he was the man behind Discovery's Control, naming it after himself.
Well, at least, that was my ridiculous theory about Discovery's Control.
Seriously, Robert Lansing did play the bowtie wearing character, Control, in the original The Equalizer series. That was a really good show.
Paul Carr on last night's "Laramie", followed by William Windom on "Lancer".
John Hoyt is everywhere. I may have told this story before, but one night, when I was channel-surfing, I stumbled onto him in two old shows in a row: The Twilight Zone and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
And, yes, he played a medical examiner on Kolchak.
More recently, I saw him on Have Gun, Will Travel -- playing a frontier doctor, of course.
(It suddenly dawns on me that my family doctor as a kid was named "Dr. Hoyt." Really.)
Hoyt was rather prolific, he was in everything back then, up to including playing the grandpa in "Gimme a Break" in the 80s with a rather unfortunate hairpiece.
See also "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula," starring John Carradine (as Dracula, not Billy the Kid).
Weird Westerns are definitely a subgenre in books these days. I've edited a bunch of them, and recently sold a werewolf western to an anthology of Weird Western tales.
(Heck, stretching the point, there's a Texan cowboy, Quincey Morris, in Bram Stoker's original novel, Dracula, although he tends to get cut out of most of the movie adaptions.)
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Uses to be a comic called Weird Western Tales. Jonah Hex was a main feature.
That was his final role, I believe. Stopped watching it before that, so didn't see him. He was cast to replace Dolph Sweet, who had unfortunately passed away.
And then there's The Valley of Gwangi, which is a cowboy-versus-dinosaurs movie from the sixties.
First saw that one at the drive-in, back in the day.
With Ray Harryhausen dinos, no less, and nifty theme music by Jerome Moross. (Why did I think it was Miklós Rózsa?)
Loved it as a kid. Not sure where I saw it first. Might have been the drive-in. Seems like the type of movies my dad would take us to.
I first saw it at the Valley Drive-In on a triple bill with Trog and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
And, yes, our dad took us to it.
More recently, Svengoolie aired it about a month ago.
I caught Trog on TV. We lived in Japan in the early 70s and I know I didn't see it there. I imagine the dads got a thrill out of the cavegirls in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
