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SHATNER GONE MAD DOUBLE-FEATURE!
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SHATNER GONE MAD DOUBLE-FEATURE!
Films to be screened:
THE INTRUDER (1962, directed by Roger Corman, 84 minutes, U.S.)
IMPULSE (1974, directed by William Grefé, 82 minutes, U.S.)
THE INTRUDER (1962, directed by Roger Corman, 84 minutes, U.S.)
IMPULSE (1974, directed by William Grefé, 82 minutes, U.S.)
William Shatner is unforgettable as demagogue Adam Cramer. As the fictional southern town of Caxton struggles with the forthcoming desegregation of their public school, Cramer blows into town to stir up racial resentments, make common cause with the town's newspaper publisher and seduces the local school girls. Will the townspeople see through this incendiary trouble maker?
Shot on location in Southern Missouri with area residents as extras (local authorities were given a heavily-diluted script), THE INTRUDER crackles as an unvarnished portrait of hatred in the Civil Rights-era South and the men who sought to ride it to power. Loosely based on the rabid segregationist John Kasper, THE INTRUDER struck such a dark chord that distributors did not want to handle it, leaving Corman and his brother Gene to schedule its meager bookings. Roger Corman described the film in his autobiography as his only feature to lose money, but in years since the film has been sited as one of Roger Corman's most substantial works and as one of Shatner's greatest performances.
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The early seventies were a low point in William Shatner career, With STAR TREK ending its original run and no new series in the offing, Shatner had to make due with guest shots on assorted prime time programs and TV movies as well as occasional game show appearances. It had been six years since he had a feature film role so it's understandable that in 1974 he could end up in Florida playing the lead in regional filmmaker William Grefé's low-budget crime thriller IMPULSE.
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The early seventies were a low point in William Shatner career, With STAR TREK ending its original run and no new series in the offing, Shatner had to make due with guest shots on assorted prime time programs and TV movies as well as occasional game show appearances. It had been six years since he had a feature film role so it's understandable that in 1974 he could end up in Florida playing the lead in regional filmmaker William Grefé's low-budget crime thriller IMPULSE.
Shatner is sexy Matt Stone, a serial widow seducer who was institutionalized as a child for killing his mother's creepy lover. As one murder leads to another, Stone draws the attention of a sassy 12 year old girl, whose lonely widowed mother won't heed her warnings.
Productions values signal that we're not in Hollywood anymore, but in the trade-off we get to see the less-glamorous side of Tampa, some incredibly garish off-the-rack '70s fashion and Bond villain Harold “Oddjob” Sakata as “Karate Pete.” Ruth Roman from STRANGERS ON A TRAIN also appears in the film, which carries a slight resemblance to Hitchcock's own SHADOW OF A DOUBT.
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