New On DVD - The Manitou, Keeping Mum, Tideland, The Comedians Of Comedy
THE MANITOU [PG; appealed from R]
Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) has an abnormal growth on the back of her neck, a growth that takes the fetal form of a 400-year-old Native American demon that is growing at an alarming rate. Her friend and psychic huckster Harry Erskine (Tony Curtis) calls upon John Singing Rock (Michael Ansara) to rid Karen of the demon and save mankind. High camp ensues. Curtis’s ham-tastic performance becomes a bit bland after he sheds his “psychic abilities” and becomes just another onlooker with a couple of bright ideas, which is a way one might describe young low-budget writer-director William Girdler and the script of his last film, which was written in three days. Ansara is quite believable as the modern medicine man, but the best performance is by supporting Burgess Meredith with his outstanding deadpan delivery as Doctor of Anthropology Ernest Snow. For late 70s filmmaking, this […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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