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11 January 1972 (USA)
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An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire. full summary | full synopsis
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STILL scary...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Darren McGavin | ... | Carl Kolchak | |
| Carol Lynley | ... | Gail Foster | |
| Simon Oakland | ... | Tony Vincenzo | |
| Ralph Meeker | ... | Bernie Jenks | |
| Claude Akins | ... | Sheriff Warren A. Butcher | |
| Charles McGraw | ... | Police Chief Ed Masterson | |
| Kent Smith | ... | District Attorney Tom Paine | |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... | Mickey Crawford | |
| Stanley Adams | ... | Fred Hurley | |
| Larry Linville | ... | Dr. Robert Makurji | |
| Jordan Rhodes | ... | Dr. John O'Brien | |
| Barry Atwater | ... | Janos Skorzeny |
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74 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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The role of Skorzeny was intended for Robert Quarry but he was forced to decline due to his contract with AIP.
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Continuity: In the fight in the swimming pool, everyone falls in with their shoes on. When they are shown underwater, everyone is in their stocking feet. When they come out of the water, they all have their shoes back on again.
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District Attorney Tom Paine:
[after a disastrously failed capture attempt of Skorzeny] Well, what are we gonna do?
Carl Kolchak: [from the back of the room] *Now* are you willing to listen to my insane ideas?
Sheriff Warren A. Butcher: [angrily] Kolchak, get out of here!
District Attorney Tom Paine: Warren, hold it, hold it! Kolchak, you were there, weren't you?
Carl Kolchak: Yes.
District Attorney Tom Paine: Every man we've questioned insists not only that Skorzeny was possessed of incredible strength, but that he was shot more than once during the capture attempt.
Carl Kolchak: [sarcastically] Oh, I'd say thirty or forty times.
Police Chief Ed Masterson: I'm sorry, I'm not buying that.
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Carl Kolchak: [from the back of the room] *Now* are you willing to listen to my insane ideas?
Sheriff Warren A. Butcher: [angrily] Kolchak, get out of here!
District Attorney Tom Paine: Warren, hold it, hold it! Kolchak, you were there, weren't you?
Carl Kolchak: Yes.
District Attorney Tom Paine: Every man we've questioned insists not only that Skorzeny was possessed of incredible strength, but that he was shot more than once during the capture attempt.
Carl Kolchak: [sarcastically] Oh, I'd say thirty or forty times.
Police Chief Ed Masterson: I'm sorry, I'm not buying that.
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Referenced in "Supernatural: Free to Be You and Me (#5.3)" (2009)
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Manhattan
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Richard Matheson has scripted some of the finest fantasy to ever grace the screen (big and small) and this one, based on the then-unpublished novel by Jeff Rice, took us all by surprise in 1972. I remember the feeling of unease that crept over me as the tale unfolded that night so long ago. I remember a pale man dressed in black, robbing bloodbanks, and the not-so-heroic reporter who dogged his trail, determined to find the truth of the matter, no matter what the cost. I was mesmerised. And greatly satisfied, on all counts. Try watching this one alone, at night, and you'll experience the sheer terror that only the best fright films can engender.