Sunday, February 2, 2014
Night Slaves (1970)
In the made-for-television movie Night Slaves, James Franciscus plays Clay Howard, a middle class businessman who is involved in a car accident that
leaves him with a metal plate holding his skull together. As bad as this
is, he and his wife, Marjorie (played by Lee Grant) are having marriage
trouble - unbeknownst to Clay, Marjorie and his friend Matt (Scott
Marlowe) are having an affair and Marjorie is planning to leave Clay.
But because of the accident, Marjorie accompanies Clay on an r-and-r
road trip vacation, which lands them in what seems to be a relaxing
little small tourist town. Little do they realize that some odd things
have been going on in this town - the townspeople all seem to become
zombies at night, congregating in town before being driven off in groups for some mysterious purpose. Everyone is affected, even Marjorie - everyone except Clay. In addition, a mysterious woman appears
who seems to be involved with those responsible for the strange events -
and Clay finds himself falling in love with her. Leslie Nielsen
co-stars as the town's sheriff, and Andrew Prine appears as a local who
seems to also be involved with the late night conspiracy.
This is such a wonderful movie. I wish it was on dvd officially. They released Sweet Hostage on dvd why not Night Slaves!
ReplyDeleteNight Slaves is available on ioffer.com. No idea as to quality as I ordered it only yesterday!
ReplyDeleteI recorded it way back in mid 1980s. One of my favourite JF films and what a great cast. Soon it will be the 50th anniversary - so let's hope a Blu Ray release celebrates this important occasion.
ReplyDeleteWe can have a commentary with Andrew Prine, Lee Grant and Tisha Sterling...
I bought the best quality copy I could find from RareDVDs.Biz. I would rate its quality as a solid B on an A - D scale.
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