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Above are stills from The Intruder, the first film Shatner starred in. Shatner plays a race-baiting son of a bitch who goes to a small southern town during desegregation and whips the local populace into a frenzy. Directed by B-movie king Roger Corman (Death Race 2000, Battle Beyond the Stars, countless others), this film is noted as being the only Corman-directed project he lost money on. I really ought to watch this flick sometime, as I've seen multiple critics online claim The Intruder is the best work of both men.
Oh, Billy-boy, we thought we knew ya!
ReplyDeleteSomething of a Shatner afficinado myself, I am sorry to say I've been aware of this film but never seen it. I'll have to redouble my efforts to locate this picture.
ReplyDeleteHa! that's nearly ironic, considering he did the first interacial TV kiss on Star Trek.
ReplyDeleteJust watched it. It's a good movie. And in the end the intruder somehow gets what he deserves. Though it could have got much worse for that little a..hole he plays. And he plays it well. :)
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Best must be mighty relative cause I don't see how some drama can be better than "Death Race 2000". For me it's saying apples are better than oranges when bananas are clearly superior.
ReplyDeleteYou people HAVEN"T seen it? For shame. Corman was intensely proud of this, made at the height of the Civil Rights movement. The town is real. The extras are real townspeople. The whole movie's versimilitude is downright spooky. And they apparently thought Shatner was the HERO of the movie... until the cops caught on towards the end of filming, and ran Corman and Shatner and company out of town!
ReplyDeleteShatner has never done anything better than this movie.
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