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A young couple on vacation see a hunter murder another. |
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*[[Gary Clarke]] as Jimmy Grant |
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*[[Steve Ihnat]] as Al |
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*Gordon Mauser as Chuck |
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The film was shot in Oregon in 1958-59 and took a number of years to finish and be released. Mikels said he "even shot some of the scenes in it, shot the smoke jumpers getting into their gear and into the airplane. We had a lot of 4H bombers putting out fires, it was an exciting thing to do."<ref name="tv"/> |
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| ⚫ | Mikels said the movie "could have done good things. It did play theaters and played television. It’s one of these things where you get into distribution and you never know what happens. I never knew what happened to it and I never got any money.... The big problem I had with that was that films were just starting to change over to color. I just couldn’t come up with the money to buy color film instead of black and white and that hurt." However the film helped launch the career of several of the cast and led to Mikels making three movies with Wayne Rogers. <ref name="tv">{{Cite magazine|magazine=Psychotronic Video|url=https://archive.org/details/Psychotronic_Video_32/page/n42/mode/1up?q=%22one+shocking+moment%22+|page=40-41|number=32|title=Ted V Mikels|first=Dale|last=Ashmun|date=2000}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:47, 12 June 2020
Strike Me Deadly is a 1963 American film. It was the first feature directed by Ted V. Mikels. It was originally called Crosshair and was shot in Bend, Oregon in 1959.[1]
Plot
A young couple on vacation see a hunter murder another.
Cast
- Gary Clarke as Jimmy Grant
- Jeannine Riley as Lori Grant
- Steve Ihnat as Al
- Gordon Mauser as Chuck
Production
The film was shot in Oregon in 1958-59 and took a number of years to finish and be released. Mikels said he "even shot some of the scenes in it, shot the smoke jumpers getting into their gear and into the airplane. We had a lot of 4H bombers putting out fires, it was an exciting thing to do."[2]
Reception
Mikels said the movie "could have done good things. It did play theaters and played television. It’s one of these things where you get into distribution and you never know what happens. I never knew what happened to it and I never got any money.... The big problem I had with that was that films were just starting to change over to color. I just couldn’t come up with the money to buy color film instead of black and white and that hurt." However the film helped launch the career of several of the cast and led to Mikels making three movies with Wayne Rogers. [2]
References
- ^ "Ted V Mikels". AV Club.
- ^ a b Ashmun, Dale (2000). "Ted V Mikels". Psychotronic Video. No. 32. p. 40-41.
External links
- Strike Me Deadly at IMDb
- Strike Me Deadly at BFI
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