The Manitou
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Jon Cedar, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens, Susan Strasberg, Tony Curtis Brand: Fox DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 104 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-03-06 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay |
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Movie Reviews of The Manitou
Movie Review: Ed Wood Lives! And it was obviously this bad while they were filming...
Summary: 1 Stars
The Manitou is one of the worst films ever made, "The Manitou" has now been released on DVD, which proves that if it's 90 minutes and in color with sound that just about anything can become immortal. William Girdler was the heir to Ed Wood's legacy in the truly bad movies hall of fame. Tragically, he was killed in a helicopter accident just after finishing the Manitou. This DVD release may help reacquaint the current generation of filmgoers with just how ludicrous a film can be while maintaining a straight face. If these guys had not taken themselves so seriously they might have made the Indian Medicine Man version of "Airplane".
I mention all this because I was a guest on the set of The Manitou for a few days during production -- I knew one of the crew members and hung around while they filmed various scenes with Tony Curtis and Burgess Meredith. I also managed to get myself thrown off the set and off the lot, on the director's orders, for commenting within earshot of the screenwriter that "...it all seems like Tonto meets the Exorcist to me." Dejected, I went back into Hollywood and went to the second day performance of a new film showing at the Mann's Chinese, "Star Wars".
This is a truly awful film in that wonderful Ed Wood kind of way -- the quotes and sound bites are worth the price of the DVD just to hear actors actually say such things. And it was obviously this bad even standing there as they were filming...