In peeling the onion, you start to understand, at the same time that he does, that this is a vampire. "It was the perfect story," he says, "you cared about Kolchak. Curtis is now trying for a Kolchak theater movie, possibly starring Bruce Willis (Darren McGavin suffered a stroke 2 years ago and died 2-25-06).
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Both movies directed by Dan Curtis, who now does documentaries for A&E on alien abductions, monsters, gangsters, government cover-ups, etc.ĭan Curtis had just finished making the gothic tv series Dark Shadows and liked the concept, though he didn't think the series would make it (indeed, it was cancelled after just 20 episodes) and only directed the pilot-movies. Also with John Carradine, Wally Cox, Margaret Hamilton.
He stays immortal so long as he drains liquid from the brain of freshly-killed victims every 24 years. Richard Anderson guest stars as a 150 year old man who lives in an abandoned underground city beneath Seattle (a section of old town was paved over due to flooding and is now a tourist attraction). And I'd always wanted to write a good vampire story, but I wanted to make it contemporary." I started thinking about writing a story about Las Vegas. "There was a certain remoteness to Las Vegas, and in that period of time it was just an enclosed little world. Rice said that Las Vegas, a relatively remote, isolated desert community, seemed a perfect hunting-ground for vampires. Matheson based the script on a 1970 story "The Kolchak Papers" by Jeff Rice, a reporter based in Las Vegas.
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Script by Richard Matheson of Twilight Zone fame and the Spielberg movie Duel. Sent out on normal assignments, he would instead run across vampires, werewolves, zombies, a mummy, a secret military android, etc.Īssigned to a murder spree in Las Vegas, Carl Kolchak discovers something so strange (vampires) that when the story comes out, he and his boss are fired (ends with them driving out of Las Vegas). Darren McGavin narrated the movies and tv episodes while starring as an Art Bell-type reporter stuck working for a second-rate news service out of Chicago, with Simon Oakland as his short-tempered and skeptical boss. The series premiered in September 1974 on Friday the 13th. There were two pilot-movies for "Kolchak the Night Stalker" tv series, in 19. This page is dedicated to Darren McGavin (real name William Lyle Richardson), from his first movie in 1945 to his recuring role on The X Files as their founder, Arthur Dales. Kolchak, the Night Stalker Kolchak, The Night Stalker
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