Bigfoot (film)
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| Directed by | Robert F. Slatzer |
| Produced by | Anthony Cardoza |
| Written by | Robert F. Slatzer |
| Starring | John Carradine John Mitchum Christopher Mitchum |
| Music by | Richard A. Podolor |
| Cinematography | Wilson S. Hong |
| Editing by | Hugo Grimaldi Bud Hoffman |
| Release date(s) | 1970 |
| Running time | 84 minutes |
| Language | English |
Bigfoot is a 1970 horror science fiction film which in spite of its low budget consisted of some well-known actors and family namesakes in the cast.
The film starred John Carradine as "Jasper C. Hawkes", an idealistic and chatty Southern traveling salesman. Robert F. Slatzer directed and Chris Mitchum, Joi Lansing, Doodles Weaver and Lindsay Crosby co-starred. Produced was Anthony Cardoza and the film was a "Gemini-American Production".
Portions of the film were shot in undisclosed mountain wilderness locations where the legendary creature Bigfoot was alleged to have been sighted.
The film is risqué and has sexual implications.
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[edit] Plot
The basic plot involves people who are captured by Big-foot. There is a group of hunters trying to hunt down big foot, bumbling at first, but in terms of rescuing the captured women, and capturing the gigantic 'King of the Woods' alive for public exhibition for profit victorious (with the help of others) in the end. It also involves hip young college people riding cheap imported motorcycles to rescue the captured young women.
In the middle of the film, the skeptical sheriff's department and the ranger's station are notified of the women's disappearance, but to no avail on the part of the authorities with respect to actually searching for the missing women. The unlikely heroes in the very end are a hardy, gun-toting old mountain man who had previously lost one of his arms during a historical encounter (this encounter is not dramatized in this film as a flashback) with the gigantic, erect animal and one of the idiotic dynamite-armed bike riders. The old man hero's wife, an Indian squaw, prophesies "bad medicine" (for Bigfoot, that is) just before the final man-vs.-Bigfoot showdown. Note: some or all of the outdoor scenes may have been shot near Red Bluff in Northern California because the lady (Joi Lansing) piloting the junky-looking airplane calls "Red Bluff Radio" during the distress transmission. Tehama County, CA is mountainous wilderness where some Sasquatch sightings have been known to have occurred.
[edit] Cast
- John Carradine
- Joi Lansing
- Judy Jordan
- John Mitchum
- James Craig
- Christopher Mitchum
- Joy Wilkerson
- Lindsay Crosby
- Ken Maynard
- Dorothy Keller
- Doodles Weaver
- Noble 'Kid' Chissel
- Nick Raymond
- Del 'Sonny' West
- Walt Zachrich
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Bigfoot at the Internet Movie Database
- Bigfoot at AllRovi
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