Paul Mantee R.I.P.
11-11-13, 08:07 PM
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Paul Mantee R.I.P.
Just read that the star of Robinson Crusoe On Mars passed on Nov 7th. He was 82.
I met him and his RCoM co-star Victor Lundin (83, who passed in July this year) at a SD ComiCon many years ago. Both were very approachable and appreciated their fans. Spent about an hour just shooting the breeze with them.
I met him and his RCoM co-star Victor Lundin (83, who passed in July this year) at a SD ComiCon many years ago. Both were very approachable and appreciated their fans. Spent about an hour just shooting the breeze with them.
11-12-13, 01:50 PM
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Re: Paul Mantee R.I.P.
Just read that the star of Robinson Crusoe On Mars passed on Nov 7th. He was 82.
I met him and his RCoM co-star Victor Lundin (83, who passed in July this year) at a SD ComiCon many years ago. Both were very approachable and appreciated their fans. Spent about an hour just shooting the breeze with them.
I met him and his RCoM co-star Victor Lundin (83, who passed in July this year) at a SD ComiCon many years ago. Both were very approachable and appreciated their fans. Spent about an hour just shooting the breeze with them.
Mantee went on to play standard-issue crime show villains on TV in the '70s and '80s and once wrote an article for TV Guide about how limiting it was to get typecast that way and how you could never bring anything different to the role.
P.S. I just remembered that he was one of the villains in Phil Karlson's FRAMED (1975) and Joe Don Baker tortures him--and worse--in what is arguably the film's most memorable scene.
Last edited by Ash Ketchum; 11-13-13 at 09:34 AM.
11-13-13, 07:18 AM
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Re: Paul Mantee R.I.P.
RIP
grew up watching this film (as well as Robinson Crusoe on Mars) on TV. Directed by Richard Rush. And even though he is the star he is 4th billed??
It also has one of the best "The End" of all time
grew up watching this film (as well as Robinson Crusoe on Mars) on TV. Directed by Richard Rush. And even though he is the star he is 4th billed??
It also has one of the best "The End" of all time
11-13-13, 03:26 PM
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Re: Paul Mantee R.I.P.
This film is included in one of those "Coming from MGM" promotional ads made for theater owners. TCM shows it from time to time between movies. I've had TCM since 1998 and they've never shown it once. Waiting on Warner Archive.
11-13-13, 04:07 PM
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Re: Paul Mantee R.I.P.
The cast of A MAN CALLED DAGGER was a turn-off back in 1968. I mean, Jan Murray? Sue Ane Langdon? These were TV comedy actors. Who wanted to see them in an action movie? Terry Moore we only knew from when she was a teenager in MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, made 20 years earlier and seen only on TV. Mantee we only knew from ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. None of us felt compelled to see this back then. Besides, the secret agent craze had already died down, esp. after 5 Bond films, 4 Matt Helm films, 3 Harry Palmer films, 2 Flint films, etc., etc., etc.
