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Subject: MOTEL HELL
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 20:30:27 EST
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                                MOTEL HELL
                      A film review by Mark R. Leeper

       Tarzan knew where the Elephant's Graveyard was.  That was the place
where old elephants go to die.  Old actors go to horror films.  Rory Calhoun,
heartthrob of early Fifties westerns and later "The Texan" TV series, pops up
in MOTEL HELL as Farmer Vincent.  He has his makes his money by running the
Motel Hello and by making and distibuting Farmer Vincent's Smoked Meats.  His
meats are so good not because he puts a little of himself in his work, but
because he puts a lot of other people in it.  In the grand tradition of
Sweeney Todd, Farmer Vincent's secret ingredient is human flesh.
       It seems the good farmer catches people, cuts their vocal cords, buries
them in the ground, and force feeds them until they are ready to "become
famous." It is a gruesome black comedy with a few really nice comic touches.
Calhoun has a grand time of it, apparently playing his part as if he were
dressing up in a sheet and going "boo!"  If you don't concentrate too hard on
the horror of the situation, this film is a lot of fun.

					(Evelyn C. Leeper for)
					Mark R. Leeper
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