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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Zelazny movies?
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 23:38:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 23:38:44 1985
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> 
> In 'Jack Of Shadows' (Roger Zelazny) the author description page noted 
> that out of his 26 books one has been made into a movie and another has 
> been sold to be made into a movie.  Does anyone know anything about either 
> of these?
> 
>                                         Brad Brilliant
> 
> ....................

I'm a week behind on reading SF-LOVERS, so if someone posted a response
to this already, please forgive the redundancy...

Unfortunately, Zelazny's "Damnation Alley" was made into a movie
starring George Pappard and Jean-Michael Vincent...

...It was a rather silly rendition (in my opinion) that was originally
to be slated as "Survival Run," but at the last moment the producers
decided that "Damnation Alley" wasn't that bad of a title after all...

Anyway, the movie took rather large liberties with the book (which I
enjoyed, if someone wants to gauge my opinion of the movie based
on that :-) ) and added alot of goofy SFX and and neat truck....

...the movie was, however, not a waste of time and fairly enjoyable...
not, I assume, for the reasons that the producers intended, but rather
for reasons that we all enjoy Godzilla movies...For instance, we get
to here George Peppard say wonderful things like: "Look Out! They're
'Killer Cockroaches' Repeat: 'Killer Cockroaches'!!!!" without
so much as cracking a smile....


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