The Manipulator (1973)
Directed by Yabo Yablonsky
Genres - Drama |
Release Date - Dec 15, 1971 (USA) |
Run Time - 93 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
This cheapo melodrama was filmed in 1971, long before Mickey Rooney's celebrated comeback via The Black Stallion. Rooney plays a looney film director who acts out his fantasies before an audience of one: an ingenue whom he has kidnapped and spirited away to a deserted movie warehouse. "B"-film perennial Luana Anders also appears in this R-rated thriller. Released theatrically in December 1971, B.J. Lang Presents found a home on cable television in the mid-1980s.
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rescue, actor, Britain, capture, disturbance, inheritance, kidnapping, makeup-artist, maniac, orphan, publicity-stunt, troops, victim