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...Nicholson has developed to the point where his mere tears can rouse the same sentiments as his death; yet precisely such a passionate death snapped critics out of their languor toward the previously obscure, drugged-out actor, in 1969's Easy Rider. Hopper and Fonda had written it as a two-wheeled vehicle for themselves, but it was Nicholson who carried the confused, drugged saga out of the multitude of road pictures, playing the only non-hippie, non-redneck in the film, the young smalltown lawyer George Hansen. Hansen leaves home to ride cross-country with these two bikers, donning...
...doesn't approach what the Reagans spend on china. One night, the title thus announced is The Terror. I salivate with delight, in anticipation of true terribleness. The stars' names appear. Boris Karloff. Well, he made a lot of goofs. Sandra Knight. Where have I heard that name? Jack Nicholson...
...Jack Nicholson...
...plot unfolds. Nicholson, in an ill-fitting leftover Civil War uniform, is ostensibly a French lieutenant. Knight plays a girls he falls for, who is in reality a bird Karloff has enchanted. This film is bad. Bad in a big way. What the hell is Jack doing in it? What drugs...
...later learned that he is helping out one of his buddies, and making the only living he could in 1963. Roger Corman, B-movie mogul and director of Nicholson's first picture, Cry-Baby Killer (1958), "directed" The Terror--it was filmed in three days, using leftover sets and props from the recently completed The Raven with Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price...and Nicholson. And Sandra Knight? Jack had married...