We have been staying in a hotel called The Legacy.
The name immediately brings to mind that 1978 schlocker, of the same name, starring occasional actor but forever frontman of The Who, one Roger Daltrey.
Daltrey's most famous part in the film is the tracheotomy using a kitchen knife and a biro. I think he'd swallowed a chicken bone. Needless to say, he doesn't survive the operation on the dining room floor, making the number of relatives left at the film's will reading one fewer.
The central protagonists in The Legacy are a young couple on a motorbike, one moustachioed Sam Elliott and actress Katherine Ross, an on-screen couple who later married in real life!
I enjoy these old deathbed movies, where the family is summoned to hear the will. Dementia 13 is another stranger one and a slightly different take is Frogs, where the family gathers for Patriarch Ray Milland's birthday in the bayou. Its ribbeting!
Have you seen any of these readers?
All of them.Love 'em
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DeleteThere were a series of murder mysteries I saw in the states—70s-80s
ReplyDeleteGeneric fare…one killer liked to use blunt instruments. Footage of a hammer rising and falling—but one fast dispatch lingered. The killer grabbed a heavy statue of Buddha in a rag and killed in one blow.
Can’t remember the title—from the UK…
Don't know that one, sounds interesting though.
DeleteFROGS rocks! Saw it in the theater on a ecofriendly double bill with GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER! Oh Happy Days! SFZ
ReplyDeleteOh yes! Now that's a double-bill I would have liked too SF! You get the popcorn! I can't believe that our local Cineworld in Castleford is closing down soon! Closing cinemas is like burning books to me!
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