Product: Dain Curse [VHS] (1978)
Rating: 3.0
OK BUT AMATEURISH
The origonal story from the same writer of THE MALTESE FALCON----though this a very much 1970s tv show/mini-series, not some 1930s/40s poverty row movie.this five hour tv movie would have been a better 90 minute poverty row movie, with its murder story, religious cult, and drug addiction. james coburn sobering up in the cult's building, after being drugged, has none of the mood of the 40s MURDER MY SWEET similar drug scene.This is a very pre-MIAMI VICE looking movie, when all tv movies had lousy, banal, photography; this mini-series, set in the 20s, has the mood and photography of a typical contemporary 1970s cop show, or maybe a MASTERPIECE THEATER episode.The actor who would later play Data on STAR TREK has a small part opposite jean simmmons. And part of this mini-series was filmed in rural Pennsylvania.