Elliott Reid (THE WHIP HAND, FLUBBER)
A Mercury Theater player turned comic actor, maybe best known around here as the thorn in Fred MacMurray's side in the two FLUBBER movies. He starred in director William Cameron Menzies' borderline...
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Oh, wow, I thought he was long gone. He was great in the FLUBBER movies. He did ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS & HOUR, THE MUNSTERS, THE WILD WILD WEST, TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, SMALL WONDER.
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I never heard of The Whip Hand. I have to check that out. Menzies was a weird ass filmmaker. i just read the brief write up of it in Wikipedia. Oh, man. They should have kept the original ending.
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Sorry to hear this, even though I was under the impression that Mr. Reid had left us a while back. THE WHIP HAND is a strange but entertaining film that actually takes place in Minnesota rather than...
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Oops -- thank you! I'll fix it above. He was so good at smug, snarky, hard-to-take characters that, when I contacted him, I didn't know what to expect. What I got was ... like ... the warmest guy on...
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Reid at his love-to-hate-him best: Go to YouTube, put in "Wild Wild West Night of the Sudden Plague" and go to 3:05.
View ArticleRe: Elliott Reid (THE WHIP HAND, FLUBBER)
What you describe, Tom, sounds like dementia brought on by a non-paralyzing stroke.
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