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Tom Poston carrying a movie?


Fun movie, but I just wondered about Tom Poston as a movie star.

Also, isn't the actress playing Morgana a little rough looking to be playing the femme fatale?

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Poston carried 2 movies in a row for producer-director William Castle...the 1962 American comedy Zotz! ( a rare non horror film for Castle, patterned on The Absent Minded Professor of 1961) and then this 1963 British co production. Perhaps a 2 picture deal? Perhaps Castle saw Poston as the new Fred MacMurray? Poston did have a funny face and a funny voice, some comedy star quality...he had debuted on the Steve Allen comedy show.

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