Boris Karloff As Himself(Almost)

This is a low budget film originally made by Peter Bogdanovich and was produced by Roger Corman.Corman gave Bogdanovich the chance to make a movie about anything he wanted....and Bogdanovich had to use Boris Karloff on 2 or 3
days in the film.Bogdanovich and his then wife Polly Platt fashioned a script
that ingeniously interwove Karloff's character as a retiring actor of chillers
along with a plot about a war veteran who kills part of his family and a delivery boy at their home.Karloff's character says at one point in the film,
"I feel like a dinosaur.Everbody's dead!"His words are so well acted and written that his character of Byron Orlock seems to be thinking them just as he says them.Peter Bogdanovich said that Karloff stayed on the film longer than
the few days he owed Roger Corman because he realized the quality of the movie
and because it was written especially for him.
This writer owns Targets and knows how great a film it is.It is probably Boris
Karloff's most unique role because he essentially plays himself,but the real
Boris Karloff never considered retiring and worked up until he died in 1969.
To Better Days,
BRAD