The best known film from director Arch Hall, probably because of Richard Kiel’s presence in the title role. He’s a cave man who falls in love with a pretty girl and kidnaps her and her father (Hall), then has to fight off her boyfriend (Hall Jnr). The film has its charms: Kiel’s performance (he’s charismatic and quite touching), the fact Hall Snr cast his chubby cheeked son in the romantic lead role (he sings a few Ricky Nelson type songs), and there are some fun scenes like when Kiel tries shaving and dad tells his daughter “to go along with” the molesting cave man. But it goes on too long to be really entertaining; after a while it’s just plain inept.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Movie review – “Eagh” (1962) *
The best known film from director Arch Hall, probably because of Richard Kiel’s presence in the title role. He’s a cave man who falls in love with a pretty girl and kidnaps her and her father (Hall), then has to fight off her boyfriend (Hall Jnr). The film has its charms: Kiel’s performance (he’s charismatic and quite touching), the fact Hall Snr cast his chubby cheeked son in the romantic lead role (he sings a few Ricky Nelson type songs), and there are some fun scenes like when Kiel tries shaving and dad tells his daughter “to go along with” the molesting cave man. But it goes on too long to be really entertaining; after a while it’s just plain inept.
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