Nightmare Honeymoon
Brief Synopsis
Rural killers threaten a young married couple.
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Elliott Silverstein
Director
Dack Rambo
Rebecca Dianna Smith
Dennis Burkley
Richard O'brien
Pat Hingle
Film Details
Also Known As
Deadly Honeymoon
MPAA Rating
Genre
Crime
Horror
Release Date
1972
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 28m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Metrocolor)
Synopsis
Vietnam veteran David Webb has just married his fiancé, an heiress named Jill. While the newlyweds are on their honeymoon, they witness a murder and Jill is raped by two men. This brings David's military training back into action as he vows revenge against the men who attacked his bride.
Director
Elliott Silverstein
Director
Cast
Dack Rambo
Rebecca Dianna Smith
Dennis Burkley
Richard O'brien
Pat Hingle
Jim Boles
Bob Steele
Angela Clark
Roy Jenson
David Huddleston
John Beck
Patrick Cranshaw
Jay Robinson
Jack Perkins
Dennis Patrick
Crew
Harold Adamson
Song
Philip Barber
Art Director
Paul Baxley
Stunt Coordinator
Hugh Benson
Producer
James Berkey
Set Decorator
Elmer Bernstein
Music
Lawrence Block
Source Material (From Novel)
Roy Budd
Song
Sammy Cahn
Song
Richard Cobos
Makeup
Dennis Fill
Costumes
Jim Henderling
Production Manager
Jerry Jost
Sound
Ronald Martinez
Assistant Director
Jimmy Mchugh
Song
S. Lee Pogostin
Screenplay
Cole Porter
Song
Jack Roe
Assistant Director
Gilda Singleton
Costumes
Frederic Steinkamp
Editor
Harry Stradling Jr.
Director Of Photography
Harry W. Tetrick
Sound
James Van Heusen
Song
Film Details
Also Known As
Deadly Honeymoon
MPAA Rating
Genre
Crime
Horror
Release Date
1972
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 28m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Metrocolor)
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Nightmare Honeymoon
Rural killers threaten a young married couple.
Nightmare Honeymoon
Rural killers threaten a young married couple.
Patrick Cranshaw (1919-2005)
Born on June 17, 1919 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Cranshaw became interested in acting while entertaining the troops with the Army Air Forces during World War II. After the war, he worked in radio, and slogged his way though bit parts in a few films before landing his first notable (if still uncredited) part as a bartender in the Claudette Colbert western Texas Lady (1955). It took a while before he got his next strong part, but he was memorable in his brief scene as the fidgety bank teller in Arthur Penn's classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967); and appeared as a hayseed in some wildly bad camp fare such as Mars Need Women and Hip, Hot and 21 (also 1967).
But so what if the good movie roles weren't coming? Cranshaw, with his small, expressive eyes, crinkled smile, and scraggly white beard, made for an ideal comic foil in sitcoms; and anyone with a passing interest for spotting character actors can't help but be impressed with his resume on that medium in the '70s: (The Odd Couple, Sanford and Son, The Bob Newhart Show, Mork and Mindy); the '80s: (The Dukes of Hazzard, Growing Pains, Perfect Strangers, Night Court, Diff'rent Strokes); '90s: (Coach, Ellen, Married...with Children, Just Shoot Me!, The Drew Carey Show); and even the 21st century: (Suddenly Susan, Monk).
Most impressively, Cranshaw should serve as model for all struggling actors that sheer persistency can pay off when you're hungry for some good roles in motion pictures, for he was in well in his seventies when he started gaining some decent screen time in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), and Best in Show (2000). However, his most memorable moment in film came in the Will Ferrell/Vince Vaughn comedy Old School (2003). Here he played a octogenarian frat boy named Blue; and in one terrific sequence, he's dressed in his longjohns ready to wrestle two topless girls but dies of a heart attack due to overexcitement! He may have not won an Oscar® for his performance, but he developed something of cult following after that great comic turn.
Most recently, he played a Derby owner with Lindsay Lohan and Matt Dillon in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005); and just completed the movie Air Buddies due for release next year. Cranshaw is survived by three children, Jan Ragland, Joe Cranshaw and Beverly Trautschold; his sister, Billie Gillespie; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
by Michael T. Toole
Patrick Cranshaw (1919-2005)
Patrick Cranshaw, the grizzly American character actor who spent the last four decades playing a series of old sidekicks and comic relief in such diverse movies as Bonnie and Clyde (1967) to last year's hit summer film Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), died of natural causes on December 28 at his Fort Worth, Texas home. He was 86.
Born on June 17, 1919 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Cranshaw became interested in acting while entertaining the troops with the Army Air Forces during World War II. After the war, he worked in radio, and slogged his way though bit parts in a few films before landing his first notable (if still uncredited) part as a bartender in the Claudette Colbert western Texas Lady (1955). It took a while before he got his next strong part, but he was memorable in his brief scene as the fidgety bank teller in Arthur Penn's classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967); and appeared as a hayseed in some wildly bad camp fare such as Mars Need Women and Hip, Hot and 21 (also 1967).
But so what if the good movie roles weren't coming? Cranshaw, with his small, expressive eyes, crinkled smile, and scraggly white beard, made for an ideal comic foil in sitcoms; and anyone with a passing interest for spotting character actors can't help but be impressed with his resume on that medium in the '70s: (The Odd Couple, Sanford and Son, The Bob Newhart Show, Mork and Mindy); the '80s: (The Dukes of Hazzard, Growing Pains, Perfect Strangers, Night Court, Diff'rent Strokes); '90s: (Coach, Ellen, Married...with Children, Just Shoot Me!, The Drew Carey Show); and even the 21st century: (Suddenly Susan, Monk).
Most impressively, Cranshaw should serve as model for all struggling actors that sheer persistency can pay off when you're hungry for some good roles in motion pictures, for he was in well in his seventies when he started gaining some decent screen time in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), and Best in Show (2000). However, his most memorable moment in film came in the Will Ferrell/Vince Vaughn comedy Old School (2003). Here he played a octogenarian frat boy named Blue; and in one terrific sequence, he's dressed in his longjohns ready to wrestle two topless girls but dies of a heart attack due to overexcitement! He may have not won an Oscar® for his performance, but he developed something of cult following after that great comic turn.
Most recently, he played a Derby owner with Lindsay Lohan and Matt Dillon in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005); and just completed the movie Air Buddies due for release next year. Cranshaw is survived by three children, Jan Ragland, Joe Cranshaw and Beverly Trautschold; his sister, Billie Gillespie; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
by Michael T. Toole
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Released in United States 1972
Released in United States 1972
