![]() ![]() Steiger's baroque performance as the man whose very skin is haunted. It also is so thinly structured that it simply cannot contain Mr. Kreitsek's screenplay is unsharp, without focus, working into and out of the hallucinations with great awkwardness. I suspect they always tell better than they read, and read better than they play in dramatized form.Mr. Bradbury's stories, at their best, are ironic comments on the contemporary scene projected into a nightmare future at their worst, they are hoked up O. It's the one about the paranoid parents in some future time, whose two, zombie-like children trap them in a very chic, environmental playroom.The other two stories concern a crew that has been spacewrecked on a distant planet and a pair of concerned parents facing the end of the world.Mr. Carl alternately bullies Willie and hypnotizes him, slowly forcing the young man into living out the hallucinations that are suggested by the tattoos.Of the three stories dramatized here, I can recall only the first (and the best) from the original Bradbury book. Carl (Rod Steiger) wanders into a lovely valley where he meets Willie (Robert Drivas), a young man working his way to California. ![]() ![]() "The Illustrated Man" is set in the frame of a not-so-distant past. CARL, a hobo who is tattooed from head to foot, is a walking anthology of horror stories that are no more than skin deep.Like the Ray Bradbury tales from which Howard B. ![]()
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