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    Eegah (1962)

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    One night while driving home, hapless Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) almost runs down a giant caveman who has survived in a cave in the Californian desert with his mummified relatives for millennia.

    She screeches to a halt and faints at the sight of the colossal Eegah (Richard Kiel) dressed in furs and a clearly glued-on beard and swinging a plastic club.

    Roxy tells her musician boyfriend Tommy Nelson (Arch Hall Jr) all about the giant she saw. Meanwhile, Eegah kidnaps Roxy’s fantasy book writer Dad (Arch Hall Sr) and takes him to his cave (which is clearly made of canvas and filled with badly-carved mannequins supposed to be his long-dead kin).

    Tommy and Roxy go into the hills in his home-made dune buggy to find and save Mr Miller. But the horny caveman has other plans for racy Roxy and proceeds to terrorise the couple and the rest of Palm Springs.

    The movie was filmed for just $15,000 in 14 days at Bronson Canyon, a cave complex in the hills above Hollywood.

    Arch Hall Sr had the idea for the film when he met 7’2″ Richard Kiel who was working as a bouncer at a cowboy bar at the time.

    Kiel would go on to fame as ‘Jaws’ from the James Bond movie franchise.

    Hall devised, wrote and directed the film specifically as a vehicle for his son, Arch Hall Jr.

    Unfortunately, the boy is pudgy and rather unfortunate looking, can’t act, can’t sing, and can’t do action.

    Eegah is silly, goofy, stupid and cheap. The dialogue is horrible and poorly dubbed, very little happens, the characters are all annoying, production values are rock bottom and the acting is really really bad.

    No wonder it was voted one of the Worst Movies of All Time.

    Tommy Nelson
    Arch Hall Jr
    Roxy Miller
    Marilyn Manning
    Eegah
    Richard Kiel
    Dr Miller
    Arch Hall Sr (as William Watters)
    George
    Bob Davis
    George’s Wife
    Addalyn Pollitt
    Detective
    Ron Shane
    Kruger
    William Lloyd
    Mr Fishman
    Ray Steckler
    Band Members
    Clay Stearns
    Deke Lussier

    Director
    Arch Hall Sr (as Nicholas Merriwether)

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