Dramatically, I enjoyed how Assault On The Wayne kept revealing bad guys. Just when you think you know all the bad guys, you find out the guy (Lloyd Haynes) from Room 222 is a bad guy too. Nice!
I liked how this made for TV movie was cast because Malachi Throne (the sweater he wore made me suspicious of him) could have easily been a bad guy. But he wasn't. Same for Keenan Wynn. Wynn even gets to wrestle and defeat one of the bad guys, "False Karp." (played by Fairbault, Minnesota's Gordon Hoban).
Apparently Hoban asked the director if it was okay for him to smile every time he had a close-up.
The director said, "Sure, the audience knows you are a bad guy from the get-go, so smile to your heart's content. Just don't smile when you tangle with Keenan Wynn during the final act."
I thought Nimoy did a nice job of acting ill, and the make-up department applied just the right amount of sick looking make-up to his face. And they really went all out covering Keenan Wynn's face with blasting powder. It was like he was in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
I liked how this made for TV movie was cast because Malachi Throne (the sweater he wore made me suspicious of him) could have easily been a bad guy. But he wasn't. Same for Keenan Wynn. Wynn even gets to wrestle and defeat one of the bad guys, "False Karp." (played by Fairbault, Minnesota's Gordon Hoban).
Apparently Hoban asked the director if it was okay for him to smile every time he had a close-up.
The director said, "Sure, the audience knows you are a bad guy from the get-go, so smile to your heart's content. Just don't smile when you tangle with Keenan Wynn during the final act."
I thought Nimoy did a nice job of acting ill, and the make-up department applied just the right amount of sick looking make-up to his face. And they really went all out covering Keenan Wynn's face with blasting powder. It was like he was in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.