This movie is truly a best and worst of all things in a single movie. To defend it a bit, it really needs to be seen in the original Cinerama format at a Cinerama theater. It translates poorly otherwise, letterbox or not.

But it is filled with complete crap for plot and dialogue and has some of the worst acting by big name actors I can recall. Karl Malden should have been shot in the opening scenes! The litany of bad acting continues through to the very end.

But flipping back again, it has some very memorable lines as well, one of which I used when I met Karen. After our twenty minutes together I had decided she was the woman I was going to marry and when we left each other at the end of the evening, I told her, "I think I went to see the varmint for the last time." I think it was her first insight into the fact I'm fuckin' nuts but to her credit she said yes to marriage on our next date.

Spaw