Gorgeously odd opening titles.

Kicks ass. That is all.

Title song sung by "Cristy", who is giving it 500%

God damn it, I wish I still had the Chevy Chase colouring book version I did, it got blitzed two hard drives ago.

The Miami Vice thing is funny because every pic I've ever seen of you, you do look like some former crim/cop turned actor Mann would hire for authenticity to barge into an interrogation cell and push somebody off a chair.

(compliment and I don't mean the really ugly one from Thief)

I love that whole period where he was just going all out making extremely horned up Hitchcockian thrillers with his own va-va-voom to make it fresh.

Scarface jammed smack bang in the middle of it all.

It's worth pointing out, it COULD have been the third "Night of..."

My original intention for halloween was a double bill of Night of the Comet, followed by Night of the Creeps. It would have been DOUBLE THE SCHLOCK FUN.

However, Comet isn't streaming. SHITE

I haven't! What I know of the film comes mainly from Simon Callow's biography of Laughton and various articles and bits I've read over the years.

The film was barely promoted by a studio that didn't understand it ("Can we not film it in colour?"), critically reviled and a commercial failure.

He was heartbroken by it all and simply returned to acting.

I think it makes perfect sense, he's a child, he's overwhelmed, he's frozen up, he's reliving the moment he last saw his dad, etc.

Kid shouldn't have had to deal with ANY of this.

That was kind of deliberate in the casting of Mitchum, he was supposed to be attractive and charismatic.