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Haunts of the Very Rich

USA 1972
produced by
Lillian Gallo for ABC
directed by Paul Wendkos
starring Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Edward Asner, Anne Francis, Tony Bill, Donna Mills, Robert Reed, Moses Gunn, Phyllis Hill, Michael Lembeck, Susan Foster, Beverly Gill, Todd Martin, Sammy Jackson
screenplay by William P.Wood, based on a story by T.K.Brown III, music by Dominic Frontiere, art direction by Eugène Lourié

review by
Dale Pierce

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Seven vacationers agree to be flown to a tropical paradise/resort, even though they are not told exactly where they are. Fantasy Island it isn't, as things continually start to go wrong, turning this place into a virtual, then finally, literal, hell.

After varied inconveniences and mishaps, the guests start to piece things together. It seems each of them has had a "near death" experience which they somehow survived. 

Or did they? 

Each of the incidents could well have proven fatal. Are these people starting to lose their minds due to surrounding circumstances or are they, in fact, dead and damned for varied sins ? Unless you are a rich bastard yourself, you will probably find yourself mumbling, good enough for the rich bastards.

The ending is a promised explosion that delivers only a fizzle rather than a nuclear blast. Very inconslusive, though the meaning is obvious. Panic-stricken guests are seen running away from the resort, into the jungle, though you know they will simply end up right back where they started and they are in fact, facing their own damnation. Hell is not the fire and brimstone, or that gay devil from the South Park cartoons throwing a Christmas bash, but a place of cruel jokes, eternal psychological suffering and repetition.

Taken from a short story, this plot is somewhat of a perversion of Waiting For Godot and the one episode of the old Twilight Zone, where the robber is kileld by police and thinks he is in heaven, where everything goes right to the point of absolute boredom. He then tells his angel that he isn't happy in heaven and wants to go to the other place. The angel then laughs and says to him, "What made you think this is heaven ? This is the other place!"

In spite of a capable cast, the actors seem to simply go through the motions in this. It could have been great, but as is, might best be described as so-so. Again, the ending could have been more dramatic, though it does follow the short story fairly well. One time a screenplay chooses not to vary a great deal from the original story and it becomes a case where the film could have well been improved by doing so.

Still worth a look for a one time experience.

Like in Hotel California, these people realize "We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave..."

 

review © by Dale Pierce

 

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