Jack Smight Archives

No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 1, 2004Psycho Actor/Comedy Thriller

Amid the host of Psycho copies that came out during the 1960s, this was one that played everything as a comedy. A wildly overacting Rod Steiger is a psycho actor who adopts a different disguises every time he goes out to kill

Director: Jack Smight

Actors: Rod Steiger, George Segal, Lee Remick, Eileen Heckart, …

Category: Horror

1 July 200421 January 2025 by Roog

The Illustrated Man (1969)

Rating: ★★

Apr 12, 2003Ray Bradbury Anthology

Anthology that adapts three stories from Ray Bradbury's short story collection but does so with singularly heavy-handed regard. The best aspect of the film is the framing story with a brooding Rod Steiger in the title role.

Director: Jack Smight

Actors: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas

Category: Science Fiction

12 April 20033 November 2020 by Roog

Frankenstein: The True Story (1974)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 5, 2002Frankenstein Adaptation

The ‘true story’ bit is contentious but this tv mini-series was the first production to take the Frankenstein story back to the way Mary Shelley told it. Lavishly produced and with a fantastic cast

Director: Jack Smight

Actors: Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, Jane Seymour, James Mason, …

Category: Horror

5 September 200222 April 2023 by Roog

Damnation Alley (1977)

Rating: ★

Jan 4, 2001Post-Apocalyptic Trek

Disastrous adaptation of the Roger Zelazny novel where the story of a Hell's Angel on a trek across the post-apocalyptic wasteland is recast with a G.I. and a girl and kid along for the journey, plus the addition of giant mutant cockroaches

Director: Jack Smight

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda, Paul Winfield, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 January 200114 January 2026 by Roog