The 2001 Cornerstone Festival Imaginarium will
close out the fest with another of our unforgetable "Wrap
Parties," this one featuring a square dance and other
assorted Western ceremonials. We'll conclude our John
Ford series in technicolor fashion with a screening of She
Wore A Yellow Ribbon, then, since the following film
does not deserve to mentioned in the same breath as, let alone
share the program with John Ford, we will ride into the sunset
without looking back with our finale Late Show, this year featuring
a film you may not have heard of, but will have trouble forgetting.
Evil Roy Slade
This
made-for-TV pilot for a series that never was has become a cult-classic.
The Adams Family's John Astin is the title character,
the meanest outlaw the West has ever seen, meaner even the Liberty
Valance, so mean even the wolves turned down a chance to raise
him. Evil Roy robs banks, torments railroad owner Nelson Stool
(Mickey Rooney), wins the love of Besty Potter (Pamela Austin)
is chased by the famous singing Marshal, Bing Bell (Dick Shawn).
Not everybody is going to get this film, and they will probably
worry about us for showing it. Those who do, however, will thank
us for turning them onto it, and if all goes well, you might
even be hearing us all singing the "Stubby Index Finger"
song into the night to close out our wild Western Imaginarium
at Cornerstone Festival 2001.
Directed
by Jerry Paris; 100 minutes; 1972
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