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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 03/10/2010 : 2:26:36 PM
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Pierce might also be remembered by B-festers for his film The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a decent but unexceptional thriller from the early 70's.
Pierce's career on the whole is rather hard to characterize. He wasn't a good filmmaker, safe to say, but most of his movies weren't flatout gosh-awful, either. He was perfectly comfortable hopping from one genre to another: monster movies one minute, then a cop thriller, and occasionally even a western.
Pierce sometimes cast himself in a lead or key acting role (Boggy Creek 2, for example), but unlike Tom Laughlin, Fred Williamson, or other independent B movie "auteurs" of his era, the roles Pierce wrote for himself rarely reeked of unbridled, preening, "Lookatme!" egomania. One often got the impression that Pierce cast himself in his own movies simply to save the expense of hiring one more actor.
Sorry to hear that he spent his last years in a nursing home. RIP Chuck. |
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