The ILLUSTRATED MAN

The ILLUSTRATED MAN
   Film (1968). SKM Productions/Warner-Seven Arts. Dir Jack Smight, starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins, Jason Evers. Screenplay Howard B. Kreitsek, based on The Illustrated Man (coll 1951) by Ray BRADBURY. 103 mins. Colour.
   Bradbury's idea of a man whose various tattoos each represent a different tale did not completely work as an afterthought framework to link the stories of his collection, and it is even less successful in the film, which Bradbury hated. The stories are "The Long Rains" (astronauts lost on Venus), "The Veldt" and "The LastNight of the World"; only "The Veldt" (VIRTUAL-REALITY nursery animals come to life and are used by future children to dispose of parents) is anything other than limp and literal-minded. The same actors appear in each episode; apparently Smight, the director, was aiming at an atmosphere of downbeat enigma and malign destiny, with Steiger, the tattooed man, as a constantly reincarnated loser. Another Bradbury anthology film is VEL'D (1987).
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