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The Fool Killer (also known as Violent Journey) is a 1965 adventure drama film starring Edward Albert and Anthony Perkins. It was based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Helen Eustis.
The Fool Killer (Servando González, 1965) After the Civil War, a Southern boy aged 12 runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside and meets various odd characters along the...
- 100 min
- 2.5K
- The Digital Archives
“The Fool Killer,” Servando González’s dreamy and haunting 1965 film, plays Sunday, July 23, in a rare 16mm print at the Pacific Film Archive. A boy (Edward Albert) leaves his abusive parents to journey across the post-Civil War South.
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- Landau, Allied Artists, Producciones Yanco
- Servando González
12-year-old George Mellish, tired of beatings for both real and fancied misdeeds at the hands of his foster parents,runs away from home by hopping a freight train and lands somewhere east of the Mississippi River. The first person he meets is Dirty Jim Helliman (Henry Hull)who lives in a...
- Servando González, Francisco Day
- Anthony Perkins
After years of abuse from his foster parents, 12-year-old George Mellish (Edward Albert) runs away. Wandering the post--Civil War landscape of Tennessee, George is first taken in by Dirty Jim ...
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- Rob Gonsalves
- Adventure
- Servando González
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
Dec 21, 2020 · Overall, The Fool Killer follows the freight-train hopping post-Civil War adventures of 12 year old George Mellish (Edward Albert) escaping from his brutal foster parents to traverse the rural landscape of the deep South, stumbling across a series of colorful characters along the way, such as alcoholic hermit-like reprobate Dirty Jim ...
