{"id":39363,"date":"2025-07-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39363"},"modified":"2025-07-12T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:53:02","slug":"the-fool-killer-1965-starring-anthony-perkins-and-edward-albert-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39363","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Fool Killer&#8221; (1965) starring Anthony Perkins and Edward Albert \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z071325zview_foolkiller.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Fool Killer <\/i><\/b>(1965)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Servando Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin<\/strong><strong>; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3GJMAGN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE FOOL KILLER<\/a> by <strong>Helen Eustis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Anthony Perkins, Edward Albert<\/strong><strong>, Henry Hull, Salome Jens, Dana Elcar, Arnold Moss <\/strong>and <strong>Lana Wood<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>All the secret joys, the sudden terrors of being young and free and far from home<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Life after the civil war could be tough.\u00a0 For George Mellish who is twelve years old and an orphan, it is unbearable.\u00a0 George&#8217;s foster parents took him so he could help with chores.\u00a0 When George accidentally knocks over the butter churn, his step-father beats him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s the final straw for George.\u00a0 He gathers his few possessions and runs away.\u00a0 When George hears a train approaching, he attempts to board it.\u00a0 He throws his few goods onto a car and attempts to follow them.\u00a0 The train is just too fast.\u00a0 George trips and falls down as the train speeds away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now with just the clothes on his back, George continues walking.\u00a0 What lies ahead is an incredible journey that may not end well. George will meet strange characters and possibly the legendary serial murderer known as <em>The Fool Killer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Edward Albert stars and it is his first credited role.\u00a0 Edward Albert is the son of Eddie Albert. (Funny, but it would seem their names should be switched.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Fool Killer<\/em> feels like a childhood fable.\u00a0 It has a dreamlike quality with strange characters and a unique pace.\u00a0 It&#8217;s part boyhood adventure, part mystery and part horror.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>The Fool Killer (1965) <\/i><\/b>rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z071325zview_foolkiller2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fool Killer (1965) Director:\u00a0 Servando Gonz\u00e1lez Screenplay: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin; based on THE FOOL KILLER by Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39364,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39363\/revisions\/39364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}