This is hilarious that I found this, because I came to You Tube to see if the Bad Ronald movie was on here, after I just heard Adam talk about it today, saying that Peanut The Squirrel was like Bad Ronald hiding out in the attic. This must be his favorite movie, he's been talking about it for at least 7 years now, according to the date of this video. Great movie from the 70's, wish I could find it somewhere.
I’ve heard Adam reference this movie several times and of course recently listened to this episode on the podcast. Hilarious. Nice work putting the film over the story. So funny.
If I misplace something in my house, I'll say "Yup. Bad Ronald." If I turn a light off and then later come back to find it on: "Yeah, definitely Bad Ronald." I blame every weird thing on Bad Ronald. That movie was awesome. Don't forget the end where the character (daughter? mother?) sees the beam of light from his peep hole and looks in and sees Bad Ronald's eyeball staring back out. She freaks out. They don't make them like that anymore.
I remember this one! Saw it as a kid and it creeped me out. Part of me wants to watch it again, but I fear it will be cheesy as hell. I think I'll just live with my memories of it scaring the crap out of me at age 8.
I would just like to point out, as someone named Ronald, who was in 4th grade when this movie came out, that seeing this recap (while an excellent summary of an amazing film) triggered major PTSD of schoolyard bullying. Truly, in hindsight, I'm not sure how I made it past the 4th grade. It's also worth noting that there is NO RECORD whatsoever of any mother naming her child Ron or Ronald or Ronnie after 1974. Just name one.
I wish I could make young people understand that most of them will be bullied to some degree. It's almost a "rite of passage" unfortunately. I was bullied (especially in high school) or rather, some kids attempted to bully me. I ignored them. I didn't have time for it. If I now compare my life with the life of the bullies, I am faring much better. Bullies often bully because they are lashing out in an attempt to handle issues that are grieving them. They often have no one to talk to so they strike out to get the attention they desire. ^ Hope I made my point. I know this could be worded better.
This is an adaptation of a short novel by sci-if/fantasy author Jack Vance. Oddly enough, much of his work resembles Ronald’s fantasies. “Ronald’s” artwork is stupendous, by the way.
This movie depicts secret home dwellers under a bad light. We're not all evil. I put my self through college while living this way. When I saved up enough money, I bought my own rental property which I renovated and secretly dwell in today.
Every time I hear anything creak, or some weird sound coming in my attic, we just say it’s Bad Ronald, running. We’re such products of The mid 70’s ABCMovie of The Week.
This kind of stuff has happened. I remember reading a story where these teenage girls thought their house was haunted but it was just a dude hiding in the house. They would do seances and he would respond by tapping. Creepy shit.
Wow i remember listening to this on loveline in 2003. Ever since then i was on a hunt to find this movie. I could not and i completely forgot about it until this video poped up. Crazy how that works
Psycho son of smothering mother is like...”Psycho”. The mother, in this film, seems genuinely proud of her deranged son. He doesn’t seem the least upset when he overhears that his mother has died. Sort of tragic.
Adam-I’m a few years older than you, but like you, I too have this horribly fond memory of “Bad Ronald”. I think it was one of those now infamous made for TV, Movie of The Week on ABC. It’s become this family joke. Every time we hear a strange sound emanating from anywhere in our home, every time a light was accidentally left on that no one remembers flipping on, we all blame everything on “Bad Ronald”. This effort can’t be one of actor, Scott Jacoby’s finer cinematic moments. “The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane”, another of Jacoby’s ‘celluloid performances, was by far a better film. It starred Jacoby, a nubile (pre-Oscars)Jodie Foster & a young Martin Sheen who played a creepy adult mama’s boy who had some very odd predilections involving young females. Jacoby played a sickly teen boy who becomes friends with Foster’s character. That’s all I’ll say. It’s,from the late 80’s maybe.. Check it out it out some lazy weekend when you just can’t hack the quality slim pickins’ offered by such films as CasaBlanca, either Godfathers, Citizen Kane, or Gone With The Wind.
1:00 to be fair, it _is_ very possible to die from hitting your head on a rock, stone, concrete block or anything that could break your skull. You have had numerous people go to jail for manslaughter because they knocked someone out in front of a restaurant or back alley, for them to fall and crack their skull on the pavement. By the way, is this the first film with "someone living inside the walls" that RLM is always making fun of?
The wallpaper used in this movie was interesting for a couple of reasons. When the family moves in, they change just about everything except the tacky wallpaper. Also, this wallpaper pattern appeared in "The Legend of Lizzie Borden" another made-for TV movie-which was telecast one year later on the same network, ABC, in 1975.
nothing better than 70s movies of the week Don't Be Afraid of the Dark was another one scared the bejezuz out of me as a kid. i would love to find some of that creepy art work Ronald did
Well he lived in the bathroom!!... Lol!!!..we are left to assume he did a lot of standup shower at the sink!!!... Lolol!!!... The mom was a sneaky chic!!!
I saw it when I was 6! OMG! To this day,( I'm 54!) I "Hole hunt"! I joined the military and spent the majority of my adult life transferring all over! I've done a lot of hole patching! Lol!
@@balthasardenner5216 I don’t know cuz I took the class durning Summer School so I wouldn’t have to do it my Jr year. If he taught at Gates-Chili High School then yes.
@@balthasardenner5216 That’s Awesome!! The best part was when they showed the scary part of the movie and he threw Snaps at the ground and screamed. It scared the crap out of us
Bad Ronald would have been a lot better off if he had just left the girl there on the sidewalk. people would have just thought she fell off her bike and hit her head. obviously no one seen him push the girl down.
He was supposed to be fourteen though. A 14 year old thinking that out by themselves right after they've accidentally killed somebody, seems ridiculously unbelievable. Now maybe if they just ran away in panic and later, pretended like they didn't know anything, that also could have worked.
Watched it at school on a VCR that was the size of a suitcase...Come to think of it; That AV club kid that pushed around the big, wheeled shelving unit with the TV and VCR on it, looked a little like Bad Ronald.
Scott Jacoby was pretty cute back in the day even hen he played a "nerd". Come to think of it he was too cute to be a nerd. I wonder what he looks like now LOL
I saw it when it originally aired, and it always stuck with me. Only saw it again within the past five years, and it was just as great as I remembered. This is actually a movie that could be very effectively remade today, except the ending needs to be fixed. I actually wrote a treatment for a remake 20 years or so ago, and the third act was much darker as I recall. The ending of the TV movie felt a bit tacked-on.
Me and my brothers remember watching this when we were kids. Frightened me! Now at 53, it may have a different effect on me. Wonder if it would be "cheesy" or stupid acting..... I don't know. Maybe someday I will watch it again. 🤗
No! It won't! I was 6yo when it came out. FF in life. I'm in the military, 22 years old, home on leave. It came on. I laughed. I watched it. Scared me to death! Got in my car and went to my sisters house until mom and dad came home! Nope!
Never watched this movie, but after seeing this review, I don't want to. I don't like the fact that the entire movie was just to fuck up an only nerd with a sick mother. After accidentally killing a little brat, he has to hide in the walls of his own home and then his mom dies within months of that. Of course the kid cracks.
As I got older I wondered how clueless the home owners were. A building inspector would have figured out there was a sizable cavity of unused space in the house. It was the 70’s and people weren’t thinking that deep.
One of my favorite movies from my childhood. Was this the "movie of the week" or the "afternoon special"? I wish they would make a pg-rated modern version.
I heard that the girl from the house was so traumatized, she took over his hidden room and did the same thing to the next family that moved in and had three boys. Produced by Kathleen Kennedy.
I would not be surprised if this story and the movie ''Hider in the House'' (1989). Were inspired by the (Hinterkaifeck murder case). As well as the (Walburga "Dolly" Oesterreich) murder case.
Wasn’t there another 70’s or early 80’s made for TV movie about a younger child whose lived in the basement where his/her kidnapper or parents kept the child? I think the child had issues communicating so he/she couldn’t reach out for help when visitors came by...I thought it was Bad Ronald but distinctly remember the basement being well-lit, orange-colored sofa, and relatively well decorated.
I enjoyed this movie too, but what the hell was the mother thinking in hiding in? Ronald too, being the smart kid that he is should have known that going missing is only going to make him look more suspicious. Obviously the smart thing to do would be to call the cops right after it happened (since it was an accident), but after you buried the body that's pretty much not an option anymore. I don't remember if they ever mentioned about her body being found at all but as long as there's no body there's no crime, especially in the 70's.
😊 actually Bad Ronald was not all bad as a movie. That chiller diller moment where the nosy old neighbor sticks her nose in the window and sees Ronald? That's a great moment of horror and I still remember that from when I saw that movie when it aired originally😮😮😮50 years ago - that's a long time to remember a chilling moment
I SAW THAT ALSO WHEN I WAS LIKE 10 THERE WAS ANOUTHER MOVIE FROM THAT TIME ABOUT THESE CREATURES LI? VING IN BUROS AND KILLING OF THE PLPULATION . SO SCARY MY MOTHER WOULNT LET ME WATCH IT UGG DO YOU KNOW THE NAME
Out on parole in twenty five years in his early forties, someone please make a sequel to Bad Ronald.
Your Commantary was off the charts hilarious and funny and spot on. Great job on this one ☝️
This is hilarious that I found this, because I came to You Tube to see if the Bad Ronald movie was on here, after I just heard Adam talk about it today, saying that Peanut The Squirrel was like Bad Ronald hiding out in the attic. This must be his favorite movie, he's been talking about it for at least 7 years now, according to the date of this video. Great movie from the 70's, wish I could find it somewhere.
I’ve heard Adam reference this movie several times and of course recently listened to this episode on the podcast. Hilarious. Nice work putting the film over the story. So funny.
i was just telling someone that he's always bringing up this movie and she told me that she had seen this video - they should make one for "Duel"
I saw it at such an impressionable age that now I HAVE to live inside walls.
Thank you for this Adam! I love this as a kid (I was 10) and could not recall the movie. I was attempting to recap it and showed this instead. Bravo!
If I misplace something in my house, I'll say "Yup. Bad Ronald." If I turn a light off and then later come back to find it on: "Yeah, definitely Bad Ronald." I blame every weird thing on Bad Ronald. That movie was awesome. Don't forget the end where the character (daughter? mother?) sees the beam of light from his peep hole and looks in and sees Bad Ronald's eyeball staring back out. She freaks out. They don't make them like that anymore.
Absolute favorite Movie of the Week! It was fun listening to you guys tell the story!😅😂
Thanks for posting this. The legendary TV movie Bad Ronald. The truth is that kid was screwed as soon as his mom named him Ronald.
Didn't hurt Jeremy, Reagan, or McDonald.
@@rationalthought9979 touche'
Amazing commentary. Now I must find and watch this.
It's true. If you were a nerd kid in a movie back in the 70's, you usually ended up getting arrested or something.
I remember this one! Saw it as a kid and it creeped me out. Part of me wants to watch it again, but I fear it will be cheesy as hell. I think I'll just live with my memories of it scaring the crap out of me at age 8.
I know exactly what you mean. However, this one today will still scare you with the bullying and crooked police.
Yeah freak me out too when I was a kid... So did Lady Elaine Fairchild from Mister Roger's Neighborhood.
i watched most of it at 12 bought it a few years back still just as good
I found it to be creepy still. When the nosy neighbor discovers a disheveled Ronald while peeping in...
you wouldn't say hell in front of me Mac caudill
This movie came out when I was 13. It scared me. Scott Jacoby was excellent in it.
I remember at that time i would confuse this movie with the Brewster McCloud movie both chapters kind of look alike....I think....
I would just like to point out, as someone named Ronald, who was in 4th grade when this movie came out, that seeing this recap (while an excellent summary of an amazing film) triggered major PTSD of schoolyard bullying. Truly, in hindsight, I'm not sure how I made it past the 4th grade. It's also worth noting that there is NO RECORD whatsoever of any mother naming her child Ron or Ronald or Ronnie after 1974. Just name one.
If you're gonna name your boy Ronald you might as well name your girl Jolene
I wish I could make young people understand that most of them will be bullied to some degree. It's almost a "rite of passage" unfortunately. I was bullied (especially in high school) or rather, some kids attempted to bully me. I ignored them. I didn't have time for it. If I now compare my life with the life of the bullies, I am faring much better.
Bullies often bully because they are lashing out in an attempt to handle issues that are grieving them. They often have no one to talk to so they strike out to get the attention they desire.
^ Hope I made my point. I know this could be worded better.
In the 80s, WTBS would play this yearly... great show when you were 11 or 12 years old.
Bad Ronald premiered on TV on ABC in 1974.
This is an adaptation of a short novel by sci-if/fantasy author Jack Vance. Oddly enough, much of his work resembles Ronald’s fantasies. “Ronald’s” artwork is stupendous, by the way.
I saw that movie back in the 1970s it was on the 6 o'clock movie on ABC 13 in Lynchburg, Virginia.
This movie depicts secret home dwellers under a bad light.
We're not all evil. I put my self through college while living this way.
When I saved up enough money, I bought my own rental property which I renovated and secretly dwell in today.
The director is obviously anti-secret home dweller. This movie needs to be banned because it’s offensive to secret home dwellers
well done video with the VO!
I remember watching this movie in Milpitas in 80's; finally goggled the description and it brought me back.
Adam Corolla rules this movie looks pretty good though
Every time I hear anything creak, or some weird sound coming in my attic, we just say it’s Bad Ronald, running. We’re such products of The mid 70’s ABCMovie of The Week.
Yep
Hahaha
This kind of stuff has happened. I remember reading a story where these teenage girls thought their house was haunted but it was just a dude hiding in the house. They would do seances and he would respond by tapping. Creepy shit.
Just waltzed into this earlier watching Lisa Eilbacher movies! Now this lol literally haven't seen this and maybe 45 years
Wow i remember listening to this on loveline in 2003. Ever since then i was on a hunt to find this movie. I could not and i completely forgot about it until this video poped up. Crazy how that works
11kila11 - I can get you this movie if ya want. Hit me back and let me know if you're interested.
its coming to blu ray in October
Psycho son of smothering mother is like...”Psycho”. The mother, in this film, seems genuinely proud of her deranged son. He doesn’t seem the least upset when he overhears that his mother has died. Sort of tragic.
I now own this movie and it is one of my most prized possessions!
Saw it in 1974 at age 14 - still love to watch it
How do you watch it? All I can find are clips(like this one).
@@swami1 It's available on Amazon.com, probably eBay too.
1 of my favs a must watch, there was also one called crawlspace very good 80's stuff
Saw it in 74 too. I patterned my life on Bad Ronald.
One is tempted to think calling it a bad movie about bad Ronald would have prepared people better
Adam-I’m a few years older than you, but like you, I too have this horribly fond memory of “Bad Ronald”. I think it was one of those now infamous made for TV, Movie of The Week on ABC. It’s become this family joke. Every time we hear a strange sound emanating from anywhere in our home, every time a light was accidentally left on that no one remembers flipping on, we all blame everything on “Bad Ronald”.
This effort can’t be one of actor, Scott Jacoby’s finer cinematic moments. “The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane”, another of Jacoby’s ‘celluloid performances, was by far a better film. It starred Jacoby, a nubile (pre-Oscars)Jodie Foster & a young Martin Sheen who played a creepy adult mama’s boy who had some very odd predilections involving young females. Jacoby played a sickly teen boy who becomes friends with Foster’s character. That’s all I’ll say.
It’s,from the late 80’s maybe.. Check it out it out some lazy weekend when you just can’t hack the quality slim pickins’ offered by such films as CasaBlanca, either Godfathers, Citizen Kane, or Gone With The Wind.
I bought a bootleg DVD of this years ago. The book is even better!
Who wrote the book? Was the title "Bad Ronald"?
@@allisongaines3330 yes!
Loved this movie when I was a kid!
reminds me of mu brother thr way he acted my poor mother!! REALLY!!!
1:00 to be fair, it _is_ very possible to die from hitting your head on a rock, stone, concrete block or anything that could break your skull. You have had numerous people go to jail for manslaughter because they knocked someone out in front of a restaurant or back alley, for them to fall and crack their skull on the pavement.
By the way, is this the first film with "someone living inside the walls" that RLM is always making fun of?
Anybody know what a Video 2000 tape of this movie is worth?
I was a nerdy kid in the ‘70s. Scary times.
The wallpaper used in this movie was interesting for a couple of reasons. When the family moves in, they change just about everything except the tacky wallpaper. Also, this wallpaper pattern appeared in "The Legend of Lizzie Borden" another made-for TV movie-which was telecast one year later on the same network, ABC, in 1975.
I saw it in baghdad iraki tv in 1978 , i was 8 yrs old 😬😬
nothing better than 70s movies of the week Don't Be Afraid of the Dark was another one scared the bejezuz out of me as a kid. i would love to find some of that creepy art work Ronald did
I watched this movie when I was a young girl and it scared the mess out of me probably the scariest movie I have ever seen.
That was the first movie I ever saw that just depressed the heck out of me.
Yes, my mother is still living. I cannot even imagine losing her when I was a teen.
I remember KPLR in St. Louis used to play this a lot in the early 80's.
Ronaldo before his career started: I’m sorry I just had to-
Thanks for making me laugh this morning.👍
It was scary when I saw it. Now when I see these scenes I think, Ronald how could you get by without a shower? Damn Ronald. Talk about discomforture
Well he lived in the bathroom!!... Lol!!!..we are left to assume he did a lot of standup shower at the sink!!!... Lolol!!!... The mom was a sneaky chic!!!
And don't forget , everyone drank Coors beer in the 70's.
This is how Brian Laundrie is hiding. Inside the Laundrie house.
I saw it when I was 6! OMG! To this day,( I'm 54!) I "Hole hunt"! I joined the military and spent the majority of my adult life transferring all over! I've done a lot of hole patching! Lol!
My Health Teacher showed us this movie 😂
Was it Mr. Hickey?
@@balthasardenner5216 I don’t know cuz I took the class durning Summer School so I wouldn’t have to do it my Jr year. If he taught at Gates-Chili High School then yes.
@@naplesdaygo21 High five, it was Mr. Hickey! I took health during summer school with him too.
@@balthasardenner5216 That’s Awesome!! The best part was when they showed the scary part of the movie and he threw Snaps at the ground and screamed. It scared the crap out of us
@@naplesdaygo21 lol in my class he just slammed a book down hard, we didn't get snaps! Maybe they had outlawed them in school by then or something.
i would watch this every time it came on in the 70s
Ronald is pretty scary. Imagine buying a house with a person living in it spying on you and your family and eating your food.
Hell, I been surviving for years this way. 👍
If I suspected someone was inside my new house eating my food, I'd cook something with an industrial-grade laxative mixed in. Enjoy!
daniel laplante case in the 80s...boy in the walls true crime
I'm currently listening to the restored version of this episode on the G.I.O Podcast. Shout out Superfan Giovanni. Get it on.
Loveline circa 95/96 was the best.
I remember this movie when it came out more than some movies I've seen over the last few years
It's like Gaslight, but backwards.
Bad Ronald would have been a lot better off if he had just left the girl there on the sidewalk. people would have just thought she fell off her bike and hit her head. obviously no one seen him push the girl down.
sage osho yes right thats what i did just left her there
He was supposed to be fourteen though. A 14 year old thinking that out by themselves right after they've accidentally killed somebody, seems ridiculously unbelievable. Now maybe if they just ran away in panic and later, pretended like they didn't know anything, that also could have worked.
Shitty movie that’d be.
That's why they called him Bad Ronald. He was really bad at thinking ahead.
Saw this on TV back in the day. Only two other channels to watch.
his mom had those eyes you just dont mess with her !
Of all the movies to remake‼️
Watched it at school on a VCR that was the size of a suitcase...Come to think of it; That AV club kid that pushed around the big, wheeled shelving unit with the TV and VCR on it, looked a little like Bad Ronald.
Scott Jacoby was pretty cute back in the day even hen he played a "nerd". Come to think of it he was too cute to be a nerd. I wonder what he looks like now LOL
They made a sequel to this called “Even Worse Roland”.
I saw it when it originally aired, and it always stuck with me. Only saw it again within the past five years, and it was just as great as I remembered.
This is actually a movie that could be very effectively remade today, except the ending needs to be fixed. I actually wrote a treatment for a remake 20 years or so ago, and the third act was much darker as I recall. The ending of the TV movie felt a bit tacked-on.
always remembered the name of this film.. Back When i was in high school ; i heard some girls talking...one of them said... I was Bad Arnold....
Read the book; the movie is quite tame in comparison.
Me and my brothers remember watching this when we were kids. Frightened me! Now at 53, it may have a different effect on me. Wonder if it would be "cheesy" or stupid acting..... I don't know. Maybe someday I will watch it again. 🤗
No! It won't! I was 6yo when it came out. FF in life. I'm in the military, 22 years old, home on leave. It came on. I laughed. I watched it. Scared me to death! Got in my car and went to my sisters house until mom and dad came home! Nope!
well sure hope they find bad brian laundrie soon and arrest his bad parents as well!
Never watched this movie, but after seeing this review, I don't want to. I don't like the fact that the entire movie was just to fuck up an only nerd with a sick mother. After accidentally killing a little brat, he has to hide in the walls of his own home and then his mom dies within months of that. Of course the kid cracks.
When is the sequel coming out ? New horror series maybe. The Return of Bad Ronald: Out for Revenge
I seen this when I was very young stuck with all my life
Same here
Bad Ronald and Willard were both classic films.
As I got older I wondered how clueless the home owners were. A building inspector would have figured out there was a sizable cavity of unused space in the house. It was the 70’s and people weren’t thinking that deep.
ITS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES
Me too
I love this so much
This movie wigged me out when I was a kid😳
Bad Ronald and Gargoyles.
One of my favorite movies from my childhood. Was this the "movie of the week" or the "afternoon special"? I wish they would make a pg-rated modern version.
where did ronald go to the bathroom, could he hold it all night? lol
My thoughts too lol
The space was a bathroom.
In a popcorn tin.
Ronald wasn't so bad. Those punk kids were the ones that were bad
I heard that the girl from the house was so traumatized, she took over his hidden room and did the same thing to the next family that moved in and had three boys. Produced by Kathleen Kennedy.
It wasn't a rock, it was a cement block
Adam is telling this from memory.
The mom played Zira on Planet of the Apes.
he looks like mathew modine in full metal jacket ! hi joker ! hahahaha
I want to watch this Bad Ronald
I would not be surprised if this story and the movie ''Hider in the House'' (1989). Were inspired by the (Hinterkaifeck murder case). As well as the (Walburga "Dolly" Oesterreich) murder case.
Loved it as a kid
Wasn’t there another 70’s or early 80’s made for TV movie about a younger child whose lived in the basement where his/her kidnapper or parents kept the child? I think the child had issues communicating so he/she couldn’t reach out for help when visitors came by...I thought it was Bad Ronald but distinctly remember the basement being well-lit, orange-colored sofa, and relatively well decorated.
Fucking awesome. I want to watch every movie like this . Haha. It would save hours and hours of time
Hilarious review. The message really killed me. LMFAO! This should be retitled, how to butcher and misrepresent a movie in 4 minutes
It's actually pretty accurate. Ronald was pretty much a victim throughout.
Woomer has it they are working on a remake of this movie starring Beyoncé
wish they could have did a sequal that would have been awesome.
Would love to see a remake of this movie.
Remakes are never as good.
Hahaha Love the editorial
I enjoyed this movie too, but what the hell was the mother thinking in hiding in? Ronald too, being the smart kid that he is should have known that going missing is only going to make him look more suspicious. Obviously the smart thing to do would be to call the cops right after it happened (since it was an accident), but after you buried the body that's pretty much not an option anymore. I don't remember if they ever mentioned about her body being found at all but as long as there's no body there's no crime, especially in the 70's.
It makes sense in the book where the initial crime is more disturbing. It would probably be a bit too much for tv
😊 actually Bad Ronald was not all bad as a movie. That chiller diller moment where the nosy old neighbor sticks her nose in the window and sees Ronald? That's a great moment of horror and I still remember that from when I saw that movie when it aired originally😮😮😮50 years ago - that's a long time to remember a chilling moment
Post whole movie
Copyright owners have been very aggressive. Other Bad Ronald short videos have been removed. I'm surprised this one is still up.
@@Stewie-th7lt Why are they so anal about these old movies that not a lot of people give a damn about outside of the cult followers.
Wasn't Bad Ronald (loosely) based on Daniel Laplante's crimes? "This is what happens when you bring kids up without a dad!" 😂
I SAW THAT ALSO WHEN I WAS LIKE 10 THERE WAS ANOUTHER MOVIE FROM THAT TIME ABOUT THESE CREATURES LI?
VING IN BUROS AND KILLING OF THE PLPULATION . SO SCARY MY MOTHER WOULNT LET ME WATCH IT UGG DO YOU KNOW THE NAME
Adapted from a Jack Vance novel of the same name.
I remember that