![]() “Guests are invited to a mansion and killed off one at a time, and I liked the idea of setting ‘The Intruder’ on an island so they couldn’t escape,” said Robinson, who quickly cast Mickey Rooney. Pressed to write and shoot a film quickly by an investor who needed to spend the money as a tax write-off, Robinson says he came up with a plot based on a vague memory of seeing the old Agatha Christie murder mystery movie “Ten Little Indians.” Robinson was living in Florida at the time and shot the film near Palm Beach on a budget of just $25,000. I moved on to other projects and just forgot about it.” I wasn’t involved in the editing and didn’t even see the finished film which was never released. But what became of the print after shooting? “I have no idea. “And I cast it, put the crew together, and shot it, all within six weeks,” said Robinson from his home near Sedona, Arizona. Those name actors include two popular classic film stars – Mickey Rooney and Yvonne De Carlo – as well as Ted Cassidy (Lurch from “The Addams Family”), and Chris Robinson who also directed and wrote the screenplay. “We were all intrigued by what we saw and curious how a film with four name actors could remain lost for so long.” Long before the restoration, which took 6 months, Guerro viewed the full film for the first time in his home 35mm screening room with friends. “We also digitally cleaned up the print to remove dirt and wear.” Now restored by Guerro’s company, Garagehouse Pictures, “The Intruders” will be released August 1 on Blu-ray (see “The film was not only faded, but faded unevenly which took time to balance out as best we could from shot to shot,” explained Guerro. I didn't know it was a veritable lost title until I brought it home to New Jersey and had an opportunity to look into it further.” “The title logo with its creepy font looked like it belonged to a horror film or some kind of thriller. So Guerro unspooled some footage at the location and attempted to identify it, but couldn't make an immediate confirmation. When I came across the print, I wondered if it could be the (1976) Luchino Visconti film (‘The Innocent,’ based on the Gabriele d'Annunzio novel ‘The Intruder’), the (1962) Roger Corman movie, or the 1988 horror film with the same title.” “I was not familiar with the film at all – no one was! The film had no Internet Movie Database entry and didn't appear on any filmographies of the principals. “I discovered the film in a storefront storage location on the outskirts of the Mohave desert along with hundreds of other films that had been neglected and left to rot under terrible conditions for decades,” recalled Guerro.Įven more amazing, the film had slipped into total obscurity. Harry Guerro couldn’t believe his good fortune after making the 3,000-mile journey from New Jersey to the West coast in late 2012, and unearthing a 35mm print of the 1975 horror thriller, “The Intruder,” featuring a cast of Hollywood legends.
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