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Growing up with Manos, the hands of fate : how I was the child star of the worst movie ever made and lived to tell the story

Title

Growing up with Manos, the hands of fate : how I was the child star of the worst movie ever made and lived to tell the story / by Jackey Neyman Jones ; with Laura Mazzuca Toops ; foreword by Joel Hodgson.

Author

Jones, Jackey Neyman

Publication

Albany, Georgia : BearManor Media, [2016]
©2016

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xiv, 138 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

For Jackey Neyman Jones, who played Debbie in Manos : The Hands of Fate, rhe film is, at its heart, a home movie that just happens to be shared with the world. Equal parts memoir/family saga/film book, this book shares the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Manos: from creator Hal Warren's alleged bet with TV producer Stirling Silliphant that "anyone could make a movie," to the tragic suicide of John Reynolds (Torgo), right up through the newest Manos-related projects that are carrying the film into the digital age. Jackey's stories dispel much of the Manos mythology while crystallizing a unique time and place in America, where a crew of actors with a bad script and a rented camera set out to make a bad movie-and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Includes index.

ISBN

9781593939229
1593939221

OCLC

ocn950017694
SCSB-14315966

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library