Damn it Jim! Im a doctor not a zoologist!!
I remember seeing parof this horrible movie and the rabbits "stampede" through the minature set. this is very deserving of mst3k and find it funny that deforest did this
share1972...Star Trek the original had ended and it would be a few years before it would be resurrected on the big screen.
I think Deforest did this because he needed to do something and maybe earn some money.
that may be true but its still sad to me that an established actor had to do a movie like that
sharethat may be true but its still sad to me that an established actor had to do a movie like that - mc7791
I'm not sure how "established" DeForest Kelley was at the time of Lepus. He was a bit-parter in films and a television actor before Star Trek, and even though ST is legendary today, it was not a ratings hit during its production run and was summarily canceled. ST didn't really get big until years of exposure in syndication, and I think that was just gathering momentum when Funny Killer Rabbit Movie here was being made.
Of the cast, Janet Leigh had the highest profile, but I think that during this time actresses had a relatively short shelf life and had to scramble for work. Even Joan Crawford wound up doing Trog as her last film--and that's after a pretty damn good turn in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?. And Leigh was not the most gifted actress of her generation.
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