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'Killer Kane' - origin of the name?

posted 15 years ago by tween_us
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I wonder if William Peter Blatty ever watched the 1968 western, More Dead than Alive, starring Clint Walker and Vincent Price.

Clint Walker's character, a gunfighter who is released from prison after serving eighteen years for multiple murders, is named "Killer Cain."

Different spelling, but pronounced the same as Stacy Keach's character.

Thoughts?

[–] jozzcooper 15 years ago

I'm not sure why Blatty chose this name, but it came from the old Buck Rogers serial. He was a crime lord-type antagonist.

[–] Edward_de_Vere 15 years ago

It's at least in part a reference to Cain in the Bible (who killed his brother Abel).