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                            The Manipulator (1971)
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                              General Information
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Audio Format.........: MP3
Encoder..............: LAME3.97 
Bitrate..............: 106 (VBR)
Hz...................: 48,000
Channels.............: Joint Stereo

Video Format.........: XviD
Video Bitrate........: 1026
Resolution...........: 640 x 480
FPS..................: 23.976
Source...............: Region 1 Boxset DVD
Original Format......: NTSC
Genre................: Horror / Thriller
IMDb Rating..........: 2.2/10 (44 votes)
Movie Information....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066802/
CD1 Size.............: 744 MB (or 762,876 KB or 781,185,024 bytes)
Duration.............: 1:30:59
Picture..............: http://i24.tinypic.com/30cw2s7.jpg

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                                 Release Notes
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THE MANIPULATOR [a.k.a. B.J. LANG Presents] (1971).

Here's a lost curio from the acid-inspired days of indie filmmaking. A tripped 
out vision of insanity featuring a tour de farce performance by Mickey Rooney. 
It's also an amazing achievement, which quickly destroys any preconceptions you 
might walk in with...Almost the entire film is set in a warehouse chocked with 
hallucinatory backdrops, old movie props, scrap sculptures, and cobwebs. And 
Rooney (who's in nearly every scene) stars as B.J. Lang, a crazed old man who 
believes he's the greatest director of all time in the midst of planning his 
next epic -- while in actuality he's just a deluded has-been stumbling through 
an abandoned building. Looking particularly haggard and sporting a scraggly 
beard, Rooney gives a brave, over-the-top performance consisting of stream of 
consciousness monologues and acting that transcends the boundaries of camp. It's 
one of the ultimate psycho performances of all time, and Rooney's jolly persona 
only adds a more deranged touch to the brew, especially when we discover B.J. 
isn't just a menace to himself. You see, he's keeping a young woman (Luana 
Anders) captive in his warehouse, and keeps referring to her as "Carlotta", his 
personal starlet. Tied to a wheelchair and pleading for food ("I'm hungry, Mr. 
Lang," she begs repeatedly, until he finally spoons her some baby food), Rooney 
torments Carlotta and forces her to act out scenes for his "camera"; while 
Mickey dances, screams, emotes, practices death scenes, wears rouge and 
lipstick, and spends the second half of the flick with a fake Cyrano nose... 
Essentially, it's a two-character work (except for a five-minute stumble-thru by 
Keenan Wynn as a wino) -- a theatre piece that's been adrenalized by wild 
editing, hyper-kinetic photography, strobelights, freeze frames, and every 
imaginable camera trick in the book. Directed by first-timer Yabo Yablonsky 
(whose only other credit was co-scripting John Huston's soccer flick VICTORY), 
and with labyrinthine art direction & set decoration by Larry Cohen, it's a slim 
concept (SUNSET BOULEVARD meets THE COLLECTOR) mutated into a hallucinogenic, 
comic nightmare in which the fantasy world of filmmaking takes its toll and 
reality takes a backseat to illusion. Foremost there's Rooney, who (hard to 
believe) is unforgettable -- whether he's playing a broken, pathetic man 
reminiscing about the past, or chasing Luana past sides of beef (?) with a 
rapier. After 90 minutes of its dizzying pace, you feel like you're on the verge 
of madness too. Overbearing, pretentious and brilliant, this is one film that 
bares repeated viewing.