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Best Science Fiction Film | 1975
1974 | Bernard L.
For the scene where Dr. Stoner first injects David, Strother Martin actually makes a real hypodermic puncture on Dirk Benedict's arm with the needle.
All the venomous snakes featured were authentic and the cast actually did have to interact with them for filming. Only in the shot where Strother Martin grabs the king cobra's head during the show was a puppet snake used.
The poisonous snakes were not defanged during production. Five king cobras were imported from Thailand for this feature, ranging from 10 to 15 feet in length. They had been recently caught in the wild and were in good health with full venom capabilities. The "Snake Park" milking scenes were real and meant to mimic what Bill Haast did at his Serpentarium in Florida daily. About one ounce of venom was collected during each take, with no harm to the snakes. A different cobra was used for each take. The filming of this took most of a day, as the cobras spent most of their time trying to escape the fenced enclosure rather than raising up in the traditional cobra attack mode.
The mongoose used in the movie was not a real mongoose at all. Instead the animal used was a tayra, a member of the weasel native to tropical Central America and tropical South America.
The house used as Dr. Stoner's (Strother Martin) place is the same house used as the Garth ranch house in The Virginian (1962).
"David Blake: I feel so sleepy. Dr. Carl Stoner: It's the effect of the inoculation. You'll sleep very soundly tonight, David, and perhaps even through tomorrow. And if you're lucky, you may experience what few persons have ever known and lived to recall. You see, the venom of the cobra is one of nature's strongest hallucinogens!"
"Dr. Carl Stoner: I think I could turn to live with animals. They are so placid, so self contained. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lay awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one is dissatisfied; not one is demented with the mania of owning things; not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago; not one is respectable, or unhappy over the whole earth. Walt Whitman, Harry. A great man."
