Willard (1971)

Review: Willard (1971)

Director: Daniel Mann

Cast: Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester, Michael Dante,

Bruce Davison
Bruce Davison
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine
Sondra Locke
Sondra Locke
Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester
Michael Dante
Michael Dante

Plot: A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.

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Back to the ’70s

Back to the ’70s

Revisiting movies from the early 1970s, I recently watched Howard W. Koch’s rather ugly cop feature Badge 373 (1973), with Robert Duvall as a rule-breaking, racist misogynist NYC detective; Willard (1971), Daniel Mann’s adaptation of […]

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