lemon_magic It's odd...I remembered seeing an episode or two of 'The Gemini Man' when I was young, and thinking that it wasn't bad...not as good as "Probe" (another attempt to mix sci-fi 'future' tech, spy fiction and action/adventure), or 'T.H.E Cat', but moderately enjoyable. So when I found out that "Riding With Death" was actually two episodes of "Gemini Man" spliced together, I thought it might be a pleasant little diversion.My goodness, I could not have been more mistaken.The first 'half' of the show has some potential. It has the slightest bit of inventiveness to the plot (the head of technology for 'Intersect' is actually out to defraud the government for $10 million bucks and wants to fake his own death, killing Casey in the process, to cover up the fraud), some nice scenery, and a little bit of suspense, as you wait for Casey to figure out what is going on before the bad guy blows up the semi Casey drives.But then the film editors resort to the lamest, most ham-handed voice-overs and shoe-horned extra footage imaginable to justify the addition of the 2nd half/episode, and any attempt at telling a real story is given up. The production team was so busy trying to pass this off as a 'real' movie that they ruined the simple pleasure of watching a couple of not-bad TV episodes back to back.I think it is pretty obvious that the real reason these two episodes were jiggered together is that Jim Stafford guest-starred in both, and both episodes featured plots in which Casey was driving vehicles that might explode and kill him. Stafford has gotten a lot of hateful notices here,true. But I really think that he just played the character as it was written and directed, and delivered the lines of dialog he was given. Still, the results on film aren't pretty. I can't imagine that there was much call for his services as an actor based on this entrée in his resume.And poor Katherine Crawford must have been called back in a couple of times in the service of this monstrosity - once to film a bunch of shots of her sitting by herself watching a monitor, looking concerned and frowny-faced, and once again to ADR a few comments (that aren't even synced with her appearances). The production team tries to use these shots to make it appear as if she is actually in the 2nd portion/episode, when it is obvious to a dead man that actually her character was never written into the original. The results are stunningly disconnected,airless, and weird.These days, the studio would just put out a DVD featuring 'Gemini Man - The Complete Collection', and the results would be watchable. Each episode could stand on its own as a mildly enjoyable example of 70's TV adventure. I'd watch it a dozen times before I'd watch RWD, unless it just to make fun of all the glitches. It's hard to imagine anyone taking 'Riding With Death' as anything other than a complete waste of celluloid.

Rosabel One of my favourite MST3K episodes, this 1970s monstrosity was just painfully bad. First you have to get past the premise of a man exposed to radiation who can not only become invisible at the push of a button, but whose invisibility extends to his *clothes* too. H.G. Wells has a credit at the end of the film, but I guess the screenwriters figured they were improving on his original idea. However, even if you buy that gimmick, you are then expected to believe that a top-secret spy agency with an invisible spy can think of nothing better for him to do than -- drive a truck. Forget eavesdropping in the Kremlin, we have to get to the patent office before it closes! Absolutely ludicrous movie - watch the MST3K version, it's hilarious.

Victor Field Yes, another one who saw this "movie" on the late, lamented "MST3K" (and WHEN will Sci-Fi start showing this again? Who wouldn't swap "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World" for this, even if it means swapping Jennifer O'Dell for Pearl?). A weak-as-water meshing of two episodes of Universal's second attempt to get an invisible man series to work, this gives away its roots at every turn, from the awful attempts to link the two stories onwards.Harve Bennett and the late Leslie Stevens have good track records in TV, but this wasn't a boon for either of them; and to make matters worse, Lee Holdridge's stirring theme tune isn't even here! (At least Sci-Fi in the UK had the decency to also show "Gemini Man" at around this time, including the two episodes that make up this movie.) As is often the case, all the entertainment to be had comes in the MST3K version - and as Mike put it, "Is there such a thing as 'Starring Ben Murphy'? Isn't it more accurate to say that most of the time the camera's pointed in the direction of Ben Murphy?" From his mouth to God's ear.The thought that somewhere in the world this might have actually gotten into a cinema is horrible...

icehole4 H.G. Wells probably turned over in his grave when he found out his name was associated with this stinky film. The main star of this film, Ben Murphy, is also noted for being Prof. Douglas McCadden in the film Time Walker. Another actor, Alan Oppenheimer, was probably so ashamed of this film he retreated into just providing his voice for cartoons and voice overs. Bad all around and very forgettable.