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‘Sixty seconds before the baby shot its father, leaves fell lazily in Central Park’

August 20, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

On Samuel Fuller’s lost novel and more:

In 1990 Fuller was working on the British-French co-production Chiller, a TV anthology adapted from the short stories of Patricia Highsmith.

For his episode Fuller chose The Day of Reckoning, a violent eco-parable about industrial chicken farming that ends with the patriarch getting pecked to death.

Fuller had twelve days to shoot it, and didn’t have time to thoroughly vet each location…

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