"A most bizarre tale about a wild and wicked party girl who marries an old coot and gives him MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR!" Apparently the only surviving celluloid from Jacksonville, Texas' Gunter Productions, The Old Man's Bride in its current state is incomplete by an indeterminate amount of missing footage and may have originally been feature-length. Its threadbare script was based on Wilton Beggs' short story by the same name from issue 21 of The Adam Bedside Reader (1966).
Perky Patricia Moore (A Fistful of Rawhide) is the titular big-haired bride. It's the sole credit for the remaining (and likely pseudonymous) cast members with the exception of Ralph Edwards, who appeared in other Gunter Productions films as well as the lost adult western The Devil's Bedroom (1964) from character actor L.Q. Jones (Harlan Ellison's A Boy And His Dog). Director and early cable television pioneer George Gunter cranked out a sequel, The Young Man's Bride (1968), also with Moore and Edwards, but it's as lost as his 1966 roughie The Sadistic Lover.
Promotional materials indicate that theater owners were encouraged to sell 8mm excerpts from the film to "home movie enthusiasts," an opportunity profiled in the six-minute trailer.
Perky Patricia Moore (A Fistful of Rawhide) is the titular big-haired bride. It's the sole credit for the remaining (and likely pseudonymous) cast members with the exception of Ralph Edwards, who appeared in other Gunter Productions films as well as the lost adult western The Devil's Bedroom (1964) from character actor L.Q. Jones (Harlan Ellison's A Boy And His Dog). Director and early cable television pioneer George Gunter cranked out a sequel, The Young Man's Bride (1968), also with Moore and Edwards, but it's as lost as his 1966 roughie The Sadistic Lover.
Promotional materials indicate that theater owners were encouraged to sell 8mm excerpts from the film to "home movie enthusiasts," an opportunity profiled in the six-minute trailer.
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