With an old-timey setting that belies its subject matter, this odd-as-oddball black comedy casts Keach in the title role, traversing early 20th-century America in his Dutch-boy haircut and portable electric chair, going wherever the death-penalty gigs take him. Rather than be menacing, he sends his clients off to death with — well, yes, a fatal […]
Stacy Keach
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The Squeeze
The other, a decade-earlier crime drama now available as a manufactured-on-demand DVD through Warner Archive, is perfectly surprising — in part because it features Stacy Keach donning a British accent and occasionally his birthday suit. Keach plays Jim Naboth, ex-Scotland Yard and current alcoholic. His first words in the movie? “Piss off!”That utterance sets the […]