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Episode 3

BLESS THE BEASTS AND CHILDREN

Kier-La talks about Stanley Kramer’s 1971 adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s best-selling book of teen misfits who embark on a great adventure with results both triumphant and tragic. Featuring interviews with actors Miles Chapin and Bill Mumy, and composers Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.

Credits:

Written, edited and hosted by: Kier-La Janisse Special Guests: Miles Chapin, Bill Mumy, Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.

Clips from: Bless the Beasts and Children ©1971 Columbia Pictures R.P.M. ©1970 Columbia Pictures Ladybug Ladybug ©1963 United Artists

Music: “Bless the Beasts and Children”, “Cotton’s Dream”, “Down the Line”, “Bless the Beasts and Children (Reprise)”, “Down the Line (Reprise)”, “Journey’s End”, “Stampede”, “Free”, “Requiem” ©1971 Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.

“Bless the Children”, “Beautiful Day” © So Boss Music & Paul Gordon Music ASCAP “She Came to Hollywood” ©2016 Bill Mumy Bill Mumy Official Website >>

Additional Music from Epidemic Sound: “The Vanished” by John Barzetti “Buried in our Lands” by Enigmanic

Theme Song: “Hot Fudge Holy Moley” from WXYZ-TV’s The Hot Fudge Show (1974-1980)

Logo by Sinead Yau at Mojo Valley

Creators

  • Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).