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Certainly not. This, the Master Ninja stuff, and two Kolchak movies (Crackle of Death, and Demon & The Mummy) display the odd penchant for taking two bad episodes of a TV show and stitching them together into one crummy movie. The strategy behind this is the studio wants to save the good episodes for separate syndication, so whoever makes these movies takes the worst episodes and stitches them together. I'm old enough to have seen Gemini Man, and these _are_ the worst episodes of that series, which displayed a modicum of intelligence at the best of times. They deliberately pick out the worst episodes to save the best for syndication, and the result is this unwatchable crap.

If you enjoy watching a discombobulated, incoherent dumpster fire of a movie, then Riding With Death is for you. Please, for the love of God, do not watch this without the MST3K commentary. I tried once without it and it was brutal. You have been warned!

Someone at Universal thought it would be a good idea to make a show about a guy who can turn himself invisible. But, they made him a government agent, and made him mellow. Dr. Heywood Floyd, transported from the year 2001, assigns the ever cool and mellow Sam Casey to transport Murray from the MTM Show, from point A to point B. Oh there's also something about an unstable liquid. Anyway, Captain Stubing intends to doublecross our mellow hero and take off with ten million dollars. Then there's some scenes with Jim Stafford singing and driving a truck, Sam turning invisible and then finally a truck blowing up. Then we go into the fast paced world of raceing! There's the elusive Robert Denby and why he's elusive, we never find out. Dr. Floyd is harassed by his dentist and a woman named Cupcake plots and schemes. Sam and Buffalo Bill, as Stafford is known in this mishmash, throw some punches, drive some cars and thwart the machinations of the ever elusvie Robert Denby. Oh, and Abby is quite a gal. She's such a gal that she can view things in her lab and project her thoughts over space and time. Based on a story by H.G. Wells, and I think he's suing.

Two episodes of atrocious 70s TV show stapled together to make a film. Secret agent has ability to become invisible due to exposure radiation or something. Has a "Southern" character only slightly less annoying than The Dukes of Hazzard. If you see a copy of it somewhere in a used bin, buy it then burn the video.

Typical cheese of the 70's. Good for laughs. Overly smug Ben Murphy plays a secret agent named Sam Casey who works for "Intersect", which is housed in a redressed parking garage.(Apparently Intersect couldn't afford a better office building). He was apparently involved in an accident earlier in his career that caused him to turn invisible, but he was cured. However, he was left with the ability to turn back invisible whenever he wanted, by using a handy wristwatch outfitted for him by Intersect. This we learn via vague flashbacks which leave us with more questions than answers. witness Murphy's narration of the flashback: "...all I could say was, 'What the hell happened?'"

The movie itself is not really a movie at all. It is actually two different episodes of the very short lived TV series "Gemini Man", which ran in or around 1976. It was probably spliced together because they were the only two episodes which also co-starred (I use the term 'starred' lightly) hillbilly music personality Jim Stafford.

The two episodes were obviously unrelated other than that, and the poor editing doesn't help to cover up this fact. Watch & listen for the edits where they try to tie these two together, you'll have a hearty laugh.

I actually wasted some time researching facts about the original TV series and found out that the second part (episode) of this movie never actually aired on TV. The show had already been canceled five or six weeks previous to its scheduled airdate. I guess the producer just couldn't bear to waste all that great footage of Jim Stafford yelping like a hyena in heat.

One word of advice: Do yourself a favor and locate the episode of the classic TV show "Mystery Science Theater 3000" which features this movie. Then you can *really* enjoy Riding With Death. Its one of their funniest episodes ever. (With material like RWD, how could it not be hilarious?)

Like most folks, I suspect, I saw Riding with Death on MST3K. There's no question that it's a totally hackneyed, badly acted, horribly edited movie. But there's something about their attempt to splice together two separate episodes into a movie that moves me. They're incredibly clumsy in their attempt; mainly it consists of totally obvious voiceovers while the camera shows a shot of a truck or a landscape. Gene Roddenberry, whatever his flaws, was able to do this brilliantly in "The Menagerie." But watching the attempt in Riding with Death can be fun, and all the 70's stuff (e.g., fadeaway jerk handshake) is a blast. So I give it a 2, perhaps my first-ever non-1 for a Msted movie.

Obviously, this grandly made for TV movie stars, well, the camera mostly stays on Ben Murphy as Sam Casey; supposed Harvard grad who gains awesome power to disappear, much like the audience's interest. I thought Ben really stunk it up as Prof. McCadden in Being from Another Planet , the only other film (than goodness!) I've seen him in, but this one is less agonizing as say repeatedly rubbing your hand to a bloody pulp on sharp coral. Honestly, this really cool title Riding with Death is far from it, but watch it enough, it's actually so crappy and bad that you just have to laugh!

What are you in store for? Well there's our Harvard alum trucking a highly volatile chemical, less than honorable doctor highly anal over patent papers, one really not so great gal Abby (nice tissue toss Abby!), spies doing bad deeds in front of corporate buildings or in restaurant parking lots, really hilarious amateur night, race car event in Ontario(?), less than helpful gas attendant, that elusive Robert Denby who likes to make things go kablooey!, Riding with Death is aptly named as your senses take in the stimuli and cry in horror. Also, Jim Stafford aka Buffalo Bill is the most stereotypical yokel who hootenannys and YEE-HA's at any chance, that he actually steals the spotlight from Ben Murphy (not that hard a task). Lots of mumbling, nonsensical plot, and you have yourself one laugher. Mike and the bots were right: what's the deal with New England journalism?

Two episodes of a really bad 70's T.V. show crammed together. It's worth watching for laughs. Observe all the bell bottoms, cheap dialogue, and unquestionably the worst actor I ever saw (the guy who plays Dr. Hale). Expensive and hard to find, so stick to the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, which appears on the Sci-Fi channel. "Riding With Death" occasionally runs.

well let's just say that one line from "Riding with Death" completely summarizes the type of movie it is and that is a big, fat turkey.

This one was deliciously roasted on MST by Mike and the oh so funny robots, with many references to how dopey the hero, Ben Murphy really is.

The flimsy plot jumps from an explosive being transported in a truck to another explosive substance being used in a race car to kill off some people for no apparent reason. The reason for the jumping of the plot most likely stems from the fact that the movie is no more than 2 episodes of a short lived 70's T.V. series, slammed together and released in theatres. Oh well flimsy plot aside, the rest of the movie is just plain horrific, most of the bad stuff is in the form of awful acting, which raises the question as to how this got made into a T.V. show to begin with.

Well, the MST version was a lot of fun, though this is still an incredibly bad movie. 9 for the MST version, none for the actual film.

Way back in the evil, post-hallucinogenic '70s, the TV execs were trying to figure out a way to make the kids tune in and turn on to NBC, and came up with the series "Gemini Man", a series about a secret agent who can turn invisible with the help of his special watch. The kids didn't find it groovy, man, so it went to Nowhere-Ville.

What does that have to do with "Riding with Death"? Everything, man!

As a gasp of air before going under, the producers decided to not only take a couple of the show episodes and sew them together to make a movie, but did so with different characters in main parts, a five year gap between plots and Jim Stafford. Remember Jim - "I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes"... or cheesy TV movies.

And Ben Murphy... WHY stick with television after "Alias Smith and Jones"? Surely there are other movie projects to be made.... Wait, he starred in "Time Walker". Never mind, Ben.

As far as the '70s go, not every movie of that decade ages well, and fewer TV shows do, either. Therefore, a TV show that they try to make episodes into a movie with is double trouble. So, instead of "Riding with Death", watch "Then Came Bronson" instead. Michael Parks - Ben Murphy, what's the difference, anyway?

Two stars - in fond memory of the '70s, not of this flick.

This is actually two unrelated episodes of the 70's TV show "Gemini Man" strung together to form a movie. And a really bad one too. It's not hard to see why this show was so short lived. Stars Ben Murphy (of "Being From Another Planet" and "Parasite" fame) and the hideous Jim Stafford. A real awful, rotting chunk of 70's cheese.

Good MST3K episode, though.

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.

Ben Murphy, Mr. Mellow, stars in a TV show that somehow is a movie. I laughed the whole way through although this was a semi-serious movie. The plot was hopeless and the actors were unintentionally funny. Buffalo Bill or whatever his name was, was a sorry excuse for an actor who was Ben Murphy's extremely hickish trucker buddy. If you liked dukes of hazards, you may love this movie, but I would strongly suggest not to watch it. I give it a 2 out of 10

This 'movie' was featured on the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000...I have movie in quotes, because this is just another in a long line of television episodes strung together to form a sort of movie. It is kind of like the Master Ninja movies that MST3K also riffed where the two movies were just four episodes of the show mashed together. Though, they try to add some dialog into this on to make it seem like it is one continuous film, though you can tell the things that were added such as the comments about the elusive Robert Denby and the strange scenes where Abby, one of the characters, is watching what is going on with the main character through a television. The show this particularly bad movie came from is a show called the Gemini Man starring Ben Murphy as some sort of agent who can turn invisible. Like the Incredible Hulk in that it was one of those shows made during this era where they would lead up to the grand effect. In that one, it was waiting for David Banner to become the Hulk and in this one it was waiting for Ben Murphy to become invisible, though that is a lot less awesome than Banner becoming the Hulk which is probably why this show would have long been forgotten if not for being riffed by MST3K.

The story is a bit messed up in places, but first things first, we are introduced to Intersect where Sam Casey is an agent who can go invisible. He is tasked with driving some sort of fuel additive to an installation, but the creator of it just wants to embezzle some money. He does what he can to get his fuel additive to explode as it becomes extremely volatile after a certain length of time. Abby, a woman who also works with Intersect, gets caught and is trapped with the bottle of additive. Then we are thrust into the car racing portion of the movie that really does not make any sense. One can say a lot of things about the first portion of the film, but you do know what is going on. This one just has a guy named Robert Denby, who is elusive, blowing stuff up at random. Why he is going to blow up the race car may have been explained better in the actual show or perhaps the reasoning was cut by MST3K, but this portion of the film is a bit confusing and the only thing that binds these two episodes together is Jim Stafford as Buffalo Bill, an annoying redneck type who sings lousy!

This made for a rather funny episode of MST3K as they were making fun of the 70's a lot in the first portion of the film and making fun of Stafford and the strange nonsensical plot during the second portion of the film. The bumps for this one were also very funny as I loved the one featuring Servo doing his song for the 70's. All in all a very good episode as they had a lot to work with, this television episodes or some times pilot episodes always make such funny episodes of MST3K.

I cannot say whether the actual show this 'movie' was made from was any good, but I am pretty sure it was not as these two episodes are pretty bad. It also only lasted like eight total episodes, though there were a lot of shows that only lasted this long or maybe a bit longer that I enjoyed. Manimal, Automan and Tales of the Golden Monkey are three shows off the top of my head that did not last long that I loved as a kid, but then again, kids are stupid. This one probably did suck as the only thing that differentiated it from other things was Casey's invisibility and that was not that awesome of an effect to pull off. Short lived show that was turned into a movie that would have been buried had MST3K not unearthed it.

Well, I guess two completely ridiculous episodes of an idiotic 70's TV show slopped together incoherently can make a movie, a BAD movie that is. A movie with some of the dumbest dialogue possible and laughable acting. Does everyone exposed to radiation turn invisible? I wish I could make this heap of trash disappear, permanently.

Any film with Andrew Prine in it is worth watching, even in a supporting role, and, yes, he's that good. But this oddly thought out VHS offering has a few more misses than hits. How, for instance, does the "hero" suddenly become fluent in trucker lingo seemingly overnight? Why does an explosive advertised to be powerful enough to destroy an entire town merely wreck a truck? Where did anyone come up with these ideas? I couldn't watch the second half; another hour of the singing trucker was too much to deal with. The VHS tape was really good quality and that was a redeeming virtue. Could have been worse.

Okay, I've watched the mst3k version on this movie several times in a desperate attempt to figure out what's going on in it. As far as I can tell, the movie first has 2 plots which both end somewhere in the middle of the movie. After that they fill in the rest of the time with some racing thing or something. As Peral Foerrster puts it, this movie "Sucks on toast."

One of the stupidest features I ever have seen, and Buffalo Bill, my God, did I hear bad acting. Bad plot, bad filming etc. How is it possible to watch this film without the MST3000K crew?

Whatever the writers of this movie were on, I want some.