![]() ![]() When Hurt goes back home to his San Francisco condo, he receives a package. The episode depicts William Hurt as a nameless hitman who is taskered to kill a toymaker. I was truly saddened that it was not renewed. This is as close to genius television as it gets. In fact, even when a newscaster is announcing that a murder has taken place, it’s done with subtitles. Throughout the episode, you only hear ambient noise or grunts or yells, but no spoken dialogue. This episode starred William Hurt and like the short-story there is ZERO dialogue, giving the episode a silent movie feel that is very compelling. ![]() Battleground was made into a 52 minute long episode of the above short-lived series (watch them on youtube before they are taken down!!!). For example, Night Surf ( Cavalier and Night Shift) evolved into his opus The Stand about a decade later. Many of these stories were real gems or at least gems in the rough. In those days, he would sell stories to Swank – a low-rent Penthouse as well. ![]() This particular work was published in Cavalier, which was a low-rent Playboy. He was working in laundries, substitute teaching, maybe even a paper route. This was back in the days when he wasn’t just hungry, he was starving. Battleground was written in 1972 by King. This book is part of a short story anthology in Night Shift. Happy Horrorthon!!! I decided to do a bit of a hybrid review of one of my favorite stories: “Battleground” by Stephen King. ![]()
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