Umney's Last Case
Posted: March 11, 2006
Category: Dollar Babies
About the same time as I heard that Umney’s Last Case was going to be included in TNT’s TV series based on Nightmares & Dreamscapes I got the Dollar Baby version of the same story sent to me.
These Dollar Babies are done on a low budget and should be seen in that light but even if this version hasn’t gotten the same budget as TNT’s its very good.
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This version of Umney’s Last Case is a nice little movie that runs just about 18 minutes. It’s very well done and Rodney Altman has done a good job in translating King’s story to the screen. It would have benefited from being a bit longer though. It feels a bit rushed but still, it’s very good.
The casting is well done and the actors do what can be expected from them but I do like Joel Nagle a little better then the rest. He does a good job portraying Clyde Umney and is really believable as an pre-world war I detective that wakes up one day to find that he is about to meet his maker, Samuel Landry the author of his life.
As you know Umney is just a fictional character in Landry’s books about Umney; the privet detective. Landry that hasn’t had an easy life has found a way to write himself into his books and once there he has no intention to leave…
These Dollar Babies are done on a low budget and should be seen in that light but even if this version hasn’t gotten the same budget as TNT’s its very good.
![](/img/other/umney_dollar_2.jpg)
This version of Umney’s Last Case is a nice little movie that runs just about 18 minutes. It’s very well done and Rodney Altman has done a good job in translating King’s story to the screen. It would have benefited from being a bit longer though. It feels a bit rushed but still, it’s very good.
The casting is well done and the actors do what can be expected from them but I do like Joel Nagle a little better then the rest. He does a good job portraying Clyde Umney and is really believable as an pre-world war I detective that wakes up one day to find that he is about to meet his maker, Samuel Landry the author of his life.
As you know Umney is just a fictional character in Landry’s books about Umney; the privet detective. Landry that hasn’t had an easy life has found a way to write himself into his books and once there he has no intention to leave…
Lilja's final words about Umney's Last Case:
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As I said it should have been a bit longer but it’s still a very good version of King’s story. See it if you can!