John AgarFilmography

Body Bags

Actors: Mark Hamill, Stacy Keach, David Warner, John Carpenter, Roger Corman, Wes Craven, Deborah Harry, Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi

Synopsis: Horror virtuoso John Carpenter hosts this goofy horror anthology, originally produced for Showtime as a gory stepchild of HBO's Tales from the Crypt series. Playing an emaciated, eye-rolling "coroner," John introduces the audience to a triptych of creepy vignettes in the EC horror-comics mode Read More

Invasion of Privacy

Actors: Jennifer O'Neill, Robby Benson

Synopsis: Robby Benson stars as an insane ex-con obsessed with a magazine journalist (Jennifer O'Neill). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Perfect Bride

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable TV psychological thriller, a sister must prove that her brother's new girl, a nurse, is a deeply troubled psycho-killer who would rather see her lovers die than fall into another woman's clutches. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Nightbreed

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, Hugh Ross

Synopsis: Multimedia horror maven Clive Barker followed the success of his feature directorial debut Hellraiser with this equally surreal effort, based on his novella Cabal. The story involves the plight of Aaron Boone Craig Sheffer, a young man tormented by visions of monstrous, graveyard-dwelling Read More

Fear

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Dina Merrill, Michael O'Keefe, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Fear stars Ally Sheedy as a psychic who frequently helps the police track down criminals. This time, however, there's a serial killer at large who's a pretty efficient psychic in his own right. The story boils down to a battle of wills, and for while it looks as though the villain's will is the Read More

Miracle Mile

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar, Lou Hancock, Mykelti Williamson

Synopsis: Miracle Mile starts conventionally enough, with bashful musician Anthony Edwards going ga-ga over waitress Mare Winningham. After a pleasant if somewhat quirky day together, Edwards and Winningham plan a tete-a-tete at the all-night restaurant where the girl works. While preparing to call her on a Read More

Perfect Victims

Actors: Deborah Shelton, Lyman Ward, Tom Dugan, Clarence Williams III, Nicolette Scorsese

Synopsis: Liz Winters (Deborah Shelton) is the head of a modeling agency in this thrilling crime drama. When two of her top models are drugged and raped, Lieutenant Kevin White (Clarence Williams III) is put of the case. The villain turns out to be a maniacal misogynist with AIDS, and the police continue Read More

Highway to Heaven: The Return of the Masked Rider

Synopsis: Angels Jonathan (Michael Landon) and Mark (Victor French) are assigned to a seedy Hollywood neighborhood populated by former movie action stars that is being held in thrall by a vicious street gang. Taking jobs at a local boxing ring, our heroes befriend the owner's grandson Joey (Chip Allister) Read More

King Kong

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: Famed producer Dino De Laurentiis tries to steal the thunder from Jaws, then the top-grossing film of all-time, in this big budget remake of King Kong. (De Laurentiis related his tactics to Tom Snyder: "When Jaws dies, nobody cries. When Kong dies, they all cry.") Updated to the 1970s, the Read More

Charlie's Angels: Target: Angels

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, John Horn

Synopsis: The Angels find themselves the apparent targets of an unknown assassin. To find out the reason, and to flush out their would-be murderer, our heroines pretend that Sabrina (Kate Jackson) was killed during the attempt on her life. Alas, by the time the Angels realize that the killer's real target Read More

The Amazing Mr. No-Legs

Synopsis: Ricou Browning, the Olympic swimmer best known as the man inside the suit of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed this amazing bit of weirdness which could only have been a product of the cinematically insane 1970s. Richard Jaeckel stars as a Florida policeman tracking a gang of heroin Read More

Big Jake

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: When his grandson (played by real-life son Ethan Wayne) is kidnapped by scurrilous baddie Richard Boone, Big Jake (John Wayne) sets out to deliver the $1 million ransom. On the off-chance that there'll be gunplay, Jake brings along his sons Patrick Wayne and Chris Mitchum. Maureen O'Hara plays Read More

Chisum

Actors: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett

Synopsis: John Wayne toplines this biography of the cattle owner John Simpson Chisum, a controversial figure who was the most powerful man in New Mexico during the Wild West era. A founder and prominent citizen in the town of Lincoln, Chisum is slow to act when ruthless land baron Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker Read More

The Undefeated

Actors: John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo

Synopsis: This routine western finds Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attacking Confederate soldiers lead by Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson). After a crushing defeat, Langdon torches his plantation rather than have it fall into enemy hands. A group of Southerners accept the Read More

Night Fright

Actors: John Agar, Ralph Baker, Jr., Dorothy Davis

Synopsis: This obscure horror movie is a remake of an even more obscure horror movie, 1964's The Demon From Devil's Lake. The sheriff of a small Texas town investigates when a serial killer starts bumping off female students at a local college. He discovers that the murderer is not a serial killer at all Read More

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale, Clint Ritchie

Synopsis: Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the events that lead to the bloody title showdown between rival mobsters Al Capone (Jason Robards) and Bugs Moran (Ralph Meeker) that marked a brutal end to a terrifying era. Fred Steiner Read More

Family Affair: What Did You Do in the West, Uncle?

Synopsis: While treating the kids to a rodeo, Bill is reunited with his old pal Gabe Nelson (played by horror-movie stalwart John Agar), a professional bronco buster. Buffy (Anissa Jones) and Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) and Cissy (Kathy Garver) are enthralled by Gabe's colorful stories about the Wild West--so Read More

Combat!: The Mockingbird

Synopsis: Jeremy Slate guest stars as a German spy, who is posing as a downed American flyer named Asher. In this guise, the phony Asher is supposed to infiltrate the French underground and relay their plans to the Nazis. But things don't quite go as planned when the spy is "rescued" by Lt. Hanley (Rick Read More

Women of the Prehistoric Planet

Actors: Wendell Corey, Keith Larsen, John Agar, Paul Gilbert, Merry Anders

Synopsis: Cosmos 1, an interstellar spacecraft, is heading to its home base after a long mission when it receives a distress call from its sister ship, Cosmos 3. Some of the ship's Centaurian crew -- members of a once proud race who are now subservient to humans from the fleet's home world -- have rebelled. Read More

Zontar, the Thing from Venus

Synopsis: This deliciously campy sci-film has developed a minor cult following. It chronicles the exploits of a Venusian bat-creature who tries to take over the Earth by invading the mind of a hapless victim and forcing the victim to attempt to shut off all the world's power sources. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Waco

Actors: Howard Keel, Jane Russell, Brian Donlevy, Wendell Corey, Terry Moore

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter is hired to clean up the chaotic streets of Emporia, Wyoming. The gunfighter arrives and finds that his ex-lover is there and is married to the town preacher. Though the two are still attracted, they resist temptation. When he sees how violent the town really is, the Read More

Johnny Reno

Actors: Dana Andrews, Jane Russell, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Agar, Lyle Bettger, Tom Drake

Synopsis: Johnny Reno (Dana Andrews) is a US Marshall who is bushwhacked by outlaws on his way to Stone Junction, Kansas. Joe Connors (Tom Drake) and his brother Ab (Dale Van Sickle) mistakenly believe the lawman is after them and fire on Reno, and Reno captures Joe after Ab is killed in the gun battle. The Read More

Curse of the Swamp Creature

Synopsis: Texas-based cult director Larry Buchanan made this low-budget horror oddity starring John Agar as Rogers, a geologist who travels through the swamps to see a scientist named Simon (Jeff Alexander). What Rogers doesn't know is that Simon is quite mad and is experimenting on the local Read More

Hell Raiders

Synopsis: John Agar leads an American demolition squad into Italy to destroy a U.S. headquarters recently commandeered by Axis forces. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Branded: $10,000 for Durango

Synopsis: Jason (Chuck Connors) shows up at the Durango bank for the purpose of cash his employer's $10,000 draft. This transaction is interrupted by outlaw Frank Ross (Lloyd Bochner) and his gang, who proceed to make a large withdrawal--at gunpoint. It now falls to Jason to retrieve the stolen bank draft Read More

Young Fury

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo, Lon Chaney, Jr., Richard Arlen, John Agar

Synopsis: In this western, a gunslinger runs from the Dawson gang and decides to return home to the wife he abandoned many years before. There he finds that his infant son has grown into a thuggish hellion who has been lead to believe that his mother is dead. He also hates the father who left him. The Read More

Law of the Lawless

Actors: Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in them--all the stars being veterans not often seen on the screen anymore. As far as plot line, essentially we have a badguy who has become a good guy (read that ex Read More

Stage to Thunder Rock

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Marilyn Maxwell, Keenan Wynn, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: In this western adventure, a sheriff prepares to retire and finds himself forced to deal with his past when he is assigned to round up a gang of outlaws comprised of the sons of the man who raised him after his own parents were killed. The sheriff has to kill one of the desperadoes. The other he Read More

The Young and the Brave

Actors: Rory Calhoun, William Bendix, Richard Jaeckel, John Agar, Manuel Padilla

Synopsis: In this Korean War drama, three POWs escape the North Koreans and try to make it safely across enemy lines. During their flight, the soldiers encounter a young boy and his German Shepherd. The boy hates the communists because they killed his parents for sheltering American soldiers, and he offers Read More

Cavalleria Commandos

Actors: John Agar, Richard Arlen

Synopsis: After a Philippine guerrilla soldier witnesses the benevolence of his American enemies during their military occupation in 1902, he changes his attitude. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Of Love and Desire

Actors: Merle Oberon, Steve Cochran, Curd Jürgens, John Agar, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: Boiling over with sexual shenanigans and general sleaziness the Mexico-set tale centers on a confused socialite who falls in love with an American engineer who was hired by her half- brother to oversee his mining outfit. At first the attraction between the girl and the Yank is purely sexual, but Read More

Hand of Death

Synopsis: Scientist Alex March (John Agar) is working on developing what he hopes will be a new, non-lethal form of nerve gas -- but following an accident in his lab, he discovers that not only is the gas deadly, but also that it has invaded his entire body, and his touch is instantly fatal to any other Read More

Journey to the Seventh Planet

Actors: John Agar, Greta Thyssen, Ann Smyrner, Mimi Heinrich, Carl Ottosen

Synopsis: Travelling by spaceship to the planet Uranus in year 2010, a group of astronauts are confronted with a mysterious being who resembles a brain but is "thousands of times more powerful," a bevy of pretty girls whom they may or may not have loved in a previous life, and, of course, the inevitable Read More

Lisette

Synopsis: In this melodrama a newspaper editor sponsors an Indochinese orphan to help his father-in-law win a seat in the Senate. They are all surprised when the orphan girl turns out to be a gorgeous Eurasian woman whom the editor promptly beds. When the woman learns that he only brought her over as a Read More

Raymie

Actors: David Ladd, Julie Adams, John Agar, Charles Winninger, Richard Arlen

Synopsis: The story of a boy and his fish is chronicled in this heartwarming children's drama. The story centers around Raymie, a young boy who is determined to catch 'Old Moe,' a big barracuda who has become a local legend. Along with a variety of older fisherman, he sets up his gear on a California pier Read More

Invisible Invaders

Actors: John Agar, Jean Byron, Robert Hutton, Philip Tonge, Hal Torey, John Carradine

Synopsis: The Earth is attacked by mysterious invaders from outer space, who plan on destroying humankind. The invaders are invisible in our atmosphere, but are able to inhabit and reanimate the bodies of the dead. The armies of rotting corpses march on the cities, and it seems as though there is no Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Caretaker's Cat

Synopsis: When the body of wealthy Peter Baxter (Anthony Joachim) is found in the charred ruins of his mansion, caretaker James Hing (Benson Fong), who'd been made Baxter's sole heir in his will, is accused of the crime. Hing admits to burning down the mansion, but insists that he did so on the orders of Read More

Attack of the Puppet People

Actors: John Agar, Michael Mark, Jack Kosslyn

Synopsis: Attack of the Puppet People is one of the few "mad scientist" opuses of the 1950s to be motivated by loneliness rather than megalomania. John Hoyt plays Franz, a seedy European doll-maker who harbors a crush on his secretary Sally (June Kenney). When Sally makes plans to marry Franz' top employee Read More

Jet Attack / Paratroop Command

Synopsis: In Jet Attack, a brainwashed scientist is rescued by a paramilitary team; in Paratroop Command, a soldier sets off North African land mines to regain his honor after killing one of his own men. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Jet Attack

Actors: John Agar, Audrey Totter, Gregory Walcott, James Dobson, Leonard Strong

Synopsis: Denied a big budget, Jet Attack scores dramatic points by concentrating on the human side of warfare. Shot down behind enemy lines in North Korea, jet jockeys Tom (John Agar), Bill (Gregory Walcott) and Chick (Nicky Blair) link up with Russian nurse Tanya (Audrey Totter). She insists that she's on Read More

Frontier Gun

Actors: John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Barton MacLane, Robert Strauss, Lyn Thomas

Synopsis: 3DFrontier Gun3D is another of the moderately interesting low-budget westerns turned out by 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary in the late 1950s. John Agar plays Jim Crayle, who offers his services as voluntary marshal when crazed gunman Yubo (Robert Strauss) inaugurates a reign of Read More

Ride a Violent Mile

Actors: John Agar, Penny Edwards, Richard Shannon

Synopsis: Ride a Violent Mile is an economically produced western with a Civil War background. Penny Edwards stars as Susan, a Union spy who poses as a dance-hall girl in a Confederate-friendly frontier town. Susan hopes to prevent the Mexican government from casting its lot with the South, and to do that Read More

The Brain from Planet Arous

Actors: John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller, Henry Travis

Synopsis: The plot of The Brain from Planet Arous has something to do with a huge floating brain which takes over the body of nuclear scientist Steve March (John Agar) as the first step in its takeover of the earth. Tipping off the fact that March is not himself are his strange eyeballs and his rather Read More

Joe Butterfly

Actors: Audie Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Based on a play by Evan Wylie and Jack Ruge, Joe Butterfly also bears the influence of Teahouse of the August Moon. The title character, played by Burgess Meredith, is a wily Japanese wheeler-dealer who offers his services as interpreter to the American GIs occupying postwar Tokyo (where the film Read More

Flesh and the Spur

Actors: John Agar, Marla English, Raymond Hatton, Maria Monay

Synopsis: One of the least-known of the American-International "B" westerns of the 1950s, Flesh and the Spur offers the spectacle of the inimitable John Agar in a dual role. When his twin brother Mathew is killed, Luke Random goes gunnin' for his brother's murderer. Along the way, he teams up with Read More

Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

Actors: John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields, John Dierkes, Martha Wentworth

Synopsis: Edgar G. Ulmer directed this silly but fun low-budgeter about young English heiress and bride-to-be Janet (Gloria Talbott), who arrives at the family estate on her 21st birthday. There she is informed by her guardian that her father was none other than the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll, the inventor Read More

Star in the Dust

Actors: John Agar, Mamie van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: In this western, a lawman tries to mediate between irate farmers and angry ranchers who are trying to decide the fate of a captured killer. The killer was hired by the ranchers who want him freed. The farmers, egged on by a schoolteacher, want to see the gunman swing. Meanwhile the real Read More

The Mole People

Actors: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: The Mole People holds the dubious distinction of being the weakest of the Universal-International horror films. John Agar plays Dr. John Bentley, who leads a Middle Eastern expedition in search of a lost tribe of Sumerians. Bentley and his cohorts follow a tunnel deep, deep, deep below the surface Read More

Tarantula

Actors: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott

Synopsis: A man with a strangely misshapen face wanders out of the desert near a small town and falls to the ground dead. The county sheriff (Nestor Paiva) tentatively identifies the dead man as Eric Jacobs, a laboratory assistant to Professor Deemer (Leo G. Carroll), a research scientist living a few miles Read More

The Lonesome Trail

Synopsis: In this western, the goodguys use bow and arrows instead of guns to foil the schemes of evil landgrabbers attempting to take their ranch. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hold Back Tomorrow

Actors: Cleo Moore, John Agar, Frank de Kova, Dallas Boyd, Steffi Sidney

Synopsis: In this bizarre drama, an inmate on death row has one final request before his impending hanging: he wants to spend the night with a woman. The police bring him a suicidal prostitute. After a night of lovemaking, the two decide they are in love and are married by the prison chaplain. This eases Read More

Revenge of the Creature

Actors: Robert Hoy, John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Robert B. Williams, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Revenge of the Creature is, of course, the sequel to Universal's fabulously successful The Creature from the Black Lagoon--and like its predecessor, the film was lensed in 3-D (though released "flat" in most theatres). Though the audience had seen the Gill-Man shot full of holes in the first Read More

The Golden Mistress

Actors: John Agar, Rosemarie Bowe, Abner Biberman

Synopsis: In this adventure, treasure hunters go in search of voodoo loot. The expedition is lead by a young woman and her avaricious father who must work hard to persuade a boatman to take them into the cursed jungle. En route the father is hexed with a voodoo curse and dies. The boatman and the girl find Read More

Bait

Actors: Cleo Moore, Hugo Haas, John Agar, Emmett Lynn, Bruno Ve Sota

Synopsis: Bait starts out with a cunning pre-credits sequence, wherein a dapper, erudite gentlemen (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), after signing a series of autographs for his admiring fans, introduces himself as the Devil. Addressing the viewer, His Satanic Majesty introduces a cautionary tale of sex and Read More

Shield for Murder

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, John Agar, Marla English, Emile G. Meyer

Synopsis: A corrupt cop creates all kinds of problems in this crime drama. The trouble begins when he kills a bookie and then grabs $25,000. Later he tells his chiefs that he did it because he had to, but as no one was there to witness the killing, they are forced to take his word for it. Unfortunately for Read More

The Rocket Man

Actors: Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, George Winslow, Anne Francis, John Agar, Emory Parnell

Synopsis: The strangest aspect of the low-budget fantasy effort The Rocket Man is the fact that one of its screenwriters was Lenny Bruce. There's nothing scatalogical or even satirical in the film itself, however. Essentially an Andy Hardyesque comedy drama with a peripheral sci-fi slant, the story concerns Read More

Man of Conflict

Actors: Edward Arnold, John Agar, Susan Morrow, Fay Roope, Herbert Heyes

Synopsis: After several years of supporting roles, Edward Arnold once again enjoys top billing in the independently produced Man of Conflict. Arnold plays powerful industrialist J. R. Compton, who tries to force his son Ray (John Agar) to become as ruthless and hard-hearted as his dad. But Ray is cut from a Read More

Woman of the North Country

Actors: Ruth Hussey, Rod Cameron, John Agar, Gale Storm, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Ruth Hussey stars in this big-budget Republic actioner. She plays Christine Powell, the grasping, conniving sister of Minnesota mining magnate David Powell (John Agar). Using her feminine wiles, Christine tries to undermine her brother's competition by romancing rival mine owner Kyle Ramlo (Rod Cameron Read More

The Magic Carpet

Actors: Lucille Ball, John Agar, Patricia Medina, George Tobias, Raymond Burr

Synopsis: Hoping to force Lucille Ball into breaking her contract, Columbia Pictures chieftain Harry Cohn assigned her to the low-budget Arabian Nights escapade The Magic Carpet. Much to Cohn's amazement, the plucky Ball agreed to appear in the film, forcing Columbia to pay her salary until her option ran Read More

Along the Great Divide

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, Walter Brennan, Ray Teal

Synopsis: Raoul Walsh injects his expected artistry in the otherwise journeyman western Along the Great Divide. Feeling responsible for his father's death, marshal Kirk Douglas seeks redemption. He gets his chance when he saves murder suspect Walter Brennan from a lynch mob. The grateful Brennan accompanies Douglas Read More

Breakthrough

Actors: David Brian, Frank Lovejoy, John Agar, Paul Picerni, Bill Self

Synopsis: Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent. Led by Captain Hale (David Brian), a small group of infantrymen march through Normandy. The war-weary foot soldiers resent the presence of 90 Day Wonder Read More

Sands of Iwo Jima

Actors: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Wally Cassell, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne), a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant as he trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943. Recently left by his wife, Stryker has Read More

I Married a Communist

Actors: Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, Janis Carter

Synopsis: There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes' many anti-Red broadsides. Robert Ryan plays shipping executive Brad Collins, whose youthful flirtations with certain left-wing causes have made him ripe for plucking by Commie cell leader Vanning (Thomas Gomez Read More

Adventure in Baltimore

Actors: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Sharpe, Josephine Hutchinson

Synopsis: Set in the early 1900s, Adventure in Baltimore is a romantic comedy about the woman's suffrage movement. Shirley Temple plays a student at an exclusive girl's school who "sees the light" and begins campaigning for women's rights. This doesn't sit well with her minister father (Robert Young) nor Read More

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Actors: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen

Synopsis: The second of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is the only one of the three to be lensed in Technicolor. In an Oscar-calibre performance, 42-year old John Wayne plays sixtyish Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles. In his last days before his compulsory retirement, Brittles must Read More

Fort Apache

Actors: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Pedro Armendáriz, Dick Foran

Synopsis: The first of John Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", Fort Apache stars John Wayne as captain Kirby York and Henry Fonda as Custer clone Lt. Col. Owen Thursday. Resentful of his loss in rank and transfer to the West after serving gallantly in the Civil War, the vainglorious Thursday insists upon imposing Read More