The Illustrated Man

Just after Felicia has finished drawing the rose on Carl's hand, his hand is resting on a pillow and the rose can be seen in close-up.

It is surrounded by four green leaves.

Felicia then takes Carl outside to "look at it in the sunlight".

Once outside, it can be seen that the rose is now surrounded by five green leaves.

The leaves are also differently shaped.

When Carl first arrives at Felicia's house, Felicia is wearing a black robe with a 2 inch wide green satin trim on the sleeves.

In the scene where she gives Carl a glass of lemonade and then holds his hand, it is plainly visible that the trim is completely torn along a seam.

Felicia then walks into another room and starts unfolding something at a table.

The same seam is visible again, but it's now intact and not torn.

During the opening credits (at 5 minutes into the film.

At the "Screenplay by" credits), as the camera circles above the characters swimming, the helicopter shadow can be seen in the lower right corner as it circles.

Based on Ray Bradbury's novel about a mysterious tattooed man(played gruffly by Rod Steiger) who meets up with a young wanderer(played by Robert Drivas) who recounts to him the circumstances that led him to be covered in tattoos, and how he is pursuing the mysterious(time-traveling?) woman who did it to him(played by Claire Bloom).

After watching "The Illustrated Man", I did a little research on it, and discovered that writer Ray Bradbury - whose work was adapted for this movie - disliked this movie. Although I have not read any Bradbury, I think I can see where his dislike came from.

I totally agree with Mr.Rod Serling, who had said "this is one of the worst movies ever made.

Rod Steiger is 'Carl', the titular character whose dermal illustrations come to life and tell three of Ray Bradbury's fanciful science-fiction short stories ('The Veldt', 'The Long Rain', 'The Last Night of the World'). Between the stories, Carl recounts to Willie, another drifter (Robert Drivas) how he came to be illustrated and why he wants to kill the artist (Claire Bloom).

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Based on a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury, we have an anthology film starring Rod Steiger. Two men at the side of the road decide due to the heat to camp out for the night before proceeding to their respective destinations.

Tastes and Likes are highly individualized. Perhaps there is no accounting for them.

Perhaps I was just expecting too much a different movie. I simply expected a good old fashioned, straight-forward, science-fiction thriller and not a 'talking', art-house like movie with deeper meanings and metaphors to it all.

It seems a lot of people hated this film, which isn't surprising at all. After all, the movie is unique, interesting, visually terrific, the story is a little disjointed, the title character is not a charismatic hero, the dog is kept in a bag, the music score doesn't have any Bon Jovi songs in it, and there is a definite lack of Tom Cruise - or any kind of tomocruisiness or leodecapricity.