Pamula Pierce Barcelou has been working in conjunction with The George Eastman House on a restoration of her father Charles B. Pierce's classic THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK. She has a YouTube page where she has put up a sampling of the restored footage along with some outtakes and they look breathtaking to say the least.
She regained the rights to her late father's movie after a protracted legal battle and this release will banish forever to the garbage bins those bootleg eyesores we've endured through the years. Limited theatrical showings will begin in June followed by a physical release later.
THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK kicked off the Bigfoot genre cinema craze and along with 1967's famous Patterson-Gimlin footage made the Sasquatch legends a cultural phenomenon in late 60's and 70's that continues to this day.
Made for approx. $100,000 and self-distributed by Pierce in partnership with Howco International, it went on to gross upwards of $20,000,000 playing for years on the drive-in circuit.
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