Three years after his near-fatal horse riding accident, which left him paralysed from the neck down, the ‘Superman’ star appeared in what proved to be his final film: a made-for-TV remake of a Hitchcock classic. And despite its radical pleasures, it’s been lost to time, writes Geoffrey Macnab
As Joe Dante’s singular horror-comedy is re-released in cinemas for its 40th anniversary, Geoffrey Macnab looks at the unlikely backstory behind a true original