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Dan Braddock as Johnny
Dan Braddock’s a Pittsburgh man through
and through and has found a lively profession in the
world of video production. He’s a producer at the
nationally known TV broadcast station KDKA. This
makes Dan one of the few actual professionals who
worked on the film. Fortunately, his talent behind
the camera is great enough that he made up for a lot
ills caused by some of the amateurs who drifted
through this production. What Dan isn’t comfortable
with is acting in front of the camera but that didn’t
stop him from tackling a key supporting role. Who
better to play easy-going, fun-loving, long-haired
petty crook Johnny than easy-going, fun-loving,
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Dick Christopher
as Detective Sorenson
There are no
small roles, someone once said, only small actors – and
Dick Christopher is no small actor. (I mean he’s not big
in the “big heavy” sense, he’s big on natural talent.
That is, since the Atkins diet kicked in, he’s… oh never
mind.) In fact, in this, his first acting job ever, he
turned out to be so good we actually gave him more lines.
Playing Detective Sorenson allowed Dick to show off his
natural leadership abilities and aura of intimidation and
strength. Let’s say this: if Sorenson is the dick on the
case, then you don’t want to be the crook. Dick
and his lovely wife Sandy are originally from Michigan but
over the years have made a circuitous route to their
favorite home so far, right here in Pittsburgh. They have
two grown children and one lovely granddaughter Maddy.
Dick enjoyed his first acting gig so much he even agreed
to miss some golf dates. And if you know Dick, THAT’S
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Tim Debacco as
Earl Kenton
Tim Debacco, best know as the Pirates'
Public Address Announcer at PNC Park, Tim lives in
Pittsburgh with wife Susie and daughters Sophia and
Cassie. His reputation as an announcer, radio and TV
actor, and corporate and broadcast spokesperson probably
won’t be tarnished by his appearance in LSIAVT but one
never knows. He and the director were roommates in
college, in each other’s weddings, godfather to each
other’s children – other than that, they don’t get along
that well. Tim’s an interesting character whose passions
run from pro baseball to pop music. He’s an accomplished
pianist, plays guitar, and even performs on the accordion
on the theme song to the movie. He’s also a pop culture
junkie and one of Donny Osmond’s biggest fans.
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John Gallagher as Fogerty
John and the director
met 35 years ago when they were 5 and 10 years old
respectively. They both loved making movies then and
today, thanks to the fact they neither one actually ever
grew up, still like making movies now. Fortunately they
both happen to live in Pittsburgh now so that John was
able to become a most vitla part of Last Stop’s
production. He pitched in big time by shooting, lighting,
doing sound, finding extras gripping, and acting in the
colorful role of Fogerty the hit man. He holds the
distinction of being at more of the shoots than anyone but
the director himself. His generosity includes renting a
car for a key scene, finding cash when it was needed most,
securing locations when no one else could, getting
difficult to find props, and, well, you get the idea.
John loves movies, you see. He takes many courses at
Pittsburgh Filmmakers and has even passed a few. He has
quite a roster of student film productions himself and
plans to continue this filmmaking hobby as long as he can.
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Jim Healy as Sammy
Grimes
Jim may have a bad
guy role in the movie but it’s a charming bad guy
role which makes the perfect role for Jim. And that’s a
compliment. I think. Jim is another of the salesmen we
have in the cast which is just one short of making a
trend. Jim lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, Massachusetts
and Colorado before settling with his wife Patty and son
Ryan in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. Jim is a robot man (he
is an expert in automation solutions to the plastics
industry) who, in his free time, likes to coach
basketball, play golf, ski, and watch sports – all with
his family close by. Jim may be new to this acting stuff
but he’s good at it. And he always knew his lines when he
got to the set – then forgot them once the camera rolled.
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Rick Kneidel as
Droglinx
Rick Kneidel is a small town family man
– husband of wonderful wife and father of two great
kids. He’s worked at Pure Carbon Company in St. Marys,
PA for over 20 years. He also happens to be so good
at acting that he ought to chuck it all and turn to a
life on the stage ( preferably the one heading west.)
But no. He aspires only to be in productions directed
by his life-long pal Fred Martin, much to Martin’s
undying joy. Rick lives for God, his family, the
Three Stooges, and acting – in that order I think.
Playing a 7 foot hairy monster who lives in a cave
came very easy to Rick. He was able to stoop over just
enough to appear only 7 feet tall. And once Rick
agreed to be the monster, we re-wrote the part to have
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Ben Martin as
Dutch Stiles
Ben Martin doesn’t think of his role of
Dutch Stiles as the lead – it only happens to have the
most lines. He thought he got the role because of his
acting abilities but it was mostly because he’s bald and
out of shape making him physically perfect for the role of
the confused 44 year old single father. Ben’s acted
before. He even tackled the role of Elwood P. Dowd in
Harvey on the amateur stage and held up pretty well
playing opposite the elusive white rabbit. Unlike his
character in this movie, Ben is actually quite fond of
monsters. |
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Kevin McCullough
as Cecil Buchak
Kevin McCullough
lives in the South Hills of Pittsburgh with wife Randi and
daughter Nicole. He enjoys watching movies and loves
almost every film he managed to stay awake for. This
prepared him nicely for his convincing performance in the
pivotal role of Cecil Buchak, technical expert on the big
bank robbery. Kevin and director met at Clarion
University in the mid 80's where they did some on camera
work together on a film critic program. After the
experience of working together on this production, they
have promised to be nicer when reviewing the work of other
film makers. Kevin's wife Randi also has a small
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 Eric Pitchford as
Floyd Eddy
Unlike Eva Marie Saint’s character in North
By Northwest who only claims to be an industrial
designer, Eric Pitchford actually is one. He gets paid
for it, too. He never really acted before except in a
convincing scene in college when he was asked to perform
as a rape victim, a performance by all accounts quite
convincing. His real interests lie in sports, art and
gardening. He’s a powerful golfer as well who mixes a
fierce competitiveness with a calming love of the game.
Eric not only tackled the demanding role of multi-layered
Floyd Eddy, he did stunt work as a werewolf, a bat
creature, and offered tons of behind-the-scenes
encouragement. His house is a key location and his wife
Barbara plays a small role in the film as well.
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Michelle Ann Powers as
Moira
Michelle Ann Powers is the daughter of a
minister father and school teacher mother from a small
town in Texas but she didn’t let that stop her from going
down the sin-laden career path of theatre arts. By the
time you read this she’ll have her masters in theatre
(specialized in stage management and sound) from Carnegie
Mellon University. She almost used this movie as her
thesis but a switch in advisors and other academic
politics prevented it. Still, her happy experience acting
and co-producing LSIAVT helped her to decide to pursue a
career in film, not theatre. In spite of the awesome
job she did acting in the role of Moira, her heart lies
behind the camera. She has specialized in sound up
until now but she has branched out into virtually every
technical aspect of theatre and film.
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Mike Purucker as
El Mando
Mike Purucker is
not Mexican, not a wrestler, and not a bad looking guy in
spite of the fact that he wears a mask through the entire
production (except for an un-credited cameo in the opening
party scene). However, he is gifted with a great voice
and a rigid posture making him almost perfect for the role
of the stoic Mando. He was roped into the move at the
last minute and would much rather spend his time coaching
baseball or softball (especially for his 7 nieces and
nephews), volunteering as a fireman, working with the
American Cancer Society, and many other worthy causes.
Sheesh – where are his priorities? He’s also quite active
as a church youth counselor. Hopefully he’ll throw all
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Crystal Rohm as
Sabine Amberton
Crystal D. Rohm is so full of life, passion
and personality that it’s really quite surprising that she
never acted before OLSIAVT. Still, she tackled the female
lead with verve and determination. If only she would have
learned her lines. But you can’t have everything when you
don’t pay your actors. Crystal loves to sing, though,
does it well, and does it as often as she can. She’s
queen of the karaoke when she gets her hand on the mic. A
Pittsburgh native, she attends Point Park College for
Business Management. She now works at ICM School of
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Rob Schultz as Ned
Rob first heard of this movie concept during a marathon
drinking session starring the director, Rob, and Dan
Braddock. Then the film started to become a reality. Rob
first showed up just to play a drunk at a bar for one of
the very first scenes shot. He was so convincing that he
was soon promoted to the key but silent tough guy role of
Ned, the main villain’s number one henchman. Only later
did we realize that the only reason Rob was so convincing
in his first performance was that he had downed three
pitchers of IC light himself followed by tequilla chasers
before even an inch of video tape had passed through the
camera. Nonetheless, Rob was a natural and seemed to have
fun with his expanded role. Ned is a character of very
few words which was a constant struggle for Rob as it is
against the very law of physics for Rob to remain silent
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Gregg Traverso as
Cutter Conroy
Most people who know Gregg Traverso might
have trouble imagining him as a villain. He’s
too nice a guy. And always the life of the
party. But Gregg tackled his first acting job
with a verve, gusto and conviction that proved our
hunch that he’d be perfect for the role of Cutter
Conroy. Maybe it’s Gregg’s career in sales that
helped him take to acting so effectively. He’s
been paid to be for over 18 years now. He not
only gave of his time and talent to the movie, but his
country home served as a key location and even his
lovely, long-suffering wife Beth took a small role.
And if we make another movie, we’ll’ work in his three
sons Michael, Nicky and Alex.
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Sydney A. Zandier as
Maddy Stiles
Sydney Zandier loves soccer and horses. As
a 5th grader, she excels in both academics and
sports. Sydney got the difficult role of Maddy after the
director had taken some home movies of her at a family
function. Sydney, you see, is the daughter of the
director’s wife’s first cousin. Got that? She’s the
oldest of four children and the daughter of Kim and Don
Zandier who are – you guessed it – Pittsburgh natives.
Her good friend Lindsey Gamble, the one who really like to
act, plays Sydney’s good friend in the move as well.
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Michael Babich as
Leonard Yarsky |
Doug Lamont as
Cigarette |
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Dan Beltz as
Frantic Bank Employee |
Bethanne Martin as
Cutter's Girl |
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Hank Dixon as
Doctor |
Hunter Martin as
Boy in Back of Car |
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Cheryl Evans as
Bartender |
Shirley Martin as
The Spector |
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Eric Felter as
Warehouse Guard |
Jill Mazza as the
Movie Girl |
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William Ferrari as
the Sytharee |
Bruce Mountjoy as
Yappy Party Guest |
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Lindsey Gamble as
Jill |
April Novak as
Olivia |
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Terry Geibel as
Police Officer |
Dan Patterson as
the Woods Monster |
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Claudine Grochalski
as Omar's Handler |
Barbara Pitchford
as Girl #2 |
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Eric Haglund as
Redneck #2 |
Molly Ruscitti as
Allison Hayes |
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Sally Hards as
Sherri Allbright |
Beth Traverso as
Cathy |
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Kory Elias Holtzman
as Redneck #1 |
Denny Wessell as
Buck |
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Ilona Hunkele as
Ethel |
Don Yockey as Moe |
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Dave Kelly as Omar
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Joe Afflerbach |
Corey Lechat |
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Doug Beltz |
Liz Louder |
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Starlene Beran |
Robert Luffe |
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Brian Blanker |
Trace Martin |
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Mike Bothwell |
Virginia Martin |
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Donald Budeit |
Mary Mazza |
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Philip Bujakowski |
Chelsea McDade |
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Len Caruso |
Jacki McDade |
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Jennifer Cirlingione |
Randi McCullough |
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Jim Clatterbaugh |
Jimmy Moyer |
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Marian Clatterbaugh |
Amber Nerlich |
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Amy Conners |
Haley Nerlich |
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Greg Constantino |
Bernie Nerlich |
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Dylan Coughenour |
Jennifer Nutter |
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Mark Criscuolo |
Jeannine O'Patchen |
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Becky Daugherty |
Natalie O'Patchen |
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Michael Devin |
Carla Orosz |
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Jessica Dymer |
Leanne Powers |
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Erin Flannery |
Jennifer Rapp |
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Michael Gitzen |
Timothy Rupert |
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Wanda Gladd |
Mark Salac |
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Steve Gladd |
Todd Salac |
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Candice Haberman |
Jonathan Shimmons |
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Susan Hazlett |
Chuck Spicuzza |
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Corie Hopf |
Susan Thon |
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Karl Kaminske |
Shawn Wessell |
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Donna Kennedy |
William Wetzel |
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Jack Kohler |
Ron Yap |
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Steve Kohler |
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Marina Kolocouris |
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WRITER/DIRECTOR |
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Frederic Martin |
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VIDEOGRAPHY |
Dan Braddock
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Ken Brown |
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Dave Eger
No one (besides Ben
Martin, of course) has spent more time on this
film than our tried and true editor, Dave.
Fortunately for us, Dave didn’t know what hit him
until the truck drove away and he was lying on the
ground staring at the tread marks across his poor,
mangled body. But seriously folks, we couldn’t
have asked for a better editor. Dave graduated
from Columbia College Chicago in 1995 where he
studied Cinematography. Missing home, he came back
to Pittsburgh after graduation and did various
editing jobs including lots of work on corporate
industrial videos. Dave has worked on many Indy
film projects since his return to Pittsburgh
including most recently Missing Jane, an excellent
story about World War II soldiers who crash land
in Germany (see more about Missing Jane at
http://www.jas-entertainment.com/missingjane),
for which he not only edited, but co-wrote as
well. Dave is currently employed as an editor at
Armstrong Cable in Butler, PA. When not working,
Dave keeps busy with his many other editing
projects and spends as much time as he can with
his beautiful wife, Arwen, and their baby girl
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J.C. Carter |
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Ben Martin |
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS |
Bethanne Martin
Bethanne Martin is the wife of the
writer director but that didn’t get her out of lending
her formidable organization skills as Executive
Producer. Her primary function was to make sure there
was a cooler full of cold drinks at all those hot 2002
summer shoots. Subs, donuts, chips and Slim Jims
became a staple at most of the shoots thanks to
Bethanne. She also organized many of the costumes,
locations and funding. Bethanne has the distinction
of playing more characters than anyone else in the
movie. Her 6 roles include the bratty kids mom,
Cutter’s girl, and the movie set monster. Bethanne
and her husband have two boys, Hunter and Trace, who
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John Gallagher
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Sally Hards
By
profession Sally Hards is a project manager. That
and her excitement for the movie project made her
ideal for the role of producer. Admittedly she
didn’t know what nightmare she was getting into
but she handled it all amazingly well. In fact,
we’re hard pressed to think who else in their
right mind could have handled this production?
Remember, we’re dealing with a movie that has 30
speaking roles, another 70 odd extras, 43 separate
locations, 9 monsters, and a 13 month shooting
schedule. Born and raised in Oil City, PA, Sally
makes Pittsburgh her home where she lives in the
cozy community of Bellevue with her cat Daisy.
Sally even lent her house out as a key location.
Talk about commitment. Her impressive cameo as
roving TV reporter Sherry Allbright demonstrates
just how far her talent and abilities reach.
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CO-PRODUCERS |
Michelle Ann Powers
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Frederic Martin |
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Makeup, Costumes |
Jennifer Nutter |
Ruthanne Nerlich |
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Sally Hards |
Eric Felter |
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Ben Martin |
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Special Effects |
Bernie Nerlich |
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Production Assistance |
Kory Elias Holtzman |
Jim Manley |
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Mike Hough |
Jeff Wilson |
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"Werm" Darnell Grisham |
Don Yockey |
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Clinton Kunselman |
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Bar hosted by Sunny Jim's Tavern (Jim Oliver) |
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Cecil's Office hosted by New Perspective Productions |
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Cutter's Camp hosted by Denny and Sheree Wessell |
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Dutch's House hosted by The Traverso Family |
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Earl's Office hosted by Widmer Engineering |
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Floyd's House hosted by Sally Hards |
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Hospital hosted by LifeCare Hospital of Pittsburgh |
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Johnny's House hosted by The Martin Family |
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El Mando's House hosted by Vince Witherup |
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Pinesville Bank and Warehouse hosted by The Conair Group |
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Pineseville Bank hosted by Citizen's Bank of Evans City |
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Robbery Scenes hosted by Evans City, PA |
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Trencher's Farm hosted by The Grochalski Family |
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Special thanks go out to the
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Sunny
Jim’s Tavern, Bar Location
Vincent Witherup, Mando’s House
Don Moyer, Mando’s car
Pittsburgh Brewing Company, Beer
Chumley, Beer
Art Martin, Vince Witherup, Guns and Ammo
Gregg and Beth Traverso, Dutch’s House
Ruthanne Nerlich, Costumes
Evans City Council, Pineville
Chief Joe McCombs, Police
New Perspective Productions, Special facilities
Jim Gilooley, Vocalist
Rich Shutte, Jib Arm
Jennifer Nutter, Special make-up
Mitch Kates, Wrestling gear
Eddie N. Kenyon, Sammy’s office
Jason Garlitz, Safe
Phil Bujokowski, Johnny’s car
Bern Nerlich, Pyrotechnics
KDKA Pittsburgh, News studio
Eric and Barb Pitchford, Sabine’s house
Monster Bash, Pittsburgh, Monster Bash
Monster’s From the Vault, Mando’s table
Widmer Engineering, Inc., Earl Kenton's Office
LifeCare, Hospital
Linda McDade, Graphics
Zombo and the Incredibly Strange Superheros
Bravo Pizza & More of Evans City, PA
Citizen's Bank of Evan's City, PA
Judith Salisbury Cline
Visiting Nurses Association
Jane Schaller
Kathy Gallagher
Bob Reinhart
Cheryl Evans
Mark Naesser
All of the families of those who participated in the
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