{{Short description|1972 comedy television film directed by Jerry Paris}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox television | image = Evil Roy Slade VHS cover.jpg | image_size = 200 | caption = VHS cover for ''Evil Roy Slade'' | genre = Comedy<br />Western | writer = Jerry Belson<br />Garry Marshall | director = Jerry Paris | starring = John Astin<br />Pamela Austin<br />Mickey Rooney<br />Dick Shawn<br />Henry Gibson<br />Milton Berle<br />Edie Adams<br />Dom Deluise | theme_music_composer = Murray MacLeod<br />Stuart Margolin<br />Jerry Riopelle<br />James Prigmore | country = United States | language = English | executive_producer = Howie Horwitz | producer = Jerry Belson<br />Garry Marshall | editor = Richard M. Sprague | location = Universal Studios, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California | cinematography = Sam Leavitt | runtime = 97 minutes (approx.) | company = Universal Television | network = NBC | released = {{Start date|1972|02|18}} }} '''''Evil Roy Slade''''' is a 1972 American made-for-television Western comedy film about the "meanest villain in the West". It was directed by Jerry Paris and co-produced and co-written by Garry Marshall.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Television Pilots: 2,470 Films Broadcast 1937-2019, 2d ed.|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encyclopedia_of_Television_Pilots/69-_DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1|publisher=McFarland|date=2020-01-17|isbn=978-1-4766-3810-2|language=en|first=Vincent|last=Terrace}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Television Westerns: Six Decades of Sagebrush Sheriffs, Scalawags, and Sidewinders|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Television_Westerns/TrIspiOaqboC?hl=en&gbpv=1|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC|date=2011-06-01|isbn=978-0-8108-8133-4|language=en|first=Alvin H.|last=Marill}}</ref> The film is considered a cult classic.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Son of the 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Son_of_the_100_Best_Movies_You_ve_Never/B5alnowvF3sC?hl=en&gbpv=1|publisher=ECW Press|date=2022-08-03|isbn=978-1-55490-330-6|language=en|first=Richard|last=Crouse}}</ref>
==Plot== Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up raised by buzzards—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West", so he is thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolmarm Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), attempts to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for repeatedly robbing him, and sets out to hire legendary retired singing-sheriff Marshal Bing Bell (Dick Shawn) to bring Slade to justice.
==Cast== * John Astin as Evil Roy Slade * Mickey Rooney as Nelson L. Stool * Dick Shawn as Marshal Bing Bell * Henry Gibson as Clifford Stool * Dom DeLuise as Dr. Logan Delp * Edie Adams as Flossie * Pamela Austin as Betsy Potter * Milton Berle as Harry Fern * Arthur Batanides as Lee * Larry Hankin as Snake * Robert Liberman as Preacher * Edmund Cambridge as Smith * Connie Sawyer as Aggie Potter * Alice Nunn as Claire Beckendorf * Pat Morita as Turhan * Luana Anders as Alice Fern * Billy Sands as Randolph Sweet * Milton Frome as Foss * Pat Buttram as Narrator (voice only; uncredited) * Penny Marshall as Bank Teller (uncredited) * Billy Curtis as Toy Cowboy (uncredited) * Ed Begley, Jr. (uncredited)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0067072|Evil Roy Slade}}
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Category:1972 English-language films Category:1972 television films Category:1972 films Category:1970s Western (genre) comedy films Category:NBC original films Category:Films directed by Jerry Paris Category:American Western (genre) comedy films Category:1972 American films Category:English-language Western (genre) comedy films