this documentary on schlockmeister william castle take a few cheap shot at the naive 50 60 environment in which he do his most characteristic work look at the funny and silly people with the ghost glass but it also affectionate and lively and with particularly bright commentary from john water and who be absolutely the target audience for such thing at the time and and from castle daughter and who adore her dad and also be pretty perceptive about how he ply his craft . ( we never find out what become of the other castle offspring . ) the movie be not very good and it make clear and but his marketing of them be brilliant and and he appear to have be a sweet and hardworking family man . fun people keep pop up and like straight jacket diane baker and who look great and and anne helm and whom she replace at the instigation of star joan crawford . darryl hickman all but explode into giggle at the happy memory of work with castle on the tingler and and there enough footage to give u an idea of the level of castle talent not very high and but very energetic . a pleasant look at a time when audience be more easily pleased and and it do make you nostalgic for simpler movie go day .