Does anyone know if he talks about _The Gold Key_ in his autobiography?  It's a 1984 shot-on-video movie by Richard G. Kutok that was tied with a real-life cash prize.

Does anyone remember this spate?  Does anyone know if there were more than four films like this.  They all appear from 1984, but I don't have _Hey Vern, Win 1,000,000!_ to confirm.  The other two I know of are David Hemmings's _Money Hunt:  The Mystery of the Missing Link_ and _Treasure:  In Search of the Golden Horse_.

I just acquired _The Gold Key_ yesterday and not seen it, but the other two are actually good films.  Hemmings's film is really silly, but it's clever and well-done, even suggesting some influence from having worked with Argento, though the clues are more obviously clues.  _Treasure_ is a gorgeous and surreal film that wasn't solved until after it ended.  It looks like it might have been a major influence on Jim Henson's _Labyrinth_, as it appeared two years earlier.  _Treasure_ was also Elisha Cook's penultimate film.  The film's storybook style oddly leaves him with the only speaking part, not counting the narrator, though he isn't the lead, which makes it all the more surreal, since the lead (Dory Dean) never talks to him, or anyone else.

I'm assuming no scholarship has ever been done on these films.  I've had to add them to the IMDb myself.
 
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