In his autobiography, James Garner is quite forthcoming on colleagues he didn't like (director Peter Segal, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson) and gives star ratings to all of his movies, including a couple that get zero stars. He gives "Masters" two out of five but his entire comment is, "I don't want to talk about it." Wonder what happened there...
share....guess he didn't think it was 'neat'. that is odd. I kind of liked it for its weirdness
shareEither it was too expensive... he had to share the lime light with too many other actors, or this was a mandated TV movie to satisfy a contractual obligation. Perhaps he didn't mesh with Katharine Ross as well as it seemed... or that it was a failed pilot to an ongoing series... that Rockford Files became.
Remember, the line "I don't want to talk about it" was used in a couple of places in the movie.... both in Abel Marsh's reluctance to discuss his week's vacation in L.A. at the start of the movie... and also in Kate's reluctance to talk about her failed marriage back east to her ex-husband. ("I am wholely sure of it!")
TOKTM was not a TV movie. It had a wide theatrical release and had content that could not have been aired on TV.
shareWho knows why he wouldn't discuss it, because it wasn't his worst movie by any stretch, but it DOES have some horribly dated attitudes towards gays and lesbians and possibly he found that embarrassing later on. There's also some gratuitous vulgarity going on too.
It isn't a bad movie, but you would never find it playing on TV unedited these days, and probably for good reason.