Wasn't the blind man played by played by Peter Boyle .

If my coprolite containing cranium cogitates correctly, Boyle played the monster, and Mel Brooks hissef played the blind man. Gotta go rent that flick again an' see fer mysef!

Now, as regards William Boyd, AKA Hopalong Cassidy: He was friends with a pogo stick-riding nun, Hopalong Chastity.

More on the subject: Just returned from a Scandanavian Festival, where "Lucia, Queen of Light" was crowned. Thank goodness, I left before anybody opened the lutefisk!!!