GREAT OLD MOVIES: thanksgiving

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Thursday, November 23, 2017

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TELEFILMS AND MIGHTY JOE YOUNG

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

This week Great Old Movies takes a look at some of the memorable and not-so-memorable made-for-TV movies of the 1970's. It was in the late sixties that the networks started producing films directly for the television market (some of these were released as theatrical features overseas) and eventually they began showing them on a regular basis, such as on ABC's "Movie of the Week." These films tended to be in the thriller-mystery-suspense genre, with occasional horror and supernatural stories as well, but there were exceptions. They featured up and coming players, TV stars who were between gigs on their own series, and older actors who found employment on TV and not for the movie studios.

Some of these flicks were pretty bad, like The Cat Creature (although it did feature Gale Sondergaard!), and others, such as A Cold Night's Death, were quite memorable. One gets the impression that every other TV flick starred Kate Jackson or was directed by Curtis Harrington although this is probably not the case!.

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG EXHIBITION:

I also want to call your attention to an exhibition on the wonderful classic fantasy film Mighty Joe Young put together by my friend Harry Heuser. You can read about the exhibition here. And below is the poster for the event. If you happen to be in Wales from now until February 2nd 2018, check it out!

Thursday, November 26, 2015

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
EVERYONE!

Great Old Movies is taking off over the holidays but we'll be back shortly with more reviews of classic and not-so-classic motion pictures. Thanks for reading! -- Bill

WELCOME!

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