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Original Post By: MovieMadness
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 24, 2012 4:48 PM
in response to: MovieMadness
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I think the hey day for made for TV movies was the 70's. Many great movies from that period would stand up to any theatrical movies. I would include "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman", 'The Excecution of Private Slovik", "Go Ask Alice" and "Duel". Some of the names associated with these films were John Korty, Cicely Tyson, Lamont Johnson, the screenwriters Levinson and Link, and , of course, Steven Spielberg. I'm not sure how you could make the argument that "Ski Party" and "Winter A-Go-Go" are more suited to a classic movie channel than the aforementioned "made-for-TV" films.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 24, 2012 1:19 PM
in response to: Sepiatone
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Many say that the "golden age" of TV died with the loss of live anthology shows. I disagree, it just morphed into taped and filmed dramas, and while not all TV movies are great, there were a number of them that can stand next to any of the best live programming of the 50s.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 24, 2012 12:59 PM
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I'm with you on that one aspect, clore. If not "disease of the week", it was "social issue of the week" with TV movies for a while. Stuff that could have been covered on the old "After School Specials".
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 4:32 PM
in response to: clore
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FMC runs Made for TVs from their catalog fairly regularly. I saw the remake they did of INFERNO, called ORDEAL, there a few months ago.
The 1970s were really the glory days for the genre, as all three networks filled two hour blocks with the stuff. Then came the mini series...
I'm a no vote on TV movies here, except for rare instances. I don't even like that the classics are getting newer and newer. But I'm just a fogey...
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 1:30 PM
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Some of the early "Made-For-TV" movies were quite good. The best of them, in my opinion, was the early Speilberg work Duel . Then there's My Sweet Charlie with Patty Duke and Al Freeman.
It just happens that the two titles that you mentioned, did get a theatrical release in the U.S. after they aired on TV. For DUEL, they even added footage. I really don't have a problem with the better made-for-TV movies airing on TCM. I'd love to see BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL, THE NIGHT THAT PANICKED AMERICA and FEAR ON TRIAL air again. The "Moviola" mini-series would be a natural.
On the other hand, the disease-of-the-week type films, or MOTHER, MAY I SLEEP WITH DANGER? can remain on Lifetime.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 1:10 PM
in response to: NewYorkGuy
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That's been part of my argument in other threads on the subject of made-for-tv movies...that fact that some of them HAVE indeed had theatrical showings, although mostly overseas in many cases (such as Duel, for example, among many others). IMHO, if one is suggesting that TCM should be ONLY theatrically-exhibited films, then a tv movie shown theatrically qualifies it to be aired on TCM.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 12:58 PM
in response to: MovieMadness
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Yeah, my understanding about The Man from Uncle films that aired a few years back is that they were edited from multi-part TV storylines for showing in movie theaters -- probably mostly shown in drive-ins, but that's just a guess. But they were shown in theaters, not just on the tube, which is the difference.
I'd be against this in principle as well without at least a similar caveat above.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 21, 2012 11:36 AM
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Some of the early "Made-For-TV" movies were quite good. The best of them, in my opinion, was the early Speilberg work Duel . Then there's My Sweet Charlie with Patty Duke and Al Freeman.
And Hamradio, that poster of the Titanic with fire coming out of the smokestacks...all FOUR of them? One of the smolestacks on the Titanic were there just for show!
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 21, 2012 2:00 AM
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Based on what can be found at Wikipedia, the term 'made-for-TV movie' was coined in the United States in the early 1960s as an incentive for movie audiences to stay home and watch what was promoted as the equivalent of a first-run theatrical motion picture.
The first of these made-for-TV movies is generally acknowledged to be 'See How They Run' starring Jane Wyatt and Franchot Tone which debuted on NBC on 7 October 1964. A previous film - 'The Killers' - starring Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes and Ronald Reagan was filmed as a TV movie, although NBC decided it was too violent for television and it was released theatrically instead.
Considered the second television movie, Don Siegel's 'The Hanged Man' (Edmond O'Brien, Vera Miles, Robert Culp) was broadcast by NBC on November 18, 1964.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 21, 2012 12:16 AM
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Guilty Conscience (1985) is a wonderful movie which was made for television. It stars Anthony Hopkins and Blythe Danner. I knew it was odd as it did not have the feel of a normal movie. It was after I watched it that I learned it was made for television.
I do not think that TCM is an appropriate venue for made-for-television movies because all of those I have seen do not have the same richness as theatrical movies. I am sure also that while there may be ones which are excellent there are many more which are low-budget melodramas. Allowing any is a slippery slope.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 20, 2012 7:31 PM
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There's one on TCM right now - THE DANGEROUS DAYS OF KIOWA JONES.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 17, 2012 2:33 AM
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'Gotham' was a cable movie. Not really comparable to the original made-for-tv movies.
Cable (HBO, Showtime, etc.) networks got into the movie-making business in the late 80's. This is what killed off the networks 'movie of the week' format. Networks were constrained by standards and practices (language, nudity, violence) that cable networks didn't have to worry about. They also had to edit in such a way as to concern themselves with commercial breaks - an artistic disadvantage.
If you've ever wondered why network programming has turned to so much cheap 'reality' fare, the loss of viewership (and the attached revenue from it) to the cable networks is a pretty large reason.
I do agree that 'Gotham' was a terrific movie, though. Stylish, unique (at the time) and chilly.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 17, 2012 1:53 AM
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TCM also aired HONDO AND THE APACHES which was two episodes of the Ralph Taeger HONDO series. They did have Robert Taylor's RETURN OF THE GUNFIGHTER listed during his SOTM tribute, but it was cancelled at the last minute.
They have also aired SCREEN DIRECTOR'S PLAYHOUSE as well as some Grace Kelly TV dramas from her early days.
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 17, 2012 12:32 AM
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I wouldn't mind seeing made-for-TV movies, once in a while, if they are good. TCM has already shown a few, including Man from Uncle movies a few years back, and more recently, at least a couple from a 50's TV series about Rodger's Rangers. One TV movie I'd really like to see is 1988's Gotham, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095246/
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Re: Made for TV Movies
Posted: Apr 16, 2012 11:09 PM
in response to: MovieMadness
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THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
(1977)
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