Mr. Gorman

TRAIN ROBBERS, The (1973) next: BREAKHEART PASS (1976) Two more 'train-oriented' movies that are Westerns.

SLOW DANCING IN THE BIG CITY (1978) This John G. Avildsen film has never been released to homevideo as of yet; I think it's a music-rights $cost$ 'thing'.

Man, I think them Hollywood studios oughta do hippie versions of WHAT WOMEN WANT and WHAT MEN WANT. How 'bout we go with "What Chicks Dig" and "What The Freak Gots Ta Have". Man. Bring out the love beads, the Indian gowns, the burning incense, The Man, The Fuzz (aka: "The little piggies in Blue") and a dose of The Establishment to rebel against. And then we got ourselves a real Motion Picture, man. "Me an' my old lady are gonna learn the sitar and watch 12 hours of television on an empty screen for some personal enlightenment. Swami Zupreel von Yasperanda de Gaulle (?!) is comin' next week to play "Draggin' My Wagon" on the autoharp. We're diggin' it, man". "Dudes, chicks . . . that's heavy sh!t. My Art is my Brain!". 'Nuff said.

That's it, LawrenceA. TCM was showing an evening of films which had been honored with something called the 'Peabody Award' a few years back. There were more films shown that night than just 'GREEN EYES' and 'PROMISE', but I don't remember what the others were. EDIT: I almost forgot . . . TCM aired the 1989 made-for-cable-TV movie COLD SASSY TREE with Faye Dunaway and Richard Widmark a few years ago.

I believe the dreadful 1970 'comedy' OPERATION SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fouled Up) was filmed in English. Next: A movie with more trite clichés than you can shake a stick at!

TCM has shown a few made-for-television movies before. I watched them. GREEN EYES (1977-Tvm) starring Paul Winfield, for one. There was another one on the same evening of programming as 'Green Eyes' that I also watched with James Garner and James Woods. Except I forget the title. It was from 1986. Woods played the younger brother of Garner and Woods had a mental disorder of some kind. Piper Laurie co-starred (I think).

I can tell you that I do not have the patience -- no matter how well my brain may be working from a creative standpoint -- to write even a 5-page book. So I congratulate you on your stick-to-it've-ness to finish whatever it is you wrote! Cheers.

Do you recall which ones? I'd be curious to know. Thinking about it now years later I probably should have bought a couple of those Sherlock Holmes releases despite thinking at the time I'd likely not watch them. Now I probably ♦would♦ be amenable to watching the old Sherlock Holmes movies, which I cannot say about the BOMBA films or the CHARLIE CHAN Double-Features. An ALLIED I had a chance to buy and didn't was TRILOGY (1969). One I should have bought. Norman Scherer @ Video Oyster in NYC had 1 for sale and I didn't snag it. I had the 'Pearls' catalog and "Trilogy" was there. It wasn't cheap, but at the time some 20+ years ago I had a fair amount of 'mad money'.

I've been going through some of my pre-historic ALLIED ARTISTS VIDEO CORPORATION tapes lately. I played my Allied VHS of LAST SUMMER a few days ago. ALLIED went bankrupt in September 1979 and were bought up by Karl-Lorimar shortly thereafter. Therefore, any ALLIED ARTISTS VIDEO tape you may have is at least 40 ½ years old; ALLIED was only in business manufacturing pre-recorded VHS and ßeta tapes for approx. 15-18 months prior to going under. ALLIED released a couple of 1978 films on their label: THE BETSY -and- THE WILD GEESE. I never did find an Allied tape of "The Wild Geese"; I did find a box for it, though. It's in rough shape, but I've still got it. (The odds are not good I will find a 'Wild Geese' VHS to insert into said Allied box). I did round up 2 copies of "The Betsy" -- although there's likely several more of those extant. I've seen more than the two I bought here 'n' there. For anyone with even a passing interest as to what an old-time ALLIED ARTISTS VIDEO CORPORATION tape looks like -- and I regret I do not know how to 'do' eBay links -- but there are currently two ALLIED titles up for sale on eBay. Go there and type this in to the subject line "Blood Rose, Betamax, NOT VHS, 1970, French Horror, RARE, Allied Artists Video'. Then there's 'WAYS OF WOMEN 1970, Allied Artists Video, RARE OOP, VHS never on DVD'. That should bring it up. ALLIED released over 100 titles during their short existence -- including an Elvis Presley movie. TICKLE ME (1965) with Julie Adams. I picked up TICKLE ME on Allied, but a few other titles I didn't get when I had the chance years back. I didn't get TAFFY AND THE JUNGLE HUNTER (1965), for example, because I knew I'd never watch it. Same with the CHARLIE CHAN, SHERLOCK HOLMES and BOMBA, THE JUNGLE BOY series of films Allied put out before going under. When I counted up my ALLIEDs I had 72 different titles and 94 total tapes. I discovered something I'd forgotten: Just how many ♦spares♦ I'd picked up over the years! I haven't obtained a new ALLIED tape in quite some time. The most recent Allied I recall picking up circa 4 years ago is one I cannot play, but it was cheap! → A ßeta of the 1958 Western "Gunsmoke In Tucson". I sure wish I'd found a VHS of it, but that's the way it goes. Some of the ALLIEDs I picked up over the years are in c/u/t boxes -- beggars couldn't be choosers. I have SOLDIER IN THE RAIN in an intact box -and- a c/u/t box. So does anyone else reading this have any pre-historic ALLIED ARTISTS VIDEO CORPORATION VHS and/or ßeta tapes sitting around in a far-flung box in their attic? IF SO, what titles are they? I have an NOS copy of the 1955 Errol Flynn "THE WARRIORS" on Allied. Been sealed since the '70s. I've never seen the movie . . . I haven't got the gumption to un-seal the video and watch it.

MAROC 7 (1967) w/Gene Barry and Cyd Charisse. (Also, I noted "Silver Bears" was mentioned above. I have 5 copies of that movie on VHS. Don't ask how I ended up with five of them . . . although if you do ask I will give an honest answer. If anybody needs an original video of "Silver Bears" let me know).

WINNEBANGO (1975) There is a review of this movie on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). I wrote it. (Back in 2004). Read on!

ASSASSINATION IN ROME (1965)

The 1940 remake of 1932's "ONE WAY PASSAGE". The title was 'TIL WE MEET AGAIN and it starred George Brent, Merle Oberon and Pat O'Brien and ran an unnecessary 30 minutes longer than the '32 flick. Not that it was a bad movie. It just wasn't as good as the 70 minute William Powell-Kay Francis version. next -- A remake that WAS horrible!

Instead of re-making NIGHT OF THE HUNTER I think Universal should remake the Warner movie NIGHT OF THE LEPUS. → I'm sure with the advancements in special effects some truly terrifying bunnies could be concocted!

SATURDAY NIGHT BATH IN APPLE VALLEY (1965) This movie is Bad with a capital 'B'! Only a blockhead would have bought this on tape from Something Weird Video after reading the description which even says it's unfunny . . . Anyone wanna borrow my copy?

I thought DANNY THOMAS and JASON WINGREEN looked quite a bit alike. I remember seeing AIRPLANE! as a little kid and thinking Danny Thomas had made a cameo as the doctor with the heart pumping and bouncing all over the desk . . . but it was Jason Wingreen. I thought KEVIN McCARTHY and ROBERT WEBBER should have played brothers in a movie.

COTTONPICKIN' CHICKENPICKERS (1967) HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE (1966) ROAD TO NASHVILLE, The (1966) A 'Triple-Feature' of movies for those who dig stuff like PETTICOAT JUNCTION and GREEN ACRES.

Flapjack (!) I've seen FLAP (1970) courtesy of TCM, but I don't know JACK (1996) . . . because, like, I've never seen it. Cheers.

JEREMY (1973)

You must watch it, Top Billed! Lee Marvin is referenced from the 1976 movie he and Ollie made together "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday"; I mention this because at the time of this interview Lee only had another 24 days to live. He died Aug. 29, 1987 at 63.

@Top Billed: You mentioned CASTAWAY. Have you seen the Oliver Reed interview on David Letterman's show from August 5, 1987? It was quite something. I've seen it on YouTube several times. Ollie was there to promote CASTAWAY, more or less, but Ollie might have been a tad drunk. Or something.

BOG (1978) A rather bad filmed-in-Wisconsin 'thriller' that didn't get released until 1983. Has a good cast, tho! I've seen this movie before; it's sorta fun on the level of a campy '50s-era 'Creature Feature'.

T.R. BASKIN (1971) I'm using the letters as 'words' because I didn't know where else to 'put' this movie! A Paramount Picture.

EVANS, Evans

How 'bout the 1998 version of PSYCHO? Next: A movie that bores you to tears!