[*A to Z of actresses and actors*:)]

FORD, Glenn (1916-2006)

[Richard Burton]

How many of you have seen THE MEDUSA TOUCH (1978-UK)?  Has a good cast starring Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews and a number of familiar faces.  Burton plays novelist John Morlar.  At one point in the movie he says "The Queen . . . her parasites . . . I will bring the entire edifice down on their unworthy heads!" 

[What Are You Listening To?]

I was waxing nostalgic for the Summer of 1981 . . . so I listened to the JOEY SCARBURY hit "Believe It or Not (Theme from 'The Greatest American Hero')".  It reached it's #2 peak on the Billboard 100 Chart in mid-August  of '81.  Sure it's cheesy, but it's tuneful. 

Then I decided to listen to THE MOTELS and their hit "Only The Lonely" and MAXINE NIGHTINGALE's hit from '79 "Lead Me On" and then QUARTERFLASH with "Harden My Heart" and, finally, COOL NIGHT by Paul Davis.  ("I . . . sometimes wonder why . . . all the flowers had to die . . . ).   It's handy to have YouTube songs playing on another screen while I type on this one! 

I miss the 1980s. 

[*A to Z of Movies*]

AVANTI! (1972)

[*A to Z of actresses and actors*:)]

LYNDE, Paul (1926-82)

[Double Feature]

SWEET RIDE, The (1968)

Next:  DUSTY AND SWEETS McGEE (1971)

[*A to Z of actresses and actors*:)]

JOHNSON, Rita

[The First Film That Comes to Mind...]

LAURA (1944) . . . I remember there's a BIG gun in a clock in "Laura".  Whether it's an actual "odd clock" I cannot say for sure, but I don't have any clocks with guns stored in them.  So There.  😁

Next:  A movie that's at least a ½ half-hour ½ too long!

[Actor/Movie Association Game]

JUDY GARLAND (who else?)

[*A to Z of Movies*]

YELLOWSTONE KELLY (1959-Western)

 

 

[Movies Released in the 1960s]

Wait Until Dark, eh?  I say "TWO FOR THE ROAD"!  → friendly traffic light  🚦

[Movies Released in the 1970's]

BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW, The (1971-UK)  (aka: "Satan's Skin").     

NOTE that star Patrick Wymark (1926-70) died suddenly before the movie was released. 

[Movies Released in the 1960s]

Eye 👁️  spy lots of interesting and varied movies listed.  Nifty.

THE BUSHWHACKER (1968)  Low-grade sleaze with a meagre budget!  VIEW AT OWN RISK!  😝

[Noir Alley]

One thing about Glenn Ford is that he got a lot of work in films and -- by the Seventies -- television, too, from the 1940s through the early '80s.   Ford stayed quite busy for 40 years.  

[I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS]

LARA PARKER featured prominently in an episode of the "Night Stalker" TV series.  She plays a witchy type who's battled by Carl Kolchak.  And there are creepy mannequins, too!  WATCH OUT.

She also battled devil worshipers in RACE WITH THE DEVIL (1975) with Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and Loretta Swit.  "Race With the Devil" airs frequently on the Fox Movie Channel, btw.

In regards to JONATHAN FRID I've only seen him in 1 theatrical movie:  Oliver Stone's 1974 Canadian movie SEIZURE (aka: "Queen of Evil").  Frid plays a tormented novelist who could literally be frightened to death by what's going on in his mind.  Long before Oliver Stone got into making 'Historical Fiction' films he made this horror-sorta opus. 

And as for the few 'ROGER DAVIS' fans out there he starred in the low-budget 1975 release FLASH AND THE FIRECAT.  Directed by 'Ferd and Beverly C. Sebastian' the plot involves robbery and dune buggies.   So if you fancy Roger and dune buggies then check it out!  Have a traffic light → 🚦

[An expensive flop but a good movie]

AIRPORT '79:  The Concorde was so *goofy* I had to buy it on VHS years ago.  I just HAD to!   🤪

Something I found even funnier than the movie itself was the British title of the film.  Get this, it's titled:  AIRPORT '80:  The Concorde.  (Now THAT'S original, innit?)  

DAVID LOWELL RICH directed "Airport '79:  The Concorde" and then went on to direct the 1981 comedy bomb CHU CHU AND THE PHILLY FLASH with Carol Burnett, Alan Arkin, Jack Warden, Adam Arkin and Danny Aiello (who's the funniest person in the movie).  CHU CHU AND THE PHILLY FLASH is so bad I don't believe FOX has ever issued it on DVD or Blu-Ray.  It's been OOP on VHS since 1983.  The movie also features Danny Glover and Vincent Schiavelli in small roles. 

[I Just Watched...]

@AllHallowsDay:  May I recommend the 1972 movie DEATH BED:  The Bed That Eats.  It wasn't fully completed for decades after it was made . . . but it was filmed at an estate in Michigan, I believe.  

DEATH BED:  The Bed That Eats!  Mmm . . . good human cracker!  An' crunchy, too! 

[I Just Watched...]

I've seen THE V.I.P.'s and I've seen WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and while I reckon "Virginia Woolf" is a better movie it's also *exhausting* so I don't turn it on every time it airs on TCM.  But I do like THE V.I.P.'s enough to flick it on whenever it should air.   My 2¢ worth. 

Speaking of movies where some of the stars didn't have happy endings I think Rebel Without a Cause is the granddaddy of all flicks where various stars and co-stars didn't meet 'natural endings' at a ripe old age.  

Then there's Hangover Square (1945) starring Laird Cregar (already deceased by the end of '44), Linda Darnell and George Sanders.  (Good movie, I thought). 

[What causes you to delay watching a classic film that everyone else has seen?]

If there's a well-regarded movie I've not seen it's usually because the subject matter doesn't interest me very much.  Or not at all.  Plus, I'm less inclined to watch really long movies with only a few exceptions.  (When I refer to 'really long movies' I mean films that run 150 minutes and longer -- that's my personal definition of a really long movie:  2½ hours and more). 

I'm amenable to watching THE BIG COUNTRY in its entirety.  I caught some of it the other day when TCM was celebrating Gregory Peck and it looked all right -- but I hadn't seen it from the beginning so I decided to stop watching any more until I could see it from the beginning.  I may just buy the movie.  I'm sure I can snag it for a low price.  It's not rare. 

[*A to Z of Movies*]

NATURAL ENEMIES (1979)

→ Seeking a 'family-friendly' movie to watch at night?  This Is Not That Movie!  😲

[Who was in all 5 films?]

Hmm . . . let me have a think here . . .

TERMINAL MAN, The (1974)

BEING THERE (1979)

PROPHECY (1979)

THING, The (1982)

PALE RIDER (1985)

This is probably too darn easy for you scholarly film folk! 

[What movies to introduce teens to classic films?]

I think it was Mr. Millstone who mentioned something about recommending movies we ourselves liked as teenagers regardless of whether someone else would actually enjoy these films . . . but I figure to list some movies I remember watching between the ages of 9 and 14 -- from 1982-86 -- that I liked enough to buy *all* of these movies on homevideo years later when I got older and wasn't banned by my folks from watching them again!  See, I had some nice options in the 1980s because we got Showtime (SHO), Home Box Office (HBO) and The Movie Channel (TMC).  (We didn't get Cinemax because it was apparently not available in our area or we'd have had that, too).  Anyway, I was able to watch all kinds of movies that interested me in the 1980s some of which were very gory and then I was not allowed to watch them again when Mum found out.  She sure didn't like THE BEAST WITHIN. 

Along with THE BEAST WITHIN . . . I watched all these happy movies when I was a young 'un because I could!  FROGS, EVILSPEAK, HYSTERICAL, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, FUNERAL HOME, GAS,  SCAVENGER HUNT, THE VILLAIN, LUST IN THE DUST, ELLIE, National Lampoon's CLASS REUNION.   Are these movies RIGHT for your teenagers?  Well, shucks, I don't know but I *CAN* tell you this:  Having viewed all of these movies repeatedly over the years I have never been arrested, have no criminal record and treat my pets kindly.  My cockatiels have always known they were valued.  Birbs! 

→ If you wanna mess with your kids heads then stuff the Columbia VHS of NATURAL ENEMIES (1979) into your VCR.  It's not on DVD, btw.  Then you can fry their brain cells with WINDOWS (1980) and watch the nutty conclusion involving a frozen puddy tat and Elizabeth Ashley having a 'Dubya' Bush-type "nucular" meltdown.  I swear by my eyes you'll howl at the confrontation finalé between Talia Shire and Miss Ashley.  🤪

[What movies to introduce teens to classic films?]

I would recommend FROGS (1972).  🐸

One reason is because there were real critters used in the movie + it also has an environmental message to go along with it:  GIVE A HOOT -- DON'T POLLUTE!  🐸

 

 

 

[What movies to introduce teens to classic films?]

@37kitties:  I reckon there are 2 meanings for the word 'classic' that I would endeavour to differentiate like this:

One of the meanings is simply that something is old and no more.  → A couple of days ago I watched an online review via YouTube from 'Regular Cars'.  The car being driven by the reviewer was a 1976 Chevrolet Chevette.  It is now a 'classic' car and is an 'antique historical vehicle' (says so on the PA antique license plate).  It is not, however, considered a 'classically good' car by anyone.  The only thing 'classic' about it is that it merely still exists in the present day (or at least the day it was reviewed!) in drive-able condition.  1970s-era sub-compacts were low-quality junk across the board but extant '70s subcompacts are now 'classic vehicles'.   Got a 1971 Pinto?  Great!  How 'bout a '75 Pacer from AMC?  It's a classic, too.  (And rare). 

Then there's the 'classic' meaning that it's something old which is 'Good'.  Like FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) is a famously good movie as opposed to something like ROBOT MONSTER (1953).  That's a classic, too, but "Robot Monster" isn't held in quite the same high regard as "From Here To Eternity".  

👽 ← Have an alien. 

[BAD MOVIE ALERT!!! - THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE]

CORAL BROWNE . . . wasn't she also in the campy 1968 movie THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE as well?  She steals Susannah York away from Beryl Reid, I believe.  Been a while since I've seen 'Sister George', but I recall something to that effect happening while Beryl Reid is scared her soap opera character is going to be killed off.  

Also:  Reading through some posts on the previous page a possessed PERRY KING doesn't just make the young girl eat dog food at the end of 'JOEL DELANEY' he also makes the young lad strip down to nothing and dance around in the altogether.  I think the DVD release of THE POSSESSION OF JOEL DELANEY(1972) might crop that scene for obvious reasons and I know the long-ago UK video release on 'Precision Video' [which I have] crops it . . . but the U.S. Paramount VHS release does not. 

I think 'Joel Delaney' was the last movie Shirley MacLaine made for approx. five years until 1977's THE TURNING POINT.  

Further speaking of dog food I think it plays a part in a 1978 movie that's not likely to ever be released legally on a digital homevideo format.  COLUMBIA released this movie on VHS in the 1980s and there are DVD bootlegs being sold  of it all the time on eBay it appears . . . but as for a *proper* legal release of Joe Brooks' 1978 romantic drama IF EVER I SEE YOU AGAIN with Shelley Hack, well, I'm rather doubtful.  Joe Brooks didn't exactly die with dignity nor did he behave himself during his later years with his casting couch 'activities'.  I like a lot of Joe Brooks' songs.  I just wish he'd have been a lot less sleazy as he aged.  Jeepers.