Sweet, Sweet Rachel (1971)
Originally airing on October 2, 1971 on ABC, this movie is a hidden pilot for the series The Sixth Sense. The role of Dr. Lucas Darrow would be replaced by the younger, handsomer Gary Collins and then, in syndication, that series would be spliced into Night Gallery, infuriating a young Sam who only wanted to see Rod […]
Unholy Matrimony (1988)
Here’s how you can tell there’s a big age difference between my wife and me. I know Patrick Duffy as the Man from Atlantis and Bobby Ewing. She knows him as the dad from Step by Step. Here. he plays John Dillman, the real-life investigator who continually pursued a doctor (Michael O’Keefe) and a minister (Charles […]
Dead Silence (1991)
Sam and I got to talking about the web traffic at B&S About Movies and we’re astounded by the hits—over 6,300—and not a day passes without at least one hit—for J. David Miles’s disturbing, 2013 true crime documentary Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Joe Reigle (Caveat: It’s Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses […]
Strange Voices (1987)
Arthur Allan Seidelman made his directing debut creating the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Hercules in New York. Somehow, they allowed him to keep making movies, including this TV movie all about a family dealing with schizophrenia. Nancy McKeon is Nicole, a college student who suddenly goes off the rails due to the disease. Her family — Valerie […]
The Cradle Will Fall (1983)
If you’re looking for someone to direct a made for TV movie, always go with John Llewellyn Moxey. He was behind great films like Where Have All the People Gone, Home for the Holidays, The Night Stalker and A Taste of Evil amongst others. Here, he’s making a Mary Higgins Clark film all about attorney Kathy DeMaio (Lauren Hutton, Once […]
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