Cast A Deadly Spell (1991)
A HBO TV movie that combines film noir, late 40’s Hollywood, H.P. Lovecraft’s Ancient Ones, magic and monsters, as well as turns by Fred Ward and Julianne Moore? Why isn’t this movie not discussed all the time? Let’s change that. Unlike the rest of 1948 Los Angeles, private detective H. Philip Lovecraft (Ward) doesn’t use […]
Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
ABC-TV wasn’t letting those Airport (“Exploring: Airport, Watch the Series“) theatrical blockbusters slip by them without a TV movie knockoff, this one by the ’70s production dynamic duo of Leonard Goldberg and Aaron Spelling. Critics pounced on the film’s special effects, sets, and stock footage ineptitude on a low budget, but it cleaned up on […]
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story (1990)
This time out, instead of a Big Three TV network or upper-tier cable network, HBO rebroadcast this ITV production that premiered in the United Kingdom on November 26, 1990 — then in the United States on December 9, 1990. As with most of these TV movies, this was cross-marketed as a theatrical and TV film […]
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993)
NBC-TV is back with another airline disaster flick, this one directed by TV movie warhorse Roger Young. I’ll always remember Young for his debut tearjerker, Something for Joey, a highly-rated TV movie sports drama starring Marc Singer, that aired on CBS-TV in 1977. In the theatrical realms, Young directed the 1987 Micheal Keaton box-office bomb […]
No Other Love (1979)
Before The Other Sister, there was this movie, which has Richard Thomas (John-Boy from The Waltons* to some, Shad in Battle Beyond the Stars to me) and Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson!) as mentally challenged adults who want to get married, despite the protests of her parents, who are played by Elizabeth Allen (who often played in game shows […]
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