MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The New Adventures of Heidi (1978)
Directed by Ralph Senensky (Death Cruise) and written by John McGreevey (The Death of Richie), this remake moves Heidi from Switzerland to New York City. It’s also a musical. Heidi is played by Katy Kurtzman and her friend Elizabeth Wyler is played by Sherrie Wills. It’s the same story you expect, as Elizabeth is fascinated […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Rulers of the City (1976)
Also known as The Big Boss, Mr. Scarface and Blood and Bullets, this was directed by Fernando Di Leo. He started his career mainly being known for his writing, including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Massacre Time, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man and so many more. He co-wrote it with Peter Berling, who […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Denise Miller (Sally Field) has come home after a year of living with hippies. Her younger sister Susie (Lane Bradbury) is about to do the same thing. As for Denise, her boyfriend Flack (David Carradine) is driving across the country to save her from her family. And her parents Ed (Jackie Cooper) and Claire (Eleanor […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Last of the Belles (1974)
Directed by George Schaefer and written by James Costigan, this has a pretty fun cast. There’s Richard Chamberlain as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Blythe Danner as Zelda Fitzgerald, Susan Sarandon (a year before The Great Waldo Pepper and The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as Ailie Calhoun, David Huffman (who died way too young as he was […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Las Vegas Lady (1975)
Crown International Pictures serving up that sweet, sweet movie sugar that I love so much, with Stella Stevens (The Silencers) and Stuart Whitman (Demonoid) as a Vegas couple looking to get out by pulling a scam. Stevens is Lucky, who is being ordered by a man in the shadows to use two of her friends, […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Klansman (1974)
Directed by Terence Young and written by Millard Kaufman and Samuel Fuller, The Klansman had its film rights bought by black film producer William D. Alexander who spent a year putting the movie together. The movie was put together by Bill Schiffrin, Fuller’s agent, and he said the movie was a mess from when Terence Young […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Katherine (1975)
Katherine is based on Diana Oughton of the Weather Underground, a radical who died in 1970 when a bomb she was building accidentally exploded and Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped by and then joined the Symbionese Liberation Army the same year this movie aired on ABC. Director and writer Jeremy Kagan also made Conspiracy: The […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Jory (1973)
Robby Benson is Jory in a movie about a kid in the West. Yes, he’s a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse drive after his father Ethan (Claudio Brook) is killed by a drunk who is killed by Jory. What a happy little film! The young man gets hired by Roy Starr (John Marley), has […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Jane Eyre (1970)
This movie had its theatrical debut in the United Kingdom in 1970 and was released on television in the United States in 1971 where it won John Williams an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition. Jane Eyre (Susannah York) is the kind of classic heroine you read about in high school whose best friend […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: James Dean (1976)
This movie was directed by Robert Butler, who also directed the pilots for Star Trek, Hogan’s Heroes, Batman and Hill Street Blues as well as four Kurt Russell Disney movies — Guns in the Heather, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The Barefoot Executive and Now You See Him, Now You Don’t — and also Night of the Juggler and […]
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