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THE DEVIL AND BROADWAY JOE (TV Movie, NBC, 1970)
Docu-drama of the alleged pact between New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath (Joe Namath) and Lucifer himself (Dan Blocker), which "guaranteed" that Namath's Jets would defeat the highly-favoured Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. Julie Newmar; John Fiedler; Antoinette Bower; and Pat Hingle as "Weeb Ewbank." Luchi de Jesus' score won an Emmy.
Can't wait to rent this on VHS.
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THE MIAMI CONNECTION? (1972)
Illinois shoe salesman Hubert Teeter(Don Knotts) wants nothing more than
a vacation at a swanky Miami Beach hotel with his girlfriend Francie
(Connie Stevens). Little does he know he’s a dead ringer for local
kingpin Duke Sideburn(Knotts again) who’s staying there waiting for a
huge shipment of coke!
Hilarity ensues when the FBI, the Miami police, a cranky desk manager,
some hippies, confused bellhops, Francie’s snooty mom, and a wacky
South American drug lord get involved….
Music by Vic Mizzy, directed by Jerry Paris. With Edmond O’Brien,
Buck Owens, Charles Lane, Mabel Albertson, and Larry Storch as
“El Chuncho”
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THE MIAMI CONNECTION? (1972)
Illinois shoe salesman Hubert Teeter(Don Knotts) wants nothing more than
a vacation at a swanky Miami Beach hotel with his girlfriend Francie
(Connie Stevens). Little does he know he’s a dead ringer for local
kingpin Duke Sideburn(Knotts again) who’s staying there waiting for a
huge shipment of coke!
Hilarity ensues when the FBI, the Miami police, a cranky desk manager,
some hippies, confused bellhops, Francie’s snooty mom, and a wacky
South American drug lord get involved….
Music by Vic Mizzy, directed by Jerry Paris. With Edmond O’Brien,
Buck Owens, Charles Lane, Mabel Albertson, and Larry Storch as
“El Chuncho”
I love this...for all the wrong reasons. It's hard not to cheer for Don Knotts in this, though. Was this a Disney production? It sure feels like it: The ten-years-past-their-prime cast, the already woefully outdated use of hippies, a TV composer, a clearly disinterested Edmond O'Brien, and a brilliant but desperate Larry Storch performance makes this a "Could Have Been" that should have been!
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THE MIAMI CONNECTION? (1972)
Illinois shoe salesman Hubert Teeter(Don Knotts) wants nothing more than
a vacation at a swanky Miami Beach hotel with his girlfriend Francie
(Connie Stevens). Little does he know he’s a dead ringer for local
kingpin Duke Sideburn(Knotts again) who’s staying there waiting for a
huge shipment of coke!
Hilarity ensues when the FBI, the Miami police, a cranky desk manager,
some hippies, confused bellhops, Francie’s snooty mom, and a wacky
South American drug lord get involved….
Music by Vic Mizzy, directed by Jerry Paris. With Edmond O’Brien,
Buck Owens, Charles Lane, Mabel Albertson, and Larry Storch as
“El Chuncho”0
"El Chuncho"
lol
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axB
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I SEE YOU ALL (1978)
Disabled in the line of duty, a former police detective (William Conrad) encased in an iron lung enlists the help of a former car salesman (Martin Balsam) and porn actress (Karen Black) to track down and identify a serial killer loose in downtown Pittsburgh. Victoria Principal, George Dzundza, Freddie Prinze, Levar Burton, Henry Gibson, and Shelly Winters as "The Mayor"
I hope the opening credits of this (TV?) film have a long, dialogue-free opening with just the score and ambient effects playing!
Jerry Fielding in full glory. Copius shots of Conrad in an Iron Lung with flashbacks of pictures when he was a cop on the beat interspersed with headlines of his ordeal. Angry, melancholy, and jazzy Fielding carrying through the credits.
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MaxB
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"I See You All" is the iron lung version of "Ironside."
I lament its nonexistence.
Visions of William Conrad dialing a rotary telephone with his tongue while a huge speaker in a big wooden box serves as a 70's "speakerphone."
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MaxB
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"I See You All" must have aired well over a year after Freddie Prinze's tragic suicide. I wonder who would have replaced him in his role as "Juan Diderot" in the series proper, or did William Conrad not wish to continue out of respect for his deceased colleague?
Unfortunately, it sat on the shelf too long because they didn't know what to do when Prinze died. Do they continue to shelve it? Do they air it? Conrad wanted it aired, but really did not put a fight. They paid him handsomely for essentially laying "on his back" for the entire shoot. I had heard they used a "stunt tongue" for the telephone dialing pressing various buttons on his lung console.
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MaxB
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I SEE YOU ALL
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I would argue that the Bolegnese tasted better in the 70's than it does now, but se la vie.
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MaxB
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I dunno about food, I said movies/music. But I often wonder what the food tasted like in the 1940s since I've seen alot of characters eating in diners in noirs. A carton of milk or stick of butter must have been processed differently, for example.
- Eating food that was in season
- Grown locally
- with less industrialized processes
- Far less preservatives
etc.
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