It isn't often that a TV remake can hold its own with a recognized movie classic, but this expertly crafted and memorably acted drama bears comparison with its illustrious 1930 Hollywood original. Richard Thomas, Patricia Neal, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasance, Ernest Borgnine. A sordid tale, with McCloskey aping Jon Voight's Midnight Cowboy characterization. In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, a country-boy-turned-Hollywood-hustler (McCloskey) tries to find legitimate work in order to marry a teen-aged prostitute (Plumb) he had hoped to regenerate, but gets involved with a homosexual football pro. McCloskey, Eve Plumb, Earl Holliman, Juliet Mills, Jean Hagen, Lonnie Chapman. Excellent cast, expert script by Barbara Turner. Sensitive, careful handling of a 30-ish female songwriter with polio (Wood) experiencing her first love affair with a lawyer (Wagner). Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison, Jamie Smith Jackson, Kent Smith, Frances Reid, Pat Harrington. But no film of this tale has ever truly captured the earthy humor and twangy charm of the original. If your kids haven't seen any of the numerous versions available, they might enjoy the antics of Tom, his pal Huckleberry Finn, and the villianous Injun Joe. It's not the definitive Mark Twain classic, but not entirely abysmal, either. Josh Albee, Jeff Tyler, Buddy Ebsen, Jane Wyatt, Vic Morrow, Chris Wiggins. Also presented is a Reader's Comments forum where you can discuss your favorite made-for-TV-movies from the 1970s and other decades. The made-for-TV-movie format flourished in the following decades, and by 1996, 264 made-for-TV-movies were made by America's six largest TV networks that year.īelow are brief synopses of 200 of some of the most memorable made-for-TV-movies of the 1970s, followed by a searchable database of 1,100 additional made-for-TV-movies from the 1970s, late 1960s and early 1980s. Many early made-for-TV-movies features major stars and were usually broadcast as a weekly anthology TV series, such as ABC's Movie of the Week. As the networks began showing major theatrical releases in prime time, beginning with NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies in 1961, a shortage of movie studio product led to the production of made-for-TV movies, the first of which is generally acknowledged to be See How They Run in 1964. Eginning in the early 1960s, television networks began showing what were called "made-for-TV-movies" to encourage audiences to stay at home and watch what they promoted as the equivalent of a first-run theatrical film.
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