70's Movies of the Week I'd Still Watch Weekly
I spent many a Tuesday and Wednesday night glued to ABC's Movie of the Week. The theme song and graphics had me hooked. That's not to discount other 'movie nights', and some of those are listed here also.
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- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDon MurrayRay MillandGene TierneyA professor of cybernetics comes to believe that his dead daughter is communicating with him from the netherworld.This is the first ABC Movie of the Week I remember. Imagine having Ray Milland and Gene Tierney as movie parents! And Pamelyn Ferdin was my first crush.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsBen GazzaraElizabeth AshleyMichael DouglasA woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?Having Gene and Ray as parents could only be topped by having Elizabeth Ashley and Ben Gazzara as divorced parents. I love this movie.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsElizabeth MontgomeryEileen HeckartSue Ane LangdonA wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.Elizabeth Montgomery showed what a gifted actress (and savvy business woman) she was by doing this MOW as her post-Bewitched project.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsSally FieldJill HaworthJulie HarrisAn ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
- DirectorTed PostStarsHelen HayesVince EdwardsMyrna LoyFour elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.I'm seeing a trend in my list: mostly horror or suspense, with supernatural elements, gruesome situations, beautiful women, handsome men, and people getting in trouble by their own meddling. Thank goodness that's not me.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsConnie StevensThelma CarpenterJohn David CarsonA sexy waitress becomes the house mother in a fraternity house.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsPamela FranklinKate JacksonLloyd BochnerA young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsRobert WagnerKate JacksonSylvia SidneyDonna and Joel Gregory are researching a book about long dead Hollywood goddess Lorna Love. They are staying at Lorna's estate while interviewing old "friends" of Lorna. Joel, whose father had a passionate affair with Lorna, becomes obsessed with Lorna. Donna must try to break the spell that has her marriage in trouble and their very lives in jeopardy.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsOlivia de HavillandEd NelsonLaraine StephensA wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground who has been buried alive. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.