This week's Film Flashback takes us to a Monday in Murfreesboro, Tennessee with some action, comedy, and drama movies to choose from. First let's go get an early supper. I'm going to get extra hushpuppies, hold the slaw. Don't forget the side order of crumbs too.
The Turning Point is playing Cinema One. It was directed by Herbert Ross and stars Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Tom Skerritt, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. That last name mentioned should be a clue that this movie centers around ballet. A dancer joins a ballet company and her mother is now reminded that she gave up her dreams of the stage to raise a family.
The Marbro has teen sex comedy Hollywood High which is about four high school ladies partying in the big house of some retired actor and frolicking on the beach. And then there is Young Cycle Girls AKA Cycle Vixens which is about three teenage girls running away from home who end up involved with really bad people.
I think I'll pass on the Cinema One and the Marbro on this night and head over to the Martin Twin instead. I'm almost positive I saw Great Smokey Roadblock in the theatre since I was obsessed with trucking movies back then. Henry Fonda stars as Elegant John Howard who leaves the hospital where he was being treated for a terminal disease, steals his truck Elenor back after it was repossessed, and then makes one last perfect run hauling a bunch of hookers across the country. The truck itself was a 1976 Kenworth W900. The hookers were led by Eileen Brennan playing Penelope Pearson and features Susan Sarandon and Melanie Myron among their ranks. A pre-Freddy Robert Englund plays the hitchhiking Beebo whom Elegant John picks up early in the film. This is just a strange movie caught between being an outright sex farce and a good ole boy trucking movie. It apparently had sat on the shelf for awhile and had been retooled some before its release. I watched it again recently on Amazon Prime and it was just okay.
Jodie Foster and David Niven star in the Disney flick Candleshoe which is about a con artist using a foster child (literally since it's Jodie Foster...right) to help him find a treasure. Jodie had just been seen in Taxi Driver and The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane so it was a bit strange to see her playing a role in a family film again, but I assume she still owed Disney some movies. Candleshoe also features Helen Hayes as the owner of the manor that harbors the treasure. It's been many years since I've seen it.
That's all for this week's film flashback. Come back next week to see what year we end up in next.
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