Film Flashback July 10, 1974

This week's film flashback to July 10, 1974 brings us a sequel of sorts at the Cinema_One. Reader's Digest had a big success with the musical adaptation of Tony Sawyer the year before so Jeff East is brought back to play Huck Finn in a musical adaptation of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Paul Winfield plays Jim. Harvey Korman is the King of France. 

I don't know why Papa Smurf appears

Before we go see another movie let's hit the Big K clearance sale. The "Big Blaster" by Marx looks like it would be fun, but I thought they were called Big Wheels.

Marbro Drive-In is showing $ (Dollars) which features Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn and you can catch Elizabeth Taylor in X, Y & Zee. $'s plot is about a bank employee played by Beatty who joins with a call girl (Goldie Hawn) to steal the money from several criminals's safe deposit boxes. X, Y, & Zee has Michael Caine and Susannah Yorke along with Liz Taylor who plays the venomous wife of Caine's character. Extra-marital affair films are not really my bag, but Liz chews up the scenery in the trailer (note the alternate UK title Zee and Co. is used).

banks are where the money is...

Elizabeth Taylor was one dynamic actress

All of this running from movie to movie has worn out my shoes so I'm off to Pic'n Pay to get me some of these cool summer shoes called "White Lightnin'" which I'll be sure to box up after Labor Day. Dig that cool mustache on the dude in the ad. 

The Martin Theatre has Macon County Line which has been held over. It had been playing at the Martin since Wednesday July 3rd and would run through July 16th. It was a sleeper smash of the year ending up the year as the 24th top grossing movie of the year with an estimated $18,800,000 performance against an estimated budget of $225,000. It would inspire a sort of sequel Return To Macon County, which was actually filmed in Georgia, while Macon County Line was filmed outside of Sacramento, California. 1950's nostalgia was peaking so that's the draw to get you in to the theatre, but it's not sock hops and poodle skirts here, it's murder and mayhem and Jethro Bodine (Max Baer Jr.) becoming a crazy deputy sheriff named Morgan Reed. Macon County Line would play the Marbro Drive-In from July 27, 1974 through August 6, 1974. I would think Macon County Line would have been standard drive-in fare and played the Marbro repeatedly, but that was it. 

a true story you won't be able to forget