Film Flashback October 16, 1976

Since we're off to check out The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea at the Cinema_One on October 16, 1976 let's go get some seafood first at Long John Silver's. If fish isn't your thing, they've got chicken planks for $1.69. It was always a big treat to get food from Long John Silver's when I was a youngster. I miss the Cape Cod style of the buildings which they abandoned in the 90's. 

Kris Kristofferson went from being a floor sweeper at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville (also worked at the restaurant that became rock club Cantrell's) to a renowned songwriter, then singer, and finally a massive movie star in about 12 years. Sarah Miles plays a widowed mother who ends up falling for Kristofferson's character, Jim Cameron, who is the sailor. The son of the mother doesn't like this development so he plots revenge in this mystery/thriller/love story which features beautiful scenery.

Television showing promo

Bo Svenson and Cybill Shepherd star in Special Delivery which is playing at the Martin Twin. I have never seen this movie, but the the trailer looks like it would be fun. It's about a bank robber hiding the money in a mailbox. Unfortunately for the bank robber others saw him stash it there. 

Two hot young stars make the sparks fly

Before we check out the other movie playing at the Martin Twin let's go up the road apiece and see what's on the big screen at the Marbro Drive-In. The ad promises us shock after shock. Blood From The Mummy's Tomb is a 1971 Hammer film so you know it will be pretty good. Valerie Leon sparkles as Margaret who gets possessed by the spirit of Tera thanks to a ring with a red stone. Blood and Lace is the other horror film guaranteed to shock you. This American International Pictures film, which was also released originally in 1971, features Gloria Grahame as the sadistic Mrs. Deere who runs an orphanage where she tortures children. The movie also features a hammer wielding killer.  

Blood From The Mummy's Tomb Shout Factory trailer

How many faces does terror wear?

We end this week's Film Flashback by going back to the Martin Twin to see the Volunteer Jam movie which starred, who else, the Charlie Daniels Band. It is billed as "The first full length Southern Rock motion picture," Note: it was filmed in Murfreesboro at Murphy Center. I could not find a trailer, but there is a purported playlist of the movie on YouTube. The playlist seems to be a mixture of various Volunteer Jam performances including some from 1978 so I think that's a fail for the playlist. The "Long Haired Country Boy" performance, however, is definitely from the movie so check it out below. RIP to Charlie Daniels. He was a bonafide musical legend who always made me feel good about being from Tennessee.

I get stoned in the morning, I get drunk in the afternoon

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