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Thursday, March 06, 2008 
Is the devil still your lover?
Thanks to the massive success of The Exorcist, every movie released after the middle of 1974 involved the devil. It was an awesome time to be a Satanist, especially with films like AbbyAbby in fact, much Barack Obama, broke boundaries by blending devil movies with blacksploitation.
Somehow, the Academy failed to notice this fine example of interracial genre-bending.
Next to Abby, is the ad for The Longest Yard. And since it played at the Balboa, the print ad has to reflect a sleazy gay movie vibe.
I find it amusing that part of the tagline for Abby is, "...Can Any Man Save her?"
And a quick look to the right is the ad for Burt Reynolds in a speedo.
We're through the looking glass, people.


San Diego Tribune B-15. Wednesday 25 December 1974.
Jay Allen Sanford
Jay Allen Sanford

 
Abby's exorcist is none other than Blackula himself, William Marshall, who would one day become the King of Cartoons on Pee Wee's Playhouse!

How funny is it that MGM's all-star all-hit compilation That's Entertainment is listed with the co-feature Last of the Independents - what at first looks like the tagline for an indie non-Hollywood film is actually the U.S. "test" title for a movie released in Europe as Kill Charlie Vick. This ad uses both titles, albeit dropping "Kill," but WTF is up with the balloon reading "Boy do we need it now"?? A quick peek at the IMDB entry for this movie shows that it was mentioned in Pulp Fiction ----

Buster and Billie touts Jan Michael Vincent and Pamela Sue Martin in the ad, but Martin was neither Buster nor Billie, and that's not her head shot resting on the State logo. Joan Goodfellow was the female title actress - Martin, however, was more well-known, having done the Poseidon Adventure a couple of years previously.
 
Posted by Jay Allen Sanford on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 12:12 PM
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San Diego Cinerama
San Diego Cinerama

 
'Kill Charley Varrick' had already been released in the US as 'Charley Varrick' and in San Diego at the Cinema Grossmont in mid-November 1973 (this ad being from 1974).
It's a pretty good movie from Don Siegel (d.Dirty Harry) and features some off beat casting including Joe Don Baker and Andrew Robinson (the crazy guy from Dirty Harry).
There's a DVD out, but it's Full Frame.
I'm waiting for a re-release (I saw it at the Egyptian in Hollywood in 2004, on a bill with 'Dirty Harry'.).
As for 'Do We Need it Now'... well, this was the 1970s. Vietnam collapsed, Nixon had resigned a few months earlier, gas and energy was through the roof... what's better than dozens of clips from old musicals? [I know you lived through some of it, I studied it in school, but almost 35 years after the fact, reading the headlines from these years IS depressing] Not much- it ran for 3.5 months at the Valley Circle and went on to do well in the 2nd Run Afterlife (don't recall it playing the Balboa or California).
Still, 'That's Entertainment' and 'Charley Varrick' make an odd combo. Wonder if the North Park would consider doing some goofy 1970s movies? A harkening back to right before they closed?
 
Posted by San Diego Cinerama on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 12:42 PM
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