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Alright "Hunger Game" fans. Take a pill and relax. Here's the thing: remember when movies were movies? When the stars were larger-than-life? When you could pick up the paper and choose half a dozen films in the middle of summer that didn't have computer-generated effects, massive explosions, and a total lack of logic?
If you were 16, like I was in 1974, here's a partial list of films you could see that summer: Chinatown, Death Wish, That's Entertainment, The Parallax View, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Daisy Miller. That's right--these were the SUMMER releases. Just in that small list alone you have one acknowledged classic, an Oscar-nominated Clint Eastwood film, a salute to Hollywood's golden days, and an X-rated comedy that changed the way we looked at animation.
Reel Classics. The title says it all. I'll be discussing unsung classic films from 1927-1976. The stars. The studios. Character actors. The theaters.
Settle back. The lights are dimmming. The previews are over. The main feature begins.
