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While On the Air Live with Captain Midnight was released in November of 1979 by Columbia Pictures, the film’s credits end with a copyright year of 1977. Whether this means the film was made in 1977 independently and then later purchased by Columbia for distribution or produced by Columbia and then shelved for two years [...]
Supervan (1977, dir. Lamar Card) If the message of The Van is “Yes, vans are awesome, but eventually you have to get over that and grow the hell up,” the message of Supervan is “Yes, vans are awesome, totally awesome, vans forever, my van has lasers, come check out my vaaaaaaaaaaaaan!” Supervan is the point [...]
Blue Summer is entirely concerned with the adventures of two male friends spending the last weekend of summer before they go off to college in a van, bumming around and looking for action. This being 1972, the beat-up gray Dodge van is always referred to by the characters as a “bus,” and the extent of [...]
Many die-hard film fans, critics and other film writers maintain that the 1970s was the finest decade for American film, and it is not hard to see why. Established names were on the rise, knocking out masterpieces left and right, and the expanding borders of what could be depicted in a mainstream film were redefining [...]
