Word: made-for-tv
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...Baretta was solving a murder. A new pair of made-for-TV lovers (Italian and Jewish, natch) were trying to get it all together on CBS. Susan and Sam, an NBC comedy pilot, was getting a midsummer test flight. Then-phfft!-all over...
...young teacher. Among the other victims: plot, dialogue and characterization. Deputy Sheriff James Brolin leads the counterattack, but it is an unequal contest: the car steals all the scenes. The ancient nightmare of machines turning against their masters has in recent years become something of a staple of made-for-TV movies. This model offers nothing new. It seems headed for the summer drive-in trade, where it can play to an appropriate audience - the blank, staring faces of hundreds of other cars...
...they ascend to the stage. The glow of Carrie's face pains us all the more as the camera pans to the bucket precariously perched on the rigging directly above her blonde head. The tension-building devices are strictly conventional--reminiscent of the contrived suspense of a made-for-TV movie--yet the impact of the bloodbath sticks with the viewer long after he has left the theater...
...this all-American paragon, oozing the sap of maple-sugared kindness? When ABC aired the Howard Hughes story, a made-for-TV film biography of the reclusive millionaire, the protagonist was unrecognizable. When, for instance, Lana Turner anticipated marrying him, she had all her sheets monogrammed HH; Hughes turned her down with "marry Huntington Hartford." A more sinister Hughes emerged from Film Maker Ron Lyon's experience. He had reckoned without his subject. When Lyon tried to obtain newsreel clips of Hughes, the only ones available were of him smiling and waving. Then the insurance company, doubtless aware...
...raspy voice and menacing non-presence of Claude Rains in the 1933 movie of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Manl Perhaps the only movie ever made in which the star's face is shown only once, and then when he is dead, The Invisible Man made Rains' ghastly reputation. Now David McCallum, one of TV's men from UNCLE of a decade ago, has taken over the role in a made-for-TV movie to be aired on March 11. Wells' fantasy of a chemist made invisible, then driven mad by his own invention has been...