Trailer Tuesday: Dick Van Dyke in ‘Cold Turkey’

Norman Lear’s Cold Turkey released to theaters in February of 1971. The film, starring Dick Van Dyke, focuses on a small Iowa town where all residents attempt to give up smoking in order to win a $25 million dollar pay-out … Continue reading

Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Towering Inferno’ (1974)

“one tiny spark – becomes a night of blazing suspense…” It took both Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox to bring The Towering Inferno to movie theaters in December of 1974. Irwin Allen’s “disaster” flick featured a large roster of … Continue reading

Trailer Tuesday: Big Bad Mama

Trailer time, Bionic film-lovers. Today, we’ll take in the sight of Angie Dickinson, William Shatner and Tom Skeritt in Big Bad Mama. Big Bad Mama, a tale of Texas bootlegging in 1932, crashed into theaters in September of 1974 and … Continue reading

Trailer Tuesday: Raquel Welch in Kansas City Bomber

It’s Trailer Tuesday and we turn our eyes to coming attractions of the 1970s. Today, let’s enjoy Raquel Welch in Kansas City Bomber from the summer of 1972. I definitely need to do an entire post on 70s Roller Derby … Continue reading

Trailer Tuesday: Earthquake

Better late than never, it’s Trailer Tuesday – so let’s get down to it. Take a gander at one of the big “Disaster” films of the 70s – Earthquake. Earthquake was chock full o’ screen stars and released in November … Continue reading

Trailer Tuesday: Apocalypse Now

Director Francis Ford Coppola released Apocalypse Now in August of 1979 after a long, troubled shoot and editing process that ran from March, 1976 until release. Thankfully, instead of a disaster we were presented with a powerful classic that did … Continue reading