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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Wilderness Woman[/i] [br]I am always on the lookout for a movie about the 18th Century that I haven't seen yet. Well, the other day I was browsing through our local Salvation Army store (No... I am not reduced to shopping there for my modern clothing, although I have stumbled upon some great finds! I look there regularly for old linen tablecloths or wool blankets that can be used for 18th century clothing.) and they had a table full of used videos that had come from a Video King store. On it, I found a 2-tape set of a 1979 made-for-TV movie called "The Rebels", based on the John Jakes book of the same name. The price was only $4 so I bought it. Well. I knew I was in b-i-i-i-g trouble right with the opening scene, which featured our intrepid hero Philip Kent (Andrew Stevens) involved in a cowboy-and-Indians-style-chase-sequence: "It's the Lobsterback Cavalry!" And from there, it rapidly got worse. In fact... it was so bad that I literally began to laugh out loud! The hokey music, the polyester costumes (not only were they [u]totally[/u] historically inaccurate in design, they sported things like zippers down the backs of the ladies' gowns), the hairstyles, the script, and the acting... there is nothing about this movie that can be commended. It's really too bad the Emmys do not have categories for the "Worst" of all these things. It would have won them all hands down. The really sad part of it is that the cast contained some of the best old 50s and 60s character actors: Jim Backus, Joan Blondell, Rory Calhoun (whom I was madly in love with as a young teen), William Daniels, Richard Basehart, Doug McClure, Tom Bosley, MacDonald Carey, Anne Francis, Peter Graves as George Washington (one of the better performances!), Forrest Tucker, Wilfred Hyde-White; plus two young up-coming actors: Kim Cattrall and Don Johnson. This total turkey makes for a great laugh! And laugh, I did! :-)) [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.