What a dog's breakfast of genres disc 7 of B-Movie Blast is. We've got an unpleasant doomed romance, a lack luster kidnapping thriller, a goofy counterculture sexploitation film, and a song packed country western jamboree. They're all Crown International Pictures. They were the home of average to below average films and they knew it. No big budgets there. Occasionally you get a star on their decline or a raising star but mostly the film makers aren't anyone you know.
Liar's Moon is a 1982 romantic drama that ends with a dead young woman and nothing good to be said for the story. If you meet the writer-director David Fisher you should hoof him in the nut sack for me. He only directed one more movie then his career as a director stopped. Occasionally things work out for the best. Nothing like that happened to the main characters, it's misery all the way down. I'd say you should keep an eye out for Hoyt Axton and Yvonne De Carlo in small parts but then you'd have to watch the movie and that's just not a good idea.
The Kidnapping Of The President is a 1980 thriller written by Richard Murphy and Charles Templeton and directed by Canadian George Mendeluk. You might not have heard of George but I'm betting you might have seen some of his TV work. In the movie, set in Toronto, the US President Hal Holbrook is kidnapped by some crazy people. Secret Service agent William Shatner has to figure out how to get the bomb off the President without blowing him up. I didn't find it that interesting or compelling. There's a second subplot with the Vice President Van Johnson that doesn't help much. It's not worth seeing.
The Young Graduates is a 1971 film directed by Robert Anderson. He co-wrote the story with Terry Anderson and the pair produced. The screenplay is the work of Dave Dixon. Patricia Wymer is a high school airhead who gets into some shenanigans instead of hitting the books. She has a fling with her teacher, on her 18th birthday, and rides with some bikers. This was more fun that the previous movies, by any measure, but Patricia is kind of any annoying character. She's whim driven and that usually means trouble for someone. I'd say watch it, you'd probably get a laugh or two, I know I did.
Road To Nashville is a 1967 Country and Western film that features a ton of musicians in a thread bare story. Some doofus is supposed to sign C&W acts for a film. He goes around Nashville seeing all the acts and forgetting to sign them up. Some of the music is fun and some I was less interested in. Sadly there isn't a copy on YouTube.
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