Bless the Beasts and the Children

[Lincsong]

I heard this song on the radio this weekend and remembered the movie. Anyone else remember this one?????[huh]

 

[BegintheBeguine]

One of those Lord of the Flies-type deals. Gave me the creepy-creeps when I was a child and I haven't seen it since. Shudder.

 

[Lincsong]

Same here. The Oakland channel 2 used to show it all the time. Probably, the last time I saw it was 1982.

 

[MK]

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I haven't heard of that one in many moons. It stared Billy Mummy from Lost in Space fame....but as a teenager. I saw it in the theatre back in the day. I was just the right age for it to speak to me.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I never cared for this flick when it was new, so I'd imagine that I'd find it pretty cringeworthy now. As I recall it, this was producer/director Stanley Kramer's attempt to make an issues film "relevant" to the youth of the time (1971), and like most folks of his generation, he was pretty clueless behind just the look/sound of those crazy hippies.

The irony is, he had made so many great "message pictures" before this - High Noon, The Defiant Ones, Judgement at Nuremberg, Inherit the Wind, Ship of Fools, On The Beach, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, etc. - that it was particularly disappointing how crummy this film turned out...

 

[Girl Friday]

The song is by the Carpenters. I thought it was in The Cowboys starring John Wayne, but I can't find it credited there. And it has been a really long time since I've seen the movie...and apparently it is from the movie of the same name...duh.

 

[dr greg]

buffaloes

Was that the one where they shoot buffalo that are just standing in yards? Can't respect that stuff, I gotta say, it made me sick at the time if it's the same movie. Hunting in the wild is one one thing, but that stuff is low.

 

[Hondo]

Thats correct, if memory serves me right the kids were reform school types or troubled teens sent to this western style summer camp, I didn’t care for it, Bill Mummy was only reason to watch, but i couldn't find Doctor Smith [huh]

Was that the one where they shoot buffalo that are just standing in yards? Can't respect that stuff, I gotta say, it made me sick at the time if it's the same movie. Hunting in the wild is one one thing, but that stuff is low.

 

[Flivver]

I never saw the movie, but as a teen, I was a big fan of Karen Carpenter (yes, I'll admit it!), so I'm familiar with the song.

I still think Karen had a great voice and, back then, listening to the Carpenters was my way of protesting the Acid Rock music that most of the other kids listened to and that I never understood.

 

[Girl Friday]

Thats correct, if memory serves me right the kids were reform school types or troubled teens sent to this western style summer camp

Okay...that's why I was thinking of The Cowboys...the reform school types.

 

[eightbore]

One of those Lord of the Flies-type deals.

Theres ANOTHER really annoying movie/book !

 

[BegintheBeguine]

The song is by the Carpenters. I thought it was in The Cowboys starring John Wayne, but I can't find it credited there. And it has been a really long time since I've seen the movie...and apparently it is from the movie of the same name...duh.

The music in The Cowboys was the Largo from Vivaldi's Concerto in D, played by John Williams, as I recall. I have seen that movie exactly once, as a youngster, and your post brought the music back to me note for note, as the first time I heard it and fell in love with it.

 

[Doh!]

Not to hijack this thread, but The Cowboys movie and soundtrack are both excellent. I listen to the music at least once a month.

 

[patrick1987]

The consensus is Beasts not worth my time, then?

Ashley, you really do have a tape recorder memory if you could quote Nightlinger when Roscoe Lee Browne passed away. fftopic: How was your birthday? Not too good if it's almost 2 AM and you are on the Lounge.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

fftopic: You are right, it stunk, everyone called to cancel, so there I was singing karaoke by myself on my birthday, no friends, how pathetic. Anyway.

Reading the description of the book and film in the public library catalog, it seems that the boys band together to try to stop the cruel slaughter of the bison. As usual, I seem to have misremembered the plot, but then again I didn't see all of it when it was on television when I was a youngster. At any rate, the video is being transfered to my branch library so I can watch it next week! I like Billy Mumy anyway.

 

[Girl Friday]

fftopic:

Singing karaoke alone, in front of people, any old way is never pathetic! People that WON'T do it, now that's pathetic

Happy belated birthday.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Thank you my friend! I rocked! Alice Cooper, Doors, Soul Brothers Six.
Your avatar....talk about watermelons....!

 

[FATS88]

UP! UP! AND AWAY AY!

I liked this film, or maybe it was the fact
that I was cuddling my girlfriend/classmate during the viewing.

It was a grade eight english class field trip
I've never understood why you would take a group of adolescents
to a tear jerker, not complaining though, the school paid for our date!

Anyway, a day to remember; my girlfriend Terri was GORGEOUS!
the movie was sad with funny parts, and one of my classmates,
several rows to the front, while seeing us cuddle;
just hauled off and dropped the N BOMB on me just before the
film started...I can only assume out of jealousy, she was new
to our school, and beautiful.
To both of our credit, especially hers, his venomous remark
didn't sabotage our enjoyment of our time together with the lights out,
(1975 folks, a chaperoned date; first base was great!
didn't know how to run the bases yet anywaylol )


So, you see that film, and that day, was a day
filled with many, many emotions.


Cheers!
Fats

 

[just_me]

I haven't seen this movie since it first came out. I remember liking it.

BTW, one of the stars was the cousin of a good friend of mine.