The king and queen of the '70s TV movie (Dennis Weaver and Donna Mills) get their weekly paycheck and I'll kill him I'm sure they hope would quickly be forgotten after it's movie of the week airing. Weaver is a truck driver who's involvement in a cheating wife accidental death lands him in prison and his kids who knows where thanks to his dotty aging grandmother (Agnes Moorehead). Once released, he has to find them, and the viewer has to have the patience to care.
This intrigued me because of it supporting cast which includes Slim Pickens, Sheree North and Don Stroud. But it's a typical southern white trash drama without the class of Tennessee Williams or Clifford Ideas, with characters I didn't really care about. Poor Moorehead, between this and "Dear Dead Delilah" (obviously made during her weeks off from "Bewitched"), looks absolutely exhausted. At least she had return to Broadway as her swan song and a few better TV appearances, but I was truly embarrassed for her having to appear in this one. Easily skippable, or fast forwardable, just to see her. Not a golden notch on producer Aaron Spelling's belt. Mills looks like she's auditioning to play Patsy Cline, and is one bright spot.
This intrigued me because of it supporting cast which includes Slim Pickens, Sheree North and Don Stroud. But it's a typical southern white trash drama without the class of Tennessee Williams or Clifford Ideas, with characters I didn't really care about. Poor Moorehead, between this and "Dear Dead Delilah" (obviously made during her weeks off from "Bewitched"), looks absolutely exhausted. At least she had return to Broadway as her swan song and a few better TV appearances, but I was truly embarrassed for her having to appear in this one. Easily skippable, or fast forwardable, just to see her. Not a golden notch on producer Aaron Spelling's belt. Mills looks like she's auditioning to play Patsy Cline, and is one bright spot.