(Now you have a hundred channels offering identical content on different timetables.)
MELODY 1971 FILM MOVIE
But with the rise of cable television and video, the movie vanished from the schedule. In those days they must have had a pretty set schedule of syndication because, you could count on the film making the rounds again. From that point on, I made it a weekly ritual to scan through the television guide to see if Melody was on that week. Then when it was repeated on the weekend. I remember staying up to watch the movie again at 1:00 AM. It's such a universal story that it rises above the cultural, class, and period distinctions. I could identify with the pain of both lovers, and the friend. It would play on the afternoon "Movie with Gus", some local show that picked up movies in syndication. I first saw this film when I was a child growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada. I hadn't realized anyone else had seen this film, nor that it had such a similar impact on everybody. You must have once been in love, and you must have once been a child. Reviewed by troydarling 10 /10 Two requirements for loving this film. I thought I'd just buy a copy, WRONG! Hey! maybe we could get Redford to show it in his Sundance channel. Sadly I didn't tape the film when I had the chance. But then they got crazy with infomercials and the parent company, CBS, decide to have its own all night news program so 'Melody' virtually disappeared. WBBM used to show this movie about twice a year(They had a rather poor film library), usually at 2 in the morning. Also, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's "Teach Your Children". And of course that wonderful soundtrack, when the Bee Gees sang good songs: "To love somebody" and the sadly forgotten "First of May", not Disco. lower class), and the wonder of experiencing the world for the first time without your parents.
Although the movie was shot an ocean away from me, I felt like I was reliving my own childhood the pain of first love, the joy of finding friendship despite social barrier (Middle class vs.
It was like a magical trip to childhood, or in most of our cases a trip back. Anyway when I finally saw it I had to agree. What did he know? he was only 14, I was 10 at the time. A friend of mine saw it at the time and said he loved it.
MELODY 1971 FILM TV
I was familiar with it because I remember the TV ads from '71, Mark Lester sets his dad's newspaper on fire. They were showing it at 2 AM on a Saturday (insomnia). I first saw this film in the early '80s on WBBM-TV Channel 2 Chicago. Reviewed by LeroyBrown-2 8 /10 Wonderful charmer, love it. Alas, albeit it is on DVD, the copy is not a very good one, with muted colors and a somewhat jittery transfer. In Argentina, this movie is now finally being redistributed, by a small private company. I have since been looking in vain for a copy of this movie or for the chance to watch it again and again and again. The farcical view on authority and that funny ending, which could be called a teenage The Graduate. a scene that has no dialog, and it is just played with music and visual narration. It is a testament to this film that after watching it only once, I not only remember the film fondly, but that some scenes are still etched in my mind: The Frere Jacques scene as the two main characters talk about how they feel. I am 33 now, I grew to work in the TV and film industry both in Argentina and abroad and have watched literally thousands of films since. That this movie had told perhaps our own story of first love and touched us in a way perhaps no one else had before, in a way we would not forget, we could not forget.
we could tell when we looked at each others' eyes that we were lying. we were not willing to admit we had seen and liked a "love" story - a chick film. if those stupid boys would wise up one day. Girls would probably whisper if it could happen to them, too. I remember also the following day at school, as all the boys and girls that had watched it would whisper about it. My guess is that I was probably about the same age of the main characters when I sat in front of the set. I probably watched it because of a recommendation from my father, who during my forming years, had gained my respect for introducing me to Spielberg in films such as Close Encounters and Raider of the Lost Ark. I watched this movie once, as it played in an Argentinian TV channel at a time when there were only 4 TV channels. That it was written by Alan Parker, before he was recognized as a world famous screenwriter/director? And that even then, it is a movie that has unjustly remained without being re-released. What to say about this gem that has not been said before?
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