As a child, when seeing this at the theater, I remember getting so pissed because they never fed or watered the Bunny rabbit, despite being the only people in the mansion.
Shortly after they met the rabbit, Cassie says, “We’ll take care of you later”, which I took to mean they’d feed it, etc. and I trusted that they did in off-screen moments!
Wow! Damn! I was BORN in 1955. And I was RAISED in CHICAGO. WGN-TV Channel 9 in Chicago, was a great local TV station! They were Chicago's "Cinemax", and "The Movie Channel", DECADES before people even knew what CABLE-TV was! There was a point in WGN's broadcast history, when the station ran movies SEVEN DAYS a WEEK. WGN Chicago's very own, Channel 9!
Remember 'em? Sure do! I was a Spectrum subscriber for a while. I didn't subscribe to ON-TV though. But I helped a few people who did subscribe to that service. Here's a bit of Chicago TV trivia for you. Do you remember the short-lived pay TV movie service, that WLS-TV used to let access their transmitter, when they used end their broadcast day, at 1:00am to 6:00am? This company would only run pay TV movies. The movies were also running in theaters simultaneously at the time this company was airing on their pay-TV service.
That cute little Bunny Rabbit, "and that whimsical little tune we hear every time it appears," is a portent of DOOM! I LOVED this classic Movie n thanks for uploading this! :) ♥♥♥
I remember watching this, the exact day it came on, here in Chicago. I was 11 years old. I thought then, like I do now….. WHAT A GREAT MOVIE ! 😏 ( And the commercials, nostalgic ! )
Man, What a Piece of Television History, the 60’s teen film with young rising Stars of 70’s, the local and National Commercials!!!! I Don’t Know How Many Years and Nights I Watched This Kind of Movie, We even had WGN on early cable in the 80’s!!!!!! Thanks For The Memories!!!!!!!🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
I love how WGN took the effort to remove the color burst signal for a B&W movie and temporarely put it back during commercials. You can see it kick in and out at the transitions between movie and commercials...
This was true with all stations at the time. In New York, this was epidemic on stations like WNEW Channel 5, WOR Channel 9 and WPIX Channel 11 - plus the network O&O's.
Here’s her wikipedia; She got her initial break as an actress when she began doing local commercials for Homemakers furniture store in the Chicago area.[8] 😄
Ok so vintage TV ads are fun, but this movie is all blow up and blown out--it was shot in 2:35 aspect ratio. Warner Archive has a very good looking version that is THE way to see this film. I saw it on TV originally and didn't think much of it, it's a whole different experience actually being able to see it.
Howard's mother seems like she was such a nice lady. I remember the Howard Pontiac commercials well from the 1980s, but I only ever saw the mom saying "On Grand Avenue".
The great Virginia Gregg made this movie extra potent in my opinion. Her harrowing portrayal of the drunk, haunted Dolly Bast really packs a punch. She is amazing.
This film, which plays like a grade D horror movie, something both ABC7's would've shown in their 4.30/3.30 Movie days features the last music score done by Max Steiner ("Gone With The Wind") who said quote "it wasn't a picture, it was an abortion... The guillotine was placed in the wrong place... they should have cut off William Conrad's head for producing the thing."
Does anyone know the name of the music at 46:54? I remember WGN using it for their WGN Presents intros and outros once. That music has been in my head since I was 7 yrs old.
In the same time period, this very film was also in the library of WGN's then-sister station in New York, WPIX "11 Alive." A year after this, this film aired on one of their Sunday movie shows (probably "Sunday's Great Movie"). I saw it in one TV listing airing on their "Channel 11 Film Festival." Does anyone know if this film ever aired in the late 1970's on "The Eight O'Clock Movie"? And I know WPIX often had 35mm prints of syndicated shows and movie features. Did WGN, in this case?
@@phantom6226 - So, for that matter, was another mystery-horror film ish'd by Warners' that Conrad directed (and which would also later migrate to Channel 11): "Brainstorm," co-starring "Jeff" Hunter and Anne Francis. I remember that well - as one night in 1985 WPIX aired that film on its "Eight O'Clock Movie" - an apparent bait-and-switch, as up to that point they'd promoted the first New York TV airing of the 1983 movie of the same title which was Natalie Wood's last.
@@wmbrown6 "Brainstorm (1983)" was scheduled Tuesday May 28th 1985 against a presidential address. Perhaps that was the reason for the switch of films. The 1983 film did air Saturday June 8th 1985. The Hunter version of the film aired Saturday May 4th 1985.
Yes! Starring Rebecca Balding who was also on Soap, one of the funniest sitcoms of all time. Chicago tie-in…she was a stage actress in Chicago before doing TV and movies.
My favorite of the first scary movies that I remember watching as a child. I remembered the rabbit. Who sings the song " go go go, go baby " trying to find it.
At 1:05, not STOP, Connie, GO, GO, GO, GO baby! LOL. Dean Jones was a hottie! Yes, it's very B-class (if that), but as children we didn't know that. Must have been made at Warners' B-unit. It's fun and sort of campy. These commercials are too much. LOL. OMG, Goldblatt's at Scottsdale...79th & Cicero had great corned-beef sandwiches and good record dept.. And Wm. A. Lewis for Women (Where The Models Buy Their Clothes!).
It's a piece of music called "The Oracle Speaks" and the version of it originally used in the WGN Presents opening (before other variations of it were made) was by drummer Louie Bellson. You can listen to the complete opening track here (part used by WGN begins at about the 58 second mark): ruclips.net/video/nVoqim5J73o/видео.html
I Ike the WGN CH. 9 Jingle. It was Roger Whittaker’s Last Farewell. They use to play that jungle ALL THE TIME ! ( That’s how I got to Love it ! Even to this day. ) Awwwwwww ! THE GOOD ‘OL DAYZ ! 🌚
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Wow I forgotten how great movie intros we're back then...they actually made an effort to get you invested in the movie.
Thank you for uploading! This is one of my favorite movies.
This is one of my all-time favorite old movies; sad that it took me so long to find it again, but thanks for uploading it!
This intro takes me back to 4 or 5 years old. Living in our apartment on Elmdale in the Edgewater neighborhood.
As a child, when seeing this at the theater, I remember getting so pissed because they never fed or watered the Bunny rabbit, despite being the only people in the mansion.
Shortly after they met the rabbit, Cassie says, “We’ll take care of you later”, which I took to mean they’d feed it, etc. and I trusted that they did in off-screen moments!
Thanks for another great ride in the “time machine “. Fun to see a young Shelly Long doing the local Homemaker’s furniture spot- great outfit!
I THOUGHT THAT WAS SHELLY LONG!!! It's the smile, that got me. Amazing.
Wow! Damn! I was BORN in 1955. And I was RAISED in CHICAGO. WGN-TV Channel 9 in Chicago, was a great local TV station! They were Chicago's "Cinemax", and "The Movie Channel", DECADES before people even knew what CABLE-TV was!
There was a point in WGN's broadcast history, when the station ran movies SEVEN DAYS a WEEK. WGN Chicago's very own, Channel 9!
Remember ON TV & SPECTRUM ?
Remember 'em? Sure do! I was a Spectrum subscriber for a while. I didn't subscribe to ON-TV though. But I helped a few people who did subscribe to that service.
Here's a bit of Chicago TV trivia for you. Do you remember the short-lived pay TV movie service, that WLS-TV used to let access their transmitter, when they used end their broadcast day, at 1:00am to 6:00am? This company would only run pay TV movies. The movies were also running in theaters simultaneously at the time this company was airing on their pay-TV service.
I remember this "spine chilling" story! 🥰
Damn, These Retro Ad's Are 🔥🔥🔥
That’s what i was just thinking, idk why but it gave me staying at home christmas vibe
@@sethmontana2683 These Local WGN Spots Hit Me Right in the Nostalgic Feels Everytime 🤙
58:51 William Conrad, the film's director, doing a cameo and his best Hitchcock impersonation.
Thanks for pointing that out, I completely missed it!
awesome--I missed it too & had to go back & check; thanks!
Cool, Good eye
There he was!! Thanks for noticing and sharing that! Fun!
I remember getting WGN on the rabbit ears way back in the day. so many good old black and white movies every week it was great. cheers
That cute little Bunny Rabbit, "and that whimsical little tune we hear every time it appears," is a portent of DOOM! I LOVED this classic Movie n thanks for uploading this! :) ♥♥♥
That whimsical tune’’s “fluted” harmony reminded me of television’s Room 222 every time they played it.
I liked the bunny too.
Max Steiner’s score! He composed dozens of famous film scores including “Gone with the Wind.”
I remember watching this, the exact day it came on, here in Chicago. I was 11 years old.
I thought then, like I do now…..
WHAT A GREAT MOVIE ! 😏
( And the commercials, nostalgic ! )
Man, What a Piece of Television History, the 60’s teen film with young rising Stars of 70’s, the local and National Commercials!!!! I Don’t Know How Many Years and Nights I Watched This Kind of Movie, We even had WGN on early cable in the 80’s!!!!!! Thanks For The Memories!!!!!!!🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
Thanks, last night it was on MVIES but it started too late so now I got to watch the 2nd half.
I love how WGN took the effort to remove the color burst signal for a B&W movie and temporarely put it back during commercials. You can see it kick in and out at the transitions between movie and commercials...
This was true with all stations at the time. In New York, this was epidemic on stations like WNEW Channel 5, WOR Channel 9 and WPIX Channel 11 - plus the network O&O's.
@@wmbrown6 The last time I saw that was on a PBS station in the early 90's.
@@wmbrown6 The only station i saw doing that here in Europe, was the BBC. Here in The Netherlands, they didn’t bother 😉
Cesar Romero one year before he became our beloved first Joker ❤
Cesar Romero was on an episode of The Golden Girls.
Thanks for the upload! 👍👍
I remember this spooky movie a LOOOOOONG time ago! 😊💀
And including the commercials 😄 LOL
I wish WGN would go back to showing movies; they don't have much to show anymore since they moved the CW stuff to another network.
I don’t think so, because TCM ran movies there, and of course there online streaming like HBO Max, Netflix and others.
@vintagetvandexciting Nope. Actually the CW affiliate is WPWR Channel 50. ETA, never-ending. LOL
@@tcidolfan WPWR lost the CW affiliation in 2019. They're back to being "My50"
@@Tdogmedia I know,. I've looked it up.
Samuel L. Bronkowitz...I mean...Samuel Z. Arkoff IS American International Pictures.
Ah, the magic of scanimation!
OMG, that woman in the Homemakers commercial 45:00 is Shelly Long pre blonde and pre Cheers!
That was Shelly Long I thought so! 🤠👍
Here’s her wikipedia;
She got her initial break as an actress when she began doing local commercials for Homemakers furniture store in the Chicago area.[8] 😄
I wish I was a kid again . Life was beautiful . The people were beautiful . Now we have crap for 2021 .
I love seeing Electric Company cast members doing commercials, like the one here for Snowy Bleach with Judy Graubart.
I wish Svengoolie showed this movie!
Ok so vintage TV ads are fun, but this movie is all blow up and blown out--it was shot in 2:35 aspect ratio. Warner Archive has a very good looking version that is THE way to see
this film. I saw it on TV originally and didn't think much of it, it's a whole different experience actually being able to see it.
It’s called pan and scan - isn’t it awesomely horrible? Or is that horribly awesome? ;-)
44:33 Hal Riney is the voice of the RC commercial. He probably produced the commercial, too.
Wow, what a difference a cropped 4:3 16mm print makes. It gives this movie a weird TV anthology series look.
Howard's mother seems like she was such a nice lady. I remember the Howard Pontiac commercials well from the 1980s, but I only ever saw the mom saying "On Grand Avenue".
The great Virginia Gregg made this movie extra potent in my opinion. Her harrowing portrayal of the drunk, haunted Dolly Bast really packs a punch. She is amazing.
Dean kind of reminds me of a young Dabney Coleman in some scenes.
This film, which plays like a grade D horror movie, something both ABC7's would've shown in their 4.30/3.30 Movie days features the last music score done by Max Steiner ("Gone With The Wind") who said quote "it wasn't a picture, it was an abortion... The guillotine was placed in the wrong place... they should have cut off William Conrad's head for producing the thing."
Does anyone know the name of the music at 46:54? I remember WGN using it for their WGN Presents intros and outros once. That music has been in my head since I was 7 yrs old.
“The Oracle Speaks” by Louie Bellson.
In the same time period, this very film was also in the library of WGN's then-sister station in New York, WPIX "11 Alive." A year after this, this film aired on one of their Sunday movie shows (probably "Sunday's Great Movie"). I saw it in one TV listing airing on their "Channel 11 Film Festival." Does anyone know if this film ever aired in the late 1970's on "The Eight O'Clock Movie"?
And I know WPIX often had 35mm prints of syndicated shows and movie features. Did WGN, in this case?
The film was in WNBC Channel 4's library during the 1970s.
@@phantom6226 - So, for that matter, was another mystery-horror film ish'd by Warners' that Conrad directed (and which would also later migrate to Channel 11): "Brainstorm," co-starring "Jeff" Hunter and Anne Francis. I remember that well - as one night in 1985 WPIX aired that film on its "Eight O'Clock Movie" - an apparent bait-and-switch, as up to that point they'd promoted the first New York TV airing of the 1983 movie of the same title which was Natalie Wood's last.
@@wmbrown6 "Brainstorm (1983)" was scheduled Tuesday May 28th 1985 against a presidential address. Perhaps that was the reason for the switch of films. The 1983 film did air Saturday June 8th 1985. The Hunter version of the film aired Saturday May 4th 1985.
@@phantom6226 - I do remember that switch of "Brainstorms" was in the middle of the week.
Spotted a very young Kim Fields in a Kraft Barbecue Sauce commercial @ 27:02
Good catch! I'll add it to the description. Thanks!
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV Yeah, it was quick!
I think Eddie Barth may show up right after her.
Deborah Harmon is the blonde woman at 27:08. She was in a ton of commercials, and later co-started in “Just the Ten of Us.”
Was there a name to the theme music for "WGN Television Presents"?
Silent Scream-i remember that movie..trailer creeped me out
Yes! Starring Rebecca Balding who was also on Soap, one of the funniest sitcoms of all time. Chicago tie-in…she was a stage actress in Chicago before doing TV and movies.
ONE OF THE GREAT SCARY MOVIES OF ALL TIME!!!
Isn’t That a Young Shelly Long (“Cheers”) at 45:06??
Guess Gorp Mania didn’t grip the nation.
My favorite of the first scary movies that I remember watching as a child. I remembered the rabbit. Who sings the song " go go go, go baby " trying to find it.
George,Teddy & the condor's
At 1:05, not STOP, Connie, GO, GO, GO, GO baby! LOL. Dean Jones was a hottie! Yes, it's very B-class (if that), but as children we didn't know that. Must have been made at Warners' B-unit. It's fun and sort of campy. These commercials are too much. LOL. OMG, Goldblatt's at Scottsdale...79th & Cicero had great corned-beef sandwiches and good record dept.. And Wm. A. Lewis for Women (Where The Models Buy Their Clothes!).
None other than Max Steiner (“Gone with the Wind”) composed the musical score.
Connie Stevens in her prime----Wow! What!a!babe!
I've never seen a 90 year old woman selling cars! The 80s switched it up with super models I wonder who sells more cars?
Any idea where the music originated from? Also, when was this "WGN Presents" opening first used?
It's a piece of music called "The Oracle Speaks" and the version of it originally used in the WGN Presents opening (before other variations of it were made) was by drummer Louie Bellson. You can listen to the complete opening track here (part used by WGN begins at about the 58 second mark): ruclips.net/video/nVoqim5J73o/видео.html
I Ike the WGN CH. 9 Jingle.
It was Roger Whittaker’s
Last Farewell. They use to play that jungle ALL THE TIME !
( That’s how I got to Love it ! Even to this day. )
Awwwwwww !
THE GOOD ‘OL DAYZ ! 🌚
1:44:45 to 1:45:14 just how big is this house?
$15 dollars for a cab ride back then?
1:51:50 does anyone feed that rabbit?
Corny good fun! 😂
Dean Jones was better off with Herbie the Love bug.Lol!Saw this movie in early 70's.Was not scary,but funny in a cornball way.Still is.
Why is dolly just sitting there looking stupid, she could be getting Cassie out, duh.
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