I cant find the original opening for million dollar movie with the man going down the escalator, the man making change at the paper stand, and the dangling phone it can't be found
KHJ-TV in Los Angeles (also owned by RKO General) also ran the Million Dollar Movie. The announcer was Ted Meyers. But everything else was just the same as WOR-TV in New York.
We would watch the same picture night after night at 7pm.. I loved Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or Yankee Doodle Dandy King Kong Mighty joe young those were the days!! My father would come in from work and could never understand why we watched the same movie over and over it was totally beyond him!
You mentioned Steve Reeves...he was a favorite of mine but one of the reasons...he was from the Big Sky Country, MONTANA!! I now live in Portland, a transplanted Montanan myself...
Yeah, Wingslinger, Steve went to the great gym in the sky on 1 May 2000 at age 74...I remember him in both Hercules movies and in the "Thief of Baghdad"...long before the late Saddam Hussein became the REAL Thief of Baghdad...
Who remembers "Foreign Film Festival" which often followed the Million Dollar Movie??? Most often, the 'foreign film' was one of the early 60s "Italian strongman' epic genre (which got its start from the Hercules movies starring the late Steve Reeves)..."Son of Samson in the Valley of the Fire Monsters, starring Steve Forrest and Chelo Alonso!!!" Followed by a repeat of the Million Dollar Movie. Good old WOR (Home of the NY Mets...back when baseball on TV was free). I used to watch the WOR 10 PM news on cable when I first moved to Florida in 1979...kept me in touch with the old place until WOR got dropped by the cable company and I lost interest in following the crap goin' on in the NY metro area...
I remember as a very young child being so fascinated by a 'grown-up' movie called "Million Dollar Weekend" that I watched it over and over the entire week! Years later as an adult I'd think about that movie, wondering what could have held me so? But I couldn't remember a thing about it. Nobody I'd ask ever heard of it. Finally twenty or so years ago I took out a classified ad inquiring did anyone have it and could they put it on VHS for me? One reply -- yes! So after half a lifetime of wondering, anticipating all sorts of awakened memories, I got to watch my movie again but this time as an adult. What a letdown, I didn't remember it at all!! And here I was expecting it to fill in a missing piece of my life or something. Then years later it hit me. All it was was the fascination of watching a movie about a "million dollars" on "Million Dollar Movie." That was enough to hold a five year old.
Call me a rube, but I had no idea that Million Dollar Movie used the theme song from Gone with the Wind until I saw GWTW on TV when I was well into my 20's. I blurted out, "hey that's the theme song from Million Dollar Movie!"
MDM typically ran one film and one film only for one solid week. I remember watching "Yankee Doodle Dandy" every evening that they were broadcasting it back in 1958 or so. Same for the original "King Kong" with Faye Wray and Robert Armstrong.
"Staple" may be putting it mildly. Aside from the children's programs, it seems to me that I encountered MDM every time I switched to channel 9.
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"The Million Dollar Movie"Show was Ted Malle' .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO_Pictures
CB in FL
It starred Zsa Zsa Gabor.
It is now a cult classic.
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