Above you see the movie page from the Journal of June 19, 1975 – fifty years ago today.
There's not a whole lot to be nostalgic about. No Bowery Boys, no cartoons, no classic Westerns. After all, this is the mid-1970s.
Instead we get a real mixed bag. The biggest movie on the page is Jaws, which was about to start its original run at Midway Mall Cinema. I never saw it in the theater; it was decades later that I saw it on TV, and decades after that when I saw the uncut version with bloody, chomped-off limbs sinking into the briny deep. It's a great film, one of those that I watch wherever it pops up on TV.
Walt Disney Productions was still cranking out live-action comedies, in this case it's The Strongest Man in the World with Kurt Russell. By that time, my siblings and I were too old for typical Disney fare.
I do remember that the whole Brady Bunch went to see The Return of the Pink Panther at the Midway Mall Cinema. Dad was a fan of Peter Sellers, and my siblings and I liked the Pink Panther cartoons so it's not too surprising that we saw it as a family.
