TITLE: HAUNTS OF THE VERY RICH was a made for TV Movie that aired on September 20 1972 that took 75 minutes to watch. The Movie Starred Lloyd Bridges as David Woodrough, Cloris Leachman as Ellen Blunt, Edward Asner as Al Hun sicker and a Very young pretty Donna Mills as Laurie Dugan.
SUMMARY: The movie opens with 7 people on a jet airplane headed to island resort. A group of people, all of whom, we can only assume, are very rich, are on a plane flying together. Everyone is having a good time except Al Hunsicker who has been sleeping. When Al wakes up he ask the stewardess when they were going to land in Dallas and she tells him that he's on his way to this island resort. He tells to turn this jet around and she explains to him that they can't. When they land, a mysterious black man (Seacrist) greets them, and the plot thickens. Ellen Blunt gets a makeover from a mysterious black woman all the mysterious characters in this film are either black or "native" in a scene laden with homo erotic undertones, and Dave Woodrough falls in love with her. We come to find out that John Fellows is a minister tormented by his own conflicted spirituality; Annette Larrier is an unhappy housewife strung out on prescription uppers and downers; and Al Hunsicker has a very, very hairy back. Laurie Dugan is there with her husband as they are on their honeymoon. During the first night at the resort. The island is ravage by a hurricane. It knocks out all the power on the island but they still have food and drinks. The next morning they tourist find out that the staff has left the resort and went back to their tribes. Seacrist states he's going to get help and that it will take about four days. The next morning the guest discovers that all there food is missing and now there down to can goods.
QUESTIONS: What was the name of this resort? Why did each guest get a different brochure describing the resort? Why was Al Hunsicker trying to get to Dallas? What was the guest so worried about? Why did the staff go back to their tribes? Did Seacrist ever return with help?
MY THOUGHTS: I guess I just ran into some bad luck when it came to reviewing movies because this one was no better than the previously one I reviewed call No Place To Run. This movie was neither an action nor drama it was more science fiction then anything. I don't like science fiction because there a waste of time. This movie had no real action, drama, and it didn't make any real sense. The reason I bought this movie was Donna Mills and just like Stefanie Powers in No Place to Run, Mills talent in this movie was wasted. You would figure that a young Donna Mills on an island resort would be in a bathing suit and that didn't happen. Big Disappointment! If I could give this movie a zero, I would but I can't so I'm giving this movie 1 weasel star
SUMMARY: The movie opens with 7 people on a jet airplane headed to island resort. A group of people, all of whom, we can only assume, are very rich, are on a plane flying together. Everyone is having a good time except Al Hunsicker who has been sleeping. When Al wakes up he ask the stewardess when they were going to land in Dallas and she tells him that he's on his way to this island resort. He tells to turn this jet around and she explains to him that they can't. When they land, a mysterious black man (Seacrist) greets them, and the plot thickens. Ellen Blunt gets a makeover from a mysterious black woman all the mysterious characters in this film are either black or "native" in a scene laden with homo erotic undertones, and Dave Woodrough falls in love with her. We come to find out that John Fellows is a minister tormented by his own conflicted spirituality; Annette Larrier is an unhappy housewife strung out on prescription uppers and downers; and Al Hunsicker has a very, very hairy back. Laurie Dugan is there with her husband as they are on their honeymoon. During the first night at the resort. The island is ravage by a hurricane. It knocks out all the power on the island but they still have food and drinks. The next morning they tourist find out that the staff has left the resort and went back to their tribes. Seacrist states he's going to get help and that it will take about four days. The next morning the guest discovers that all there food is missing and now there down to can goods.
QUESTIONS: What was the name of this resort? Why did each guest get a different brochure describing the resort? Why was Al Hunsicker trying to get to Dallas? What was the guest so worried about? Why did the staff go back to their tribes? Did Seacrist ever return with help?
MY THOUGHTS: I guess I just ran into some bad luck when it came to reviewing movies because this one was no better than the previously one I reviewed call No Place To Run. This movie was neither an action nor drama it was more science fiction then anything. I don't like science fiction because there a waste of time. This movie had no real action, drama, and it didn't make any real sense. The reason I bought this movie was Donna Mills and just like Stefanie Powers in No Place to Run, Mills talent in this movie was wasted. You would figure that a young Donna Mills on an island resort would be in a bathing suit and that didn't happen. Big Disappointment! If I could give this movie a zero, I would but I can't so I'm giving this movie 1 weasel star