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Lassie (1954)
"Lassie" was NOT just with Jon Provost, please fix this listing
This listing for "Lassie" is extremely biased. In 1954 when this TV series first aired Jon Provost was only about 4 years old. The ORIGINAL cast is not even mentioned here and one must look up the bios of each principal actor to even find their contributions. There were over 100 episodes without Jon Provost!
In this writer's opinion the best performances in the TV Lassie series were by the original cast: Tommy Rettig, Jan Clayton, and George Cleveland. Jon, June Lockhart and company, by comparison, never could match the sparkle of the original cast.
That said, when Lassie was acted by Jon Provost and June Lockhart it was nevertheless a fine show. But to us old timers we lost our "family" and the pain of it was inconsolable by the new cast.
Seven Dials Mystery (1981)
This Movie is Technically Annoying to Watch
All the acting, all story, aside - I found this movie technically annoying to watch and admittedly I may be the only person who has viewed this "movie" that thinks so. I abhor the mixing of two different art forms into one production. Video tape is one form of artistic expression and celluloid film is another. The playback look is obviously different for each and I can spot the difference in an instant. This movie mixes video taped interiors with filmed exteriors. Video tape and live theater are too in-your-face real and take away from the escapism of film.
That said, I enjoyed Cheryl Campbell's acting, as always, and vote the acting ensemble a 10. The fast-passed dialog made it difficult to comprehend each word uttered by the actors at the beginning with their bantering back and forth before placing the clocks under the bed but again I blame the use of video tape for that problem. There could be a faint echo in the studio that accounts for this.