Blockbuster Movie
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Blockbuster Movie was a movie showcase that aired on New York City
television station
WOR-TV
(Channel 9).
It aired on weekday afternoons at 4:00 PM and played a wide variety of films. It replaced Thriller Theater
in 1972 and was later replaced itself by The 4 O'Clock Movie circa 1975.
Some of the movies shown were:
The Bride of Frankenstein
Flying Leathernecks
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Monster on the Campus
The Phantom of the Opera
(1943)
Pittsburgh
(1942)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Tarantula
The Spoilers
(1942)
Trouble Along the Way
The Werewolf
(1956)
New York City
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Television station
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WOR-TV
WWOR-TV
WWOR-TV, virtual channel 9 , is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV programming service, licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey and serving the Tri-State metropolitan area. WWOR is owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox network flagship...
(Channel 9).
It aired on weekday afternoons at 4:00 PM and played a wide variety of films. It replaced Thriller Theater
Thriller Theater
Thriller Theater was a kid-friendly horror venue that aired on New York City television station WOR-TV from 1971 to 1972.It aired on weekday afternoons from 4:30 PM to 6 PM and had a film library consisting mainly of classic movies from the Universal and RKO vaults .The opening of the program...
in 1972 and was later replaced itself by The 4 O'Clock Movie circa 1975.
Some of the movies shown were:
The Bride of Frankenstein
Flying Leathernecks
Flying Leathernecks
Flying Leathernecks is a 1951 action film directed by Nicholas Ray, produced by Edmund Grainger, and starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan. The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine Corps aviators during World War II...
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, released in 1943, is an American monster horror film produced by Universal Studios starring Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This was the first of a series of "ensemble" monster films combining characters from several film...
King Kong vs. Godzilla
King Kong vs. Godzilla
is a 1962 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. Directed by Ishirō Honda with visual effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, and Mie Hama. It was the third installment in the Japanese series of films featuring the monster Godzilla...
Monster on the Campus
Monster on the Campus
Monster on the Campus was a black and white, science fiction, horror film, released by Universal Pictures on a low budget. It was also known as Monster in the Night, and Stranger on the Campus...
The Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)
Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 Universal horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward....
(1943)
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh (1942 film)
Pittsburgh is a 1942 feature film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne. Shemp Howard of Three Stooges fame co-stars in a rare dramatic role . Dietrich, Scott, and Wayne also made The Spoilers together that same year...
(1942)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. The film was the second of Ford's trilogy of films focusing on the US Cavalry ; the other two films were Fort Apache and Rio Grande...
Tarantula
Tarantula (film)
Tarantula is a 1955 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Leo G. Carroll, John Agar, and Mara Corday. Among other things, the film is notable for the appearance of a 25-year-old Clint Eastwood in an uncredited role as a jet pilot at the end of the film.-Plot summary:The plot...
The Spoilers
The Spoilers (1942 film)
The Spoilers is a 1942 film directed by Ray Enright. The movie is set in Nome, Alaska during the Nome Gold Rush, with Marlene Dietrich as Cherry Malotte, Randolph Scott as Alexander McNamara, and John Wayne as Roy Glennister, and culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between McNamara and...
(1942)
Trouble Along the Way
Trouble Along the Way
Trouble Along the Way was a 1953 film starring John Wayne and Donna Reed, with a supporting cast including Charles Coburn and Marie Windsor. The movie was directed by Michael Curtiz, director of Casablanca. The black-and-white comedy was released by Warner Bros...
The Werewolf
The Werewolf (1956 film)
-Plot summary:A man finds himself lost in a remote village called Mountaincrest. His mind is clouded, but he learns later that two scientists injected him with a special serum containing irradiated wolf's blood when he was suffering from amnesia after being in a car accident...
(1956)