TheArchive: Reviewing the Rare, Retro, and Restored

If you need a break from multiple networks flooding the airwaves with shark content, look no further than TheArchive where we boast our own animals gone wild list. It's Everything But Sharks Week. This first one  r anked among the most successful films of 1976. Grizzly  was produced on a $750,000 budget, becoming   the most successful independent   motion picture of of that year, earning more than $39 million worldwide. Of course that's a year after Jaws debuted with a $470 million dollar take on a $12 million budget. But dollar for dollar, while Jaws was more profitable, the ratios are not that far off. Grizzly boasts a crew of more future Academy Award winners and nominees per capita than most legit Oscar films! Eight in fact! Sink your teeth into that. One of them must have been responsible for blowing up the bear much like Jaws saw its demise a year before.... Grizzly was directed by WIlliam Girdler and produced by the wildly bizarre and ironicall...

In A Fight for Jenny , Kelsey and her new black husband must fight against her racist ex-boyfriend as he attempts to sue for full custody of their young daughter. Now Kelsey and her husband must fight injustice to get her back. Philip Michael Thomas, Lesley Ann Warren, and Jean Smart star. It is both a relief as to how far we've come, yet in many ways, how little progress has been made. In a New York Times review from 1986, the writer says " NBC has had some difficulty deciding how to ''play'' the television movie it is broadcasting tonight."  The network's vacillating no doubt has something to do with the movie's subject. A Fight for Jenny is about an interracial couple.  Kelsey, a divorced mother, is white. David is black.  It would be easy enough to say that interracial relationships are not at all unusual by now in American entertainments. Pop sociologists can point to everything from the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?  to the televisi...