Some things I found digging through movie ads from May of 1976. First, an overview from General Cinema whose Columbus theaters I probably attended the most (Great Western, University Flick, University City, and several mall locations). I like the double feature midnight show of Blood of Dracula's Castle
(a grade-Z Al Adamson epic but fairly painless) and Nightmare in Wax, a
remake of House of Wax. And notice that the
1939 Baskervilles which had been reissued the previous summer was still
hanging around town
Mother Jugs and Speed was a fairly unpleasant dark comedy. I knew as a college-aged lad that I was supposed to like it but I didn't really, though as I recall, I did see it twice.
Inserts was a X-rated (though not pornographic) movie about porn movie makers in the 1930s. It was big news because newly-minted star Richard Dreyfuss, fresh off Jaws, was in it. The X was titillating, but wasn't that eXciting.
As a good English major who was interested in foreign language films, I found the 70s a great time for exploring world cinema. Not only did we have several campus-area theaters that occasionally showed these movies, as well as a couple of art houses, but even some of the mall theaters did on occasion. I vividly remember Seven Beauties--I became a Lina Wertmuller fan for a while.
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