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Oct 18, 2009
"The Migrants" CBS-TV movie 1974. Never re-run. Why?
1 of 1 found this helpful This is an extraordinary movie-for-television. With several stars and stars-to-be. Very realistic depiction of the lives of migrant farm workers. Excellent script by playwright Lanford Wilson, in consultation with Tennessee Williams. Solid direction by Tom Gries ("Will Penny," "The Glass House," "QB VII" and "Helter Skelter").
"The Migrants" is a compelling story of a family struggling to survive by working in the fields, picking crops, from Florida to New Jersey. They travel from farm to farm in a beat-up station wagon. Along the way they stay in run-down cabins -- farmworker housing with no plumbing. You get a clear sense of the hot, dirty and exhausting work of harvesting corn and tomatoes and other crops that feed the country.
The family drama is truthful and compelling. Chloris Leachman is the mother who keeps the family together. She becomes a grandmother when her daughter (Cissy Spacek) gives birth in a tent in the fields. Leachman's husband is a quiet man who gives his children the example of a steady, skilled, uncomplaining worker.
Ron Howard is the son who is torn between loyalty to his family and a desperate wish to break away and find a better life. His family is chronically in debt to the labor contractor (Mills Watson) who pushes the workers from farm to farm and goads them to pick basket after basket of the crop of the day. The family's earnings are used up buying food and other necessities from the contractor. He overcharges, but the family never has time to go into one of the towns they pass and shop somewhere else.
Howard decides to bring in some cash by working in a canning plant, after his day's work in the fields. He meets another worker there (Cindy Williams). They're drawn to each other and they share their dreams of the life they might have outside the closed world of picking crops.
The family picture is brightened by the innocence and infectious energy of Howard and Spacek's two younger sisters.
And there's something inspiring about the way the family holds together and forges ahead. It's a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
After the movie's original broadcast in 1974, it was never re-run nationally, in spite of its high-profile cast and its widely recognized quality.
Why would CBS refuse to earn more money on its original investment by rebroadcasting its own movie?
A landmark movie in the history of American television remains vitually unknown today.
Monterey Home Video and the Monterey Movie Company have performed a valuable service in producing and distributing this television treasure.
Apr 17, 2018
Big book. Little content. Good photos.
They had $30,000,000 to make the TV series and the book. They got a little too cozy with the military establishment. And they don't show a lot of respect for Martin Luther King or Br. Benjamin Spock or other people who had the courage to stand up to their government and protest the Vietnam War.