Category: 1978

  • The One and Only (1978)

    The One and Only must have looked like a surefire hit on paper. After all, the 1978 romantic comedy starred Henry Winkler, aka The Fonz – resident icon at the time of TV’s hugely successful Happy Days – and was helmed by Carl Reiner, who had scored box-office gold the previous year with Oh, God!…

  • Up In Smoke (1978)

    In the annals of immortal comedy teams, the pairing of Pedro “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong might not rise to the level of, say, Nichols and May (or even Abbott and Costello, for that matter) but none were better at tapping into a specific subculture. Ascending to stardom on a cloud of pot smoke in…