Home Box Office - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - January 15, 1978

Of the six films listed in this Home Box Office ad, I have seen two. Those would be Futureworld (1976) and Empire of the Ants (1977). But I had, or have, some pop culture awareness of another three of them. The novel Audrey Rose was a bookstore staple in the late 70s and early 80s, and I think I watched the first Sounder at some point in 1989 or 1990, and I had heard of, but still have yet to see, Bugsy Malone.

Birch Interval is the only one I had never heard of. A quick check of the IMDB revealed why, the film is a fish-out-of-water melodrama about an eleven year old girl spending a summer in the rural home of relatives who live near an Amish community. Not something I would have found as interesting or intriguing as, say, Futureworld or Empire of the Ants, way back in 1978. But today I would more amiable to giving it a look, should I ever stumble across it while scouring a streaming service for something "different" to watch.