The People (1972)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2011
- A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials with mild paranormal powers who are attempting to repress and deny their heritage for fear of arousing prejudice and hatred in their human neighbors. Based on a series of novels by the late Zenna Henderson.
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I was 11 years old when this came out. I remember watching it when it aired. The 1970s was the best decade for TV movies.
So was I. I was 11 and in the 6th Grade. This was the best time to be a kid in America.
I was 17 when it came out. The 70s were a golden age before the internet and all the social media. Fond memories.
Me too! Love these movies...
It's my favorite decade for TV movies! I search "1970s movies" whenever I want something good.
Me too! And I agree! We talked about this movie for weeks! (That's what we did before VCRs, haha)
I grew up in Norway and was kind of the odd ball kid in lower secondary school, as I had interests and abilities that my classmates didn't. They played games and liked pop music, I talked about time travel and life on other worlds. I of course got picked on, ridiculed, for being different, and was for a time a loner, trying to make sense of it. Then I read "Pilgrimage" by Zenna Henderson (yes, it's been translated into many languages) and the book really resonated with me. I could relate to The People and even half convinced myself for a time that I must have been separated from such a group and that I would find them again some day. Over time, as life went on, I did reconnect with kindred spirits, a "people" - just not in Cougar Canyon. :) "Pilgrimage: the Book of the people" is in some ways a metaphor for life.
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There isn't enough time in the day to see all these wonderful '70s TV movies, but I'll do my best.
Best comment ever.
+ThatsMrMoronToYou BOY do I CONCUR!! The only TV movies left now R on Hallmark and LIFETIME. And could they suck enough??!!
+ThatsMrMoronToYou thats mr dummy to you lol nice name
james marshall Thanks. It's loosely based on an SCTV skit.
Lol
Excellent movie. This is the first time I have seen this movie but it brought back a very vivid dream I had when I was a child.
Thank you whomever loaded this movie
Executive producer: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLLA. WHAT THE HECK. Thank you. Been looking for this movie for years!
Oh how I miss those tv movies of the week in the 1970's. Thank you so much for sharing!! The 'old ones' now would call a good teacher like Kim Darby's character "woke" and corrupting the minds of their children. But for the folks who do dare to share... they bring light to the darkness and that's the only thing, for me, that makes life fun and fascinating!!
ABC CBS & NBC movie of the week were no strangers to me & my family growing up. We were hooked on these movies like a bad habit.
I would love to see Zenna Henderson's work revisited; I first encountered her work through this movie. The People stories were some of the best things I read as a young, SF-obsessed and voracious reader. How great it would be to get a reboot of this incredible series, although I will gladly rewatch this, it's held a special place in my mind all these years, I remember my mother was especially fond if it.
This story was in the September 1955 edition of "The Magazine of Fantasy And Science Fiction". I have a substantial collection of these pulp magazines and love to read them. I had no idea they had ever made a movie of this episode. I was in Air Force boot camp when it was released so I missed its airing. 44 years later, here I am. Good attempt on their part, but a little wooden for my viewing. They should make more Zenna Henderson stories into movies.
I'd love to see "Deluge."
Did you also miss "Festival Express:the movie"?about the 60s 0r 70's railroad full of bands,Janis Joplan,and they rode into Canada,drank,got drunk,played music on the train all night?Documentary?watch it,its great!!
Actually, its a combination of several of her People stories.
A wonderful film! Wish these sorts were made today!
TV TerrorLand, you rock!!!!! great,great TV classics from back in the day! Love it!!
Many thanks!!!
Thank you for sharing this movie. I have been looking for it for a few years. I couldn't remember the title, but found it a few years ago and have been trying to get a copy ever since. Now that I've watched it, I don't remember any of it, but I'm glad I had a chance to watch it. Laurie Walters from Eight is Enough, Kim Darby from The Restless Ones and William Shatner from Star Trek. Never would have guessed they were all in this movie.
I've read _"Pilgrimage"_ and _"No Different Flesh"_ a number of times. I couldn't resist having a peak at a movie take on _The People_ . Instead of just "a peak" I sat and watched (and enjoyed) the whole film.
What an interesting way of interpreting the books. Many different story lines were put together to make up one cohesive movie. I usually complain about movie versions of books but this one really is just *based* on the book(s).
Thanks for the upload!!
I read "Pilgrimage" also, but it has been many years since. I would like to find this Author on Audible, but cannot :(
I saw this movie when I was a kid and take me years to find it. Thanks a lot
Vilma Garro Ureña, did you know the real Betty Boop was "black?" Truth is awesome!
Me too I always remember watching it as a kid!
I love Zenna Henderson - one of my favorite authors who wrote some really creepy science fiction stories. I'm putting this on my "to watch" list - I'm almost glad I just started getting sick. I'm going to watch your movies for the next few days.
+Shawn Hardy She's one of my favorites too!
50 years later, walking down the street and the harmonica song comes to me head…
Thank you soo much. Im loving these oldies but goodies.
This was wonderful! Thank you 😊
My favorite movie of all time. Also love the stories by Zenna Henderson.
Hope Remains I agree.
What a great movie! I wasn't born until the end of the 80s so I missed majority of the great made for TV movies. I'm so happy that there are youtube channels like this so I can watch them.
What a discovery! Genious Zenna Henderson!...Wonderful and beautiful movie!!! Thanks a lot!!
So wonderful to revisit one of my all-time favorite stories!
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What a wonderful surprise! I have all these books and I love them. I did not even know that this existed!
I saw this as a kid when it first came out and all i really remembered after all these years was (1) the thrill i got from seeing people fly like i did in dreams, (2) Diane Varsi - she had great presence. On 2nd viewing, it gets going painfully slowly but picks up just enough pace. Kim Darby's charming, plays coltish wary eagerness so well. Dan O'Herlihy sounds so richly Irish.
Yes, it is a slower-moving but simple story with a heart. Give it a chance.
Why would you even consider asking such a question? Weird.
Thank you very much for posting this movie. I saw it when I was a child and I remembered just a couple details. I enjoyed it very much. Cheers!
Thank you so much for giving away the entire plot of the movie in your description. You have saved me the bother of watching it.
This was an unexpected treat. Thanks.
I have and love the books. Didn’t know there were films...thanks so much for posting 😊
TV was great back then 😊
+BABY A JUST NOT THE RECEPTION OR THE SIZE OF THE SCREEN.
I get up to find the remote, though. Funny memories.
Came out the year I graduated. Loved the whole idea and Zenna''s other book about The People.
Thank you very much for uploading this
there was one thing i had forgotten about the books that i remember now. i cried all the way through them.
Funny but I didn't remember the movie until I heard 'the Frencher kid" play that harmonica. This was great! thank you.
Touching little film, many thanks!
I was Six years old when this movie came out but I've never seen it on TV before. I really enjoyed it because it was very interesting
Been looking for the Title of this movie for years also. I don't know why the images in this movie have stuck with me for 30 or so years. Good upload.
WOW amazing movie i so mis those days at my parents house sitting onthe couch watching these movie of the week , thanksso much
Love the harmonica tune, it's like the hook of the film.
Bravo! Bravo! Want to know something interesting; Last night i sat down and the movie title "the People" came into my mind. I wrote it down. Tonight i laid in bed and searched "the People" and this movie came up so i watched it. I often dream i point my hands towards the ground and then lift off the ground. In the dreams the sensation is so beautiful, and yet i am baffled that no other people seem to want the power or even care. Hmmm...
In my dreams I swim through the air like it's water, I do the breast stroke! It makes my stomach feel the same way it feels when I'm in a plane taking off or in the elevator. I think maybe it is not that people don't care about or want the power, I think that we all forgot or have been conditioned for generations that it is impossible. So the idea that we are so much more is too scary or silly to think about for some.
@@haroldwhite5761I also swim through the air like a frog 🐸
remember watching this movie so long ago and have been looking all over for it. I understand it is an older movie Just wish it was slightly better copy Thank you for posting.
Crikey - I saw this on the TV back in the 1970's and I've never seen it since. Enjoyed it then when I was young and idealistic, still enjoyed it in my synical age. I'd forgotten Captain Kirk was in it; and Dan O'Herlihy, another fine American character actor; excellent in `Fail-Safe' and the underrated `Halloween - Season of the Witch'.
I missed this show when it first came out. I saw it on TV in the ‘90’s. I enjoyed it. I’m a Kim Darby fan. I thought she did a cute job in Better off Dead. Thank you for the upload.
Actually this film wasn't half-bad. Kim Darby does a good job, wish she had gotten lots more roles. I saw this film when it premiered, it was a big topic of discussion at school. Thanks for sharing!
I ended up watching this movie and absolutely loved it!!!...so different.!!
The theme was interesting enough to get me through the sickening sentimentality and I suppose it rattles along at a fair pace. Thanks for uploading. Not one I'm likely to watch again but I'm edified for having seen it once.
What a beautiful little film. Why can't they make them like this anymore. ❤️
It’s not often you have Captain Kirk and Mattie Ross in the same movie.
This story is based on the novel by Zenna Henderson. She wrote a series of
short stories about the "The People" and this one novel. The book and
short stories are some of the finest science fiction ever written. The movie is
good, the stories are even better. Seek them out.
I seen this years ago, I could remember just a bit of this movie & have been trying to figure out what it is for so long. Many many thanks for posting it.
Loved it! It's a concept I've never seen in a movie.
Check out "Escape to Witch Mountain".
She was hired to teach advanced calculus ,but taught the children how to skip, draw, play the harmonica, read Thoreau, spell the word galaxy, and believe in themselves.
A liberal arts eduation.
I have never seen this movie, but I totally enjoyed it thank you for sharing : )
The good stuff! Thank you much!
Yay, Zenna Henderson! So many People stories, so little time.
Personlly, I love this old 70s flick. It sparked my imagination. What if there were people out there linked psychically? Anyway, it's a slow pace film, but it's pleasant all the same. Good to watch when you're sitting at home on the couch nursing a cold.
There are such people...they are linked by "The All-Seeing Eye". There are millions of 'em.
johnellizz Ha! Millions of All-Seeing Eyes or millions of creatures from Middle Earth!?! Hmmmmm?
ToniHunterOne They all see the 'Eye' in their minds - so it's just like telepathy. They all keep this big secret about being guided by the 'Eye' and won't discuss it with regular humans. So it's right out of this movie - but REAL! (They also have the power to shapeshift.)
johnellizz "(They also have the power to shapeshift.) " SWEET! P.S. I skimmed your page; you've got some great insights there. Have a great one.
ToniHunterOne THANKS, ToniHunterOne!
I’ve never heard of this. Just stumbled upon it. It’s exquisite.
Interesting movie, I enjoyed watching it. Thanks for posting.
I think the slow but intriguing pace of the film, always keeping close track of the teacher`s soft hunt for the hearts of her students, as the main goal, is an assett that makes the film especially enjoyable. Together with the soft colouring tones of seventies movies.
i too, saw this when i was younger (a teenager), and have tried to find it again for decades since then, saw it on cable tv back in the 80s
I was never a teacher but I was a youth group leader for many years. One of the most rewarding feelings is touching young lives in a positive way. No amount of money could ever be as great as this feeling,
Conversely, It is that much more painful when others suffer from your mistakes,
This TV movie brings that out so well. It could never be made today. Not enough explosions, action and sex. And no sugar coated romance.
I'd love to do this as a series, but more in line with The Ingathering: The Complete People stories with the connecting story.
Excellent movie. I remember seeing it on the Movie of the Week back in 1972.
Thank you for the post, but you really need the "ABC Movie of the Week" opening to get the real feel for this and the other films. Those were the days when networks put on things we wanted to watch.
Thank you again.
Funny, I am re-reading some stories by Zenna Henderson ("Holding in Wonder") when today, quite by accident, I found this movie. Thanks for loading it! Regards
The People......my very first SF books!!...still go both of them...
This movie is way ahead of it’s time. Remarkable.
I love this movie! I love the harmonica music.
One of my favourite authors, let's hope this does her justice.
Just thought, I'd love to see Studio Ghibli, or one of it's successors, capture the magic of these stories in animation.
And adding to the amazing fact,that this TV movie was directed by John Korty,who was responsible for "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN" on CBS's GE Theatre in 1974,and the highly impressive NBC/Universal Television TV movie,"FAREWELL TO MANZANAR" in 1976,about the Japanese Interment camps,
after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941,and the terrible price that Japanese Americans
had to pay for! an outstanding TV film,based on the book of the same name!
+joe hill The children's illustrations were all drawn by Arthur Okamura who'd been in one of those internment camps. Zenna Henderson who wrote the original people stories had taught school at one.
@@ksol1460tv great to know!
Thank you!!
The People, No Different Flesh, by Zenna Henderson, was the first book I'd read about The People. That was so long ago! I fell in love with the storyline. Other books about the People came out as well, but as far as I know, they are no longer in print. I was surprised when the movie came out. It combined several of the stories to make this version. Of course the books were better, but that's okay. At least HollyWood made an attempt.
I remember shuffling my feet after watching this movie when it aired. It had that strange I'm really really high vibe to it.
That's pretty funny, it's exactly the kind of thing that annoys parents.
@@herbert9241 I know. PICK UP YOUR FEET!!!!!! In addition to making an unwanted noise it also scuffed the waxed/hand-buffed floors. It made a great noise for the person doing it.
This needs to be a mini-series!...C'mon HBO!!!
I really enjoyed this unusual film. I'm wondering who did the children's drawings. They were interesting. Thanks for uploading this sensitive movie. :-)
The drawings were done by artist Arthur Okamura
Great and poignant movie. Thank you for sharing it.
The books are wonderful. I remember reading them as a teen.
This was a great book series.... Sad the movie was badly done. This would make a great story to re-make.
A rather cultish cult movie--the bit with the 2 children 'lifting' in the woods was beautifully done
I intended to rent a horror movie on iTunes, but I found these old movies from when I was a kid. These are much better!
Nothing wrong with being different.
Great movie. Kim Darby was such a sweetheart & wonderful actress. I miss the 70's; people were so much kinder then; people today are mostly pathetic, greedy, vain cell phone addicts. Cell phones are ruining the social structure.
Social media is too.
These aliens are like 'The Waltons'--you almost expect John-Boy to pop up
They're Amish
I like it, thank you! Back when buses were, well, buses... 🐴
This was WAY before much later shows, such as "Area 51" and "The X Files".
I was a geeky 17 year old guy in high school back in 1972. I remember reading a story similar to this in English class. Back then, kids who were interested in sci-fi were considered "odd" at best, and bullied at worst. I remember another story we had to read "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" by Kurt Vonnegut. I remember the jocks laughing at it, calling it "weird". However, looking back on these Neanderthals, I realize now that---reading provocative sci-fi stories like this, actually SCARED them.
Defenlty tv back thn was awsome. From new york yey i Remeber watchin all ths movies. Whn i was young now im 52 miss those days
This was not based on the whole Zenna Henderson novel, "Pilgrimage: The Book of The People", but mainly on one chapter of the book entitled "Pottage". Bendo was a small town containing one of the lost groups of humanoid aliens who had crashed on Earth many decades ago. Melodye was human but already knew about the other more open established colony of the People known as "Cougar Canyon", but this adaptation does not mention the connection between the two groups which was forged by the accident. This made for TV movie isn't nearly as good as the novel, but it did get me interested enough to finally look up the "People" books and read them.
1sorryham Thank you for giving the whole title. Was going to ask somebody above when I came across your post. Books are usually better due to time and (I hate it) money constraints.
1sorryham Does the movie plot slightly resemble The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy?
+Nick PRAKASH No, not really, as the two books are quite a bit different (and written at different times, as "Pilgrimage" was published in 1961, while "The Water is Wide" was published in 1972).
David Knisely Cool. I want to read them soon. I love this movie I watched it several times and feel a real connection with Kim's character. I guess I thought it did because both are about teachers who go to remote villages to teach isolated children.
My vey first SF book....been hooked ever since...read hundreds (literally) of books since....still have the books.....Pilgrimage and The People no different flesh.....
excellent keep em' coming~!!!!!!
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS MOVIE FOR YEARSNO ONE IN MY FAMILY REMEMBERS IT
I saw this when I was 7. I went to the library and found two short stories about the same characters. In one a couple finds a flying baby!
That same month, there was a movie with a guy hitch hiking and a farmer picks him up. Usual chitchat. They get out and guy looks up at the sky and sees two moons in the sky, instead of one. Farmer says, "So where you from, anyway?" Guy says"A little place called 'Earth'. Ever hear of it?" "Nope. Strange name for a place, though!" Anyone remember that one?
Yes, it is Kim Darby. I remember seeing this movie many years ago. And I have not seen it since til now. Thanks for posting it. Will have to see if you have another scary movie with her in it, about trolls in the fireplace in the basement I think.
It doesn't have quite a strong enough narrative, but it's still an enjoyable watch. Except for that last kid obviously strung up and hauled across a ravine by a cable, the wire work is pretty good too.
Strange but clever and probably very original back in the day.Has a sort of "innocent" Walt Disney vibe about it.Kim Darby Looks so beautiful,the best I've ever seen her.Makes me want to see again in other things such as the Episode of Riptide she starred in in the 80s.
I have to say - this movie in particular of other "sci-fi" movies is really quite special - I would like to see a remake of this to bring it up to date - It really speaks to the conflict we have between people and cultures who are different from "us" and how it is possible that we can enjoy those differences and appreciate other opinions - a lesson that we all need to learn now in these days of separatism...
I agree with so much of what you say, but am not convinced a remake could equal this 1972 production. It has to do with the Humanity this film (and others from that bygone era) conveys, in the best sense of the "H-word." There are oodles of remakes, remakes have become a staple of Hollywood. But remakes of great quality have been, in my opinion, a rarity, especially during the last 25 to 30 years.
I was 11 years old at this time living on a farm with a Big Violent Family . Love the Movie of the week.
Smart script, well photographed and great actress. 70s: the golden age for film and music.
Couldn't agree more about the 70s
This movie first aired on January 22, 1972-ABC Movie of the week
Weird movie, but thank you!
A little gem of a movie. Too bad the studio doesn't digitally remaster the film; would make it so much nicer to watch. Wonder if movies like this were shot on film or video tape?
My guess is film. It apparently was played on a telecine film projector; I can see what looks like gate weave. It seems to be a fairly clean print, but every once in a while there's a frame with a flaw. A "film" looking flaw, not a tape dropout. My guess is this would make a great looking Bluray, if transferred with a film scanner.
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