Holy Nostalgia batman-- yeah I remember this one. Back then when you saw the tv movie you could only talk about it with your friends to remember it. I knew Kurt Russel from The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Strongest man in the World so his performance here I remember being a little different but not enough to turn viewers off. I remember them crawling around the Arizona mountains but not much else. No Alien Motherships, no Aliens. In retrospect I look back and realize that this film was only TWO YEARS before Close Encounters of the Third Kind (watch the directors cut-- that film still holds up.) It did what it could with the TV FIlm level budget they had and I must admit I love this review more for the memories it stirs up about that time than the film itself. Still, you're keeping it alive! And I am thrilled that other viewers have discovered your Wish List-- seriously people if you are reading this check it out and throw Barkey a Bone, since RU-vid has yet to monetize him and if you watch any youtube at all you can tell how much MORE effort goes into one of Barkey's videos than the average. I wish he was teaching EDITING classes because there are some otherwise worthy podcasters whom I would point out Barkey's videos to and say "See what he does? LEARN IT!" Great video sir.
Stephen Smith Aka: Stephen Mc Hattie, Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, was a graduate from the same Acting School I went to in the mid seventies in NYC. I didn't graduate from "the Academy" myself. Later on Smith only portrayed bad boys. I was a real one. Funny if I ever got type casted as a young actor (which I never was), I would never have been type cast as a bad boy. I was not at "the Academy" when bad boy looking Smith was there. But somehow I suspect, in real life, his bad boy persona was just a pose. No one ever graduated from "the Academy" by being a bad boy.
