Plus, the late-show movies were such a deliriously crazy-quilt lot back then... 40s classics starring the likes of Alan Ladd, cheapo Roger Corman films from the late-50s, Japanese monster movies, obscure 40s/50s British b-films, Italian gladiator movies, old-time 30s films, Charlie Chan titles, b-westerns, Dorothy Lamour sarong films.
I still seem to remember just about every oddball film I saw as a late-show offering. I could probably list hundreds. Things like “Big Broadcast of 1937” to Roger Corman’s “Rock All Night” to a little-known, modern-day train film “Night Freight” starring Forrest Tucker. “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” “The Atomic City,” “Loan Shark,” eh, the list could go on and on.
Two more favorites are Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, episodes of One STEP BEYOND.
I remember the late night movie theme was Gone with the wind. That tune takes me back to late night movie watching, not the actual Gone with the wind movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPTQRmwCOWs
I miss all of those less-known movies you used to see late at night (although these days I’m seldom up late anyway). Seems as though all the stations started running those horrible “infomercials” instead.