Pray for the Wildcats is so very good. This 1974 glory stomp through Baja features William Shatner, Robert Reed and Andy Griffith all playing against type, and they can’t even hold a candle to Angie Dickinson. I just watched the first half hour, seated in my parked Dodge Dart in the rain, staring at the …
The importance of Andy Griffith‘s 1974 TV movie of the week, Pray for the Wildcats, is hard to understand without bathing oneself completely in the 100 minutes of sun-dappled glory featured in this small screen cinematic masterpiece, and for the sake of cinephiles everywhere I hope Wildcats is re-released now in the wake of Griffiths’ …