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So I’m watching forgotten 1970s disaster film ‘Rollercoaster’ and thinking…

February 16, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

“Wait: This is The Hindenberg (1975) in an amusement park…”

When the movie ended, Robert Osbourne noted that the same screenwriters wrote both movies.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

Did anyone else see The Hindenberg in the theatres, and at the end of the film — when the very last thing they tell you during that roll call coda is that the crated dog on board survived — everyone in the audience cheered? It was the most satisfying thing in the movie.

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