The Sixth Column (1970)

Sorry, this movie sucks

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Is it possible that this movie, The Love War, was a remake of an earlier movie. I have very limited memory of the movie I saw in the early 70's. I remember the last 30 min of the film, but my memory is of a man who looked like Rod Taylor, and the female actor had long blond hair, And my memory of the scenery is different too.I will concede that the problem could very well be my memory, but Angie Dickinson was adored by my father, and I think I would have recognized her if the version I saw had her in it.I have seen the movie on You-Tube and everything rang a bell, but not the bell I remember. Is it me? Or, was it a remake?

Like a lot of other reviewers, here, I saw this a long time ago. It was telecast on old Channel 9, out of New Jersey. I tuned in a little bit late. But, I stopped channel-surfing when I recognized who the stars were.Lloyd Bridges, the veteran air-traffic controller from that hilarious disaster-spoof AIRPLANE; and Angie Dickinson, the sexy actress who played the first slasher-victim in Briam Depalma's DRESSED TO KILL!I think the real reason Channel 9 telecast that particular movie, however, was the presence of co-star Daniel J. Travanti (credited in the film as "Dan Travanty"). The latter was then-known as "Capt. Frank Furillo, NYPD," on the NBC crime-drama HILL STREET BLUES.If you've read the other reviews, you already know the basic plot. Two teams of aliens--three beings per team--fighting for possession of our unsuspecting planet. And, Ms. Dickinson's character as a poor innocent by-stander caught in the middle.For those who have grown up with series like X-FILES, THE VISITOR, and STARGATE: SG1, this premise will not seem new. But, back in the early/mid-Eighties, when Channel 9 first aired this, it was refreshingly innovative! To me, anyway.And, like the other reviewers, I sincerely wish it would be re-released on DVD. If only so I can see my parents' reaction to the twist ending (they're big fans of the movies' lead actors)!

Like most of the comments here, I'm working off of my childhood memory. But the fact that I remembered the title after all these years has to count for the quality of the storyline, low-budget or not.I have several scenes of this film stuck in my brain - which I won't give away here should we actually get a DVD box set of the Best of the Movies of the Week some day (hint, hint). But I have to go on record as saying that Spielberg's DUEL isn't the only TV film ABC produced under the Movie of the Week banner that is worthy of note. I'd venture to guess that there were a dozen of these suspense/horror/sci-fi genre films nearly as good (or better) as much of the summer movies we're seeing in theaters these days (and I'm talking about storytelling, not effects and explosions). That may not say as much about the quality of those TV movies as the lack thereof in modern films. But LOVE WAR in particular, was one I watched every time it was on and has held up - at least in my mind.I'd love to see it again, if only for the sake of nostalgia.

Okay, first of all, I was very young when I first saw this movie. I must have been all of ten years old. At that time, I thought it was pretty neat... two alien races conducting a discrete little war on Earth, unbeknownst to us mere Earthlings. When an alien agent kills another, they turn a key in the other agent's navel, and *sizzle* the corpse disintegrates. Decent suspense throughout, but remember ... we're talking a made-for-TV movie from 1970, no big-budget special effects.What I find most amusing now is realizing who was in the movie .. Angie Dickenson, Daniel J. Travanti and LLOYD BRIDGES ... The Late Great Lloyd was very good in this, as an agent trying to protect a human woman (Dickenson) who had gotten caught up in the war, purely by accident.I have no idea if this movie is available anywhere ... I'd like to see it again. No blockbuster of a movie, but it was fun.