“Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife”

Well, it looks like I didn’t have to wait to post this one after all – Channel 7 finally announced what they’re showing Sunday night... lucky us!

I only have an extremely short promo clip for this one, so there’s not much I can comment on (other than I have seen bits of this movie before and it’s suitably over-the-top cheese... of the grated parmesan variety)!

Let’s face it – it’s Melissa Gilbert, all-growed-up and in an early non-”Little House on the Prairie” role, marrying a guy who turns out to be a mafia thug. What more do you need to know? That’s either going to sweeten or sour the deal for you right there.

Okay, I know, you want me to come clean with the facts, so I’ll give them to you straight up.

* As we’ve discussed before, Channel 7 seems obsessed with littering the Late Nite Landfill with mob movies. Witness the recent airings of “Under Hellgate Bridge,” “Amongst Friends,” and “A Good Night to Die.”

* Most of the mob films we’ve covered here contain some sort of “nod” to an earlier classic in the genre – usually in the form of a cast member from some better film. Here, we get Talia Shire, from well, the “godfather” of all modern gangster movies, “The Godfather” (...and its sequels, directed by her brother Francis Ford Coppola)

* It was a TV movie for NBC
that originally aired in January, 1987. That’s over 21 years ago, fans! Easily the oldest movie we’ve excavated from the Landfill so far.

* The mobster is played by Joe Penny of ”Jake & the Fatman” fame. I’ve always been ambivalent toward Penny, but Fatman William Conrad sure was a terrific narrator for Rocky & Bullwinkle!

View the promo clip here:



Or watch the entire movie on WABC-TV Channel 7 on Sunday, April 6th at 11:35 PM… if you dare!