LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

whtdimds-21564 I remember seeing this as a young teenage girl. Although blonde, I never once questioned Cathy Lee Crosby's performance as being the real thing. IN my eyes, she was the true Wonder Woman, Graceful, Athletic, Intelligent, Witty and gorgeously attired, supportive without being servile to the then Strong Macho world. Years later, it took me a while but I finally was able to acquire the movie. I watched it twice in a row and it was just as good as when I first saw it back in 74.Great plot, good backstory and who could not fall in gaga heaven listening and watching Ricardo Montalban, who truly is a great actor himself, still love watching him young and old as Khan on Star Trek. I hope the new Wonder Woman movie that is going to be coming out in 2017 takes notes that a woman can be strongly aggressive without being masculine, and sensitive without being a wimpy doormat. She clearly is able to appreciate the males of the species without surrendering her identity or integrity. WW thinks quickly on her feet, is charming in the face of adversity and firmly embodies the idea of truth, justice, and equality. Plus she has excellent taste in clothes, elegant, classy, yet functional. Plus, Glass Airplane!! Cinderellla eat your heart out. lol. I think Today's women and young ladies are finally starting to incorporate this idea into the female stereotype. If you can find the movie, yes, it might be suggested by some that it is a little campy, but look beyond and you will have a great mid week evening movie to enjoy.

Joxerlives Cathy Lee Crosby TV Movie-1974 Much like the original Kristy Swanson Buffy movie, Lucy Lawless' various roles in Hercules before she played Xena or Airwolf without Hawke and Dom this is pretty much a curiosity. It doesn't feel like real Wonder Woman, she lacks powers and all the accoutrement's we've come to expect from the character over the years. We have Steve Trevor but he's pretty forgettable and isn't given much to do. He's aware she's WW and aids her in her mission from afar. Ricardo Montalban is good as the villain (KHHHAAANNNNN!) and looks like he's getting ready for his role on fantasy island (wouldn't it be great if this was the role that got him the part?). Quite bloodthirsty, 2 characters are shot off screen and one man drowned. Cathy Lee Crosby is lovely but she doesn't really provide much cheesecake factor, her wardrobe really not helping at all. One interesting element is the existence of the evil amazon who challenges her, you'd have liked to have seen that in the later Lynda Carter series. Interestingly the character of Calvin asks to make love to WW, a sexual ref not featured in the later series. One of Steve's colleagues leers over her too in borderline Mad Men style office sexual harassment.We do see WW in costume ride a motorbike as Lynda Carter will later do. Really this is WW as a secret agent much like The Avengers (UK style, John Steed&co rather than Marvel) and The Girl from Uncle and not as a super heroine at all. It really doesn't work, it's WW written from a 70s feminist viewpoint and that just won't do, the genius of the character is that she is strong, intelligent and the match/better of any man whilst still retaining her ultra-feminine identity, she loves being a woman and doesn't try to act more masculine. It's interesting to compare this to Charlies Angels which had a similar premise but kept the glamour. Really 2/10, you only watch this for completeness sake

tennavision "Great Hera!" as Wonder Woman herself would exclaim, this 1974 TV movie is a camped up campy fest , I had to check to make sure John Waters himself didn't direct this version !I remember this so well from my childhood , this incarnation of Wonder Woman was completely different from the '76 version with Lynda Carter, DC comics had not given the films producers full permission to use WW , so the producers of this film took lots of liberties with the character, her tools of the trade & storyline. Crosby's WW costume more closely resembles David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Character than the Amazonian princess we know & love , very new wave glitter rock '74 style!This bizarro camp fest is more in line with the WW of the late 60's when DC comics completely changed the storyline to make Diana Prince more of a female James Bond . the fun begins & things really get cooking when "The Price Is Right" uber model Anitra Ford co stars as Paradise Island Bad Girl "Ahn-jay-lah(think "Angela" with a snooty accent) who comes to this "man's world" to get her due. Fresh from her stint in "The Big Bird Cage" with Pam Grier ,Anitra Ford really lays on the bada** thick. Watch in amazement as her & Cathy Lee Crosby suddenly turn into male stunt doubles in drag during their fight scenes!! Anitras male stunt double is giving you major cottage cheese in his skin tight polyester pants & Woolworth's Brunette wig - a LAFF RIOT! Ricardo Montalban plays the villain "Abner" as his prototype for Mr. Roarke on "Fantasy Island" , the suave , debonair , ambivalent cucumber cool Casanova with a trick or 2 up his sleeve. Uh... my goodness, the acting, the script, the fight scenes , plus Artie Butler's wicked mini MOOG synthesizer keyboard soundtrack is the gold standard all 70's TV movie's must be measured against A lot of people are disappointed with this version because it takes liberty with the storyline we all know & love & the fact its cheaply made, but if you are a fan of campy Queenius TV movies , this is right up your alley. Watch it tonite with a group of friends & get ready to pause during the "stuntmen in drag" fight scenes! Truly a Wonder, Woman!

secragt Here's an alpha female time capsule oddity which demonstrates how far femme-centric shows like ALIAS, BUFFY and XENA have come in the intervening thirty years. I was nine when this aired in '74 and recall being aware even then that this was pretty thin, though it had considerable appeal in the strangely droll relationship between charismatic quasi-badguy Ricardo Montalban and mannequinesque Cathy Lee Crosby. Montalban breathes suaveness and chivalry into what should have been a really clichéd and lame villain. As much as Cathy Lee founders in her debut, she has surprising chemistry with Ricardo and their scenes together crackle. If you watch it, be prepared for some unintentional laughter and not much action but whenever Ricardo shows up, things improve.The last ten minutes are very good fun, though, and given this was the fledgling attempt to get a strong female action adventure star on the air in the 70s, it earns some points for helping pave the way for The Bionic Woman and Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman which soon followed. Less a well-written, directed or thought out product than a fascinating glimpse into the early-mid seventies groovy escapist approach and certainly worth a look for fans of the genre. Still, don't expect much chop-socky or action; Cathy Lee is unconvincing in her few physical engagements (and her skin tight jumpsuit is so unrevealing it is about as sexy as a diet cola (the swingin' seventies censors rein things in unfortunately.) Somehow I still find it amusing, to a degree. 5/10