Aaron Spelling-produced TV-movie has attractive, penniless hitchhiker Angie Dickinson latching onto enigmatic bus traveler Lloyd Bridges outside Fresno. After checking into a roadside motel, he tells her what's really going on: he's an alien from the planet Argon, an assassin vying with hit-men from another planet over who will control Earth and its population. Only Aaron Spelling would put the fate of the world in Lloyd Bridges' hands! Film is very low in budget (making extensive use out of back-projection with scenes on the road and backlot sets for the entire final reel), but this scenario turns out to be restricted in regards to locations, so a bigger budget wasn't really necessary (it just looks tacky). There's a plot twist late in the game that is a surprise (though, in hindsight, doesn't make a lot of sense) and the cast does well with the teleplay, which is neither dumbed-down nor overly complex.

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?

At last after years I know the name of this film, with this title no wonder I couldn't remember it. What is it about this film that causes those who saw it when young to remember it so well, like others who have commented on this I saw this aged about 8 to 10 years old on British TV in the mid 70's, I remember a trailer for it but not the very beginning, perhaps I missed it and that is why I couldn't remember the title. I remember some scenes so clearly however and have never seen it repeated and no one else that I described it to can remember it. Perhaps it is the ending that caused it to stick in my mind the first film I have seen with such a twist, will people who have seen the sixth sense feel the same. The heroin is there to be saved or help the hero , not in this case a real femme fatal, but not happy about doing it. Micale Cain said why do they remake good films, they are already good it is the bad ones that need remaking to make them better, if not a direct quote it describes the gist of what he said. I am not sure if this could live up to my memories of it , but I would like the chance to see it again, would I be disappointed? hopefully not

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.