While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978) José Mojica Marins, Jorge Peres, Magna Miller, Horror
A psychiatric doctor is driven insane plagued by nightmarish visions of Zé do Caixão’s (Coffin Joe) subterranean world of bizarre horror. Read More »
The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972) Martin Goldman, Fred Williamson, D’Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Western
A slave kills a white man in self-defense and heads West towards freedom, pursued by a professional slave hunter. Read More »
Karayuki-san / The Making of a Prostitute (1975) Shôhei Imamura, Kurahachi Fukuda, Tora Hirano, Documentary
It is a documentary on one of the Japanese “karayuki-san,” who were women that were taken from their homes in Japan and used as prostitutes in the post-war period. Read More »
Apachen (1973) Gottfried Kolditz, Gojko Mitic, Milan Beli, Colea Rautu, Western
In Northern Mexico, the Apache tribe have negotiated an agreement, granting passage over their land to the Mexicans in exchange for food. Read More »
Apache Blood (1975) Vern Piehl, Ray Danton, Dewitt Lee, Troy Nabors, Western
After a massacre of an Indian village by the U.S army, a survivor, Yellow shirt (Ray Danton) goes after them for revenge. Read More »
Perceval le Gallois (1978) Éric Rohmer, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger, Drama, Music, Romance, War
The film chronicles Perceval’s knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table Read More »
The Bell Jar (1979) Larry Peerce, Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Jameson Parker, Biography, Drama
Details a young woman’s summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs’ execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys. Read More »
The Love Epidemic (1975) Brian Trenchard-Smith, Michael Laurence, Rosalind Speirs, Peter Reynolds, Documentary, Comedy
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Read More »
Fright (1971) Peter Collinson, Honor Blackman, Susan George, Ian Bannen, Thriller
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Read More »
Ma tou da jue dou / Chinese Hercules (1973) Ta Huang, Wai-Man Chan, Fan Chiang, Yeh Fang, Action, Drama
A martial arts fighter, haunted by his past, takes a job as a dock worker in a small village. Read More »
Man of La Mancha (1972) Arthur Hiller, Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Read More »
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes / Jive Turkey (1974) Bill Brame, Frank DeKova, Paul Harris, Frances E. Williams, Crime, Thriller
It’s a turf battle over the mean streets of Harlem between Italian mobsters and the black hoodlums living in the neighborhood run by “Big Tony” (Frank DeKove). Read More »
Inferno Carnal / Hellish Flesh (1977) José Mojica Marins, Luely Figueiró, Oswaldo De Souza, Horror
Dr. Medeiros is a brilliant scientist who doesn’t have time for beautiful wife Raquel so she falls for Oliver, best friend of her husband, and soon they plot to kill George and inherit his fortune. Read More »
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971) Woody Allen, David Ackroyd, Wil Albert, Short, Comedy
This mockumentary follows the fictional career of Harvey Wallinger, ostensible chief aide and adviser to Richard Nixon Read More »