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Tag Archives: 1970s
Suspiria (1977) Dario Argento, Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Suzy Bannion travels to Germany to perfect her ballet skills. Read More »
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972) Paul Williams, Howard Gardner, Robert F. Lyons, Ellen Barber
Peter is a cocky Harvard law student, who’s tired of being square Read More »
Pistol Packin’ Preacher AKA Posate le pistole, reverendo (1971) Leopoldo Savona, Mark Damon, Pietro Ceccarelli, Veronika Korosec
Gunman Slim joins the Italian Pizza baker Geremia and his two daughters Read More »
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) Richard Lester, William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey
A “prequel” of sorts to “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” chronicling the two outlaws’ Read More »
His Name Was King AKA Lo chiamavano King (1971) Giancarlo Romitelli, Richard Harrison, Anne Puskin, Goffredo Unger
A bounty hunter tracks a vicious gang of gunrunners across the border into Mexico. Read More »
Jean’s Blues: No Future AKA Jînzu burûsu: Asu naki buraiha (1974) Sadao Nakajima, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Ryôhei Uchida
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn’t hers. Read More »
Tess (1979) Roman Polanski, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
Wessex County, England during the Victorian era. Christian values dominate what are social mores. Read More »
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) Robert Taylor, Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Bob Holt
Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell Read More »
Hit Lady (1974) Tracy Keenan Wynn, Yvette Mimieux, Joseph Campanella, Clu Gulager
At a Texas barbecue, a pretty woman chats up a wealthy rancher Read More »
Life Sentence AKA Cadena perpetua (1979) Arturo Ripstein, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
“El Tarzan” Lira is an ex-convict who decides to give up his criminal past and reform his life. Read More »
A Black Ribbon for Deborah AKA Un fiocco nero per Deborah (1974) Marcello Andrei, Bradford Dillman, Marina Malfatti, Gig Young
A young woman with psychic powers is obsessed with having a child. Even though she is unable to conceive Read More »
The Hospital (1971) Arthur Hiller, George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes
Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), the chief of medicine in a New York City teaching hospital Read More »
Steel (1979) Steve Carver, Lee Majors, Jennifer O’Neill, Art Carney
Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world) Read More »
The Log of the Black Pearl (1975) Andrew V. McLaglen, Ralph Bellamy, Kiel Martin, Jack Kruschen
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named ‘Black Pearl’ Read More »