On the run from the dangerous loan shark, Solly Kramer, for owing him $12,000, Lucky Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The Burned Barns / Les granges brûlées (1973) Jean Chapot, Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge Read More »
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait / Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (1974) Barbet Schroeder, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
Uganda’s dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, accepts a foreign crew’s request to interview and film him. Read More »
Lived Once a Song-Thrush (1970) Otar Iosseliani, Gela Kandelaki, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansug Kakhidze
Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. Read More »
Herbie Rides Again (1974) Robert Stevenson, Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers
Alonzo Hawk is a mean-spirited property developer who has bought several blocks Read More »
The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970) Irving Rapper, John Hansen, Joan Tompkins, Quinn K. Redeker
A sex-change operation that changed “George” into “Christine” in 1950s Denmark. Read More »
The Shout (1978) Jerzy Skolimowski, Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt
Bored while officiating a cricket match at a psychiatric hospital Read More »
Fate Deals the Card of Death / Bakuchi-uchi: Inochi-huda (1971) Kôsaku Yamashita, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Michiyo Yasuda
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after Read More »
What’s Your Sign? / Di che segno sei? (1975) Sergio Corbucci, Paolo Villaggio, Mariangela Melato, Adriano Celentano
Four episodes: A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error Read More »
Barcelona Kill / La redada (1973) José Antonio de la Loma, Linda Hayden, John Justin, Simón Andreu
The story of a female journalist and her boyfriend who inadvertently Read More »