The story of Dr. Sam Sheppard, an Ohio doctor convicted of murdering his wife Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
The Great Wallendas (1978) Larry Elikann, Lloyd Bridges, Britt Ekland, Taina Elg
Made-for-TV movie, tells the true story of the Great Wallendas, a family of circus acrobats Read More »
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) Joseph Losey, Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider
After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. Read More »
Silver Streak (1976) Arthur Hiller, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. Read More »
Slaughters Big Rip-Off (1973) Gordon Douglas, Jim Brown, Ed McMahon, Don Stroud
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff Read More »
Time of the Hunt AKA Le temps d’une chasse (1972) Francis Mankiewicz, Guy L’Ecuyer, Marcel Sabourin, Pierre Dufresne
Willy, Richard, and Lionel, three blue-collar friends from Montreal East, leave the city and travel to the countryside for a weekend of hunting. Read More »
Zulu Dawn (1979) Douglas Hickox, Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. Read More »
The Boss’s Son at College AKA Daigaku no wakadanna (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Mitsugu Fujii, Harurô Takeda, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. Read More »
Noble Lady Bound Vase AKA Kifujin shibari tsubo (1977) Masaru Konuma, Naomi Tani, Hitoshi Takagi, Tokuko Watanabe
Yoshitarô, a wealthy but ignorant landowner buys, who lives in the modern city. Read More »
A Spiral of Mist AKA Una spirale di nebbia (1977) Eriprando Visconti, Marc Porel, Claude Jade, Carole Chauvet
The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Read More »