Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Operation Ogre AKA Ogro (1979) Gillo Pontecorvo, Gian Maria Volontè, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi
As 1973 winds down, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Read More »
The Duellists (1977) Ridley Scott, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney
Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. Read More »
Lady Snowblood AKA Shurayukihime (1973) Toshiya Fujita, Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
Yuki’s family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. Read More »
Mother, Jugs and Speed (1976) Peter Yates, Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
Los Angeles: A new law says that the first ambulance that arrives at an accident obtains the contract to transport the injured person. Read More »
My Way AKA Waga michi (1974) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Rokkô Toura
Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body Read More »
The Angel of Vengeance – The Female Hamlet AKA Kadin Hamlet (1977) Metin Erksan, Fatma Girik, Sevda Ferdag, Reha Yurdakul
An extraordinary interpretation of Hamlet from the phenomenal director of the Turkish Cinema: Metin Erksan. Read More »
Executive Action (1973) David Miller, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer
A dramatization about how the high level covert conspirators in the JFK assassination might have planned Read More »
Heat AKA Fiebre (1971) Armando Bo, Isabel Sarli, Horacio Priani
Sandra was married to a racehorses landowner. They do not love each other. Read More »
Boulevard Nights (1979) Michael Pressman, Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Marta DuBois
Kid brother Chuco (Danny De La Paz) is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Read More »