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Tag Archives: 1970s
A Thousand and One Hands AKA Les mille et une mains (1973) Souheil Ben-Barka, Abdou Chaibane, Mimsy Farmer, Si Ahmed
In Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. Read More »
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) Piers Haggard, John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman
A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass four part mini-series. Read More »
How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor AKA Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976) Aleksandr Mitta, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Aleksey Petrenko, Ivan Ryzhov
Loosely based on Peter the Great’s Negro, Alexander Pushkin’s unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia. Read More »
Violent Panic: The Big Crash AKA Bôsô panikku: Daigekitotsu (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Yayoi Watanabe
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. Read More »
The Dove Must Not Fly AKA La colomba non deve volare (1970) Sergio Garrone, Horst Buchholz, Sylva Koscina, William Berger
An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location Read More »
The Eagle Has Landed (1976) John Sturges, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall
Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission Read More »
The Out of Towners (1970) Arthur Hiller
George and Gwen Kellerman live in the small, quiet town of Twin Oaks, Ohio with their two young children and pet dog. Read More »
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970) Leonard J. Horn, Linda Gillen, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University Read More »
The California Kid (1974) Richard T. Heffron, Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips
A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. Read More »