The frame story involves a powerful sultan who is unable to, um, rise to the occasion with a new harem girl (Femi Benussi) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Le futur aux trousses (1975) Dolorès Grassian, Bernard Fresson, Claude Rich, Andréa Ferréol
The desire that many people have to live life with another more glamorous identity is the focus of this French satire. Read More »
Hothead (1979) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma
François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team’s star, and is ordered off the field. Read More »
The Outsider (1979) Tony Luraschi, Craig Wasson, Sterling Hayden, Patricia Quinn
Idealistic Vietnam veteran Michael Flaherty (Wasson), enthralled by the stories told to him by his grandfather (Hayden) and disillusioned by the lack of a clear cut cause in Vietnam Read More »
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970) John Krish, Rod Taylor, Carol White, James Booth
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. He moves in with his friend and begins an affair with the man’s wife. Read More »
Executioners from Shaolin (1977) Chia-Liang Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Yue Wong
A couple unite – she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy’s father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Read More »
Dirty Ho (1976) Chia-Liang Liu, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo
Prince Wang is the 11th prince of Manchuria and an excellent martial artist, but prefers not to draw attention to himself and keeps a low profile Read More »
Death Car on the Freeway (1979) Hal Needham, Shelley Hack, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves
A woman is badly shaken when she is run off the freeway and nearly killed by a crazy van-driver. Read More »
Butterflies Are Free (1972) Milton Katselas, Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart
All Don Baker wants is a place of his own away from his over-protective mother. Read More »
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) J. Lee Thompson, Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O’Neill, Margot Kidder
When college professor Peter Proud begins to experience flashbacks from a previous incarnation Read More »