In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man’s wife as his own. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Something for Everyone (1970) Harold Prince, Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins
Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Read More »
Portrait of Teresa (1979) Pastor Vega, Idalia Anreus, Miguel Benavides, Samuel Claxton
Teresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Read More »
Princess Chang Ping (1976) John Woo, Kim Sung Lung, Shuet Shi Mui, Kim-Dan Chu
Love story of Princess Changping, the last princess of the Ming Dynasty in China. Read More »
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) Barbara Kopple, Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks
This film documents the coal miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Read More »
Cisco Pike (1972) Bill Norton, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black, Gene Hackman
Cisco is an ex-rock star, famous in the 1960s, whose life and career has been a mess because of drugs. Read More »
Posse (1975) Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious criminal. Read More »
The White Buffalo (1977) J. Lee Thompson, Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson
In this strange western version of JAWS, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Read More »
Mousey (1974) Daniel Petrie, Kirk Douglas, Jean Seberg, John Vernon
In Mousey a made-for-TV thriller, a disturbed and obsessed man seeks to regain his son from his overbearing, controlling wife. Read More »
A Gunfight (1971) Lamont Johnson, Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two famous gunfighters who are getting old and need money. Read More »