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Tag Archives: 1970s
Too Late the Hero (1970) Robert Aldrich, Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. Read More »
Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses (1972) Noribumi Suzuki, Shin’ichirô Hayashi, Reiko Ike, Yayoi Watanabe

The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. Read More »
Tentacles (1977) Ovidio G. Assonitis, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins

Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. Read More »
Eye of the Cat (1975) Alberto Bevilacqua, Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato, Eli Wallach

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 »
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 »