The film opens in a happy, comfortable upper middle-class home in Edwardian London. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) Gordon Hessler, Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play “Murders in the Rue Morgue” with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. Read More »
Die Wildente / The Wild Duck (1976) Hans W. Geissendörfer, Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, Anne Bennent, Drama
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. Read More »
Age of Innocence (1977) Alan Bridges, David Warner, Honor Blackman, Trudy Young, Drama
Henry Buchanan, an English schoolmaster, comes to teach in a small Canadian town. Read More »
Glen and Randa (1971) Jim McBride, Steve Curry, Shelley Plimpton, Woody Chambliss, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. Read More »
The Black Stallion (1979) Carroll Ballard, Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Adventure, Family, Sport
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. Read More »
L’amante del demonio / Lucifera: Demonlover (1972) Paolo Lombardo, Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri, Robert Woods, Drama, Horror
Rosalba Neri (Sara Bay) plays a beautiful young woman who, while traveling with her two female friends, ends up staying the night in a huge castle – which, according to legend, is the Devil’s dwelling-place. Read More »
Jack the Ripper (1976) Jesús Franco, Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Andreas Mannkopff, Horror, Exploitation, Drama, Thriller
The inimitable Klaus Kinski (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, CRAWLSPACE, FITZCARRALDO) assumes the role of the most heinous criminal of modern history – JACK THE RIPPER – in this explicitly savage Read More »
Panna a netvor / Beauty and the Beast (1978) Juraj Herz, Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes, Václav Voska, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Read More »
Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) Stanley A. Long, Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall, Harry H. Corbett, Comedy, Crime
While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to “solve” a case that comes in. Complications ensue. Read More »