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Tag Archives: 1970s
The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) Christopher Miles, Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman, Drama, Romance
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author’s death in 1930 Read More »
The Gardener (1974) James H. Kay, Katharine Houghton, Joe Dallesandro, Rita Gam, Horror
Ellen and her husband John enjoy the good life in their lovely Costa Rica home-all that’s missing is a nice garden. Read More »
Bakuhatsu! Boso yugi / Detonation! Violent Games (1976) Teruo Ishii, Kôichi Iwaki, Yutaka Nakajima, Yumi Takigawa, Action, Crime
Teruo Ishii’s West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It’s the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide. Read More »
Test pilota Pirxa / Pilot Pirx’s Inquest (1979) Marek Piestrak, Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Drama, Sci-Fi
This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Read More »
Sleeper (1973) Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Miles, a nebbishy clarinet player who also runs a health food store in NYC’s Greenwich Village, is cryogenically frozen, and brought back – 200 years in the future Read More »
My Lover My Son (1970) John Newland, Romy Schneider, Donald Houston, Dennis Waterman, Drama
Francesca Anderson, the rich wife of an older millionaire, can’t cope with the death of her lover, who is the father of her only son, James. Read More »
Father’s House (1975) Alex Segal, Cliff Robertson, Robert Preston, Eileen Brennan, Drama
While recuperating from a heart attack–brought about in part by his job as a hard-charging but highly paid executive–a man begins to reflect on his life and the simpler time when he was growing up. Read More »
Man About the House (1974) John Robins, Richard O’Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett, Comedy
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Read More »
Psychic Killer (1975) Ray Danton, Paul Burke, Jim Hutton, Julie Adams, Thriller, Horror
Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn’t commit, learns astral projection–the art of leaving one’s physical body Read More »