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Tag Archives: 1970s
Psychomania / The Death Wheelers (1973) Don Sharp, George Sanders, Beryl Reid, Nicky Henson, Horror
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. Read More »
Vuk samotnjak / The Lone Wolf (1972) Obrad Gluscevic, Slavko Stimac, Zeljko Mataija, Ivan Stimac, Adventure, Drama, Family
A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. Read More »
Terror in the Wax Museum (1973) Georg Fenady, Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans, Horror, Mystery
The murder of a Wax Museum proprietor and some other strange goings-on in the vicinity prompt a police investigator to determine whether the killer is one of the principles who wants to own the museum or if Jack the Ripper has returned to killing after a hiatus of ten years.
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Breezy (1973) Clint Eastwood, William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C. Carmel, Drama, Romance
Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged divorced man, Frank Harmon. Frank reluctantly takes Breezy in only to fall unexpectedly in love with her.
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Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1975) Jim Atkinson, Jeremy Bulloch, Neil Hallett, Jill Damas, Comedy, Erotic
The male protagonist here (Jeremy Bulloch) has a gorgeous, generously breasted fiancée (played by the gorgeous, generously breasted Jill Damas from “Sex Play”) who refuses to marry him unless he proves he can “keep it up for a week”, that is keep a job for a week (get your minds out of the gutter, people).
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La tortue sur le dos / a Turtle on Its Back (1978) Luc Béraud, Jean-François Stévenin, Bernadette Lafont, Virginie Thévenet, Comedy, Drama
Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer’s block.
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BBC Play of the Month: The Millionairess (1972) William Slater, Maggie Smith, Peter Barkworth, James Villiers, Drama
Epifania is the richest woman in England. She’s also strong-willed, highly intelligent, fiercely determined and an expert at Judo, which makes her hard to live with.
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BBC Play of the Month: You Never Can Tell (1977) James Cellan Jones, Robert Powell, Kika Markham, Ernest Clark, Drama
You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by George Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw’s plays entitled Plays Pleasant.
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Wolz – Leben und Verklärung eines deutschen Anarchisten / Wolz: Life and Illusions of a German Anarchist (1974) Günter Reisch, Regimantas Adomaitis, Heidemarie Wenzel, Václav Kotva, Biography, Drama
Ignaz Wolz, for whom the world had been fine until the First World War, returns from it with hatred for the exploitative capitalist hierarchy and commences his own war a war against the rich.
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