
In the early 1900’s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to get on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
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Tag Archives: 1970s
Terror at Orgy Castle (1972) Zoltan G. Spencer, Bambi Allen, Ron Darby, John Dullaghan, Fantasy, Horror, Erotic

A young couple on a European vacation get mixed up with a countess and a hunchbacked servant at a castle where black masses are held.
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Doriana Grey (1976) Jesus Franco, Lina Romay, Monica Swinn, Raymond Hardy, Adult, Drama, Horror

A lonely aristocrat Miss Gray has a twin sister who’s in an asylum. They share a strange bond. Miss Gray is rational but frigid while her sister is insane yet feels sexual pleasure for both of them. A female reporter arrives at the mansion.
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Barbie’s Fantasy (1974) Claude Goddard, Jenny Lane, Maureen Anderson, Sue Kelly, Nina Michaels, Jamie Gillis, Jeffrey Hurst, Brad Fuller, Butch Brady, Adult

This lovely teenager has a series of lewd ideas – being gang-banged, having sex with several guys at the same time, lesbian sex, oral sex, and so on. Her shrink advises her to get rid of these daydreams as he masturbates to them. Then he tells her to experience on of her fantasies in order to free herself. Barbie seduces her little brother and is magically cured.
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Sweet Movie (1974) Dusan Makavejev, Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, death, and revolutionary talk. The beauty queen passes from a wealthy husband whose honeymoon delight is to urinate on her, to a muscular keeper who punches her, stows her in a suitcase, and ships her to Paris, to a lip-synching rock idol with whom she has a love spasm, to an Austrian commune complete with a banquet of vomit, urine, feces, chopped dildos, and wet nurses. By then she’s in a fetal position, until everyone’s rescued by reminders that “it’s just a movie.”
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The Omega Man (1971) Boris Sagal, Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Action, Sci-Fi

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves “The Family”. The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a “user of the wheel”, must die. Neville, using electricity, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay.
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The Destructors / The Marseille Contract (1974) Robert Parrish, Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, James Mason

When a US intelligence agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with turns out to be an old friend.
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Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes (1978) John De Bello, David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical

After a wave of reports of mysterious attacks involving people and pets being eaten by the traditionally docile fruit, a special government task force is set up to investigate the violent veggies and put a stop to their murderous spree. Included in this crack team are a lieutenant who never goes anywhere without his parachute, an underwater expert who’s never out of his scuba gear, and a master of disguise who conceals his appearance by dressing as a black Adolf Hitler.
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Avalanche (1978) Corey Allen, Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Action, Drama

The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
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La Facture (1975) Pierre Sabbagh, Viviane Gosset, Jean Barney, Jacqueline Maillan, Comedy

Noëlle Alban est une femme à qui tout, depuis sa naissance, sourit. C’est une “chanceuse”, c’est une veinarde ; mais c’est une veinarde qui s’inquiète. Elle s’inquiète parce que, selon la “Théorie des Compensations” d’Azaïs, elle devra ensuite payer et supporter une égale période de malchance. Impressionnée par cette idée, Noëlle, pour se débarrasser de cette dette morale envers le destin, décide de se provoquer, à elle même, des ennuis. Mais elle échouera dans toutes ses tentatives et elle finira par se résigner au bonheur en pensant qu’elle le paiera, désormais, à chaque minute par peur de le perdre.
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