George Webber (Dudley Moore) is doing very well. He is a successful composer with a great house up in the hills above Los Angeles, a…
Browsing: 1970s Movies
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Based on Ludovic Kennedy’s 1961 non-fiction book of the same name, this film was a sombre, articulate, and chilling dramatisation of the infamous murders in…
A nonchalant young American diamond merchant, Howard R. Chesser (Charles Grodin), travels to London on one of his frequent trips to 11 Harrowhouse – the…
Set against the backdrop of a rundown terraced street in London’s East End that’s been earmarked for redevelopment, actor/director David Hemmings’ gritty urban drama follows…
The Second Continental Congress – which eventually declared America’s independence from Britain in 1776 – was a group of men sitting in a stuffy room…
This stunning but demanding Marxist epic ran to almost five and a half hours in director Bernardo Bertolucci’s original cut and spans 45 years of Italian…
1941 is a stupid farce based on a stupid idea: What would have happened if, after bombing Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had gone on to attack…
Taking a leaf out of the cute anarchy of A Hard Day’s Night (1964), directors Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer invest Zappa’s own music (performed by…
Made in Germany in 1974, this is the film Kubrick might have made had he been sex-obsessed and talentless. Disguised as the French Olympic ski…
After a brief holiday romance in Greece, Ann Stanley (a woman of 40) finds romance with 22-year-old Peter Latham in this comedy-drama. Ann does not…
Unashamed and supremely slick commercial for the group, maintaining a gentle air of self-parody while at the same time being a celebration of all the…
This African-American retelling of The Exorcist stars Carol Speed as the title character, Abby Williams – the chaste and devout marriage counsellor wife of a young reverend…
This Australian semi-documentary presented (most of) the letters of the alphabet and discussed sexual subjects beginning with the corresponding letter – eg: B for Birth,…
Not long after Patty Hearst was kidnapped in 1974, researchers unearthed an obscure porno novel called Black Abductor by Harrison James which had appeared briefly…
Three cheerleaders (a blonde, a brunette and a redhead) are kidnapped by slavers who tie them up and sell them to businessmen who pay upwards…
The best British television comedy of 1977 was not exactly written. Abigail’s Party was the BBC’s first full-length play where much of the dialogue was improvised. The…
The Abominable Dr Phibes stars Vincent Price as a living corpse, seeking revenge on the nine medics who were in attendance when his wife (Caroline Munro)…
A team of well-trained British fliers soars into action in the skies over Europe during World War I in this spirited remake of Journey’s End (1930) transposed…
Although it is often lumped in with the Blaxploitation boom of the early 70s, Across 110th Street is actually a gritty cop flick with a strong element of social…
Five women – Linda (Jo Ann Harris), Teresa (Connie Strickland), Karen (Lisa Moore), Nancy (Jennifer Lee Pryor) and Angie (Patricia Estrin) – team up and…
