Harold Robbins’ guess-who novel about the jet-set and South American politics was as commercial as it was trashy – and this film version may be…
Browsing: Movies 1970
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For a generation that grew up on Airplane! (1980), the definitive disaster spoof, it may be impossible to take the overblown melodramatics of this adaptation of…
Alex (Donald Sutherland), a young long-haired Hollywood director, wrestles with success while his wife, Beth (Ellen Burstyn) copes with their domestic fallouts. Alex is a…
Till Death Us Do Part’s Warren Mitchell heads an outstanding cast as an ambitious but none-too-bright insurance salesman in this sharply scripted comedy of workplace…
Virginal Arthur Barlen (Juan Fernadez) envies the sexual prowess of his dying friend, Felix (Sam Stewart). When Felix dies, Arthurs blackmails Dr Cyril Meade (Bernard…
A cycling holiday in France for two young, pretty British nurses turns into a nightmare when brunette Jane (Pamela Franklin) and blonde Cathy (Michele Dotrice)…
Don Stroud plays Angel, a biker who tires of gang life and decides to quit it all. He turns up in a small prejudiced town…
The Angels outlaw motorcycle gang ride into the small town of Whiskey Flats and find themselves in a drunken brawl at the Arcade Club (the…
An inventive cartoon feature by the Walt Disney studios about a cat (Duchess) and her three kittens (Berlioz, Toulouse and Marie) who are abandoned in…
Suzy Kendall and Lesley Anne-Down star in a brutal British crime thriller about a vicious rapist-murderer on the prowl near an all-girls school in an…
Bartleby (John McEnery) is a likeable yet unusual young man – painfully polite and good-natured – looking for work, purpose, and meaning. He gets a…
There was never a more definitive “The End” moment in a movie than the closing scene of the original Planet Of the Apes movie (1968). As…
“The world is full of them – the super-octane girls who are old at twenty . . . If they get to be twenty!” Despite…
It was hi-jinks at the harbour in this 1970 Disney comedy/crime flick, a sort of Gilligan’s Island meets The Pink Panther. Robert Morse filled the bumbling sailor role, playing…
Eight gay men gather in the Greenwich Village apartment of Michael (Kenneth Nelson), for a birthday party for his old friend Harold (Leonard Frey). Among…
Bumbo Bailey (the disarmingly cherubic Richard Warwick), a newly commissioned Ensign of the Household Brigade based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London, is idling his way…
The Houston Astrodome is a great place to shoot a movie. It’s big, it’s round, and the translucent roof lets in plenty of light. As…
Elderly Bunny O’Hare (Bette Davis) is evicted from her home due to a mistake by her bank. When she learns that Bill Green (Ernest Borgnine)…
Even at the height of his stardom, Marlon Brando was prepared to take chances by accepting challenging roles. Here, he plays Sir William Walker, a…
A lovely, melancholy little gem about lost love and fleeting friendships from director Robert Ellis Miller. The Buttercup Chain stars 60s icon Jane Asher and Hywel…