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…
Browsing: Movies 1971
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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…
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)…
Originally promoted with the provocative tagline “Is 15-and-a-half too young for a girl? Is one wife enough for one man?”, this time capsule of a…
The stars of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Britain’s latter-day version of the Marx Brothers, present a series of rip-roaring, rib-tickling sketches drawn from their television show.…
Criminal mastermind and ex-safecracker Duke Anderson (Sean Connery looking mean with thick black eyebrows and a thinning hairline) is released from ten years in jail…
Penned by science thriller guru Michael Crichton – a former doctor himself – there’s no glossing over technical detail in 1971’s The Andromeda Strain. At times,…
Scott Glenn – at his most stoic and sullen – plays Long John, a biker who gets invited with fellow members of the drug-dealing Angels…
This well-made, suspenseful, made-for-TV movie – presented as part of The ABC Movie of the Week – stars Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy as Commander Phillip Kettenring,…
In the Italian countryside, a clinic for mentally unstable but wealthy women is terrorised by a maniac with a fetish for medieval weaponry. Psychiatrist Dr…
Not everyone can stomach Woody Allen films but, fan or not, you’re sure to get a few laughs out of this one. Actor-writer-producer-director Allen plays…
Below-par Walt Disney musical about a good-natured witch, played by Lansbury, and some children who help the British war effort in the early 1940’s. The…
Ellie Masters (the beautiful Melody Patterson of F Troop fame) is sent to an orphanage after her prostitute mother, Edna (Louise Sherrill) is beaten to…
This cult Hammer horror based on Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars starred statuesque Valerie Leon as Margaret Fuchs – daughter of archaeologist Professor…
Side-burned hepcat Jay Jay (George Segal) learnt his effortless charm while dressing the hair of the ladies of New York City, but he’s given up…
On their way home from the Isle of Wight Pop Festival, five hippies – Jeff (Peter Marinker), Trev (Dick Haydon), Mick (Nigel Anthony), Marty (Liz…
Harley Macintosh (Richard Thomas) is an innocent young soldier without a family who is due to leave America for the war in Vietnam. On his…
This movie broke sexual taboos in the frankness with which it tackled its study of two college roommates and their sexual obsessions through two decades. The…
The Carry On team throw caution to the wind and presents an hour and a half of good, clean lavatorial humour. This was the first sign…
This rip-roaring return to the glories of British history saw the Carry On cast turn their attention to regal charm and Tudor manners. This timely salute to…