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 sold 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…
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…
On their way home from the Isle of Wight Pop Festival, five hippies – Jeff (Peter Marinker), Trev (Dick Haydon), Mick (Nigel Anthony), Marty (Liz…
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 that…
The time is 1874. Catlow (Yul Brynner) is a lovable outlaw who not only makes a living from crime but for the most part, enjoys doing…
Set in Britain in the near future, A Clockwork Orange relates the adventures of a working-class teenage delinquent whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Ludwig Van…
When the Lotus Cat Food Company find themselves in financial trouble the owners decide to turn to the local graveyard for a new, cheap source of…
This fine moment from Hammer has a solid cast list, some nice period costumes, several heaving bosoms and an angry pitchfork-wielding mob – who strangely…
Crucible of Terror begins in the forge of an abandoned Cornish tin mine where an unknown assailant prepares a plaster mixture and spreads it over…
This English-language Belgian/French/West German co-production – a smorgasbord of 1930s-style glamour meets art school cool meets vampirism – was originally released as Les Lèvres Rouges…
Dirk Bogarde was at his finest as the dying composer rediscovering forbidden fruit in this dramatisation by director Luchino Visconti of the novella by Thomas Mann. Bogarde’s…
