This obscure Cold War spy comedy from the pen of expert British comedy script duo Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement (the latter also directed)…
Browsing: Movies 1971
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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…
Washed-up songwriter and musician Cisco Pike (musician Kris Kristofferson in his film debut) has been arrested for drug dealing. We see him trying to pawn…
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 finds itself in financial trouble, the owners – two sinister characters named Maltby (J. Byron Foster) and Landau (Sanford…
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…
The intrepid Home Guard of the small south coast seaside village of Walmington-on-Sea made it to the big screen in 1971 after entertaining millions of…
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…
Cruel, perverse, repulsive, sacrilegious, and vulgar, The Devils dramatises a gruesome historical incident that occurred in 17th-century France when a priest was unjustly accused of…
Sean Connery returned for the seventh movie in the Bond series with James matching wits with his nemesis, Blofeld, here played by Charles Gray (pictured…
Marianne (Susan George) is a go-go dancer and the daughter of a corrupt judge (Leo Genn) who is living in exile in Portugal with her…
“I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda…
Dr Jimmy Tennyson (Frank Converse) returns to his small hometown of Greenfield, Vermont, to work with an elderly doctor he has always admired – Dr…
Blackly comic gender-bending reworking on Robert Louis Stevenson’s oft-filmed classic; this was Hammer’s third variation on the tale after The Ugly Duckling and The Two Faces of Dr…
This oddball existentialist drama pits a lone travelling salesman against a mysteriously menacing death-dealing tractor-trailer rig in the Californian desert. Adapted by Richard Matheson from…
This independent film – shot in South West London in 1971 in grainy black and white – is an intense and bizarre study of obsession…
“There was Red Herring, Woo-Woo, the Weird Beard and Tip, an everyday Dope Fiend who knew Nancy Wheeler when she lived in Venice, Pam and…
Director Ernie Pintoff had previously directed shorts, TV commercials, and specials before putting together this collection of skits, parodies, musical performances, and film clips related…