Escape From The Planet Of The Apes opens with a panoramic view of a familiar landscape by the ocean, recalling the post-apocalyptic Forbidden Zone, rocky…
Browsing: Movies 1971
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This film biography of motorcycle daredevil and human crash-test dummy Evel Knievel offers plenty of action plus a full-length portrait of a larger-than-life figure. We…
Fellini’s Roma is an affectionate portrait of a city that is populated by the strangest of people – at least in Fellini’s eyes. He sees Rome…
This wacky comedy – made for ABC Movie of The Week – revolved around a beautiful feminist doctor (Barbara Eden) and a brash male chauvinist…
The world of Fiddler On The Roof is the town of Anatevka, a small town in Russia (although the film was shot mostly on location…
12-year-old Finn Dove (Jack Wild of Oliver! and Pufnstuf fame) and his young sister Derval (Helen Raye) flee their home in Liverpool and their unkind stepfather Toby…
This Canadian film could easily have been subtitled “How To Become Homosexual In A Few Not-So-Easy Lessons” – that’s what this movie is all about,…
The French Connection dramatised the case of real-life New York detective Eddie Egan (the Popeye Doyle character) and his partner Salvatore ‘Sonny’ Grosso (the Buddy Russo…
Teenage hipster Amanda (Susan George) is babysitting for the Lloyds – Helen (Honor Blackman) and Jim (George Cole) – in their gloomy, secluded and morbidly…
This 70s “sex comedy” stars the luscious Joanna Lumley, from The New Avengers and Absolutely Fabulous. Aged 24 at the time, and with only three bit parts behind…
Academy Award winner Robert De Niro stars as the Italian bicycle racer who falls in love with a mafioso’s younger sister in the middle of…
If The Italian Job (1969) celebrated Britain’s 1960s supremacy in everything from football (soccer to you lot on the left-hand side of the Atlantic) to small-car design…
Leggy blonde private investigator Ginger McAllister (Cheri Caffaro) goes undercover to catch a gang – run by Rex Halsey (Duane Tucker) – who are blackmailing…
When we first meet Glen (Steven Curry) and Randa (Shelley Plimpton) they are unselfconsciously naked, wandering through a lush green forest. Soon we realise that…
Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last and the summer Leo (Dominic Guard) turns 13. He’s the guest of Marcus (Richard Gibson), a wealthy classmate, at a…
This Hammer production has Freudian psychoanalyst Doctor John Pritchard (Eric Porter, famous as Soames in The Forsyte Saga) adopting Anna (Angharad Rees), the daughter of…
Adapted from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1970 Off-Broadway hit by Vonnegut himself, this eccentric black comedy-drama sharply divided critical and audience opinion when it was released in…
While fighting in Vietnam, Phil (Robert Fuller) promises his dying Marine buddy, Lenny (Alfonso Williams) that he’ll collect his custom motorcycle – a 1947 Harley…
Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) is a repressed 16-year-old whose main outlets are attending funerals of people he didn’t know and the staging of elaborate pseudo-suicides,…
Written and directed by Kent Bateman (the father of TV brats Justine and Jason) and produced by Ron Sullivan (who, under the pseudonym Henri Pachard,…