Browsing: Movies 1972

The Second Continental Congress – which eventually declared America’s independence from Britain in 1776 – was a group of men sitting in a stuffy room…

Three cheerleaders (a blonde, a brunette and a redhead) are kidnapped by slavers who tie them up and sell them to businessmen who pay upwards…

Although it is often lumped in with the Blaxploitation boom of the early 70s, Across 110th Street is actually a gritty cop flick with a strong element of social…

A sex-hungry Australian (pardon the tautology) gets into all kinds of trouble on a visit to the Mother Country in a movie which is funny,…

Werner Herzog’s magnificent, hypnotic look at the 16th-century conquistadors was shot on location in the Amazon jungle. It was the international hit that made him…

This second spin-off feature film from the popular sixties comedy series Till Death Us Do Part picks up where the first film ends. Alf (Warren…

Musical version of Alice in Wonderland – the story of a girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole, finds herself in a magical world with…

Joe (Martin Potter), Sue (Julia Foster) and Barry (Nicky Henson) meet as strangers at a noisy wedding reception held in a poorer area of London…

Director Lionel Jeffries adapted this follow-up to The Railway Children (1970) from an Antonia Barber novel entitled The Ghosts. A near-destitute widowed mother, Mrs Allen…

The Asphyx is – in ancient Greek mythology – the spirit of death, said to have existed in constant unspeakable agony since time began. Each…

While visiting the isolated and bleak mist-shrouded Dunsmoor Asylum for “the incurably insane”, earnest young psychiatrist Dr Martin (Robert Powell) learns the bizarre and disturbing…

Shot in Louisville, Kentucky on a budget of just $50,000, Asylum of Satan was director William Girdler’s first feature film, made when he was 24…

Avanti! is Italian for “enter” and Billy Wilder’s most neglected masterpiece is a sublime romantic comedy which is as sensitive as it is hilarious. Jack Lemmon is…

Larry Cohen’s feature directing debut (he also wrote and produced it) is a delightful cocktail of sex, violence, black, black comedy and surrealism wrapped around…

This lighthearted and bawdy British film recreates a true story about William Burke (Derren Nesbitt) and William Hare (Glynn Edwards), two infamous Irish body-snatchers in…

Goldie Hawn stars as cheerful irresponsible hippie Jill Tanner in this light-hearted film as a flighty actress who falls in love with Don Baker (Edward Albert),…

If you’re willing to accept that the musical truly came of age with the arrival of Judy Garland at MGM, there’s a fitting irony that…

Coming between The Decameron and Arabian Nights in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s classic tales trilogy, this bawdy adaptation of Chaucer’s 14th-century masterpiece outraged the purists. Pasolini…

The 24th Carry On film, Carry On Abroad (or ‘What a package’) concerns saucy carry-ons in the Spanish resort of Elsbels. Vic Flange (Sid James) plans…

The fourth Carry On with a hospital background, and the 23rd in the series, concerns a plot by petty criminals Sid Carter (Sid James), his son…