The Second Continental Congress – which eventually declared America’s independence from Britain in 1776 – was a group of men sitting in a stuffy room…
Browsing: Movies 1972
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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 1968 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 the Antonia Barber novel, The Ghosts. A near-destitute widowed mother, Mrs Allen (Dorothy…
The Asphyx is – in ancient Greek mythology – the spirit of death, said to have existed in constant unspeakable agony since time began. Each…
Set in the near future (1981!), the Americans are about to complete their first mission to Mars. The atmosphere is electric as millions of viewers…
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…
When the often hysterical architecture student Eva Arnold (Elke Sommer) and American Peter Kleist (Antonio Cantafora) read a parchment in a huge old castle in Austria,…
Behind The Green Door starred former cheerleader and Junior Olympic diver Marilyn Chambers (born Marilyn Briggs), whose credit as the Ivory Snow girl – the…
Just your typical “8-year-old-boy-with-heart-condition meets highly-intelligent-killer-rat and wreaks havoc on a small California town” story. This sequel to Willard (1971) is probably best known for its…
The sequel to The Big Doll House (1971) is more of the same – a blaxploitation mix of broad humour, random violence, gratuitous nudity and dodgy politics. Terry…
Eddie Turner (Joe Desue) is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but brilliant surgeon Dr…
1972 was a big year for Blaxploitation movies (also seeing the release of Superfly and Barry Shear’s Across 110th Street). But this movie probably tops the bizarre-o-meter -…