This contemporary view of the Faust legend was directed by Peter Ustinov, who also appears as a psychiatrist with a monstrous German accent. Richard Burton…
Browsing: Movies 1972
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Inspired by and adapted from the successful 1970 BBC television series, Keith Michell reprised his award-winning portrayal of King Henry VIII, this time with six different…
This short film from the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) revolves around young Keith Lawson (Peter Newby) – known as the ‘Deptford Dodger’ – who runs…
This made-for-TV movie is set at Christmas time with four sisters – Christine (Sally Field), Jo (Jill Haworth), Freddie (Jessica Walter) and Alex (Eleanor Parker)…
In 1906, arrogant English anthropologist Professor Sir Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) discovers a preserved ape-like beast in the frozen wastes of Manchuria, which he believes…
This heist movie presents four robberies for the price of one – for that’s the number of attempts that have to be made by the…
Teenage California girls on a summer trip to a beach house, a traumatised hitchhiking Vietnam veteran (Michael Ontkean) who has just been released from psychiatric…
Left alone in their luxury apartment for the evening by her ineffectual photographer husband, Hugh (Rene Auberjonois), Cathryn (Susannah York) is busy composing her poetic…
Featuring Stanely Baker’s last big-screen role, Innocent Bystanders looks and feels like a hard-boiled low-rent James Bond. Proof that Baker could still do tough guys…
Robert Redford plays Johnson, the former soldier of the title who becomes a mountain-trapper in Utah in the 1850s after the Mexican-American war, surviving Indians,…
A band of Mexicans – led by the charismatic Luis Chama (John Saxon), spouting revolutionary rhetoric and demanding land reform – find their ancestral claims…
This Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) film sees an alien named Reject 462 (Leo Maguire, who also wrote the film) arrive in the picturesque, sleepy village…
The highs, lows and pitfalls of being a roller derby queen are put under the spotlight in the defiantly unglamorous sleeper hit that proved Raquel…
The introverted host of a late-night radio chat show becomes embroiled in his younger brother’s get-rich-quick schemes in Atlantic City in Jack Nicholson and director…
Four highly educated, world-weary rich white men – Ugo (Ugo Tognazzi), a chef and restaurant owner; Alitalia pilot and international libertine Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni); refined…
Berry Gordy Jr and Motown sank $4 million into making the film debut of their star Diana Ross a success. The film – a lavish…
Based on Ingmar Bergman’s Swedish film The Virgin Spring (1960) starring Max von Sydow, Last House On The Left was promoted with the tagline “To avoid fainting,…
If movie audiences weren’t plonking down money in 1973 to see Linda Blair vomit pea soup in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, they were lining up to…
This influential low-budget docudrama horror film told about the Bigfoot-style ‘Fouke Monster’, which reputedly terrorised the farming community of Fouke, Arkansas (population 350) since the…
The population of the small village of Buggley hasn’t risen for six years, and statisticians at the Ministry of Health want to know why. Professor…