In one violent hour, the world of a proud, arrogant ex-Green Beret captain and Vietnam veteran named Slaughter (Jim Brown) blows up when a bomb…
Browsing: Movies 1972
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Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece 1969 science-fiction anti-war novel is done marvellous justice by Butch and Sundance director George Roy Hill’s wildly complex, truly bizarre and poignant…
Sleuth is a curious film, essentially a two-man show with plenty of dialogue but very little action. Anthony Shaffer’s elaborate role-playing stage play is adapted by…
Based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, Solaris is a film that takes on some very big issues: the nature of self-awareness, knowledge and perception. In an…
Harry Field (Peter Finch) is a well-meaning but incredibly weak character. He lives in a small seaside town on the sleepy Isle of Wight and…
Long before Walt Disney Productions released its famous big-budget version in 1983, this obscure British production served as the very first screen adaptation of Ray…
Nominated for four Oscars, director Martin Ritt’s powerful drama, based on the 1970 Newbery Medal-winning novel of the same name by William H. Armstrong, is…
Harold Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett) has just been divorced. It was not a happy marriage, and as he leaves the courts with his father, Albert…
A Ghost Story for Christmas was something of a tradition on the BBC in the 1970s, with the works of M.R. James often adapted for the…
Shy, dowdy and socially awkward Brenda Thompson (Rita Tushingham) writes naive children’s stories to amuse herself. Stifled and desperate for a man of her own,…
Young Welsh schoolteacher and choral director Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) decides to emigrate to Australia where the New South Wales Education Department invites him to…
Directed by Gordon Parks Jr – the son of the man who directed Shaft (1971) – this superb Blaxploitation film starred Ron O’Neal as antihero Youngblood…
Former 50’s teen idol Tab Hunter plays Eddie Collins, a handsome milk-drinking highschool gym teacher living at a beach house in Venice, California – who…
While touring some ancient catacombs, five people lose the rest of their party and are ushered into a cavernous vault by a cowled figure (Ralph…
This Hammer production was a spin-off from the seven-episode BBC comedy series of the same name, which also starred Raymond Huntley as Mr Emanuel Holroyd…
Dr Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland ) is a rich, bigoted white man and brilliant transplant surgeon with an inoperable heart condition. He desperately hatches a…
Young Chay (Meg Foster) and Gary (Michael Burns) – two teenagers in love – encounter various characters on their aimless way while hitchhiking together along…
Young hippie couple Lily (Blythe Danner in her feature movie debut) and Timothy Frischer (Heath Lamberts) rent a secluded beach cabin on an isolated island…
Christopher St. John wrote, produced, directed and starred in this tale of embittered, violence-prone black Washington DC cop George Lattimer who is looked upon as…
Now considered one of the forefathers of the slasher genre and an underground classic, Tower of Evil opens with fisherman Hamp Gurney (Jack Watson) and his…