This cheesy 1973 Drive-In film begins with attractive and homely Nurse Charlotte Beale (Rosie Holotik, Playboy playmate for April 1972) arriving at the isolated Stephens…
Browsing: Movies 1973
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Beautifully directed by Nicholas Roeg, this story of a husband (Donald Sutherland) and wife (Julie Christie) coming to terms with the drowning death of their…
“He’s a good cop . . . on a big bike . . . on a bad road!” Robert Blake (later to star in TV…
Emperor of the North is the tale of the battle between the king of the hobos (Lee Marvin) and a ruthless, sadistic conductor (Ernest Borgnine)…
Enter The Dragon was a defining moment for martial arts films and for Bruce Lee (real name Lee Jun Fan). The first martial arts film produced…
This dramatisation – the first film to openly question the veracity of the Warren Commission’s report into the death of John F Kennedy – explained…
This classic tale of a girl possessed by a demon was the first and still is the best of its genre – a real psychological…
This remarkable animated French/Czech science-fiction fantasy – conceived by Roland Topor and René Laloux and originally released as La Planète Sauvage – is set in…
Based on the successful Thames Television series of the same name, this spin-off film is a collection of “hilarious situations” in which ‘Daddy’ (thriller novelist,…
Dr Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch) is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, billionaire, adventurer and time traveller who wears black nail varnish, drives a 1930s-vintage Buick, flies…
In Andy Warhol’s gory adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic, Baron Frankenstein (Udo Kier with a strong German accent) is working – with his henchman,…
American TV producer Hunt Stromberg Jnr. wanted to make a definitive version of the Frankenstein story which was faithful to Mary Shelley’s classic 19th-century novel.…
From Beyond the Grave – originally titled The Undead and also known as The Creatures, Tales from Beyond the Grave, and Tales from the Beyond…
Claudia Kincaid (Sally Prager), aged 12, her 10-year-old brother Jamie (Johnny Doran), and their baby brother Kevin (Bruce Conover) make up the Kincaid family from…
Lauded in some circles as one of the best movies to explore black culture seriously within a genre context and seen by others as just…
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry failed to strike similar gold with this contrived tale involving Alex Cord as macho moustachioed NASA scientist Dylan Hunt who…
The third and final film in the “Ginger” trilogy (following Ginger and The Abductors) once more stars Cheri Caffaro in the titular role, written and…
In the made-for-TV movie landscape of the 70s, Go Ask Alice was IT. Jamie Smith-Jackson became the blueprint for teen girlhood after the ABC movie, one of the…
A rock gospel according to Saint Matthew, David Greene’s Godspell was derived from the successful stage show which debuted off-Broadway in 1971. Play and screenplay author…
Few soundtracks have changed the face of popular music more than the one for The Harder They Come, which single-handedly put reggae on the map, paving the way…