Browsing: Movies 1974

A nonchalant young American diamond merchant, Howard R. Chesser (Charles Grodin), travels to London on one of his frequent trips to 11 Harrowhouse – the…

Made in Germany in 1974, this is the film Kubrick might have made had he been sex-obsessed and talentless. Disguised as the French Olympic ski…

This African-American retelling of The Exorcist stars Carol Speed as the title character, Abby Williams – the chaste and devout marriage counsellor wife of a young reverend…

Five women – Linda (Jo Ann Harris), Teresa (Connie Strickland), Karen (Lisa Moore), Nancy (Jennifer Lee Pryor) and Angie (Patricia Estrin) – team up and…

An all-star cast highlighted this mind-boggling 1970’s disaster film – The first of three sequels to Airport (1970). A 747 bound for Salt Lake City is hit…

This misjudged sequel to the Oscar-nominated Alfie (1966) finds pop singer Alan Price replacing Michael Caine as the cockney casanova, Alfie Elkins, with director Ken…

This feeble sequel to 70s Australian sex comedy Alvin Purple (1973) has the irresistible young Alvin (Graeme Blundell) grinning and baring all as he switches places…

Agatha Christie’s best-selling 1939 mystery novel, And Then There Were None had previously been filmed in 1965 as Ten Little Indians. This 1974 film adaptation -…

The bittersweet story of a Jewish boy from Montreal struggling up out of the ghetto, using any and every means he can lay his hands…

The Arena begins in England during the days of the Roman Empire when Roman slavers interrupt a pagan religious ceremony and kidnap statuesque blonde Bodicia…

Veteran director Val Guest decided in the early 1970s to venture into the then-popular market of sex comedies, and having watched Danish box-office successes Bedroom…

Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes is ostensibly about Pasha (Paul Harris), a crime lord who runs a numbers racket. Yet like many other…

This low-budget 1974 B-movie is a copy of Bonnie and Clyde (1967) featuring Angie (Police Woman) Dickinson as Wilma McClatchie, the tough Texan single mother…

Writer/producer/director John Evans tries for some substance rather than mere violence in the Blaxploitation genre, and it’s an admirable attempt – but Evans’ laggardly pacing…

Georgia, 1948. Backward Billie (Joan Goodfellow) – who has been constantly abused by young men of the town – finally finds someone who will offer…

The petty, brilliant university tutor Ben Butley (Alan Bates) is festering in his own bile in a hope-forsaken corner of Cambridge University’s English department. Butley…

The original woman’s prison movie. We’ve got fat prison guards, some lesbian action, a wicked warden, and a prison doctor who likes to “experiment” on…

This sex comedy revolved around three voluptuous young (high school-aged) volunteer nurses – or “candy stripers” – at Oakwood Hospital. Marisa Valdez (María Rojo) has…

Handsome, debonair, dope-smoking vampire hunter and expert swordsman Captain Kronos (Horst Janson) and his eccentric hunchback assistant Professor Grost (John Cater) – an authority on…

This is a wonderfully bawdy celebration of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin, wallowing further in near-the-knuckle gags and sexually aware situations, perfectly suited for this historical…