The action moved from the racetrack to the streets of San Francisco for this follow-up to the 1969 blockbuster The Love Bug. Herbie Rides Again not…
Browsing: Movies 1974
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Claire Stevens (Cloris Leachman) – a lonely and frustrated middle-aged woman – is driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco to visit her sister in…
Harlem girl Laura Lewis (Diana Sands) is nicknamed “Honey Baby” by the brothers and sisters of the ghetto because of her polished diction and middle-class…
Filmed in and around Monroe and Charlotte, North Carolina, this Preacherman Corporation film tells the story of the Widow Holcomb (Tonia Bryan) and her three…
One of Pete Walker’s most infamous films, House of Whipcord is a highly disturbing project that may be too unpleasant for casual viewers to enjoy. The plot…
Ernest Knoll (Manuel de Blas), a successful but misogynistic engineer, awakens from a near-fatal car accident (he is clinically dead, but his brain remains functioning)…
Impulse turned Star Trek’s Captain Kirk into a mad, murdering flim-flam man in just 15 days on a budget less than a quarter the cost of…
Set in 1907, this Disney film opens in London, where wealthy aristocrat Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden) hires visiting American archaeologist Professor Ivarsson (David Hartman)…
This smarter-than-usual made-for-television movie – aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on Tuesday 19 November 1974 – is a saucy comedy of errors…
“There’s only one thing wrong with the Davis baby. It’s alive.” The Davis baby is quite a little monster. At birth, it kills off five…
“Signal to all vessels. Am experiencing difficulties of an extraordinary nature. Would appreciate assistance if our position can be reached by dawn tomorrow” This SOS,…
The runaway success of Emmanuelle, in which the lovely Sylvia Kristel had the title role, made another starring vehicle for her inevitable. And here it…
Killdozer is a made-for-TV science-fiction horror film, adapted from a 1944 novella of the same name by Theodore Sturgeon. A meteorite hurtles through space before…
A white woman (Linda Evans) is raped by an unidentified black man in Alabama. The chief suspect is quickly picked up by the sheriff (excellently…
Directed by Roy Ward Baker, this 1974 film is a fusion of vampire horror and kung fu capers designed to take advantage of (then) current…
Filthy-mouthed, heroin-addicted sociopath Lenny Bruce is not the kind of heroic biographical subject that draws crowds, but Bob Fosse’s tight direction and Dustin Hoffman’s mesmerising…
Delusional revolutionary Malcolm Scrawdyke (John Hurt) leads his Party of Dynamic Erection in an enraged battle against an unseen nemesis in this chilling dark comedy.…
Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s delicate fable about the meaning of life takes quite a tumble in this glossy, ultra-sophisticated movie version. Although it’s beautiful to look…
Manchester-based art and antique dealer George (Ray Lovelock) locks up his city-centre store and leaves the smog and pollution of the city for some time…
Burt Reynolds is disgraced former pro football quarterback Paul Crewe who is sent to prison on a short-term sentence after a drunken night to remember.…