Based on Nathanael West’s 1939 novel of the same name, The Day of the Locust is an oft-forgotten entry into 1970s filmmaking obsessed by the…
Browsing: Movies 1975
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This 1975 British psychological thriller begins with a violent escape from a lunatic asylum – but we don’t see who it was that escaped. Stephen Slade…
Set in the America of the future, the defending champion of the nationally televised Transcontinental Road Race – where contestants gain points by running over…
Psychic medium Helga Ulmann (Macha Meril) can read minds. Unfortunately, she picks up the thoughts of a murderer in her audience and soon becomes a…
This pretty dumb horror movie concerns some hokum about devil worshippers – something of a current fascination at the time the film was made. Jonathan…
1930s superman and international adventurer Doc Savage (Ron Ely) is a paragon of mental, moral, and physical perfection who fights crime from his gadget-filled headquarters inside…
Two years after making the police corruption thriller Serpico together, Al Pacino and director Sidney Lumet collaborated again on another dramatic true crime story ripped directly from…
“Dolemite is my name, and fuckin’ up motherfuckers is my game” Dolemite (comedian Rudy Ray Moore in his big-screen debut) is a bad mutha pimp…
Paul Newman stars once more as Los Angeles private detective Lew Harper in a sequel of sorts to Harper (1966), which in turn was based…
This sequel to Emmanuelle (1974), further involved our titular sexually liberated heroine (Sylvia Kristel) in more sexual feats set against some magnificent settings in the Far…
Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) Malone are two youngsters who live in an orphanage and have extraordinary powers (including ESP, precognition and telekinesis).…
This is the story of bold Benny U. Murdoch (Roy Kinnear) – owner of B.U.M Studios and producer of naughty sex pics – who wanted…
This television play was broadcast on BBC2 on 5 March 1975. It was written by Jack Rosenthal (he won a BAFTA for it) and directed…
John Frankenheimer’s sequel to The French Connection (1971) may be less believable than its predecessor, but it’s still a cracking thriller. Here, New York cop ‘Popeye’…
Fearless magazine photographer Friday Foster (Pam Grier) discovers a plot to assassinate one of her subjects – Blake Tarr (Thalmus Rasulala), the wealthiest black man…
After the runaway success of Barbra Streisand’s Oscar-winning film debut Funny Girl (1968), it was inevitable that Columbia would want her to return in a sequel.…
Alongside Alan Hopgood’s And the Big Men Fly, Oakley’s A Salute to the Great McCarthy (1968) is probably the best-known fictional work about Australian Rules Football. Director David Baker…
Robert Redford plays Waldo Pepper, a former World War I pilot who travels around the US in the 1920s, exaggerating his accomplishments to impress the…
This non-pornographic film about a pornographic subject was based on Xaviera Hollander’s autobiography about her life as a prostitute. Dutch girl Xaviera Hollander (Lynn Redgrave)…
Saboteurs carry out the explosion of the famous German airship Hindenburg as it docks at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 6 May 1937 at the end…