Erratic Vietnam War veteran Jack Dunne (Happy Days star Henry Winkler in his first starring movie role) suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder and memory…
Browsing: Movies 1977
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Nobel prize-winning Harvard professor of psychiatry Richard Thorndyke (Mel Brooks) arrives in Los Angeles as the new administrator of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very…
Fun-loving sideshow worker Tex (Joseph Bottoms) – a womanising American “cat” who speaks in 1960s hip jargon and worries about “the fuzz” – and boxer…
Retired police officer Bob Carter (Russ Grieve) and his suburban middle-class family are on a camping road trip to California when they ignore the warnings…
“She’s about to go on the ride of her life . . . it won’t last long!!” Howard Martin (Robert Gribbin) is a mild-mannered 25-year-old…
Astronauts encounter a deadly radiation burst during a space mission to Saturn. Colonel Steve West (Alex Rebar) is the only survivor, but on his return…
Inspired by the seven-verse nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, Terry Gilliam’s directorial debut feature is an uneven mix of medieval tomfoolery and crude Monty Python…
“Moscow in flames. Missiles heading towards New York . . . . Film at eleven” The feature film debut of the ‘Kentucky Fried Theater’ -…
A small desert town in Arizona is overrun by tarantulas. First livestock and pets are attacked and killed before the spiders turn on the human…
How one responded to The Last Remake of Beau Geste depended largely on how one responded to its star, pop-eyed comic Marty Feldman (who also directed the…
Behind the opening credits an Australian Aboriginal is painting on the roof of a cave which opens like a huge mouth: a black hand, protruding…
Theresa (Diane Keaton), a prim young teacher of deaf children, seeks her off-duty excitement in singles bars, drugs and one-night stands with tragic results. Her…
Envisioned as a successor to the Oscar-winning military biography Patton (1970), this solid biography of the controversial World War II general suffered from sins of omission…
In 1975, author Ronald McKie won the Miles Franklin Literary Award (Australia’s most prestigious annual literary prize) for the novel this film was based on.…
Some time in 18th Century England, two sisters – 16-year-old Justine (Prince Andrew’s former girlfriend Koo Stark) and 17-year-old Juliette (Lydia Lisle) are placed in…
When production of the movie Caligula wound up costing Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione $16 million instead of an anticipated $3.5 million, he looked for ways to amortise the…
When American billionaire Anthony Falcon (Ralph Chesse) dies, his poor Italian mechanic nephew Guido Falcone (Terence Hill) inherits everything, provided he can travel to San…
Egotistical saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) and spirited USO singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) meet in Times Square on V-J Day and decide they’re…
Secret Agent Charles Bind (Nicky Henson) – aka “Number 1” – goes up against eccentric millionaire Arthur Loveday (Richard Todd), who is in league with…
God (81-year-old George Burns) chooses Jerry Landers (country singer John Denver in his movie debut), a Southern California supermarket assistant manager, to spread the gospel…