George Webber (Dudley Moore) is doing very well. He is a successful composer with a great house up in the hills above Los Angeles, a…
Browsing: Movies 1979
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
1941 is a stupid farce based on a stupid idea: What would have happened if, after bombing Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had gone on to attack…
The fourth helping of Airport adventure was subtitled The Concorde, and this time the plot dealt with international arms dealer Dr Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner) – one of…
When Alien hit theatres in 1979, science fiction movies had mostly been flying saucer films with goofy looking aliens who abducted good-looking models to their ships to…
This epic made-for-television film – adapted by Paul Monash from the 1929 book of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque (which had already been…
Director Bob Fosse’s partly autobiographical, self-indulgent, but occasionally brilliant musical had a Fellini-like vision of the life and death of top choreographer, Joe Gideon (Roy…
Despite a talented, eclectic cast and an inspired premise – the United States is now so poor it has to stage a telethon to bail…
The Amityville Horror is, of course, not the only horror film to inspire a collection of truly terrible sequels (eight in total), but it’s easy…
Scruffy and idealistic Baltimore lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) fights corruption and favouritism in the American judicial system during a controversial rape case. Tangling with…
Speaking retrospectively about his 1979 film, director Francis Ford Coppola once said, “Apocalypse Now is not about Vietnam, it is Vietnam.” Coppola referred to the immense difficulty and hardship he…
Confusion abounds when Amos (Tim Conway) and Theodore (Don Knotts), incompetent outlaws trying to go straight, are mistakenly identified as bank-robbing desperadoes (while trying to…
Michael Caine stars as Dr David Linderby, a World Health Organisation physician working in a remote African village with his beautiful, African-born wife, Anansa (Beverly…
The usual Alistair MacLean combination of exciting action, rugged far-flung locations, foolish dialogue and positive performances – the exception here being Vanessa Redgrave, whose “Norwegian”…
This dreadful but equally commercially successful sequel to the tedious kitsch classic, The Stud (1978) sees Joan Collins reprise her role as the sex-mad diva,…
When her father dies during a climbing accident, Elizabeth Roffe (Audrey Hepburn) becomes the head of the family pharmaceutical empire, Roffe Industries. Pressure mounts from…
Oliver Reed persuades Samantha Eggar to give birth to deformed children with killer instincts in another of David Cronenberg’s disturbing shockers. An intriguing metaphor for…
Travel writer turned master sleuth Scholar Fong (Lau Siu-Ming) is among a group of guests at Shum Castle when the grounds are swarmed by deadly…
Young Chicago nerd (and virgin) T.T. (Dennis Christopher) arrives on the Californian coast intending to pay tribute to his dead brother and decides to make…
This splendid made-for-TV movie from Euston Films – written by Keith Waterhouse from a novel by Brian Freemantle – told how Charlie Muffin (David Hemmings),…
The term “China Syndrome” became an indelible part of our vocabulary as the effects of such a nuclear disaster became a reality during the 1970s…