Although it is often lumped in with the Blaxploitation boom of the early 70s, Across 110th Street is actually a gritty cop flick with a strong element of social…
Browsing: Movies – 1970s
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Five women – Linda (Jo Ann Harris), Teresa (Connie Strickland), Karen (Lisa Moore), Nancy (Jennifer Lee Pryor) and Angie (Patricia Estrin) – team up and…
Spike Milligan plays his own father in this autobiographical and highly comedic account of a British army recruit during World War II, whilst Jim Dale…
The renowned detective’s insanely jealous younger sibling, Sigerson Holmes (Gene Wilder), becomes involved with foreign spies, Professor Moriarty (Leo McKern) and Jenny – a music…
Harold Robbins’ guess-who novel about the jet-set and South American politics was as commercial as it was trashy – and this film version may be…
Plumbing seems an agreeable enough occupation for Sid South (Christopher Neil) whose job offers him ample opportunity to bed a variety of nubile girls. Apart…
Following on from the surprisingly profitable Adventures of a Taxi Driver, this smutty romp sticks to the same formula. In the title role, rookie private…
Girls and trouble are inseparable for young London taxi driver Joe North (a miscast Barry Evans) who uses his job to try and get as…
A sex-hungry Australian (pardon the tautology) gets into all kinds of trouble on a visit to the Mother Country in a movie which is funny,…
Werner Herzog’s magnificent, hypnotic look at the 16th-century conquistadors was shot on location in the Amazon jungle. It was the international hit that made him…
This is the second sequel to Airport (1970) and stars Jack Lemmon as the ageing but very heroic pilot Don Gallagher. This time, the co-pilot, Chambers…
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…
For a generation that grew up on Airplane! (1980), the definitive disaster spoof, it may be impossible to take the overblown melodramatics of this adaptation of…
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 low budget comedy (it was made in less than two-and-a-half weeks for £70,000) stars Albert Toddey (David Jason), a bumbling civil servant who dreams he…
Recently retired Rhodesian police officer Terrick Handel (James Faulkner) turns vigilante to hunt down an albino terrorist called Whispering Death (Horst Frank) who rapes, scalps…
Jack Lemmon looks tired and unappealing in this cynical and grubby film about the torturous relationship between low-rent bail bondsman Alex Main and Maritza (Geneviève…
Alex (Donald Sutherland), a young long-haired Hollywood director, wrestles with success while his wife, Beth (Ellen Burstyn) copes with their domestic fallouts. Alex is a…
This second spin-off feature film from the popular sixties comedy series Till Death Us Do Part picks up where the 1968 film ends. Alf (Warren…
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…