Having met with great popularity and success on television since 1973, Are You Being Served? finally made the transition to the big screen in 1977, giving…
Browsing: Movies – 1970s
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The Arena begins in England during the days of the Roman Empire when Roman slavers interrupt a pagan religious ceremony and kidnap statuesque blonde Bodicia…
An inventive cartoon feature by the Walt Disney studios about a cat (Duchess) and her three kittens (Berlioz, Toulouse and Marie) who are abandoned in…
This crazy camp horror comedy from Bing Crosby Productions stars Norman Stuart as wealthy Lord Arnold Dwellyn – who was a shady character in life…
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 Asphyx is – in ancient Greek mythology – the spirit of death, said to have existed in constant unspeakable agony since time began. Each…
Suzy Kendall and Lesley Anne-Down star in a brutal British crime thriller about a vicious rapist-murderer on the prowl near an all-girls school in an…
In the Los Angeles ghetto of Anderson, six young members of a gang called Street Thunder are shot dead by police. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Ethan Bishop…
This well-made, suspenseful, made-for-TV movie – presented as part of The ABC Movie of the Week – stars Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy as Commander Phillip Kettenring,…
Convicted killer Roger Sands (Frank Ashmore) studies the paranormal while he is incarcerated in the California State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, gains supernatural powers…
Set in the near future (1981!), the Americans are about to complete their first mission to Mars. The atmosphere is electric as millions of viewers…
While visiting the isolated and bleak mist-shrouded Dunsmoor Asylum for “the incurably insane”, earnest young psychiatrist Dr Martin (Robert Powell) learns the bizarre and disturbing…
In the Italian countryside, a clinic for mentally unstable but wealthy women is terrorised by a maniac with a fetish for medieval weaponry. Psychiatrist Dr…
Shot in Louisville, Kentucky on a budget of just $50,000, Asylum of Satan was director William Girdler’s first feature film, made when he was 24…
This sci-fi thriller follows a Victorian-era expedition headed by American explorer David Innes (Doug McClure) and fidgety British scientist Dr Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) beneath…
Few filmmakers have the guts (or the gall) to actually try to make a bad film. John De Bello was one of the bold few.…
Veteran director Val Guest decided in the early 1970s to venture into the then-popular market of sex comedies and having watched Danish box-office successes Bedroom…
Before The Silence of the Lambs (1991) revitalised his career, Anthony Hopkins hammed it up in less successful movies like Audrey Rose. Directed by Robert Wise…
This 1975 ‘Ozploitation’ pretend documentary – shot on 16mm film then blown up to 35mm for distribution – looks at a random collection of stories…
Avanti! is Italian for “enter” and Billy Wilder’s most neglected masterpiece is a sublime romantic comedy which is as sensitive as it is hilarious. Jack Lemmon is…