Sidney Lumet’s schmaltzy all-black disco-flavoured musical version of The Wizard of Oz starred 34-year old Diana Ross as shy and fragile 24-year-old schoolteacher Dorothy Gale (pictured…
Browsing: Movies – 1970s
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This ambitious animated sci-fi tale from the director of Fritz the Cat (1972) was released the same year as Star Wars, and both films dealt with a…
Based on the popular TV series, this charming family movie follows the Wombles as they face two struggles. While they wage their ongoing war against…
Former CIA agent turned investigator Mike Harber (Ross Hagen, who also produced the film) is on the trail of a world-class athlete (one of many…
The 1969 outdoor rock festival called Woodstock (although it was actually held on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm near Bethel, New York) gave its name…
Equal parts Disney slapstick fantasy, Tarzan movie and underdog sports flick, The World’s Greatest Athlete had enough zany spirit for several films. With a cast that included Tim Conway,…
This 1970 version took a little artistic licence in bringing Emily Bronte’s novel to the screen, as two exciting new personalities, Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy…
Retired detective and ex-serviceman, Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) is called on to help old army pal George Tanner (Brian Keith) whose daughter is being held…
While stationed in a small Lancashire town as they await D-Day, three American soldiers become involved in romances with local women. There are two plotlines…
Top photographer Terence Donovan tried his hand as a film director with this kung-fu thriller which featured unconventional young Japanese agent Kimura (Jirô Tamiya), who…
Rod Turner (Ian McShane) is a washed-up drunken footballer trying to get his life back on track. Turner is signed by a Third Division team,…
Carter Fields (Zalman King) stars as a young New Yorker failing in marriage, in his Wall Street job, and in his search for sex (he…
Dr Frankenstein’s grandson, Frederick von Frankenstein, reluctantly decides to follow in his ancestor’s footprints in Mel Brooks’ affectionate parody of horror films. Freddy would like to…
After a lengthy sequence where a narrator extols the virtues of the underwater kingdom, mad scientist Dr Kurt Leopold (Marshall Grauer) transforms himself into a…
After enjoying the biggest success of his career with Blow Up (1966), Michelangelo Antonioni spent two years and $7 million of Hollywood’s money-making Zabriskie Point, a…
This offbeat and satirical film – billed as “the first Electric Western” – was conceived by members of America’s ever-so-hip Firesign Theatre for the midnight…
In the year 2293, human society is dilapidated and regressed, technology is extinct, and the Earth has descended into anarchy and is polarised into two…
A crew of white Vietnam veterans pose as black men by wearing sophisticated Mission: Impossible-style masks to rip off money and drugs from a Mob-owned…
Successful London architect Robert Blakeley (Michael Caine) and his wife Zee (Elizabeth Taylor) are a self-absorbed pair with a love-hate marriage that spirals towards destruction…
Set in San Francisco in 1969 and filmed on location (without any permits) on a shoestring budget of $13,000, The Zodiac Killer claimed to be…