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Subgenre Sampler
Ooh, You Are Awful (1972)- Dir. Cliff Owen
Feat. Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser - Cheeky Brit comedy focused on a con–man (Emery) who swindles an Italian millionaire out of a large sum of cash, only to have it deposited into…
Pocket Money (1972)- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin… - Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher. Amiable comedy written by a pre–fame…
Pulp (1972)
- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander… - After completing the phenomenal GET CARTER Caine and dir. Hodges reteamed for this lightweight, yet highly watchable comedy thriller. Caine plays…
Rentadick (1972)- Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale…
- From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
Savages (1972)- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine… - Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Shelley (TV Series) (1972-1992)- Feat. Hywel Bennett
- Classic British comedy series revels in one of the more unlikely deadly sins: sloth. University graduate James Shelley (Bennett) is a cynical,…
Steptoe and Son / Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1972-1973)- Dir. Peter Sykes, Cliff Owen
Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Wilfred Brambell - Two spinoff feature films starring the same rag–and–bone men from the classic TV Series. In STEPTOE AND SON, Harold disastrously marries…
Til Death Us Do Part (TV Series) (1972-1974)- Feat. Warren Mitchell
- Contentious, well remembered BBC sitcom is a comedy firebrand about a narrow–minded Cockney geezer whose racist diatribes were intended to be…
Up the Front (1972)- Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Hermione Baddeley… - One of Frankie Howerd's bigscreen starring roles in a spinoff of the 'Up Pompeii' TV Series. Here he plays an WWII soldier who has invasion plans…
What's Up Doc? (1972)- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn… - Creditable homage to the screwball farces of Hawks and Sturges, with Barbara Streisand as the wildcard in the life of musicologist Ryan O’Neal. Great…
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