Subgenre Sampler
Railway Children, The (1972)
- Dir. Lionel Jeffries
Feat. Jenny Agutter - When their father is jailed for espionage, Jenny Agutter and her siblings are relocated to rural Yorkshire. Local adventures slowly turn into an…
Rainbow (TV Series) (1972-1992)- Cult kids show both educational and slightly surreal, and responsible for introducing generations to Bungle, George, Zippy and horrendously colored…
Snoopy Come Home (1972)- Dir. Bill Melendez
- The second Peanuts film has Snoopy traveling to see his sick former owner and feeling obliged to return to her permanently.
Sounder (1972)- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks… - Celebrated tale of a family of black sharecroppers struggling in the the American South during the 1930s. Hooks is excellent as a teenager who…
Tintin and the Mystery at Shark Lake (Lake of Sharks) (1972)- Dir. Raymond LeBlanc
- Standalone animated Tintin feature (and second of two) finds Snowy, Captain Haddock and co. on a lakeside vacation – picturesque front to a global…
Treasure Island (1972)- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Orson Welles, Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander - Well–shot, though fairly hammy version of Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, with Welles playing the peg–legged Long John Silver.
Treasure Island (animated) (1972)- Dir. Hal Sutherland
- Warner Brothers' animated feature–length version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Angela Lansbury - An apprentice witch wants to use her powers to contribute to the English war effort against the Nazis, plus a trip to the cartoon Island of…
Best of the Best of the Electric Company, The (1971-1977)- Feat. Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno…
- A generous selection of excerpts from the long–running 1970s children's TV show, which mixed up its educationalist intentions (especially…
Black Beauty (1971)- Dir. James Hill
Feat. Mark Lester, Walter Slezak - Faithful version of Anna Sewell's childrens' novel, concerning a magnificent black horse who is cursed with a cruel owner.
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