Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
Brannigan (1975)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson…
- Effective late–career casting for Wayne, playing a Chicago cop who pursues a criminal across the Atlantic to London. Although featuring a…
Breakheart Pass (1975)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna…
- Charles Bronson plays a prisoner being transported on a train with a small U.S. army unit and medical supplies through the Rocky mountains. The…
Breakout (1975)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland…
- Action–adventure vehicle for Charles Bronson, giving the furrow–browed actor a more lighthearted role as a bush pilot who is hired for…
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard
- Well–made, though somewhat old–fashioned version of Barry England's play about misbehaviour among the British Army in India. The stars…
Count of Monte Cristo, The (1975)
- Dir. David Greene
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Tony Curtis…
- This made for television retelling of Alexandre Dumas' timeless tale of epic revenge is a highly watchable, though dated effort, with Chamberlain…
Earthquake (1975)
- Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene…
- The earth moves for Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Lorne Green, Richard Roundtree, Genevieve Bujold and the rest of LA in this 70s Disaster opus. Good…
Eiger Sanction, The (1975)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee
- Star/director Eastwood plays a mountaineering, art–loving version of James Bond in this bumbling thriller.
Lame dialogue and cool threads…
French Connection 2, The (1975)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson…
- Hackman reprises his role as Lt. Doyle, where unfinished business leads him to perilous encounters on French soil.
Great Waldo Pepper, The (1975)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Robert Redford, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon
- Rousing aviation film following Waldo Pepper (Redford), a former WW1 flight–instructor who takes up extreme stunt flying in order to make up…
Hard Times (Street Fighter) (1975)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland…
- During the Great Depression Charles Bronson fights economic gloom with his fists in this invigorating punch–fest from the action ace Walter…