Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Action/Adventure: 2161 Films to Rent
Emperor of the North (1973)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine…
- Depression set actioner with Borgnine as a violent train conductor determined to prevent hobo Marvin bumming a ride.
Enter the Dragon (1973)
- Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Bruce Lee, John Saxon
- The martial arts film by which all others are measured, Lee gets to display his masterful skill at every opportunity. Virtually plotless, but loaded…
Female Yakuza Tale (Yasagure anego den: sôkatsu rinchi) (1973)
- Dir. Teruo Ishii
Feat. Reiko Ike
- A scorned Reiko Ike returns in this remarkably trashier sequel to SEX AND FURY, ready to unleash another roaring rampage of revenge on sadistic…
Four Musketeers, The (1973)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain…
- Similarly irreverant follow–up to dir. Lester's THREE MUSKETEERS with the same cast continuing in the swashbuckling vein. Excellent cast with a…
Game of Death (1973)
- Dir. Robert Clouse
Feat. Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger…
- Bruce Lee chop–socks his way to justice as a kung–fu film star exploited by gangsters out to punish him off–screen as well as on.
High Plains Drifter (1973)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom
- A spooked town enlist Clint Eastwood's mystical bounty–hunter. A self–conscious hybrid of many sources, Clint brings the drama an…
Illicit Desire (Feng liu yun shi) (1973)
- Dir. Han Hsiang Li
Feat. Hong-Yip Cheng, Chen Ping
- Shaw Brothers sexploitation from the early 1970s, this was actually a huge hit at the Hong Kong box–office with three steamy scantily costumed…
Lady Snowblood 1 (Shurayukihime) (1973)
- Dir. Toshiya Fujita
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon…
- A classic samurai B–movie made in the heyday of 'Wu Xia' influence, with Kaji playing a bereaved young woman who seeks revenge on the gangsters…
Last American Hero, The (1973)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald…
- Jeff Bridges' mix of redneck roughness and choirboy sweetness is just right for this 1973 true story of a country kid running moonshine and making…
Live and Let Die (1973)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto
- Roger Moore succeeds Sean Connery in the role of 007, with exotic elements "borrowed" from the blaxploitation craze of the time.
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