Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2193 Films to Buy & Rent
Lone Wolf & Cub 6: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
- Dir. Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi…
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
Lone wolf and Cub return for their final battle…
Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland
- Moore's second film as Bond finds him in Southeast Asia battling for possession of a deadly weapon. There's a price on his head and the world's…
Mr. Majestyk (1974)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles Bronson, Lee Purcell
- One of Charles Bronson's better thrillers, starring as a Colorado melon–farmer fighting both a wrongful conviction and the Mob. Contains some…
Return of the Street Fighter (Satsujin ken 2) (1974)
- Dir. Shigehiro Ozawa
Feat. Sonny Chiba
- First sequel to THE STREET FIGHTER, has premiere Japanese martial artist Sonny Chiba – beloved of Quentin Tarantino – fight with a…
Street Fighter, The (1974)
- Dir. Shigehiro Ozawa
Feat. Sonny Chiba
- Career–making martial arts outing for Japanese icon Sonny Chiba, mugging his heart out as a brutal enforcer who turns the tables on his…
Sugarland Express, The (1974)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Goldie Hawn
- Spielberg's second feature is a redneck road comedy deployed with consummate skill. Goldie Hawn features in what is probably her best role.
Super Cops, The (1974)
- Dir. Gordon Parks Snr.
Feat. Ron Leibman, David Selby, Pat Hingle…
- 70's buddy cop movie which was released almost simultaneously with the more well–known and similar SERPICO, and lifted from relative obscurity…
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges
- Eastwood employs high–powered artillery to blast bank vaults, but complications arise when he teams with carefree Jeff Bridges to retrieve loot…
Towering Inferno, The (1974)
- Dir. Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Feat. Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway…
- Sensational adventure epic that spawned numerous films about man's futility against Mother Nature. McQueen takes the hose ahead of a cream of famous…
White Dawn, The (1974)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Jr. Gossett
- Adventure film set in the Canadian arctic where three ship wreck survivors are saved and adopted by an Inuit tribe, but take advantage of them and…