Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2193 Films to Buy & Rent
Zorro (1974)
- Dir. Luciano Martino
Feat. Alain Delon, Sir Stanley Baker
- Transposed from California to South America, the masked, sword–wielding hero (Alain Delon) maintains his reputation for exciting…
Arena, The (Naked Warriors) (1973)
- Dir. Steve Carver
Feat. Pam Grier
- Unusual B–movie, even by Roger Corman standards, this has Pam Grier and various buxom cohorts fight in all–women gladiatorial contests in…
Black Mama, White Mama (1973)
- Dir. Eddie Romero
Feat. Pam Grier, Margaret Markov
- Pam Grier plays a prostitute who teams up with a white revolutionary after they bust out of jail together, with guerrillas, bounty hunters and the…
Blackeye (1973)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Fred Williamson
- Former pro–footballer Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson plays Stone, a black PI whose search for a murderer links in a religious cult, a porno ring,…
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…