Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2199 Films to Buy & Rent
Lone Wolf & Cub 1: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Fumio Watanabe…
- The LONE WOLF AND CUB series chronicles the adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro, who sell their services to…
Lone Wolf & Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
In this second episode, Ogami battles a group of…
Lone Wolf & Cub 3: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Go Kato…
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
Ogami volunteers to be tortured by the Yakuza gang…
Lone Wolf & Cub 4: Baby Cart In Peril (1972)
- Dir. Buichi Sato
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Michie Azuma…
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
In the fourth installment of the series, Itto is…
Man of the East (1972)
- Dir. Enzo Barboni
Feat. Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Harry Jr. Carey
- Harebrained western has Terence Hill as a poetry–loving city slicker who in order to inherit his fathers ranch must become a…
Mechanic, The (1972)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jill Ireland…
- Charles Bronson broods away as an ageing hitman (or 'mechanic') who takes on a apprentice (Vincent). Although none–too–distinguished this…
Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters…
- One of the better 70s disaster movies has an ocean–liner 'turned turtle' and the survivors trying to find a way out. Often unintentionally…
Protectors, The (TV Series) (1972-1973)
- Feat. Robert Vaughn, Ngaire Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt
- A suave, jet–setting suspense series that was Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's (THUNDERBIRDS) second foray into live–action, depicting the…
Revengers, The (1972)
- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode…
- One of the more violet westerns not to be directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden as a rancher and Civil War hero who assembles a posse of…
Shaft's Big Score (1972)
- Dir. Gordon Parks Snr.
Feat. Richard Roundtree
- Richard Roundtree as Shaft goes upmarket for this first sequel, having moved away from urban squalor to fight crime Bond–style with a bigger…