Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2193 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Tarzan (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Ron Ely, Sally Kellerman, Diana Ross
- Ron Ely maintains jungle justice in this TV series from 1972. Two episodes include guest star turns from Sally Kellerman and Diana Ross!
Trouble Man (1972)
- Dir. Ivan Dixon
Feat. Ivan Dixon, Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield…
- Blaxploitation movie about a hard–edged but elegant private detective who wades into a drug war in South Central Los Angeles. A studio budget…
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison
- Burt Lancaster saddles up to hunt a band of Apache Indians who have escaped their impoverished reservation and have gone on the warpath.
One of…
Water Margin (Seven Blows Of The Dragon) (1972)
- Dir. Chang Cheh
Feat. David Chiang, Ti Lung
- Perhaps the most spectacular of the 1970s Hong Kong swordplay productions by the Shaw Bros, this epic is set in 12th century Sung Dynasty China,…
Zatoichi At Large (Zatoichi 23) (1972)
- Dir. Kazuo Mori
Feat. Shintaro Katsu, Rentaro Mikuni, Hisaya Morishige
- Late–period inclusion to the Zatoichi series has the eponymous blind swordsman helping to deliver a baby, then finding himself honour bound to…
A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!) (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli
- Leone’s final spaghetti–western is a sprawling adventure set in the Mexican revolution, with fistfuls of action and comedy aplenty to rival…