Subgenre Sampler
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Islands in the Stream (1977)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland…
- Solid, well–constructed adaptation of one of the more thoughtful Hemingway novels, with Scott as the sculptor who chooses to live in exile on a…
Jabberwocky (1977)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Michael Palin
- Monty Python's Lewis Carroll–inspired medieval farce with Michael Palin in the lead.
Jesus of Nazareth (Mini Series) (1977)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Robert Powell, Laurence Olivier, Anne Bancroft…
- Touched by the hand of Franco Zeffirelli and a who's–who of famous thesps, this is the most respectfully detailed and complete retelling of the…
Joseph Andrews (1977)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Beryl Reid…
- Bawdy picaresque revolves around the romantic misadventures of switched–at–birth servant. Chief amongst his concerns are the unwelcome…
Journey Among Women (1977)
- Dir. Tom Cowan
Feat. June Pritchard, Martin Phelan
- Ten female convicts, on the lam from an outback prison, set up utopian bush camp in this heady feminist treatise, where men are scum and women frolic…
Julia (1977)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards Jr.…
- Dramatising the 1930s memories of playwright Lillian Hellman (THE LITTLE FOXES), this Oscar–winning classic centres on the relationship between…
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Barry Dennen, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson…
- A product of the Kentucky Fried Theatre (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker of FLYING HIGH fame), this collection of skits, gags and spoofs comes across as a…
Killer of Sheep (1977)
- Dir. Charles Burnett
Feat. Henry Sanders
- A recently exhumed landmark of African–American cinema, dir. Burnett’s long–lost thesis film observes the daily hardships of an…
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
- Dir. John Bud Cardos
Feat. William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling
- Insecticides poison the food supply of the local tarantula population, setting them off on a hysterical man–hunt in the Arizona desert.…
Kiss of Death, The (1977)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. David Threlfall
- Something of a forerunner to Leigh's masterpiece NAKED, with David Threlfall playing an undertaker's assistant with a macabre, unpredictable streak.…