Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Bad Man's River (1971)
- Dir. Eugenio Martin
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Gina Lollobrigida
- Jokey spaghetti–west has an outlaw outsmarted by a gang of Mexican Banditos and a conniving widow.
Big Boss, The (Fists of Fury) (1971)
- Dir. Lo Wei
Feat. Bruce Lee
- Lee's first Kung–Fu exploiter is cheap, rough and necessarily nasty – censorship problems held this one up for years.
Black Beauty (1971)
- Dir. James Hill
Feat. Mark Lester, Walter Slezak
- Faithful version of Anna Sewell's childrens' novel, concerning a magnificent black horse who is cursed with a cruel owner.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray
- A slightly jaded Sean Connery returns as Agent 007, on the trail of a powerful diamond smuggling syndicate. Bond is joined by Tiffany Case as he…
Dirty Harry (1971)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Classic genre film with Clint Eastwood as Inspector Callaghan, a dynamic cop determined to bring in a psycho–killer, even if he has to break a…
Duel of Fists (Kuen gik) (1971)
- Dir. Chang Cheh
Feat. David Chiang, Ti Lung, Ching Li
- Chiang plays a Chinese boxer who travels to Bangkok, Thailand to find his long–lost brother. Although he is successful, events precipitate a…
French Connection, The (1971)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider…
- An influential crime picture based on the largest narcotics seizure of all time. Won the Oscar for Best Picture for its realistic portrait of New…
Hannie Caulder (1971)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Christopher Lee…
- Raquel Welch dons poncho and six–shooters in this violent quasi–spoof Western, playing the victim of a gang rape who, with the help of a…