Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure: 2195 Films to Buy & Rent
Romance of a Horse Thief (1971)
- Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Feat. Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin…
- Curious picaresque features Yul Brynner as the ruler of a small Polish community. When he commandeers the town's horses a small band of rebels led by…
Valdez Is Coming (1971)
- Dir. Edwin Sherin
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera…
- An underrated late Western, with Lancaster playing a down–heels Mexican sherriff who takes a dangerous stand on principle against a powerful…
Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman (Zatoichi 22) (1971)
- Dir. Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Feat. Shintaro Katsu, Yu Wang
- An above–average entry in the continuing series, this has the titular blind swordsman assist the Chinese One–Armed Swordsman, who has…
A Man Called Horse (1970)
- Dir. Elliot Silverstein
Feat. Richard Harris, Dame Judith Anderson
- Notorious yet serious–minded late western is set around the capture by Sioux of an English nobleman and his subsequent initiation into the…
Ballad of Cable Hogue, The (1970)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., Stella Stevens
- A lyrical Western in which Jason Robards plays an endearing, lone gold propector who develops an oasis in a remote part of the old west. His…
Beguiled, The (1970)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
- Clint Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier taken refuge at a Confederate girl's school, where his presense stirs up a hornet's nest. The closest…
Cromwell (1970)
- Dir. Ken Hughes
Feat. Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley…
- Routine, if spectacularly staged rendition of the career of English revolutionary and King–slayer Oliver Cromwell (Harris). Unfortunately, the…
Dr Seuss - Horton Hears a Who (1970)
- Dir. Chuck Jones
- Remastered edition of the original animated Seuss story of a sentimental elephant who determinedly protects the tiny inhabitants of the microscopic…
Heroic Ones, The (1970)
- Dir. Chang Cheh
Feat. David Chiang, Chin Han, Ti Lung…
- Martial arts film set in 1880s imperial China, where a Mogul king secretly assembles his loyal generals on a mission to take on his greatest rivals.…
Incident at Blood Pass, The (Machibuse) (1970)
- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shintaro Katsu
- Pedigree shogun face off between genre icons Mifune and Katsu in a tautly conceived show down over hijacked gold between a remote mountain pass.…