Subgenre Sampler
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Golden Years of TV Comedy Vol. 2 (Morecambe and Wise, The Liver Birds, Dad's Army) (1971)
- Dir. Various
- Three sample episodes from three classic BBC comedies from 1971.
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Eric Porter, Dora Bryan
- Atmospheric Hammer puts a Freudian spin on the exploits of Jack the Ripper, whose daughter inherits some of Dad's sharp handiwork. A pleasingly…
J.C. (Iron Horsemen) (1971)
- Dir. William McGaha
Feat. William McGaha, Slim Pickens
- Fairly typical hippie turkey, in which dir. McGaha stars as a deluded bikie who thinks he is Jesus Christ reborn and leads his pack of…
Kotch (1971)
- Dir. Jack Lemmon
Feat. Walter Matthau
- Heart–warming fare with irascible senior citizen Walter Matthau resisting all attempts to 'retire' him. Matthau's regular screen buddy directs.
Madame Sin (1971)
- Dir. David Greene
Feat. Bette Davis, Denholm Elliott, Robert Wagner…
- Criminal mastermind Bette Davis casts her heavily mascaraed eye on nuclear submarines and the like. A cheesy pleasure.
Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1971)
- Dir. Ian Macnaughton
Feat. John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam…
- A particularly surreal later–Python, first released on German television. Features strange and often absurd English subtitles.
Percy (1971)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer…
- Hywell Bennett undergo the world's first members only transplant and turns private dick to discover the donor was a notorious ladykiller. Will he be…
Persuasion (1971)
- Dir. Howard Baker
Feat. Ann Firbank, Richard Vernon, Bryan Marshall
- Circumspect heroine Anne Elliot has the opportunity to rekindle a long–abandoned love–affair, in this BBC adaption of Jane Austen's final…
Pink Flamingos (1971)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey…
- John Waters' creative pinnacle (or nadir!) remains the ultimate statement in bad taste – a pure, unadulterated exercise in shock value!…
Pink Narcissus (1971)
- Dir. Jim Bidgood
Feat. Bobby Kendall
- Major gay cult film with a non–narrative structure and opulent ‘garage’ aesthetic comparable to Kenneth Anger, but with more explicit…