Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
I Never Sang For My Father (1970)
- Dir. Gilbert Cates
Feat. Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney… - Gene Hackman plays a widowed college professor in New York wanting to get out from under the thumb of his aging father yet guilty about his plans to…
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.…
Jane Eyre (1970)- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen… - Susannah York and George C. Scott headline this fine adaptation of the Bronte classic.
Joe (1970)- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick - A 'cause celebre' in its day, this pungent drama unrolls after a wealthy executive (Patrick) murders the drug–dealing boyfriend of his daughter…
John Pilger's Documentaries That Changed the World (The Quiet Mutiny; Do You Remember Vietnam?; Year Zero; Death of a Nation) (1970-1994)
- Dir. David Munro, John Pilger
Feat. John Pilger - Four of journalist John Pilger's most important documentaries, that exemplify his fiercely humanist perspective which makes few concessions to…
Josie and the Pussycats (TV Series) (1970)- Animated version of the ‘Archie’–comic characters, done in glorious low–budget Hanna–Barbara style.
Kelly's Heroes (1970)- Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas… - Comic WWII yarn in which Clint Eastwood recruits a wildcat tank platoon to help rob a bank in German territory. Features one of Donald Sutherland's…
King Lear (1970)- Dir. Peter Brook
Feat. Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Jack MacGowran… - This could hardly miss with Shakespeare perennials Paul Schofield in the title role and director Peter Brook at the helm. A strong and rewarding…
La Rupture (The Breach) (1970)- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Claude Drouot… - Stéphane Audran plays a good mother with a chequered past who divorces her deadbeat husband and is targeted by her aggrieved in–laws. In a bit…
Lancelot Link Secret Chimp (TV Series) (1970)- A still amusing TV cult from the early 1970s, which put a hairy satirical twist on the spy series that were popular at the time, by populating its…
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