Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Home (1971)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols…
- Worthy TV adaptation of the stageplay by David Storey (THIS SPORTING LIFE), set amid the twilight psychodramas of residents at an old peoples' rest…
Horsemen, The (1971)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance…
- An ambitious historical epic concerns the quest of an Afghani tribal horseman (Sharif) to regain his honour after losing a ritual Buzkashi…
Hospital, The (1971)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes…
- Gallows humour permeates this caustic comedy of medical ineptitude and indifference. Scott plays a suicidal surgeon contending with multiple patient…
Hunting Party, The (1971)
- Dir. Don Medford
Feat. Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman
- WILD BUNCH–wannabe with Gene Hackman hunting ruffian Oliver Reed and kidnapped wife Candice Bergan to the ends of the earth. A ridiculously…
Hustler Squad / Wild Riders (1971-1976)
- Dir. Cesar Gallardo, Richard Kanter
Feat. Alex Rocco, Elizabeth Knowles, Sherry Bain…
- A double feature of 70s drive–in "classics".
WILD RIDERS (1971) has Alex Rocco playing a misogynistic biker who goes on a sleazy killing…
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…
Jason King (TV Series) (1971-1972)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Wyngarde
- Spinoff series from DEPARTMENT S, following the flamboyant titular writer (Wyngarde) on further secret agent–international playboy adventures.…
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
- Dir. Dalton Trumbo
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards Jr.…
- Excoriating anti–war statement based on the dir.'s own novel, concerns an ordinary infantryman in WW1 and his nightmare experiences.
In a…
Kidnapped (1971)
- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins…
- A dashing Michael Caine heads this ambitious adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tales of 18th century Scotland. Grand, if ultimately unrealised…
Kill Django... Kill First (1971)
- Dir. Sergio Garrone
Feat. Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Aldo Sambrell, Krista Nell
- Brutal spaghetti western with a ruthless cowboy teaming up with an old prospector to take down an unscrupulous banker and his network of killers.