Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
St. Ives (1976)- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset… - Enjoyable riff on 1940s private–eye noir (especially THE MALTESE FALCON), in which a wouldbe novelist–gumshoe (Bronson) gets way out of…
Two Minute Warning (1976)- Dir. Larry Peerce
Feat. Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam… - Questionable Charlton Heston thriller set in a pro–football stadium, where a group of cops must take down a sniper in the crowd before he opens…
3 Days of the Condor (Three Days of the Condor) (1975)- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson… - A polished thriller from the heyday of the 70s conspiracy genre, with Robert Redford as the hunted CIA operative who knows 'too much'. Going on…
Best French Crime Flicks (1975-1981)- Dir. Georges Lautner, Jose Giovanni, Alain Corneau
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Yves Montand - Three seminal French crime dramas in one collection: THE PROFESSIONAL (1981), THE GYPSY (1975), and CHOICE OF ARMS (1981).
Brannigan (1975)- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson… - Effective late–career casting for Wayne, playing a Chicago cop who pursues a criminal across the Atlantic to London. Although featuring a…
Bullet Train, The (1975)- Dir. Jun'ya Sato
Feat. Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba - Unstoppable, no–holds–barred action vehicle finds Sonny Chiba steering a passenger train rigged with a bomb to explode if its speed drops…
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Al Pacino - Al Pacino is stunning as a deluded no–hoper who robs a New York bank to finance his lover's sex change operation. Riveting drama based on a…
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)- Dir. Dick Richards
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland… - With a nailbitten Robert Mitchum as a weathered Marlowe, this complex Raymond Chandler story is an impressive homage to '40s film noirs.
Gypsy, The (Le Gitan) (1975)- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Paul Meurisse - Alain Delon humours the plight of the gypsy as a gangster with a nomadic past. An obscure, moody crime vehicle.
Hanged Man, The (TV Series) (1975)- Feat. Colin Blakely, Michael Williams
- Colin Blakely plays a rich industrialist whose success has made him the death target of his shady competitors. Series follows Blakely pretending to…
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