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See No Evil (Blind Terror) (1971): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey…; An especially effective suspenser, with Farrow playing a blind woman on a country farm who gradually suspects – then confirms – that her…
Straw Dogs (1971): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Susan George; With dir. Sam Peckinpah in top form, this powerful study of male territorial instincts pushed out the boundaries of movie violence in the…
Villain (1971): Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport…; Violent London gangster movie released on the tail of Performance and Get Carter, but not as well received as either. Surprisingly, written by sitcom…
Wake In Fright (Outback) (1971): Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty…; After many years in obscurity, this drama has been dusted off and deservingly reappraised as an Australian classic – a waking nightmare of…
When Eight Bells Toll (1971): Dir. Etienne Périer
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley…; Expert hokum from the pen of Alistair Maclean has Anthony Hopkins as a secret agent on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that…
Widow Couderc, The (La veuve Couderc) (1971): Dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret; Rustic thriller with Delon as a brooding stranger embroiled in a torrid affair with hard–bitten widow Signoret. Witty adaptation of a George…
Airport (1970): Dir. George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg…; A big–city airport is disrupted one hectic night, with hijackings, bombings, stowaways etc. The whole cast struggle to cope. Adapted from…
American Soldier, The (Der Amerikanische Soldat) (1970): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George…; The third in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career. A…
And Soon the Darkness (1970): Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice; Minor slasher thriller concerns a pair of holidaying Brits who run into nasty perils on the backroads of rural France. Not as interesting as dir.…
Borsalino (1970): Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet; Delightful seriocomic film of two likeable hoods who become gangland chieftains in 1930s Marseilles. Music by Claude Bolling.

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