Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Python Pack, The (Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, And Now For Something Completely Different) (1972-1979)
- Includes three classic Monty Python features.
Rentadick (1972)
- Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale…
- From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
Savages (1972)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine…
- Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Seduction of Mimi, The (1972)
- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
- Satirical comedy taking plenty of shots at Italianisms, about a poor labourer who is forced to leave his family in Sicily to take an illegal factory…
Shelley (TV Series) (1972-1992)
- Feat. Hywel Bennett
- Classic British comedy series revels in one of the more unlikely deadly sins: sloth. University graduate James Shelley (Bennett) is a cynical,…
Sleuth (1972)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
- A supremely cunning, self–reflexive mystery satire based on the hit West End play, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine as affable…
Steptoe and Son / Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1972-1973)
- Dir. Peter Sykes, Cliff Owen
Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Wilfred Brambell
- Two spinoff feature films starring the same rag–and–bone men from the classic TV Series. In STEPTOE AND SON, Harold disastrously marries…
Till Death Us Do Part (TV Series) (1972-1974)
- Feat. Warren Mitchell
- Contentious, well remembered BBC sitcom is a comedy firebrand about a narrow–minded Cockney geezer whose racist diatribes were intended to be…
Travels With My Aunt (1972)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Jr. Gossett…
- A young Maggie Smith ages up in this entertaining if over–stuffed whimsy based on the novel by Graham Greene about the odd–ball…
Trinity Is Still My Name (1972)
- Dir. E.B. Clucher
Feat. Bud Spencer, Terence Hill
- Equally funny sequel to spaghetti–Western THEY CALL ME TRINITY, starring duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.