Subgenre Sampler
Charley Varrick (1973)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr… - Walter Matthau makes for a fascinating, unconventional armed robber in this punchy heist picture, trademarked by Don Siegel's famously pacey…
Dillinger (1973)- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman… - A tough portait of the Depression–era bank robber that like BONNIE AND CLYDE, invests the criminal with the mythic qualities of the outlaw.…
Don is Dead, The (1973)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster - A botched drug deal is at the centre of this competent mafioso film, one of many spawned in the wake of THE GODFATHER's success.
Executive Action (1973)- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer - Rogue intelligence agents, right–wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free–lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination…
Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (1973)
- Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan… - A superlative, cold–hearted, downright unforgiving crime classic of the 70s, with Robert Mitchum (never better) as an aging Boston gunrunner…
Kojak (TV Series) (1973-1978)- Dir. Joseph Sargent
Feat. Telly Savalas, Ned Beatty - Popular 70s cop show that turned Telly Savalas's funky, lollipop sucking, glow–domed police lieutenant into a cultural icon. Highly quotable,…
Laughing Policeman, The (1973)- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe - Police procedural loosely based on the Swedish novel of the same name, set in the aftermath of a horrific shootout on a public bus. A detective…
Mackintosh Man, The (1973)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason - Old–fashioned cold war thriller with Paul Newman playing a British intelligence agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a spy organisation. A…
Nothing But the Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) (1973)- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors… - Lee and Cushing are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate a fatal bus crash and how it relates to the going–ons at a creepy orphanage.…
Revolver (Blood in the Streets) (1973)- Dir. Sergio Sollima
Feat. Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi - Equal turns punchy and preposterous, this 'spaghetti crime thriller' involves a prison warden (Reed) who is drawn into an intricate web of deceit…
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