Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Man from Hong Kong, The (1975)
- Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. George Lazenby, Bill Hunter, Rebecca Gilling…
- Cracking martial arts adventure tracking an inspector sent to Australia to expel a drug courier. Photogenically set against the backdrops of Ayers…
Master Gunfighter, The (1975)
- Dir. Frank Laughlin
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Ron O'Neal, Barbara Carrera
- From the creator/actor of BILLY JACK this samurai western
follows a peace–loving master swordsman and gunfighter, who's…
Night Moves (1975)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith
- Underrated private–eye yarn with Gene Hackman tracking down a then very young Melanie Griffith. Intelligent fare that leads to a stunning…
Poldark (TV Series) (1975)
- Dir. Philip Dudley
Feat. Ralph Bates, Robin Ellis, Jill Townsend
- Highly successful British TV series based on the series of novels by Winston Graham about the life of an 18th–century Cornish nobleman (Ellis)…
Posse (1975)
- Dir. Kirk Douglas
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins…
- Kirk Douglas acts and directs in this revisionist western about a US Marshal with political ambitions who leads a uniformed posse to hunt down a…
Raffles (TV Series) (1975-1977)
- Feat. Anthony Valentine, Christopher Strauli
- Known by day as A.J. Raffles, gentleman of leisure and top–rate cricketer, at night Raffles becomes "the amateur Cracksman", an expert jewel…
Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The (1975)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill…
- Slow burn psychological horror directed by J. Lee Thompson (GUNS OF NAVARONE) about a university professor who is tortured by recurring nightmares…
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
- Dir. Stuart Millar
Feat. John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn
- John Wayne saddles up for another round of boozing and revenging in this follow–up to TRUE GRIT. Reigning in the one–eyed Marshall this…
Rosebud (1975)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford…
- Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
Shadows (TV Series) (1975-1978)
- Feat. Jenny Agutter, Pauline Quirke
- Atmospheric and superbly scripted, this quintessential children’s series of the 1970s offers up psychological and supernatural tales in which young…