Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
American Film Theatre - Iceman Cometh, The (1973)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March…
- Masterly filmic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's late stageplay set among the various seedy denizens of an early 20th century barroom, awaiting the…
Badlands (1973)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek
- Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are a knock–out as deluded teenage fugitives who chalk up a hefty body count as they flee across country. Based…
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) (1973)
- Feat. Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether
- Forced out of retirement to solve the murder of his son, lanky, milk–drinking Detective Jones is back doing what he does best – catching…
Blockhouse, The (1973)
- Dir. Clive Rees
Feat. Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp
- A crafted, though minor serious role for Sellers as one of a number of slave–labourers at work on the Nazi's Normandy defence bunkers.
On…
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…
Chino (1973)
- Dir. John Sturges, Duilio Coletti
Feat. Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi…
- Downbeat western casts a melancholic eye on the plight of a half Indian horse breeder and his struggles in face of racist townsfolk.
Almost a…
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.
Emperor of the North (1973)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine…
- Depression set actioner with Borgnine as a violent train conductor determined to prevent hobo Marvin bumming a ride.
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…