Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Railway Children, The (1972)
- Dir. Lionel Jeffries
Feat. Jenny Agutter
- When their father is jailed for espionage, Jenny Agutter and her siblings are relocated to rural Yorkshire. Local adventures slowly turn into an…
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…
Salzburg Connection, The (Top Secret) (1972)
- Dir. Lee H. Katzin
Feat. Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer…
- Entertaining espionage tale has Newman tangling with neo–Nazis and spies both in pursuit of the identity of German war criminals. Densely…
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…
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,…
Snoop Sisters, The (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick
- Two elderly spinsters put down their mystery writing pens to catch perps for real in this dotty, genteel crime series. Starring former Miss Marple,…
Sounder (1972)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks…
- Celebrated tale of a family of black sharecroppers struggling in the the American South during the 1930s.
Hooks is excellent as a teenager who…
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…
Streets of San Francisco, The (TV Series) (1972-1980)
- Feat. Karl Malden, Michael Douglas
- Top–notch 70's crime show with granite–faced veteran Karl Malden and newcomer Michael Douglas sharing the billing with the photogenic and…
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice…
- A schlocky omnibus from Amicus Studios derived from EC comics in which five people are trapped in a crypt with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who…