Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Simon Simon (1970)
- Feat. Graham Stark
- Short but farcical 'sound–effect' comedy, featuring a host of cameo appearances from the comedians and actors of the day, including Michae…
Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (TV Mini-Series) (1970)
- Feat. Keith Michell, Rosalie Crutchley, Jane Seymour
- Accurate BAFTA–winning TV series chronicling the life of the notorious Henry VIII by way of six plays, featuring a notable cast and immaculate…
Soldier Blue (1970)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Candice Bergen
- Perhaps the most violent and disreputable of the ‘revisionist’ Westerns (initiated by THE WILD BUNCH), this depiction of mutual barbarity between…
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970)
- Dir. Paul Newman
Feat. Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick…
- Sweaty account of a family of fiercely–independent Oregon loggers struggling to keep the family business alive amidst changing times. Based on…
Spring and Port Wine (1970)
- Dir. Peter Hammond
Feat. James Mason, Diane Coupland, Susan George
- James Mason and Diana Coupland play a stern father and a lenient mother who are trying to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives…
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (1970)
- Dir. Hy Averback
Feat. Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Suzanne Pleshette…
- Tensions rise to boiling point between an Army base and a neighbouring redneck town in this off–beat satire.
There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda
- Prison inmate Kirk Douglas matches wits with warden Henry Fonda in an attempt to escape. Curious mix of black comedy and melodrama.
There's A Girl In My Soup (1970)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Diana Dors…
- Romantic comedy set around the unpredictable frission between a ladykilling TV personality (Sellers) and a kooky young thing (Hawn). A bit…
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Juano Hernandez
- The first sequel to IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT has Sidney Poitier’s detective now settled in San Francisco and investigating a girl’s…
Things of Life, The (Les Choses De La Vie) (1970)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Jean Bouise
- Golden Palm nominated French comedy focusing on the life of a fatally injured man who upon seeing his life flash before his eyes realizes he must…