Every 70s Movie
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

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          The saga of horror auteur George A. Romero’s career is filled with copyright disputes, editorial interference, and f...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Across the Great Divide (1976)

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After scoring a moderate success with The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975), a handsomely photographed Disney...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

C.C. and Company (1970)

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          So it’s the late ’60s and you’re Roger Smith, a former leading man now sidelined by various health problems b...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

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          If you’re a fan of ’70s cinema, you owe The Panic in Needle Park a major debt of gratitude—Al Pacino’s performance ...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Deathdream (1974)

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          Offering a supernatural spin on the Vietnam-vet genre, Deathdream —sometimes known by its original title, Dea...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Royal Flash (1975)

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          Fresh from his success with the two-part swashbuckling epic The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Loving (1970)

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          The misguided dramedy Loving revolves around Brooks Wilson (George Segal), a successful commercial artist married t...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

Gray Lady Down (1978)

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The disaster genre was already starting to repeat itself by the late ’70s, so the only real novelty of Gray Lady Down ...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

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          The final collaboration between director Don Siegel and his superstar protégé, Clint Eastwood, Escape from Alcatraz ...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

I Escaped from Devil’s Island (1973)

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Produced by Roger Corman to piggyback on the release of Papillon (1973), a big-budget drama about the inhuman conditions on t...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

F for Fake (1973)

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          By the ’70s, faded auteur Orson Welles seemed to embrace the vagabond quality of his career, throwing together hapha...
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

X, Y & Zee (1972)

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          Yet another shrill melodrama from the bleakest period of Elizabeth Taylor’s screen career—the wasteland between her ...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Carrie (1976)

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          It might be exaggerating to call Carrie a good film, since it’s unabashedly campy and lurid, but there’s no arguing...
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Monday, September 3, 2012

Which Way to the Front? (1970)

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          Funnyman Jerry Lewis’ screaming-nincompoop shtick was beyond passé by the time he made the painfully unfunny World W...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Steel (1979)

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          While it’s mildly enjoyable as a manly-man action movie, Steel is actually more amusing when viewed for its uninten...
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Saturday, September 1, 2012

The Dark (1979)

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A dreadful mishmash of horror and science fiction, The Dark manages to make the quest to capture an extraterrestrial serial k...
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