Every 70s Movie
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Cannon (1971)

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          Investigators with offbeat gimmicks were a staple of mystery fiction long before television came along, but b...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

The Deserter (1971)

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          Part spaghetti Western and part Dirty Dozen ripoff, this Italy/US/Yugoslavia coproduction has a serviceable premise...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

Mean Mother (1971)

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As if his original productions weren’t bad enough, schlockmeister Al Adamson periodically repurposed old footage—from his own ...
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Thursday, February 9, 2017

You’ll Like My Mother (1972)

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          In this outlandish but slick thriller, Patty Duke plays a young woman carrying the child of a man who recentl...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Night Chase (1970)

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          David Janssen, the king of the pained facial expression, plays a different sort of fugitive in Night Chase , a somew...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

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          The final film of revered Spanish director Luis Buñuel, and also one of his most accessible movies, That Obscure Obj...
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Monday, February 6, 2017

Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970) & Torture Dungeon (1970) & The Body Beneath (1970) & Guru, the Mad Monk (1970) & The Man With Two Heads (1972, US) & The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972) & Blood (1973)

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A prolific independent filmmaker and theater professional best known for the low-budget exploitation movies he made from the l...
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Sunday, February 5, 2017

Gal Young Un (1979)

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          The pleasures of Victor Nunez’s rural saga Gal Young Un hide in plain sight. At first glance, the storyline ...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

Street Girls (1975)

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Noteworthy as an early screenwriting credit for Barry Levinson, then a gag writer for TV shows but later to become an O...
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Friday, February 3, 2017

The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)

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Another one of those hideous big-studio attempts at depicting the youth culture of the ’60s, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweet...
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Thursday, February 2, 2017

The Day of the Wolves (1971)

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          Zippy low-budget thriller The Day of the Wolves has one of the coolest premises you’ll ever encounter in the heist ...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

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          Three years before the miniseries Roots (1977) became an unexpected ratings blockbuster and opened many Americans’ ...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Leave Yesterday Behind (1978)

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          Tempting as it is to romanticize Carrie Fisher’s career in the wake of her shocking death at age 60, the trut...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Out of Season (1975)

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          Even if one ignores the story’s implications of incest, Out of Season is a creepy little number. Cliff Robertson pl...
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