Every 70s Movie
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Mon oncle Antoine (1971)

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          Set in rural Quebec during the 1940s,  Mon oncle Antoine  is mostly the intimate character study of a teenager experiencing format...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Smile, Jenny, You're Dead (1974)

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            Offering a thoughtful spin on the TV-detective genre,  Smile, Jenny, You’re Dead  is a reboot of sorts, serving as the second pi...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

The Girl in the Empty Grave (1977) & Deadly Game (1977)

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The notion of playing a resort town’s top lawman must have lodged in Andy Griffith’s imagination after starring in the respectable made-for-...
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Monday, August 16, 2021

The Road to Salina (1970)

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          This sultry European melodrama/thriller exists somewhere between classic film noir and the psychosexual explorations of Nicolas Ro...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

5.5 Million Views!

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What it is, people of the Interwebs! Touching base with a quick update on the blog ’s continued growth, because the number of lifetime views...
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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)

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           If not for its posh production values and the pedigree of its director, the cutesy romance  Slow Dancing in the Big City  would c...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Sunnyside (1979)

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           The bankable surname of of this obscure melodrama’s leading actor explains why he got above-the-title billing in his first movie,...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Treasure Island (1972)

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           As is true of most films with which Orson Welles was associated, this European adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 advent...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Assault on the Wayne (1971)

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          Mostly of interest for Leonard Nimoy fans curious to see how the beloved actor handles one of his rare leading-man roles,  Assault...
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Saturday, February 27, 2021

Deliver Us from Evil (1975)

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          The last of three well-intentioned but hopelessly amateurish melodramas that writer/producer/director Horace Jackson made about th...
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Thursday, January 21, 2021

Madron (1970)

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           Definitive production information on this one is hard to come by, but it appears   Madron   is an American/Israeli coproduction n...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971)

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          Generated by the short-lived company Tigon British Film Productions,   The Blood on Satan’s Claw   is something of a companion pie...
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Monday, November 23, 2020

The Astrologer (1975)

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If your taste in ’70s schlock renders you susceptible to low-budget oddities infused with paranormal nonsense, then two things are true: 1) ...
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Monday, October 26, 2020

Instagram Feed & 5 Million Views!

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Hey there, groovy people! Checking in with a couple of fun updates . First, this blog has achieved yet another milestone that I could never ...
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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Death Line (1972)

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          Rarely will genre-picture viewers encounter a harder tonal shift than the transition occurring around the 23-minute mark of UK hor...
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Saturday, September 12, 2020

Limbo (1972)

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           Early cinematic explorations of the Vietnam War largely focused on military action, draft dodgers, or the emotional lives of retu...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Explosion (1970)

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          The building blocks of a passable draft-dodger melodrama can be found somewhere inside  Explosion , an American/Canadian productio...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Outside In (1972)

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          The draft-dodger drama  Outside In  starts off strong—first comes a tense border crossing during which Ollie Wilson (Darrel...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Title List Updated

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Greetings from the world of  Every ’70s Movie  with a brief housekeeping update. The lengthy title list that runs down the right side of t...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

American Tickler (1977)

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In the years before and after  Saturday Night Live ’s debut, a number of low-budget movies either anticipated or mimicked the show’s ...
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Saturday, April 4, 2020

The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

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          Easily one of the most famous unfinished movies in world-cinema history, Orson Welles’ elusive  The Other Side of the Wind ...
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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Dark August (1976)

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          Clumsily rendered and woefully deficient in terms of actual thrills, rural horror picture  Dark August  nonetheless has pri...
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