Every 70s Movie
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Brother on the Run (1973)

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           Minor blaxploitation melodrama  Brother on the Run  doesn’t come anywhere close to fulfilling the promise of its fantastic title,...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

L.A. 2017 (1971)

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          While the 1971 telefilm  Duel  was the first standalone feature-length project that Steven Spielberg made as a professional, he di...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Linda Lovelace for President (1975)

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Any hopes that  Linda Lovelace for President  might realize the satirical possibilities of its title disappear the instant the movie starts,...
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Monday, January 3, 2022

Another Blog? Yes, Another Blog!

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Taking advantage of the unexpected downtime we’ve all had in the last couple of years, I recently completed a musical adventure by revisitin...
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Monday, December 27, 2021

The Adventures of Frontier Fremont (1975)

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          A year after they scored a box-office hit with  The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams , star Dan Haggerty and the same behind-the-sc...
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Monday, December 20, 2021

Memory of Us (1974)

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          The quintessential figure of a woman who has everything and yet has nothing, Betty (Ellen Geer) is a housewife with a successful h...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Delirium (1979)

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Is  Delirium  a conspiracy thriller disguished as a slasher flick? Or is it a provocative story about PTSD and vigilante justice rendered in...
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Monday, December 6, 2021

The Astrologer (1975)

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           It’s time to leave the real world behind and venture into the alternate universe created by a gentleman named Craig Denney, whose...
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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