The 70s

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70s movies

Death Race 2000 (1975)

Death Race 2000 (1975) In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill’s brutality.

The Arena (1974)

Pam Grier, Marie Louise Sinclair, Lucretia Love, and Margaret Markov in The Arena (1974) Two thousand years ago, the people of Rome are so blasée, so used to violence, that entertaining them becomes a political problem. Someone suggests, after a…

Toni Kalem and Karen Allen in The Wanderers

Toni Kalem and Karen Allen in The Wanderers The Bronx, 1963. With the radio stations playing The Four Seasons, Lee Dorsey, The Angels, and Ben E. King, Richie Gennaro and The Wanderers, a band of Italian-American greasers, meander through the…

Silent Running (1972)

Silent Running (1972) In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet’s ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed, most…

Cybill Shepherd in The Last Picture Show (1971)

Cybill Shepherd in The Last Picture Show (1971)1411299 In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the…

The Owl and the Pussycat, 1970

Barbra Streisand in a publicity photo for The Owl and the Pussycat, 1970. Can a bickering odd couple in Manhattan become friends and maybe more? Owlish Felix is an unpublished writer who vents his frustration by reporting to the super…

Force ten from Navarone 1978

Barbara Bach – Robert Shaw (Force ten from Navarone) 1978 Mallory and Miller are back. It seems that there was traitor with them at Navarone, whom they thought was executed. But it seems that not only was he not executed,…

Summer of Fear (1978)

Linda Blair and Fran Drescher in Summer of Fear (1978) A country family of five takes in cousin Julia, whose parents recently perished in a car crash. Julia extends her influence over the family and those around them, fooling all except for Rachel, the…