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Favorite 70s and 80s Movies
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Some of my favorite films from the 1970s


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Movie: The Deadly Tower ( 1975 )
The infamous story of Charles Whitman, "America's favourite sniper" (in Stephen King's words), is told here once again.
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Movie: Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 )
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police races against time to eliminate him.
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Movie: Rocky ( 1976 )
A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
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Movie: Logan's Run ( 1976 )
An idyllic science fiction future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of thirty.
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Movie: The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 )
A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
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Movie: Silent Movie ( 1976 )
A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
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Movie: Young Frankenstein ( 1974 )
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
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Movie: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother ( 1975 )
Sherlock Holmes' younger brother is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying success, to imitate Sherlock's deductive and observational tricks.
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Movie: The Frisco Kid ( 1979 )
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.
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Movie: Blazing Saddles ( 1974 )
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
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Movie: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 )
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
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Movie: The Omen ( 1976 )
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
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Movie: Marathon Man ( 1976 )
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
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Movie: Midway ( 1976 )
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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Movie: The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 )
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
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Movie: Murder by Death ( 1976 )
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
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Movie: The Bad News Bears ( 1976 )
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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Movie: Bugsy Malone ( 1976 )
The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.
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Movie: The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 )
A German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
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Movie: The Enforcer ( 1976 )
Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.
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Movie: The Shootist ( 1976 )
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
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Movie: Rio Lobo ( 1970 )
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
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Movie: McQ ( 1974 )
Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.
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Movie: The Cowboys ( 1972 )
Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of cattle rustlers is trailing them.
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Movie: Cahill U.S. Marshal ( 1973 )
A tough Marshal has a difficult task when his two sons join a gang and rob a bank.
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Movie: Brannigan ( 1975 )
Chicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the U.K. to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the U.S., but Larkin's hitmen prepare an ambush for Brannigan.
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Movie: The Train Robbers ( 1973 )
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
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Movie: Chisum ( 1970 )
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
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Movie: Silver Streak ( 1976 )
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
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Movie: Car Wash ( 1976 )
A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.
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Movie: Robin and Marian ( 1976 )
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Movie: The Missouri Breaks ( 1976 )
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
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Movie: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ( 1976 )
To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.
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Movie: Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier ( 1980 )
Football jock Rocky Bleier makes it all the way to the pros with the Pittsburgh Steelers, only to be drafted in the Vietnam War. Wounded by a hand grenade overseas, Bleier returns to the U.S., and told he will never walk again. However, after a lengthy, grueling rehabilitation, Bleier ultimately walks again. Soon, he trains with his old team for inspiration. Boss Art ...Read all
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Movie: Huckleberry Finn ( 1974 )
In 1840s Missouri, young Huckleberry Finn, wanting to escape his violent drunkard father, joins Black runaway slave Jim on a quest for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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TV Show: Mussolini: The Untold Story ( 1985 )
Mussolini: The Untold Story follows the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The series begins in 1922 as Mussolini gathers his power through the use of his Black Shirt militia. Promoting himself as Caesar reincarnate, Il Duce gains a national fervor that peaks after the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1935. In 1938, Mussolini attempted to promote peace at a Munich conference. Nonetheless he aligned himself with Hitler and drew his country into World War II. Of course, this led to his country's downfall and his total dishonor.
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Movie: Great Expectations ( 1974 )
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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Movie: Summer Rental ( 1985 )
An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps.