Description: Some of my favorite films from the 1970s
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bugsy Malone
( 1976 )
The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.
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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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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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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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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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McQ
( 1974 )
Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Great Expectations
( 1974 )
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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Summer Rental
( 1985 )
An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps.
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