Movie reviews, movie articles, movie information from 1970 to 1979. Movie polls on movies, movie directors and movie actors from the 1970s.
Now available on DVD and Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics is the 1970 cult Western Cannon for Cordoba When the Mexican revolutionary Cordoba (Raf Vallone) steals six cannons from the U.S. military, Captain Rod Douglas (George Peppard) leads a ragtag…
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On Halloween night in 1978, NBC aired the television event Stranger in Our House. The movie starred Linda Blair — still a horror commodity due to her legendary work in The Exorcist — and was directed by a then-unknown director…
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The beloved childhood novel from Roald Dahl became an equally beloved film in 1971 when Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory hit the big screen in a crowd-pleasing adaptation full of music and magic. Although Gene Wilder is the title…
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With Close Encounters of the Third Kind currently enjoying a 40th anniversary re-release in theaters, we wanted you to sound off about which of the following magical movies from Steven Spielberg was your favorite! And share your thoughts on all…
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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a ruthless killer who came to be known as the Zodiac Killer terrorized California. To this day, he has never been officially identified. Because of the severity of his crimes (not to mention…
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One of the classics currently featured in our Fan Favorites from Universal Pictures sale, The Sting is the 1973 blockbuster that won seven Academy Awards — including Best Picture. Originally released theatrically on Christmas Day of 1973, this cinematic journey…
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For this week’s Flashback Friday, guest blogger Rick 29 writes about one of the 1970s most interesting films: The popularity of Blaxploitation films had already begun to wane by 1974, just three brief years after Shaft made a box office splash….
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Jack Nicholson played a less-than-successful 1870s outlaw who escapes the hangman’s noose by marrying spinster Mary Steenburgen in 1978’s Goin’ South. Rick 29 looks at the production of the frontier comedy/romance, which Nicholson also directed.
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Ex-vaudevillian George Burns finds a surprise inside his car’s trunk–teenage runaway Brooke Shields–in 1979’s Just You and Me, Kid. Guest writer Todd Liebenow isn’t kidding when he says the comedy just makes the grade as a vehicle for its disparate stars.
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For decades a mysterious, Sasquatch-like man-beast has been said to roam the swamps of southwestern Arkansas…and movie screens, as well. Guest writer Rick29 takes a look at the legend of the Boggy Creek Monster, its cinematic career, and the annual festival held in its honor.
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