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70's cinema: A-M, N-Z

ONE OF THOSE THINGS DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 88 mins. DENMARK. Color.
directed by: Erik Balling
description: When a respectable married man and high powered executive with an automobile company (Roy Dotrice) accidentally kills a man in a car accident, he finds himself the target of blackmail and manipulation by a beautiful young girl (Judy Geeson) who uses her knowledge of the incident to worm her way into a job and threaten his marriage. This Danish film made with a British and Japanese cast is considered a great "lost" film that has been rarely seen... until now! WATCH CLIP

THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 93 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: David Greene
description: Parents worry about their daughter when she freaks out on drugs and is hospitalized. Arthur (Eli Wallach) and Gerri (Julie Harris) face the reality when Maxie (Deborah Winters) must remain at the facility or return home. Della (Rue McClanahan) is Arthur's straight shooting secretary and mistress who offers an objective opinion of the situation. Dr. Salazar (Nehemiah Persoff) is the concerned physician treating Maxie. David (Hal Holbrook) and Tina (Cloris Leachman) are the neighbors whose son Sandy (Don Scardino) turns out to be a juvenile drug dealer. The story was taken from an award winning 1968 television special.

PERFECT FRIDAY DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. UK. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Peter Hall
description: A trio of aspiring crooks plan to steal a million dollars in this crime comedy. Lord Nicholas (David Warner) and his Swiss wife Britt (Ursula Andress) are the jet-set couple who have spent all their money and seek a loan from the bank. She asks Graham (Stanley Baker) for a loan, but the mid-level manager has plans of his own to pad his retirement account by means of larceny. Graham approaches both Nicholas and Britt to help him in his plan. Britt sleeps with both men, willing to take off to Rio with the first one who gets his hands on the money. Nicholas and Graham both are under the assumption they are the masterminds of the plot that is highlighted by amusing twists. WATCH CLIP

PLAY IT AS IT LAYS DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 99 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Frank Perry
description: Maria Wyeth (Tuesday Weld), an ex-model and B-movie actress, strolls on the grounds of a mental hospital, recalling the traumatic events which led to her breakdown. She is married to an unfaithful, self-engrossed director, Carter Lane (Adam Roarke). Neglected by her husband, Maria is engaged in a series of one-night stands and becomes pregnant. Her husband divorces her, and she has an illegal abortion. Maria's only friend is B.Z. (Anthony Perkins), a homosexual movie producer. World weary, he tells Maria that he has discovered the meaning of life is nothing. He invites her to commit suicide with him.

PUZZLE OF A DOWNFALL CHILD DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 105 mins. USA. Color. Widescreen.
directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
description: This cinema verite drama won accolades for the Golden Globe-nominated performance of lead actress Faye Dunaway who stars as Lou Andreas Sand, a former fashion model who has retreated to her seaside cottage. Photographer / filmmaker Aaron Reinhardt (Barry Primus), who helped make her famous, wants to make a movie about Lou's rise from rags to riches reciting a shocking litany of casual sex and rape, drug and alcohol abuse, and her romance with wealthy boyfriend Mark (Roy Scheider.) A former fashion photographer himself, Schatzberg was an apt choice for director of this melodramatic portrait of the industry's ugly underbelly. Please note: this movie has non-removable French subtitles.

THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD DVD (1975) $14.99
run time: 105 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: J. Lee Thompson
description: When college professor Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) begins to experience flashbacks from a previous incarnation, he is mysteriously drawn to a place he has never been before but which is troublingly familiar. As if drawn to her by cosmic force, he soon finds himself unwittingly in the company of his previous incarnation's wife. This woman, Marcia Curtis (Margot Kidder) recognizes in Peter startling characteristics which he shares with her dead husband, Jeff. Even the sound of his voice seems at times to be that of the dead man. Peter becomes romantically drawn to Ann Curtis who is or was his daughter (Jeff and Marcia's daughter). Recognizing the incestuous nature of their relationship, Mrs. Curtis tries to keep the two young people apart. But how? Must she reveal the terrible secret of the final minutes she shared with her husband in order to keep this man from her (their?) daughter?

QUEST FOR LOVE DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 87 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Ralph Thomas
description: This science fiction/fantasy is loosely based on a story by John Wyndham (best known for The Day of the Triffids). Scientist Collin (Tom Bell) stumbles across a parallel world in which President Kennedy is not shot, Vietnam hasn't happened, and Ottilie (Joan Collins), the woman he loves, dies unexpectedly of a heart condition. While he is happy enough with the rest of his new world, he can't stand by and let his true love die in his original world, and he determines to return to his own place and time to save her.

REMEMBER MY NAME DVD (1978) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Alan Rudolph
description: This disquieting domestic thriller from writer and director Alan Rudolph was produced by his long-time mentor Robert Altman. Anthony Perkins stars as Neil Curry, a construction worker living happily in suburbia with his wife Barbara (Berry Berenson) until their home becomes vandalized during the holiday season by a stalker. It seems that the assailant, Emily (Geraldine Chaplin), is Neil's chain-smoking, mentally disturbed ex-wife, who has just been released from jail after serving a long sentence for murder. Now she seems to be both seeking revenge for some past wrongs and attempting to win Neil back at the same time. WATCH CLIP

RIVALS DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 104 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Krishna Shah
description: Divorced mother Christine Button (Joan Hackett) runs an art gallery, her son, Jamie (Scott Jacoby) is a 10-year-old experimental filmmaker. One day Christine meets Peter (Robert Klein), a childlike 33-year-old independent guided-tour leader, who hustles her into a tour of Manhattan and after a whirlwind courtship, marries her. Distraught, Jamie regresses, and with desperate skill begins to plan Peter's murder. Rivals is that kind of one of a kind movie that could only have been produced in the 70's. It's gritty and dark yet sweet and romantic.

ROAD TO SALINA DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 98 minutes. Color. FRANCE / ITALY.
directed by: Georges Lautner
description: Mara (Rita Hayworth) is the lonely owner of a gas station on a remote road leading to Salina, Mexico in this psychodrama. A young hippie (Robert Walker Jr.) is mistaken for her son who had left four years earlier. He is encouraged to stay and develops an amorous relationship with his supposed sister Billie (Mimsy Farmer). He looks into the family history and discovers Billie may have killed her own brother and Mara could very well be covering up the crime. Warren (Ed Begley) and Mara dance the frug in this feature, the last for Begley who died in April, 1970 and the second to last film for legendary screen siren Hayworth.

R.P.M. DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 92 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Stanley Kramer
description: Set against the political turmoil of the late 60's, R.P.M. (Revolutions Per Minute) stars Anthony Quinn as "Paco" Perez, a free-thinking liberal college professor whom the campus leftists regard as an authority figure they can understand. Perez is also free-thinking enough to have a grad student as a mistress, Rhoda (Ann-Margret). When the University President is forced out of office by a radical group, Perez is given the job, but his credibility with the activists comes into question when he's unable to meet their demands as quickly as they would like. WATCH CLIP

THE SALZBURG CONNECTION DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 93 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Lee H. Katzin
description: Barry Newman and Anna Karina star in this espionage thriller based on a spy novel by Helen MacInnes. The Salzburg Connection tells the tale of Yankee lawyer William Mathison who goes to the lovely little Austrian city of Salzberg on holiday. Before he knows it he ends up hopelessly entangled in an international web of auto chases, rival spies, assassins, and neo-Nazis searching for a chest that holds the names of Nazi collaborators and war criminals. Otto Preminger's brother, Ingo, who had been a lawyer in Vienna before going to USA served as producer of the film version of this story. WATCH CLIP

THE SEVEN MINUTES DVD (1971) $14.99 new transfer!
run time: 115 minutes. Color. USA. uncut.
directed by: Russ Meyer
description: Russ Meyer followed-up his delirious Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with this surprisingly straighforward drama, which offered little of Meyer's traditional tongue-in-cheek humor or remarkably proportioned women in favor of a serious message about the evils of censorship. A bookstore sells a copy of a notorious erotic novel, entitled The Seven Minutes, to a teenager who is later arrested for rape. A prosecutor on a crusade against pornography seizes upon this as an opportunity to have the book declared obscene, and the trial sparks a heated debate about the issue of pornography vs. free speech, as well as revealing a startling revelation about the novel's true author. Adapted from a novel by Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes featured one of Meyer's more interesting casts, including veteran character actors John Carradine, a post-Munsters Yvonne de Carlo, a pre-Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck, and Wolfman Jack as himself.

SKATEBOARD DVD (1978) $14.99
run time: 97 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: George Gage
description: This lively actioner was made to cash in on the skateboard mania of the mid 1970s. It is the story of a Hollywood agent who finds himself in deep trouble with a powerful bookie. Now he must come up with the cash he owes or face certain death. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000. Meanwhile, an evil gangster tries to persuade the agent and his team to deliberately lose.

SKATETOWN, U.S.A. DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 98 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: William A. Levey
description: Dozens of movie cliches are thrown in a blender and then poured all over a mirror ball and refracted onto the Skatetown U.S.A. roller rink, where everyone from Flip Wilson to Billy Barty to Scott Baio to Ruth Buzzi to to Dorothy Stratton to Maureen McCormick to Greg Bradford collide headfirst with Patrick Swayze (in a smoldering debut as bad boy disco skate gang leader "Ace".) This insane and entertaining movie has romance, drug humor, blindsiding slapstick violence and a motorized skate race on a pier that compares with the chariot race in Ben Hur, but staffed by Air Supply lookalikes."

SKY RIDERS DVD (1976) $14.99
run time: 91 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Douglas Hickox
description: Robert Culp plays Jonas Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen (Susannah York) and their children are kidnapped by terrorists. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex-husband (James Coburn) enters the fray and enlists a crew of professional hang gliders to help him plan a rescue from the terrorist's mountain top lair. WATCH CLIP

STAND UP AND BE COUNTED (1972) $14.99
run time: 90 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Jackie Cooper
description: Sheila Hammond (Jacqueline Bisset) is a fashion magazine reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments. On the flight to her hometown of Denver, Sheila meets old boyfriend (Gary Lockwood) an airline pilot, and the two rekindle their interest in each other. At home, Sheila is further taken aback to learn that her younger sister Karen (Lee Purcell) is the militant leader of another "Women's Lib" group.

SUPERVAN DVD (1977) $14.99
run time: 91 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Lamar Card
description: Back in the mid-1970s, elaborately appointed vans were all the rage. This film was designed to exploit the craze and centers upon a particularly stupendous vehicle that is even equipped with solar-powered laser beams that the driver hero uses to stop some evil bikers.

SWIM TEAM DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 75 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: James Polakof
description: The Whalers school swim team holds a record of zero wins in seven years. Their team captain is hungover, the star swimmer is practicing her stroke on the coach and the team mascot is belly-up on the beach. It's a funny case of sink or swim for the new coach who wants to transform this group into a real swim team.

TAKE SOME GIRLS DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 84 minutes. Color. UK.
directed by: Lindsay Shonteff
description: Take Some Girls (AKA Excitement Girls: The Story Of A High-Class Film) ran for a year in one London's West End cinema wearing out three 35mm prints. It's a sex comedy which captured the mood of the seventies, and showed how guerilla filmmakers of the time made films and the girls who wanted to be in them.

TAKING OFF DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 93 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Milos Forman
description: Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter eventually joining a support group for the parents of runaway children. As a critically revered lampoon of late-'60s sensibilities, Taking Off is full of "unknown" Manhattan-based performers who became famous during the '70s and '80s, including Paul Benedict, Vincent Schiavelli, Allen Garfield, Audra Lindley, and, in fleeting roles as auditioning singers, Carly Simon and Kathy Bates.

TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, JUNIE MOON DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 113 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Otto Preminger
description: "Junie Moon" contains what may well be Liza Minnelli's best non-musical performance. Based on the novel by Marjorie Kellogg, the film surprisingly manages to evoke humor and pathos from some of the least promising material in movie history. Minnelli plays an emotionally imbalanced young girl whose face is horribly disfigured by her psycho boyfriend Ben Piazza. Ken Howard is cast as an epileptic who has wrongly been diagnosed as mentally retarded. And Robert Moore (future director of such films as The Cheap Detective and Murder by Death) portrays a homosexual, confined to a wheelchair after a hunting accident. Unfortunately, some filmgoers, assuming that any film with a title like Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon just had to be a campy laff riot, were turned off by the repellant aspects of the early scenes and refused to give the rest of this fascinating film a chance.

THUMB TRIPPING DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Quentin Masters
description: A hippie, counter-culture, anti-establishment road film. A teenaged boy and girl meet in Big Sur, California and begin a hitchhiking adventure traveling north to San Francisco. The "interesting people" they meet include two switchblade-wielding psychopaths who threaten them, a Benzedrine popping pervert trucker (he urinates on them!) who locks the boy in the back and bangs the girl up in the cab, and a drunken alcoholic "swinging couple" in a cool 1950s car who take them for a wild ride! Long hairs, guitars and bongos! Lots of "Iron Butterfly sounding" rock n roll. Music by: The Friends of Distinction. The sixties were still alive in 1972! Meg Foster, Michael Burns, Bruce Dern, Mikel Conrad, Larry Hankin, Joyce Van Patten, Marianna Hill. Thumb Tripping!

TIFFANY JONES DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Pete Walker
description: Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. The original Tiffany Jones newspaper strip won plaudits for its wit and style. Written and drawn by two female fashion journalists, it told of the exploits of a glamorous model, Tiffany, and her friends Jo and boyfriend Guy in the free spirit of 'Swinging London'. In this film, Tiffany gets embroiled in an attempt by a deposed foreign royal to overthrow the dictatorship which has taken over his country. WATCH CLIP

TO KILL A CLOWN DVD (1974) $14.99
run time: 84 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: George Bloomfield
description: When a young hippie married couple (Blythe Danner & Heath Lamberts) retreats to an isolated island to attempt to salvage their failing relationship, they find that they are the targets of a military-brat sociopath (Alan Alda) and have to join forces to combat him. Way ahead of its time for addressing the problems of soldiers returning from combat. Adapted from the short story Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys.

TOOMORROW DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 95 mins. UK. Color. Widescreen. Foreign subtitles.
directed by: Val Guest
description: This insipid science fiction musical concerns a group of students paying their way through school by forming a pop band. The group is led by Olivia Newton-John, and organist Vic Cooper has invented an instrument called the "tonaliser." The sonic vibrations from the invention causes an extra-terrestrial (Roy Dotrice) to beam up the group to entertain the Alphoid population. The film title refers to the group name. Newton-John would go on to a successful singing and acting career, most notably in the 1978 musical Grease.

TROPIC OF CANCER DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 87 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Joseph Strick
description: Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy literary work -- Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Rip Torn plays Miller, an American expatriate author living -- and loving -- in 1920s Paris. The much-vaunted sex scenes were hot enough in 1970 to earn the film an X-rating, and an NC-17 when the film was re-rated in 1992. Ellen Burstyn (then billed as Ellen MacRae) stars as Miller's long-suffering wife, Mona; Phil Kaufman later elaborated on her character in the 1990 film Henry & June. Henry Miller himself appears in Tropic of Cancer, billed as a "spectator."

TWO PEOPLE DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 101 mins. USA. Color. Uncut.
directed by: Robert Wise
description: Evan Bonner (Peter Fonda) is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey (Lindsay Wagner in her movie debut) a beautiful if petulant model. The two make an unlikely couple, but once in France the magic of Paris works its charm and these two vulnerable people finally find each other. WATCH CLIP

W DVD (1974) $14.99
run time: 95 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Richard Quine
description: In this film, also released under the title I Want Her Dead, Katie Lewis (Twiggy) and her husband Ben (Michael Witney) discover that they are the targets of a mysterious killer who leaves the letter W at the scene of their near-fatal "accidents." While trying to avoid death, the couple must struggle to discover where the source of these attacks stems from.

WATCHED! DVD (1974) $14.99
run time: 97 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: John Parsons
description: When government attorney Mike Mandell (Stacy Keach, Jr.) begins to suffer from a mental disorder that periodically transforms him into another mobster personality known as "Sonny," his strange behavior doesn't escape the notice of narcotics agent Gordon Pankey (Harris Yulin). As Gordon observes Mike, the man becomes more and more paranoid that he is being watched. The score for this film was created by the jazz group Weather Report.

WHEN YOU COMIN' BACK, RED RYDER? DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 118 mins. USA. Color. TV Version.
directed by: Milton Katselas
description: Evangelist-turned-actor Marjoe Gortner plays Teddy, a cracked Vietnam vet whose car breaks down at a Texas roadside diner full of townspeople who he subjects to his unique brand of physical and mental torture. Candy Clark plays Cheryl, his zoned-out hippie girlfriend. This highly sought-after 1979 film, adapted from the play of the same name by Mark Medoff, is regarded as one of the great lost films of the 70's. Television broadcast complete with vintage 80's commercials. WATCH CLIP

WHIRLPOOL DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. Denmark/UK. Color.
directed by: Jose Ramon Larraz
description: AKA "She Died With Her Boots On." A young man and his aunt live in a small cottage in the secluded woods in this X rated exploitation murder thriller. The aunt is into group sex and lesbianism while her nephew desires more than one partner for his satisfaction. He takes pictures of the action, particularly when a blonde female model from London joins in the fun. She is willingly seduced by the aunt and the nephew. She is forced to remain at the macabre cottage when she stumbles across photographic evidence in the darkroom. He films an attack and rape of the woman in the woods before the trio settles down to sipping whisky and playing strip poker. Karl Lanchbury, Vivian Neyes and Pia Anderson portray the three sex fiends. featuring original score by Stelvio Cipriani. NOTE: this film has a counter at the top of the screen that runs throughout the entire film, however, this is the only print known in existence.

YESTERDAY'S HERO DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 95 minutes. Color. UK / AUSTRALIA.
directed by: Neil Leifer
description: Jackie Collins melodramatic screenplay about a soccer player and his road to fame and fortune. Rod Turner (Ian McShane) is a has-been soccer whiz who one day gets a second chance to reach for the brass ring. He joins a team owned by a playboy rock star (Paul Nicholas) and managed by Jake (Adam Faith), a vicious, mean-spirited devil. In spite of the manager and a suddenly complex personal life as he gets involved with the rock star's girlfriend (Suzanne Somers), Rod is determined to make this second chance work.

YOUR THREE MINUTES ARE UP DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 93 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Douglas Schwartz
description: Beau Bridges plays an uptight insurance clerk. Ron Leibman plays Bridges' laid-back pal, who talks Beau into skipping work in order to drive Leibman to the airport. This little trip across town turns into an idyllic trek up the California coast. While Leibman wheels and deals in his efforts to con the Establishment, Bridges loosens up with several nubile females, totally forgetting his proper fiancee Janet Margolin. While it has all the earmarks of a typical "youth trip" film of the 1970s, Your Three Minutes Are Up scores with its believable characterizations and its perceptive view of California's mixed-up social values. WATCH CLIP

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