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Director: Lina Wertmuller    More Info
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Lina Polito, Eros Pagni, Pina Cei, Elena Fiore

 This great satirical film is about Tunin (Giancarlo Giannini), who arrives in Rome determined to assassinate Mussolini and becomes involved with prostitutes who divert his attentions.

Director: Tonino Valerii    More Info
Starring: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, Piero Lulli, Leo Gordon, R.G. Armstrong, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, Neil Summers, Franco Angrisano

 Making fun of spaghetti Westerns is the basis for this film in which Nobody (Terence Hill) is hired to kill outlaw Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda). After meeting Beauregard, Nobody idolizes him and insists that Beauregard must contend with one last group of outlaws before he can retire in a blaze of glory. Nobody sets up a meeting with The Wild Bunch, and Beauregard starts shooting and setting off explosives to kill members of the gang so that he can retire in glory and, at last, live his quiet life.

Director: Lindsay Anderson    More Info
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Dandy Nichols, Mona Washbourne, Graham Crowden, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Medwin

 This allegory, with the politics of Capitalism as its subject, is told through a young coffee salesman's–Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell)–experiences as he climbs up and falls down the ladder of success. Alan Price adds to the fast-paced story with several songs that reflect Mick's rise and fall: "Someone has to win in the human race, if it isn't you, then it has to be me."

Director: Stanley Kramer    More Info
Starring: George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, Woodrow Parfrey, William Lucking, Harvey Jason, Ted Gehring, Cliff Osmond, Rafael Campos

 Lena (Faye Dunaway) has rights to an oil well but her claim is in jeopardy because a large oil refinery's bosses are trying to take over. She hires a drifter, Mose (George C. Scott), to help her keep what is rightfully hers. Scott's funny role makes this watchable.

Director: Anthony Simmons    More Info
Starring: Peter Sellers, Donna Mullane, John Chaffrey, David Daker, Marjorie Yates, Michael Graham Cox, Bruce Purchase

 Sam (Peter Sellers) is an aging street performer who befriends two street urchins in this touching comedy/drama.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich    More Info
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, P.J. Johnson, Noble Willingham, Randy Quaid, Burton Gilliam, Jessie Lee Fulton, James N. Harrell

 Orphaned ten-year-old Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal) is cared for by Bible salesman, con artist Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) while he is taking her to relatives in St. Joseph, Missouri. Along the way, Addie becomes adept at selling Bibles, and Moses is thrilled that Addie is turning into a great con artist as well. In fact, Addie likes working as a team with Moses and even breaks up his romance with Trixie Delight (Madeline Kahn) in order to assure herself a place in Moses' life. The question soon becomes, "Who can out-con the other?" Ryan's daughter Tatum is definitely a chip off the old block, and she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Madeline Kahn was also nominated for Supporting Actress.

Director: Tom O'Horgan    More Info
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black, Robert Weil, Joe Silver, Marilyn Chris, Robert Fields, Melody Santangello, Lou Cutell, Don Calfa

 People turn into rhinoceroses in a French village in this "theater of the absurd" adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's play. Stanley (Gene Wilder) is the only one noticing the transformation of everyone else.

Director: Woody Allen    More Info
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mews Small, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer, John McLiam, Bartlett Robinson, Peter Hobbs, Chris Forbes

 Woody Allen plays a man who has been asleep for 200 years and wakes up in a futuristic world where he becomes involved with a rebel cause and falls in love with a poetess, Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton).

Director: Jacques Demy    More Info
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Claude Melki, Marisa Pavan, Mireille Mathieu, Andre Falcon, Maurice Biraud, Alice Sapritch, Raymond Gerome

 Marco (Marcello Mastroianni) visits his girlfriend's (Catherine Deneuve) doctor (Micheline Presle) and is told that he is four months pregnant. A media frenzy ensues, and Marco is hired to model maternity clothes–until he finds out that the diagnosis was for his girlfriend.

Director: Howard Zieff    More Info
Starring: James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman, Louise Lasser, Allen Garfield, Richard B. Shull, Alex Rocco, Garry Goodrow, Len Lesser, Virginia Sale

 An assorted group of offbeat characters search for lost treasure of embezzled money in California. As they search, they are trailed by bad guys who want the money for themselves. Fun viewing.

Director: Alan Myerson    More Info
Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow, Howard Hesseman, John Savage, Richard Schaal, Mel Stewart, Nancy Fish, Larry Hankin

 Iris (Jane Fonda), Veldini (Donald Sutherland), and Eagle (Peter Boyle) are determined to restore an antiquated Navy plane in order to escape to a place of freedom. But, the plane is about to be scrapped, so they must raid the Navy's spare parts locker to find necessary parts.

Director: George Roy Hill    More Info
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Robert Earl Jones, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, Dana Elcar, Jack Kehoe

 To avenge the death of a friend, two small-time con men (Robert Redford and Paul Newman) decide to pull a fantastic scam. They set up a sting operation to cheat the killer, Doyle Lonnigan (Robert Shaw), out of half a million dollars. The film won seven Academy Awards; among them were Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay. Robert Redford received a nomination for Best Actor.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan    More Info
Starring: Susan Damante, Brooke Mills, Brenda Sutton, Nora Heflin, Dick Miller, Chuck Norris, Charles Dierkop, Johnny Ray McGhee, Bob Harris, John Kramer

 The 60's culture of drugs, sex, and Rock and Roll are depicted in this film on the day-to-day happenings at a high school. A sequel, "Summer School Teachers," followed.

Director: Richard Lester    More Info
Starring: Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch, Michael York, Geraldine Chaplin, Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Frank Finlay, Jean-Pierre Cassel

 This is a very good rendition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel about the swashbuckling adventures and romances of D'Artagnan (Michael York) and the three Musketeers–Athos, Aramis, and Porthos (Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, and Frank Finlay). The story begins when D'Artagnan arrives in Paris wanting to follow in the footsteps of his father (Joss Ackland) who was a Musketeer. He meets and befriends Athos, Aramis, and Porthos and then joins in their efforts to defend Queen Anna (Geraldine Chaplin) from the scheming Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston).

Director: Melvin Frank    More Info
Starring: George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Paul Sorvino, K Callan, Hildegarde Neil, Cec Linder, Mary Barclay, Michael Elwyn, Nadim Sawalha, Ian Thompson

 This production tells the story of an affair between an American insurance executive (George Segal) living in London with his family and a British dress designer (Glenda Jackson) separated from her husband. They meet and have an affair in spite of a myriad of problems. Glenda Jackson won the Best Actress Oscar for her role. Somehow, this dull picture was also nominated for an Oscar.

Director: Milton Moses Ginsberg    More Info
Starring: Dean Stockwell, Katalin Kallay, Biff McGuire, Clifton James, Michael Dunn, Beeson Carroll, Jane House, Barbara Spiegel, Despo Diamantidou, Thayer David

 White House Press Secretary Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) is bitten by a werewolf while visiting Hungary, returns to Washington, D.C., and turns into a deadly beast at night attacking politicians. Now, the President (Biff McGuire) appears to be his next intended victim.

Director: Robert Scheerer    More Info
Starring: Tim Conway, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Amos, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dayle Haddon, Billy De Wolfe, Nancy Walker, Leon Askin, Don Pedro Colley, Vito Scotti

 Coaches Sam Archer (John Amos) and Milo Jackson (Tim Conway) travel to Africa where they discover a super athlete, Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent), who they bring back to their college in the United States and turn him into a track star.

Director: Aram Avakian    More Info
Starring: Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, James Mason, Helen Cherry, Peter Vaughan, Jack Watson, Leon Greene, Jack Watling

 In this spoof on heist films, millionaire Clyde Massey (Trevor Howard) hires a dealer in diamonds, Howard R. Chesser (Charles Grodin), to rob a London diamond exchange owned by Meecham (John Gielgud). Chesser, his girlfriend Maren Shirell (Candice Bergen), and Charles D. Watts (James Mason) suck the diamonds through the wiring system and perform a successful heist. When Massey, who wants the diamonds for himself, sends his henchmen to retrieve the diamonds, a chase ensues, but the robbers manage to escape.

Director: Ted Kotcheff    More Info
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctot, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman, Denholm Elliott, Henry Ramer, Joe Silver, Zvee Scooler, Robert Goodier

 Duddy Kravitz (Richard Dreyfuss) learned how to hustle growing up in a Montreal ghetto. Now he uses that skill to climb the ropes to financial success. He buys property and produces films of bar mitzvahs to make money but, in the process, alienates his friends and family.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini    More Info
Starring: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini, Tessa Bouche, Margaret Clementi, Francelise Noel, Ali Abdulla, Christian Aligny, Salvatore Sapienza

 Pier Paolo Pasolini's third film in his series–following "The Decameron" (1971) and "The Canterbury Tales" (1972)–is the erotic tale of a prince, Nured-Din (Franco Merli), who searches his known world (the Middle East) for his lover, slave girl Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini). Zumurrud has been kidnapped, disguises herself as a man, marries a woman, and is declared the ruler of a great city. While Nured-Din tries to find Zumurrud, he hears various stories involving nudity and betrayal, but he is not able to forget Zumurrud and continues his search.

Director: Gower Champion    More Info
Starring: George C. Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, Clifton James, Bob Balaban, Frank McRae, Harvey Adams, G. Wood, Don Calfa, Jack Riley

 Irving (Harvey Adams) plots a bank robbery with a twist–he plans to rob the entire mobile home in which the bank funds are temporarily housed. This is one nutty comedy.

Director: Steve Carver    More Info
Starring: Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee, Noble Willingham, Dick Miller, Royal Dano, Sally Kirkland, Joan Prather

 Bootleggers Wilma McClatchie (Angie Dickinson) and her two teenage daughters Billie Jean and Polly (Susan Sennett and Robbie Lee) turn to bank robberies when they join forces with Wilma's common law husband William J. Baxter (William Shatner). As a result, they lead law enforcement officers on a merry chase.

Director: Mel Brooks    More Info
Starring: Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Mel Brooks, David Huddleston, Dom DeLuise, John Hillerman

 This is a hilarious satire on Western movies by the master of wacky, Mel Brooks. The evil Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) wants to reap the profits when the railroad comes to a small frontier town. When the sheriff dies, Hedley arranges for ex-convict Bart (Cleavon Little) to be offered amnesty if he agrees to be the new sheriff. Bart accepts the position and is the first Black sheriff of the all-White town. Hedley's ulterior motive is to chase the townsfolk out of town because he believes that they will not accept a Black sheriff. Once he becomes sheriff, Bart befriends town drunk Jim (Gene Wilder), and they set out to save the town from the scheming Hedley. Great cast having lots of fun. Madeline Kahn was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as the chanteuse, Lily Von Shtupp.

Director: Paul Morrissey    More Info
Starring: Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Arno Juerging, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Roman Polanski, Milena Vukotic, Dominique Darel, Stefania Casini, Silvia Dionisio

 Count Dracula (Udo Kier) pursues the blood of virgins as his means of sustenance and heads for Italy with his assistant, Anton (Arno Juerging), for needed blood. They stay at the Marquis DiFore's (Vittorio De Sica) estate. The Marquis has four daughters, and Dracula plots to get the blood from the one he believes is a virgin. But, problems arise for Dracula when handyman Mario (Joe Dallesandro) makes their blood unsafe for vampire consumption.

Director: Robert Altman    More Info
Starring: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Bert Remsen, Barbara Ruick, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Signorelli, Barbara London, John Considine

 Compulsive gamblers Bill Denny (George Segal) and Charlie Waters (Elliott Gould) become friends, and they gamble together. But, as they are leaving, they are beaten up, and the winnings are stolen. They spend the night at Charlie's house with Charlie's roommates, prostitutes Barbara (Ann Prentiss) and Susan (Gwen Welles). The next day, they sink into their worlds of booze, gambling, and sex, and, once again, their money is stolen. Bill sells his possessions to gamble on a big game in Reno. He wins but then leaves the casino and heads home after realizing that gambling may not be the way he wants to live his life, while Charlie remains behind believing that gambling IS his life.