Juggernaut (1974)
Synopsis: A madman announces that he has rigged a transatlantic liner with explosives and threatens to blow up the ship if he isn’t given £500,000. Reaction & Thoughts: “My name […]
Category Archives: 1974
The Yakuza (1974)
Synopsis: A retired American detective, Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum, The Night of the Hunter), finds more than he bargained for when he travels to Japan to look for his army […]
Zardoz (1974)
Synopsis: The year is 2293. Earth’s population is divided into two fractions: “The Eternals,” a group of ritzy immortals, and “The Brutals,” a proletarian class composed of mortals. “The Brutals” […]
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
Synopsis: A terrifying encounter with the supernatural is guaranteed to all customers who buy (or steal) items from an old antique store. Reaction & Thoughts: “… each purchase comes with […]
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Synopsis: In 1935, a shady businessman (Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death) is brutally murdered aboard the legendary Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express luxury train. Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney, Tom Jones), who […]
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Synopsis: A thief nicknamed “Thunderbolt” (Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven) befriends a young conman who goes by the name of “Lightfoot” (Jeff Bridges, Starman), and with the help of a couple of […]
Symptoms (1974)
Synopsis: A shy young woman, played by Angela Pleasence (From Beyond the Grave), invites a friend, played by Lorna Heilbron (The Creeping Flesh), to her isolated country house, which is — […]
The Driver’s Seat (1974)
Synopsis: An unbalanced woman (Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) spends an entire day looking for a man willing to [beep] her. Reaction & Thoughts: Directed by Giuseppe Patroni […]
The Nickel Ride (1974)
Synopsis: In Los Angeles, California, Cooper (Jason Miller, The Exorcist), a small-time crook, works as the “Key Man” for the mob; the person who literally holds the keys of warehouses […]
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Synopsis: Agent James Bond (Roger Moore, The Cannonball Run), the man with the license to kill, finds out that there is a price on his head. It seems that someone […]
Chinatown (1974)
Synopsis: In 1937, Los Angeles, California, private detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) is hired by a wealthy lady to follow her husband whom she […]
Daisy Miller (1974)
Synopsis: In the 1800s, a forward-thinking American woman, “Daisy” Miller (Cybill Shepherd, The Heartbreak Kid), shocks Europe’s high society with her flirtatious behavior. Despite (or maybe because of) her odd […]
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