191. Johnny Got His Gun
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dalton Trumbo
Actors: Don 'Red' Barry, Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Byron Morrow
Plot: Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee.
192. Wake in Fright
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle
Plot: An educated man, John Grant, arrives in the rough Australian mining town of Bundanyabba - a one-night stay before heading to Sydney. Yet one night stretches to five, and soon Grant loses all semblance of the man he was and wakes from an alcohol-soaked bender to face a desolate wasteland and his own demons.
193. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Isela Vega, Warren Oates, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Donnie Fritts, Robert Webber
Plot: A wealthy Mexican rancher puts a $1 million bounty for the head of Alfredo
Garcia. With every bounty hunter on the trail, a piano-player is
questioned and, doing his own investigations, learns his girlfriend knows
the whereabouts of Garcia's place of burial. Striking out together, with
dreams of untold wealth - the two have no idea the misery they will
encounter.
194. A Bridge Too Far
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Attenborough
Actors: James Caan, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Elliott Gould, Anthony Hopkins
Plot: World War II's Operation Market Garden rendered in all of its floundering glory. Neither Allied command nor German generals come across as particularly competent.
195. Play It Again, Sam
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy, Susan Anspach, Jennifer Salt
Plot: A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed.
His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his
movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice.
With the encouragement of his two married friends, he actually tries
dating again, with less than satisfactory results, until he relaxes.
196. Chinese Roulette ( Chinesisches Roulette )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Alexander Allerson, Volker Spengler
197. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, Peter Whitney
Plot: Left for dead in the desert, Hogue stumbles upon a spring that not only saves his life, but proves lucrative as it is the perfect way station for local stagecoaches. A local whore moves in with him and all seems well... until the advent of the automobile changes everything.
198. ...And Justice for All
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T. Nelson
Plot: A Baltimore defense lawyer is fed up with the corruption in the legal
system finds himself defending a judge against a rape charge - a man he
truly despises. Yet if he doesn't take the case, he will find himself
disbarred.
199. Murmur of the Heart ( souffle au coeur, Le )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen
Plot: This darkly comic coming-of-age film follows 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier and his dysfunctional family through the summer of 1954.
200. A New Leaf
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Elaine May
Actors: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose, James Coco, Doris Roberts
Plot: Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one
day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to
avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman
and ... murder her.
