211. O Lucky Man!
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Graham Crowden
212. The Towering Inferno
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
Actors: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
Plot: At the gala premiere opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, architect Doug Roberts discovers builders have installed shoddy wiring. Sure enough, a fire breaks out during the celebration and the world's tallest building becomes the world's tallest death trap.
213. Deep Red ( Profondo rosso )
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra
Plot: A jazz musician witnesses a horrible murder and tracks down the killer himself.
214. Soylent Green
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Brock Peters, Chuck Connors, Edward G Robinson
Plot: In the year 2022 a police detective in NYC is hunted down for murder when
he uncovers a secret cover-up by the government.
215. Magnum Force
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Post
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
Plot: A wayward cop is enforcing vigilante justice by assassinating several criminals who manage to escape punishment by slipping through legal loopholes and "Dirty" Harry Callahan is on the case.
216. The Ruling Class
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Medak
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Michael Bryant
Plot: Peter O'Toole gives a bravura performance in this off-kilter British film about the heir to a member of the House of Lords who, much to his relatives' dismay, believes he his Jesus Christ--that is, until he believes he is Jack the Ripper.
217. The Aristocats
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Liz English, Gary Dubin, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway
Plot: When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children (Bonfamille's prize family of domesticated house cats) the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the heirs, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O'Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the Aristocats's rescue.
218. Straw Dogs
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T. P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton
Plot: A meek American mathmatician goes to England on sabbatical to the small town where his young, liberated wife grew up. As his wife becomes the object of desire for a group of local toughs, he finds a violent reserve deep inside.
219. Time After Time
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Kent Williams, Patti D'Arbanville
Plot: H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper from the past to the future via a time machine.
220. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? ( Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Actors: Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Franz Maron, Harry Baer, Peter Moland
Plot: A man is happy living a normal life - a dependable job as a technical draftsman, a loving marriage and caring father. But people push him - his colleges, his socially-mobile wife, parents, friends and neighbors alike - in many directions. A promotion is coming up - but as the pressure continues to build for Herr R. it may ultimately break him.
