221. 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.
222. 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.
223. Big Boss, The aka Fists of Fury ( Tang shan da xiong )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wei Lo
Actors: Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Ying-Chieh Han, Malalene, Tony Liu
Plot: Bruce Lee stars as a man sworn to do no harm. As he helps his cousins in an ice factory, he discovers something that draws him to violence and his only choice is to act out against evil.
224. 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.
225. 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.
226. 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.
227. Fat City
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Huston
Actors: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto, Art Aragon
228. California Split
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Edward Walsh, Jeff Goldblum
Plot: Two gamblers who have run into a string of bad luck decide to head to Reno
and change their fortune there.
229. The Duellists
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Keith Carradine, Albert Finney, Harvey Keitel, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens
Plot: Two officers in Napoleon's army become entangled in a feud that lasts several decades an involves repeated -- increasingly violent -- duels in order to settle a matter of honor.
230. Butterflies Are Free
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Milton Katselas
Actors: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser, Michael Warren
Plot: Don Baker was born blind - and that means he has always been at the mercy of his mother. Finally working up the courage to move out, he sets himself up in a San Francisco apartment, where he makes quick friends with free-spirited neighbor Jill, who teaches him all kinds of new things - while he teaches her what it really means to be free.
