51. The Omega Man
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Boris Sagal
Actors: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric Laneuville, Lincoln Kilpatrick
Plot: After biological warfare decimated the world, Dr. Robert Neville is the last person alive in Los Angeles thanks to an experimental vaccine he injected himself with. But he is not alone. An albino, light-sensitive violent group calling themselves The Family want to destroy all science and technology, including Neville.
52. The Beguiled
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Mae Mercer
Plot: Near the end of the Civil War, wounded Yankee soldier John McBurney is close to death when he is rescued by a twelve-year-old girl from a Louisiana boarding school. As John recovers, he begins to charm the girls, becoming the object of their awakening sexuality and jealousy runs rampant.
53. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Fuest
Actors: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas, Sean Bury, Susan Travers
Plot: The maniacal Dr. Phibes uses the biblical plagues visited upon Egypt as a
model for revenge against the surgeons he blames for his wife's demise.
54. Support Your Local Gunfighter
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Burt Kennedy
Actors: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Joan Blondell, Marie Windsor
55. Shaft
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gordon Parks
Actors: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman
Plot: Private Eye John Shaft is hired by a criminal to find his missing
daughter.
56. Lawman
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Winner
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, Sheree North, Joseph Wiseman
Plot: A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.
57. Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman ( Shin zatô Ichi: Yabure! Tôjin-ken )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Actors: Shintarô Katsu, Yu Wang, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada, Kôji Nanbara, Tôru Abe
58. Mr. Forbush and the Penguins ( Cry of the Penguins )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arne Sucksdorff, Alfred Viola
Actors: John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton, Joss Ackland, Thorley Walters
59. A Safe Place
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Phil Proctor, Jack Nicholson, Dov Lawrence, Sylvia Zapp
60. Wanda
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Barbara Loden
Actors: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes, Jerome Thier, Marian Thier
