51. The Offence
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen, Peter Bowles, Derek Newark
Plot: A seasoned police officer violently interrogates a suspected child
molester.
52. Heavy Traffic
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Actors: Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova, Terri Haven, Mary Dean Lauria, Jacqueline Mills
Plot: Animation combines with live-action in Ralph Bakshi's adult cartoon in
which we follow and underground cartoonist as he interacts, and finds
inspiration, in the various unsavory characters in the gritty city around
him.
53. The Paper Chase
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James Bridges
Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann, Craig Richard Nelson
Plot: A first year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
54. Bang the Drum Slowly
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John D. Hancock
Actors: Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia, Tom Ligon, Phil Foster, Heather MacRae
Plot: The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and
a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness
through a baseball season.
55. The Seven-Ups
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Philip D'Antoni
Actors: Roy Scheider, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon, Ken Kercheval, Tony Lo Bianco, Larry Haines
56. Ssssssss
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Actors: Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Richard B. Shull, Tim O'Connor, Jack Ging
Plot: Main character is hired as an assistant by a doctor who gives him
injections that he tells them is to protect him from snake bites. In
reality it is doing something else to him that he cannot stop.
57. Cannibal Man ( semana del asesino, La )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Eloy de la Iglesia
Actors: Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen, Eusebio Poncela, Charly Bravo, Fernando Sánchez Polack, Lola Herrera
58. Scream Blacula Scream
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Kelljan
Actors: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, Michael Conrad, Richard Lawson, Lynne Moody
59. Blackenstein
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William A. Levey
Actors: John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue, Roosevelt Jackson, Andrea King, Nick Bolin
Plot: Vietnam war veteran Eddie, who lost all four limbs in the war, has them
restored by a brilliant doctor. But unbeknownst to both of them, the
doctor's assistant switches the DNA injections, turning Eddie into a
monstrous killer.
60. Hourglass Sanatorium, The ( Sanatorium pod klepsydra )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wojciech Has
Actors: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska, Gustaw Holoubek, Mieczyslaw Voit
