51. Where the Red Fern Grows
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Norman Tokar
Actors: James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Jack Ging, Lonny Chapman, Stewart Petersen, Jill Clark
52. The Sugarland Express
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly
Plot: A woman has a plan to reunite her family - it involves breaking her
husband out of prison and kidnapping their own child from his new foster
parents. While some of the plan works, things are complicated by a Texas
lawman they have to take hostage along with them.
53. Horror Express
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Eugenio Martín
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Telly Savalas, Julio Peña
Plot: An English anthropologist believes his has found the Missing Link in the frozen wastes of Manchuria. As he transports his find on a trans-Siberian express, the creature thaws, awakens and begins the slaughter.
54. The Year Without a Santa Claus
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Actors: Shirley Booth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, George S. Irving, Bob McFadden, Rhoda Mann
Plot: A Rankin/Bass stop motion Christmas special about what happened when Santa Claus decided that he was not going to go out on his yearly journey. So it became up to Mrs. Claus and two elves to find Christmas spirit.
55. Dark Star
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon
Plot: A group of four astronauts are tasked with removing unstable planets to make way for future colonization, but as they near their goal aliens, computer malfunctions and a too smart bomb put their mission in jeopardy.
56. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( Valerie a týden divu )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Czech
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jaromil Jires
Actors: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek, Jan Klusák, Libuse Komancová
Plot: Valerie is a little girl, but the story of the movie is less certain then this simple truth. It is more an oniric imagination: vampiric experiences, double meaninings and symbolic gestures. Short story: events and objects tend to take different shapes in the eyes of the child Valerie.
57. Blood for Dracula ( Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Paul Morrissey
Actors: Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Arno Juerging, Maxime McKendry, Milena Vukotic, Dominique Darel
Plot: When the blood supply in Romania dries up, the ever-thirsty Dracula
travels to Italy to feed himself. There, he meets the Marquis Dafoe,
father of four luscious daughters. Dracula's plans are thwarted, though,
when he learns that the handyman has already tainted the vestal virgins.
58. Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Joseph McGrath
Actors: Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Angela Douglas, John Bluthal, Norman Rossington, Milo O'Shea
59. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Actors: Patricia Bright, Scott Firestone, George Gobel, Joel Grey, Tammy Grimes, Bob McFadden
Plot: Father Mouse and Joshua Trundle attempt to convince Santa Claus to not skip their town that year after an insulting newspaper article is printed about Saint Nick.
60. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Adrian Maben
Actors: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
