61. The Landlord
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett Jr., Walter Brooke
62. Count Yorga, Vampire
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bob Kelljan
Actors: Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Michael Macready, D.J. Anderson, Judy Lang
63. The Vampire Lovers
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: Ingrid Pitt, George Cole, Kate O'Mara, Peter Cushing, Ferdy Mayne, Douglas Wilmer
Plot: When the Countess leaves to tend to a sick friend, she leaver her
daughter, Marcilla, in the care of the General. Soon after, young women in
the village start dying and even the General's daughter becomes ill.
Marcilla is no ordinary young woman, but a vampire, and she feeds off
those around her time and time again...
64. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion ( Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Elio Petri
Actors: Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti, Arturo Dominici
Plot: The chief of homicide detectives murders his mistress and leaves deliberate clues pointing to his own guilt just to see if he can still get away with the crime.
65. Valdez is Coming
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Edwin Sherin
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan, Hector Elizondo
Plot: Burt Lancaster made his best movies in the westerns of his later career. This is one of them. As a stoic veteran of the Apache wars, he plays a Mexican lawman (Valdez) who mistakenly kills a black man held under siege by the heavies of a corrupt rancher. When he discovers his error he tries to get $100 from the rancher to help the dead man's Indian wife. The story follows the honorable Valdez fight the long odds in his attempt to get the rancher to pay up. The film has the tone of a spaghetti western (it was filmed in Spain) but the plot has more than a few surprises. Look for the early work of some actors who became much more visible over the years.
66. Two or Three Things I Know About Her ( 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni
Plot: A few middle-class women who moonlight as prostitutes reflect on their lives.
67. Swimming Pool, The ( Piscine, La - 1970 )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Deray
Actors: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Steve Eckhardt
68. Rise of Louis XIV, The ( prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, La )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn, Dominique Vincent, Françoise Ponty
69. Fellini-Satyricon
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli, Magali Noël
Plot: The bawdy rivalry between two teachers forms a loose framework for Fellini's take on the decadent world of Nero's Rome. Based on the novel by Petronius.
70. Barquero
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gordon Douglas
Actors: Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker, Kerwin Mathews, Mariette Hartley, Marie Gomez
Plot: Violent story of a psycho outlaw who finds his band of marauders trapped in a riverside village - facing down the barge owner who will die before allowing them to cross the river to safety.
