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Director Sergio Corbucci’s 1976 Italian comedy crime thriller High Rollers [Bluff storia di truffe e di imbroglioni] stars Anthony Quinn as con artist Philip Bang, who gets out of prison with young trickster Felice ‘Félix’ […]
The 1972 British crime-drama romantic film The Ragman’s Daughter stars Simon Rouse and Victoria Tennant in her screen debut and is adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his short story. Director Harold Becker’s 1972 British crime-drama romantic film The […]
Director Gordon Parks Jr’s successful though controversial 1972 action crime thriller Super Fly [Superfly] is a hit from the wave of 1970s blaxploitation movies, with Ron O’Neal working hard as Youngblood Priest/ Super Fly, a […]
The 1973 The Seven-Ups is an edge-of-seat cop thriller, with NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) getting his mobster buddy Vito Lucia (Tony Lo Bianco) to help him catch the meanest bad guys. Producer-director Philip […]
Co-writer/ director Paul Bartel’s 1976 Cannonball [Carquake] is a follow-up in similar action vein to his 1975 hit Death Race 2000, this time a full-on Seventies-style slap-up comedy action adventure about the ruthless people, chiefly Coy […]
Joan Collins tops the bill as Carol Radford, in director Sidney Hayers’s unedifying but efficient country-set 1971 British revenge thriller Revenge [Inn of the Frightened People] about two men visiting the recluse they suspect has […]
Director Roberto Faenza’s fascinating 1983 Italian crime thriller Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] [Corrupt] is a tautly made and intriguingly written thriller based on Hugh Fleetwood’s 1977 psychological novel The Order of […]