McQ (1974)
[5] John Wayne gave up the lead in 1971's Dirty Harry and came to regret it. McQ is his attempt to get in on the vigilante cop craze, playing a cop who starts out investigating the murder of a friend…
Big Jake (1971)
[6] John Wayne stars as a crotchety loner cowboy who goes in search of the gang who kidnapped his grandson. Big Jake is not a serious western. It's more of a nostalgic love letter to old big-studio westerns. Sometimes that…
The Last Valley (1971)
[3] It's the 1600s and Europe is torn apart by religious warfare. Omar Sharif plays a Catholic villager who must help his people get along with their Protestant occupiers, led by Michael Caine. Caine's militia have the power to wipe the…
The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
[6] Jacqueline Bisset (The Deep, Bullitt) stars as the wife of a music journalist who becomes convinced her husband's body has been inhabited by another man, a famous concert pianist, through the use of dark magic. Alan Alda plays the…
Drive, He Said (1971)
[6] Jack Nicholson directs this slice-of-life story adapted from the Jeremy Larner novel about a obstinate college basketball player (William Tepper) whose pretentiousness almost keeps him from being drafted into professional sports. But the film also centers on two other…
The Fifth Cord (1971)
[6] An alcoholic news reporter is determined to catch a murderer after he becomes a suspect for the assailant's weekly attacks. For a giallo flick, Luigi Bazzoni's The Fifth Cord lacks a compelling mystery or any memorable death scenes. But…
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
[4] American International Pictures uses Edgar Allan Poe's story as a backdrop for what is really an original mystery story about actors in a turn-of-the-century Grand Guignol theater who are being murdered one by one. Jason Robards headlines as one of…
The Telephone Book (1971)
[7] In New York City, a young nymphet named Alice (surely a Wonderland reference) receives an obscene phone call and immediately falls in love with the caller. She embarks on an urban adventure to find her lover, meeting one strange…
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
[4] Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson star in this Disney live-action/animation hybrid about a witch, a conman, and three children who search for the missing ingredient to a spell that could help England during the siege of WWII. Call me…
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
[6] After the success of Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger returned to personal storytelling in Britain with Sunday Bloody Sunday, a slice-of-life movie about a middle-aged doctor (Peter Finch) and a divorcee (Glenda Jackson) who knowingly share a bohemian lover (Murray…