Walt Disney Productions’ The World’s Greatest Athlete isn’t a particularly well-remembered movie. The sports comedy released 40-years-ago this month (February, 1973) and was quite successful in its day, ending up the 16th highest-grossing film of the year. That’s higher than … Continue reading
Category Archives: 70s Movies
The Swarm buzzed angrily into theaters in July of 1978. Arriving near the end of the “Disaster Flick” era, Irwin Allen’s The Swarm fared poorly with both critics and movie-goers. Not even a summertime launch, a decent budget and a … Continue reading
Play It Again, Sam, written by and starring Woody Allen, is based on a play of the same name. The movie version was directed by Herbert Ross and made it to theaters in May of 1972. Allen stars as Allan … Continue reading
We took a look at Conquest of the Planet of the Apes a long while back. Today, let’s look at the film that preceded it, Escape from the Planet of the Apes. EFTPOTA was released in May of 1971 and … Continue reading
Francis Ford Coppola‘s The Conversation was released in April of 1974, right between the director’s better-known films; The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. The thriller, set in San Francisco, stars Gene Hackman as a freelance surveillance expert who secretly … Continue reading
A “Disaster Movie” two-years in-the-making, The Hindenburg was released on Christmas Day, 1975. The movie is a fictionalized account of the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster of 1937. Based on the 1972 book by Michael M. Mooney, producer and director Robert Wise, … Continue reading