My First (1st) Movie/Film List > The 1 9 7 0 ' s < > SEVENTIES
THE 1 9 7 0 ' s < > The Decade of * SEX * VIOLENCE * HORROR * BANNED MOVIES / FILMS. I would guess that the 70's had more BANNED Films/Movies, than all the other decades put together. * * * 1970 > I was 14 years old * 1971 > age 15 * 1972 > age 16 * 1973 > age 17 * 1974 > age 18 * 1975 > age 19 * * My Teenage Years of going to the Cinema for the first time. My Ratings back then were > * FOUR * * * * Stars > EXCELLENT < THREE * * * Stars > VERY GOOD < TWO * * Stars > AVERAGE/FAIR < ONE * Star > POOR <
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- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.Watched> Thursday, 1st May, 2025 @ The Backlot Cinema, Blackpool. Rated 3.5 * * * Good to Very Good < Cert. 18 > The 18 certificate back in 1976, if re-adjusted, I would expect it to be a '15'. Great acting from a young Robert Di Niro in this 'cult' style movie. This film attracted a full audience. RECOMMENDED. (ps)
- DirectorAdrian MabenStarsDavid GilmourRoger WatersRichard WrightBritish progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.Watched> Thursday, 24th April, 2025 @ The Backlot Cinema, Blackpool (On The IMAX Screen Experience). Rated 3 * * * Good < Cert. U > Recommended mainly to Pink Floyd Fans only. Huge Rock Band in the 70's and 80's. Started out in 1964 and disbanded in 2014. Was a FULL HOUSE at the cinema. I guess mainly Pink Floyd Fans in their 50's and over.(ps)
- DirectorsKevin MacdonaldSam Rice-EdwardsStarsJohn LennonYoko OnoStan BronsteinSet in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One to One charity concert for special needs children, it features unseen archives, home movies, and restored footage.Watched> Wednesday, 9th April, 2025 @ The Backlot Cinema, Blackpool (on The IMAX Screen Experience). Rated 5 * * * * * EXCELLENT < Cert. 15 > This great documentary, is all about John Lennon and Yoko Ono Life in the 1970's. Endless seventies footage in New York 1970's. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. (ps)
- DirectorLewis TeagueStarsPamela Sue MartinRobert ConradLouise FletcherAfter being in the wrong place at the wrong time, a naïve farm girl moves to Chicago, where she becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime abetted by John Dillinger.Watched> Sunday, 23rd March, 2025 @ Edge Water Studios. Rated 3.5 * * * Good to Very Good < Cert. X - In 2025 it would be rated 15 > Good all round action drama. RECOMMENDED. (ps)
- DirectorIrvin BerwickStarsJill LansingStuart TaylorKatie JohnsonAfter being dumped by her boyfriend and about to flunk high school, Kim decides on major changes by using her body.Watched> Sunday, 23rd March, 2025 @ Edge Water Studios. Rated 2 * * Average/Fair < Cert. X - In 2025 it would be 15 > (ps)
- DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsRichard BurtonClint EastwoodMary UreAllied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.Watched> Sunday, 5th January, 2025 @ Edge Water Studios. Rated 3.5 Good to Very Good < Cert. PG > Very Good Performances from Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. Officially Released in The United Kingdom on Sunday, 4th January, 1970 - 55 Years Release Anniversary. RECOMMENDED. (ps)
- DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsClint EastwoodTelly SavalasDon RicklesA group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.Watched> Sunday, 5th January, 2025 @ Edge Water Studios. Rated 3 * * * Good < Cert. PG > American 'fun' World Wat Two Action. Good Performances from Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Donald Sutherland. Officially Released in The United Kingdom on Friday, 18th September, 1970. RECOMMENDED (ps)
- DirectorMichael B. BorofskyWatched> Thursday, BOXING DAY, 2024 @ Edge Water Studios. Rated 6 * * * * * * BRILLIANT/OUTSTANDING < Cert. U any age > How can you not rate this 3-year spectacular of music, the very best in ratings, when it as 58 episodes covering many many hours of fantastic music, not just from The Man Himself, JOHNNY CASH, June Carter, Carl Perkins, The Tennessee Three and The Statler Brothers, followed by another hundred or more great singers from all genre of music from Country, Pop, Rock, Rock n Roll, Blues and the list goes on, At the time, those at the top at ABC (The Big Knobs, as you would call them) wanted Johnny Cash to just have Country Singers only, on the shows, BUT CASH REFUSED, AND STOOD HIS GROUND, AND INSISTED THAT HE WAS GOING TO HAVE SINGERS OF ALL GENRE, AND THAT IS WHAT HE MADE HAPPEN, which meant opening the doors to many newcomers in the music world, like Bob Dylan, Lulu from Scotland and Neil Diamond, plus many more. I have never ever come across a three year show of 58 episodes, showcasing over one hundred artists. No wonder Cash was well liked by ALL. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, though it could be a Required Taste. (ps)
- DirectorWalter C. MillerStarsJohnny CashRosey Nix AdamsJune Carter CashWatched> Tuesday, CHRISTMAS EVE, 2024 @ Edge Water Studios. Rated 4 * * * * Very Good < Cert. U any age > This Four DVD Box Set from 1976 to 1979 is a Christmas Special For All The Family!! A wonderful four years of JOHNNY CASH coming in to our homes, to watch on our TV Sets. With 50 to 60 minutes of pure entertainment, all about the family and the Gospel, told through music, sung and played to a very high standard, mainly full of love, just the sort of thing you want at Christmas Time. Introducing many Country Singers to join Johnny and his family at home or on stage at The Grand Ole Opry. A Special Appearance from Comic ANDY KAUFMAN in 1979 Christmas Special, who appears as his character LATKA GRAVAS from the hit network television show TAXI. He 'comics around' the show, and then near the end of the show, he amazingly sings, and WOW, what a singer he is, singing as ELVIS PRESLEY, singing THAT'S WHEN YOUR HEARTACHES BEGIN, and as Johnny Cash says he is the best singing impersonator of Elvis around, and how right he is. That alone, is not to be missed. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Christmas Shows 1976 to 1979. Though it could be a Required Taste. (ps)
- DirectorWalter C. MillerStarsJohnny CashJune Carter CashRoy ClarkWatched> Tuesday, CHRISTMAS EVE, 2024 @ Edge Water Studios. Rated 4 * * * * Very good < Cert. U any age > HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, though it could be a Required Taste. (ps)
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsPaul ScofieldWendy HillerRobert ShawThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Watched> 1971 (age 15) @ The Tivoli, Blackpool. Rated> 1 * Poor < I do feel, if I watch it again today, at the age of 68, instead of 15, it would be rated much higher. (ps)
- DirectorJames MacTaggartStarsWarren MitchellPat HeywoodElaine TaylorFred Midway may be a bit short on brains but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman he must make his family more socially acceptable.Watched> 1970 (age 14) @ The Odeon, Blackpool. Rated> 3 * * * Very Good < Back in the day, it was rated AA > 15 years and over. (ps)
- DirectorEriprando ViscontiStarsAnne HeywoodAntonio SabatoHardy KrügerA film loosely based on real life events of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.Watched> 1971 (age 15) @ The Odeon, Blackpool. Rated> 1 * Poor < Cert. X 18 > (ps)
- DirectorRobert FuestStarsVincent PriceJoseph CottenVirginia NorthDoctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.Watched> 1971 (age 15) @ The Odeon, Blackpool. Rated> 4 * * * * EXCELLENT < Cert, X 18 > < HORROR > (ps)
- DirectorIan MacNaughtonStarsJohn CleeseMichael PalinGraham ChapmanAn anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).Watched> January 1972 (age 16) @ The Odeon, Blackpool. Rated> 3 * * * Very Good < Cert. AA 15 > (ps)
- DirectorBob KellettStarsWarren MitchellDandy NicholsAdrienne PostaBased on the BBC television series, and a sequel to 'Till Death Us Do Part (1968)', it tells of the family relationship between Alf Garnett, his wife, daughter and son-in-law, all living in a council flat.Watched> 21st October 1972 (age 16) @ The ABC, Blackpool. Rated> 3 * * * Very Good < Cert. AA 15 > (ps)
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesAlex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.Watched> Friday, 9th February 1973 (age 17) @ The ABC, Preston. Rated> 3 * * * Very Good. < Cert. X 18 > BANNED in Blackpool, but not in Preston. Special Note > Blackpool Council, BANNED the VERY VIOLENT films, like STRAW DOGS (released> Sunday, 30th January, 1972), which included RAPE scenes. Now, Preston Council was the opposite to Blackpool, as they didn't mind the very violent films, but Preston BANNED the RELIGIOUS films, showing SEX and VIOLENCE in the CHURCH. Films BANNED were THE DEVILS (directed by Ken Russel, and starred Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave). Also BANNED by Preston was Monty Python's THE LIFE OF BRIEN (Religious comedy, micky taking), Blackpool, again opposite to Preston, didn't mind making fun out God and Religion, and accepted THE DEVILS (released> Friday, 16th July, 1971) and LIFE OF BRIEN (released> Thursday, 8th November, 1979). And finally, the SHOCK HORROR film/movie, was THE EXORCIST (1974), also BANNED by councils in many towns and cities around the country. (ps)
- DirectorJack SmightStarsCharlton HestonKaren BlackGeorge KennedyA 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.Watched> Sunday, 5th January, 1975 (age 19) @ The ABC, Blackpool. Rated> 3 * * * Very Good < Cert. A 12 > (ps)
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossIn 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels..Watched> 1971 (age 15) @ The Odeon, Blackpool. Rated> 4 * * * * EXCELLENT < Cert. A 12 > The best ever action packed duo, on the big screen, was Paul Newman and Robert Redford, in this great western, and as con-artists during the 1920's in the brilliant, THE STING, Watched> April 1975, at the Opera House, Blackpool. (ps)
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusKim HunterMaurice EvansThe sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.Watched> 1970 (age 14) @ The Odeon, Blackpool. Rated 2 * * Average/Fair < Cert. A 12 > (ps)
- DirectorAlberto De MartinoStarsJohn CassavetesGabriele FerzettiAnita SandersA professional holdup man with scruples has a young ambitious partner who covets his wife and his life. When the holdup man goes to prison, the partner cuts loose, leaving a trail of deaths behind him.Watched> 1971 (age 15) @ The Tivoli, Blackpool. Rated 4 * * * * EXCELLENT < Cert. AA 15 > (ps)
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsMia FarrowDorothy AlisonRobin BaileyYoung blind Sarah is staying with relatives in their English countryside manor. An unknown maniac enters the house and murders all of Sarah's relatives. When the culprit realizes that Sarah is still alive, he pursues her.BLIND TERROR (original title), Watched> 1971 (age 15) @ The Odeon, Blackpool. Rated 3 * * * Very Good < Cert. X 18 > (ps)
