Can you recommend some good 70's Era Crime Films?
11-11-14, 07:18 PM
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Can you recommend some good 70's Era Crime Films?
I just saw The Getaway for the first time and really dug it, and I'm wondering what else to watch. To me that whole 70's crime film genre felt so specific and unique among movies. They were stylish, smart and violent. They didn't have the dramatic weight of a lot of films from that time, like dog day or the godfather. I don't know if it's exploitation, or not, but there is a tone to those films that really belongs to that era.
I've seen some of the more well known ones like Get Carter and The Silent Partner, French Connection, Taking of Pelham and liked those, but I'm sure there's a lot I haven't seen. So any recommendations would be great.
I've seen some of the more well known ones like Get Carter and The Silent Partner, French Connection, Taking of Pelham and liked those, but I'm sure there's a lot I haven't seen. So any recommendations would be great.
11-11-14, 07:22 PM
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11-12-14, 05:15 AM
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I watched THE STONE KILLER (1973) with Bronson again earlier this year and while it's all over the place, it's a nice compendium of early '70s zeitgeist. I made a list after I watched it. Here it is:
Pretty much everything else I can think of would be in that first link that Inri222 provided. I contributed a few posts to that thread.
Off the top of my head, though, the ones I'd recommend without thinking too much:
DIRTY HARRY
SERPICO
DILLINGER
THE OUTFIT
BUSTING
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER
If any film captures the zeitgeist and 1970s-era pulp sensibility, it’s this one. Look at everything it has: hippies, check; ashram in Carmel, check; black militants, check; the mafia, check; Viet vets training for an assassination mission, check; chasing a shooter through an abandoned building in East Harlem, check; car-and-motorcycle chase through the streets of L.A., check; helicopter-and-car chase in the desert, check; synthesizer theme (Roy Budd) played ad infinitem; shootout and careening cars in underground garage in NYC, check; Mafia don going to confession: “Forgive me father for I have sinned” after his rivals have all been shot down; Bronson reeling off crime statistics in NYC: “last week 159 homicides, 3000 assaults, 6000 robberies.” Thus paving the way for his next big hit: DEATH WISH.
Off the top of my head, though, the ones I'd recommend without thinking too much:
DIRTY HARRY
SERPICO
DILLINGER
THE OUTFIT
BUSTING
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER
11-12-14, 05:45 AM
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The Outfit is a great movie.
I would also recommend Fernando Di Leo's Italian crime flicks Calibre 9, The Italian Connection and the Boss.
Also Electra Glide in Blue is a classic.
I would also recommend Fernando Di Leo's Italian crime flicks Calibre 9, The Italian Connection and the Boss.
Also Electra Glide in Blue is a classic.
11-12-14, 09:59 AM
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Charley Varrick (a 1973 film directed by Don Siegel that stars Walter Matthau)
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11-12-14, 11:54 AM
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Ditto.
Another title available from Warner Archive that I would recommend highly is The Slams- a prison set, quasi-blaxsploitation with Jim Brown. Ted "Lurch" Cassidy has a great supporting part as the leader of a mobsters drug running prison gang. Watched it the other night and was surprised how entertaining it was considering I never hear it mentioned when the subject of either 70's crime or blaxsploitation titles come up.
Another title available from Warner Archive that I would recommend highly is The Slams- a prison set, quasi-blaxsploitation with Jim Brown. Ted "Lurch" Cassidy has a great supporting part as the leader of a mobsters drug running prison gang. Watched it the other night and was surprised how entertaining it was considering I never hear it mentioned when the subject of either 70's crime or blaxsploitation titles come up.
11-12-14, 08:18 PM
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