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Pocket MoneyPocket Money (1972)
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher. Amiable comedy written by a pre–fame…
PulpPulp (1972) Recommended
Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander
After completing the phenomenal GET CARTER Caine and dir. Hodges reteamed for this lightweight, yet highly watchable comedy thriller. Caine plays…
RentadickRentadick (1972)
Feat. Richard Briers, James Booth, Richard Beckinsale
From a screenplay by John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rentadick, a band of private detectives, are hired to protect a rich scientist's business as…
SavagesSavages (1972)
Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine
Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Seduction of Mimi, TheSeduction of Mimi, The (1972)
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
Satirical comedy taking plenty of shots at Italianisms, about a poor labourer who is forced to leave his family in Sicily to take an illegal factory…
Shelley (TV Series)Shelley (TV Series) (1972-1992)
Feat. Hywel Bennett
Classic British comedy series revels in one of the more unlikely deadly sins: sloth. University graduate James Shelley (Bennett) is a cynical,…
SleuthSleuth (1972) Aro Favourite
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
A supremely cunning, self–reflexive mystery satire based on the hit West End play, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine as affable…
Steptoe and Son / Steptoe and Son Ride AgainSteptoe and Son / Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1972-1973)
Dir. Peter Sykes, Cliff Owen
Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Wilfred Brambell
Two spinoff feature films starring the same rag–and–bone men from the classic TV Series. In STEPTOE AND SON, Harold disastrously marries…
Till Death Us Do Part (TV Series)Till Death Us Do Part (TV Series) (1972-1974) Recommended
Feat. Warren Mitchell
Contentious, well remembered BBC sitcom is a comedy firebrand about a narrow–minded Cockney geezer whose racist diatribes were intended to be…
Travels With My AuntTravels With My Aunt (1972)
Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Jr. Gossett
A young Maggie Smith ages up in this entertaining if over–stuffed whimsy based on the novel by Graham Greene about the odd–ball…

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