Subgenre Sampler
Colditz (TV Series) (1972)- Dir. Michael Ferguson, William Slater, Philip Dudley
Feat. Jack Hedley, Robert Wagner, David McCallum… - BBC drama series about prisoners of war in Colditz Castle during WW2, and their multiple attempts to escape. The real British Escape Officer at…
MASH (TV Series) (M*A*S*H) (1972-1983)- Feat. Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit
- Long running and much loved TV Series loosely based on Robert Altman’s 1969 film set in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean…
Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche - Though a conservative adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's time–tripping novel, this is still a significant entry to the genre, with a wide cult…
Up the Front (1972)- Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Hermione Baddeley… - One of Frankie Howerd's bigscreen starring roles in a spinoff of the 'Up Pompeii' TV Series. Here he plays an WWII soldier who has invasion plans…
Winter Soldier (1972)
- Dir. Winterfilm Collective
- An astonishing and rare document of the Vietnam War, which records how over one hundred members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War gathered in…
Young Winston (1972)- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward… - The early life of Britain's greatest political leader, through his time in India, Sudan and the Boer War to his ascendancy at the House of Commons.
A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!) (1971)- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli - Leone’s final spaghetti–western is a sprawling adventure set in the Mexican revolution, with fistfuls of action and comedy aplenty to rival…
Dad's Army The Movie (1971)- Dir. Norman Cohen
Feat. Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn - The feature film is a coarser expansion of the characters and situations that endeared millions to the long–running TV show.
Hustler Squad / Wild Riders (1971-1976)- Dir. Cesar Gallardo, Richard Kanter
Feat. Alex Rocco, Elizabeth Knowles, Sherry Bain… - A double feature of 70s drive–in "classics". WILD RIDERS (1971) has Alex Rocco playing a misogynistic biker who goes on a sleazy killing…
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)- Dir. Dalton Trumbo
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards Jr.… - Excoriating anti–war statement based on the dir.'s own novel, concerns an ordinary infantryman in WW1 and his nightmare experiences. In a…
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