Projectionist, The
Posted on: Friday, January 1st, 1971 in: Drama, Comedy
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| Plot Summary: | A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows. |
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Posted on: Friday, January 1st, 1971 in: Musical, Fantasy, Family, Comedy
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| Taglines: | 1: Charlie is let loose in the chocolate factory and every kid’s dream comes true. 2: Enter a world of pure imagination. 3: It’s everybody’s non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun! 4: It’s Scrumdiddlyumptious! 5: Your golden ticket to imagination and adventure! |
| Plot Summary: | Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done? |
Dirty Harry
Posted on: Friday, January 1st, 1971 in: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action
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| Taglines: | 1: Clint Eastwood is “Dirty Harry.” And boy, does he get all the dirty jobs. 2: Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn’t break murder cases. He smashes them. 3: do you feel lucky punk? 4: With his .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, Dirty Harry wipes out crime to hell. 5: You don’t assign him to murder cases, You just turn him loose. |
| Plot Summary: | The debut of SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan begins with a sociopathic rooftop sniper (Andrew Robinson of ‘Cobra’ and ‘Hellraiser’) killing a young woman in a pool, and then trying to extort $100,000 from the City. Harry is asked by his boss, Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) and the Mayor (John Vernon) to put a stop to this low-life. While Harry & his new partner, Chico (Reni Santori of ‘Cobra’) investigate, another murder occurs, followed by a kidnapping/rape of a young girl, and a subsequent attempt at extortion by the killer, who calls himself ‘Scorpio’. Harry volunteers to deliver the ransom but is nearly killed by Scorpio, who is wounded & driven off by Chico and Harry. Harry follows the suspect’s trail to Kezar Stadium, where he discovers the murder weapon and the suspect! The man is arrested and Harry gets the girl’s location out of him. Unbeknownst to Harry, the girl is dead already, and the next morning Harry visits the D.A. to find out that the man is being freed - because of a bleeding-heart legal system and judiciary that says Harry’s search was ‘illegal’, although there was no time - and no judge - to get a warrant from. On his release, Scorpio is up to his old tricks - this time he kidnaps a bus-load of children and demands a ransom. The Mayor foolishly goes along with Scorpio’s game and orders Harry not to stop the killer. Disgusted with the weak-kneed attitude of the Mayor & his colleagues in the legal system, Harry intercepts the bus and takes on Scorpio himself to put an end to the kidnapping and the psychopath’s reign of terror…for good. |
French Connection, The
Posted on: Friday, January 1st, 1971 in: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action
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| Taglines: | 1: A $32,000,000 chase turns into the American thriller of the year! 2: Doyle is bad news - but a good cop. 3: The time is right for an out and out thriller like this. 4: There are no rules and no holds barred when Popeye cuts loose! |
| Plot Summary: | William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between ‘Popeye’ Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. |
Duel
Posted on: Friday, January 1st, 1971 in: Mystery, Thriller, Action
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| Taglines: | 1: Fear is the driving force. 2: Terror in your rear view mirror. 3: The Killer’s Weapon - A 40 Ton Truck 4: The most bizarre murder weapon ever used! 5: When the headlights of a truck become the eyes of a psychopath. |
| Plot Summary: | David Mann (’Dennis Weaver (I)’ (qv)) is just a regular family man on a business trip. Unfortunately, things go from bad to worse when a huge gasoline truck in front of him forces him to drive slower than he wants. As the drive continues, Mann realizes that he’s not dealing with just another road hog. Though he can never see the trucker’s face, the driver proves to be psychopathic, starting to run Mann off the road and trick or force him into a number of deadly situations. As the horrific trip continues, Mann tries to lose the truck, but each time he thinks he’s finally in the clear, the truck returns to terrify him more. Finally, the horrific conflict builds to a point where he realizes that running won’t save him, and that he must take a stand and fight back against the insane trucker. |
007 Diamonds Are Forever
Posted on: Friday, January 1st, 1971 in: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure, Action
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| Plot Summary: | When Bond investigates mysterious activities in the world diamond market, he discovers that the evil Ernst Blofeld (Charles Gray) is stockpiling the precious gems to use in a deadly laser satellite capable of destroying massive targets on land, sea and air. Bond, with the help of beautiful smuggler Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), sets out to stop the madman, but first he must grapple with a host of enemies. He confronts offbeat assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, as well as Bambi and Thumper-two scantily-clad beauties who are more than a match for Bond in hand-to-hand combat! Finally, there’s the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean), who may just hold a vital clue to Blofeld’s whereabouts. |