Deliverance (1972)Friday, June 5th, 2009 |
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful. |
Deliverance (1972)Friday, June 5th, 2009 |
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful. |
1776 (1972)Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 |
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The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single “nay” vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants. |
Sleuth (1972)Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 |
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Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew’s wife. In an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in alimony, he suggests Milo pretend to rob his house and let him claim the insurance on the stolen jewelry. The problem is that they don’t really like each other and each cannot avoid the zinger on the other. The plot has many shifts in which the advantage shifts between Milo and Andrew. |
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972)Monday, April 20th, 2009 |
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Actors led by Alan Ormsby go to graveyard on remote island to act out necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh. |
Toys Are Not for Children (1972)Thursday, April 9th, 2009 |
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Miserable with her marriage to a toy-store clerk and obsessed with memories of her long-absent father, child-like Jamie learns that toys are not for children when she turns her life around—by becoming a hooker! Playing “daddy’s little girl” with dirty old men, she finds true happiness until a friend arranges a special “date” between Jamie and her whore-hungry dad that, to put it mildly, does not go well. Two toy-friendly sickies definitely not for the kiddies! |
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)Thursday, February 26th, 2009 |
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The time is the near future. Apes supplant dogs and cats as household pets, and replace servants as personal assistants — until their continual mistreatment provokes one advanced ape from the future, Caesar, to lead a spectacular revolt. |
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)Monday, January 5th, 2009 |
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Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured. |
Scooby Doo Meets Batman (1972)Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 |
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Holy jinkies, Batman, just when it seemed superheroes couldn’t get any groovier, you collide with the Mystery Machine gang. Such a pairing might normally yield one wacky crime-fighting power struggle, but in these two capers egos take a back seat to classic you-check-this-out, we’ll-check-that Scooby-Doo splintering. First, bat-plagued pranksters Penguin and the Joker kidnap a hopelessly tongue-tied professor in a scheme to swindle a high-tech flying suit. Then the conniving criminals return as bit players in a counterfeiting ring run out of a way-wacky funhouse. Soar along in the Batmobile or make like a banana and split with Shaggy and Scoob at these crime scenes—either way, it’s a secret-passageway and scary-mask-packed combo even more compelling than the cookies-and-batmilk Scooby snack the pesky kids tuck into during a break in the action. |
Season of the Witch (1972)Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 |
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Joan Mitchell is an unhappy, suburban housewife pushing 40, who has an uncommunicative businessman husband, named Jack, and a distant 19-year-old daughter, named Nikki, on the verge of moving out of the house. Frustrated at her current situation, Joan seeks solance in witchcraft after visiting Marion Hamilton, a local tarot reader and leader of a secret black arts wicca set, who inspires Joan to follow her own path. After dabbling a little in witchcraft, Joan, believing herself to have become a real witch, withdraws into a fantasy world and sinks deeper and deeper into her new lifestyle until the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred and eventually tragedy results. |
The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 |
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Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac. |