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The Best Movies Of 1971
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Movie: A Clockwork Orange ( 1972 )
Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.
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Movie: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 )
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
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Movie: Wake in Fright ( 1971 )
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
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Movie: Escape from the Planet of the Apes ( 1971 )
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
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Movie: Duel ( 1971 )
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
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Movie: Dirty Harry ( 1971 )
When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.
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Movie: The French Connection ( 1971 )
A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
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Movie: The Last Picture Show ( 1971 )
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
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Movie: Walkabout ( 1971 )
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
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Movie: Straw Dogs ( 1971 )
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
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Movie: Fiddler on the Roof ( 1971 )
In 1905 Russia, a traditionalist Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals, all while anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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Movie: Red Sun ( 1972 )
In 1870, a gang robs a train and steals a ceremonial Japanese sword meant as a gift for the U.S. President, prompting a manhunt to retrieve it.
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Movie: Vanishing Point ( 1971 )
During the 1970s, car-delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time, but always runs into trouble.
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Movie: The Devils ( 1971 )
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
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Movie: THX 1138 ( 1971 )
In the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.
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Movie: Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 )
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.
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Movie: Please Sir! ( 1971 )
In this spin-off from the ITV television series "Please Sir!" which ran from 1968 to 1972, Mr Hedges takes his class on a field trip, with disastrous consequences.
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Movie: Lawman ( 1971 )
A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.
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Movie: Carnal Knowledge ( 1971 )
Chronicling the romantic relationships of two men who meet and become friends in college.
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Movie: Lust for a Vampire ( 1971 )
In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla.
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Movie: The Beguiled ( 1971 )
While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
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Movie: Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( 1971 )
An apprentice witch, three kids, and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II.
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Movie: Harold and Maude ( 1971 )
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
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Movie: The Andromeda Strain ( 1971 )
Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
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Movie: Get Carter ( 1971 )
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
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Movie: The Big Doll House ( 1972 )
Beautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.
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Movie: Klute ( 1971 )
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.
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Movie: The Omega Man ( 1971 )
Dr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.
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Movie: Play Misty for Me ( 1971 )
The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
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Movie: The Big Boss ( 1972 )
A young Chinese man sworn an oath of non-violence moves to Thailand to work with his cousins in an ice factory, which he discovers to be a front for a sinister heroin-smuggling operation.
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Movie: Duck, You Sucker! ( 1972 )
A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.
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Movie: The Decameron ( 1971 )
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
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Movie: Twins of Evil ( 1971 )
A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.
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Movie: Johnny Got His Gun ( 1971 )
During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
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Movie: Big Jake ( 1971 )
In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles' grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.
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Movie: Vampyros Lesbos ( 1971 )
In Turkey, a lesbian vampire - who uses an erotic nightclub act to find new victims - lures a lawyer to her private island under the pretense of resolving an inheritance issue.
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Movie: McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 )
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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Movie: Death in Venice ( 1971 )
While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
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Movie: Daughters of Darkness ( 1971 )
While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
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Movie: Shaft ( 1971 )
A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Movie: Billy Jack ( 1971 )
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.
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Movie: The Panic in Needle Park ( 1971 )
Follows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.
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Movie: The Abominable Dr. Phibes ( 1971 )
Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.
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Movie: A Bay of Blood ( 1972 )
The murder of a wealthy countess triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area as several unscrupulous characters try to seize her large estate.
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Movie: Macbeth ( 1971 )
A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
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Movie: Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 )
California State Police Captain Sam Surcher investigates a string of teenage-girl murders at Oceanfront High School.
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Movie: Murmur of the Heart ( 1971 )
As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.
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Movie: Le Mans ( 1971 )
Two car racing champions, an American and a German, face off on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France.
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Movie: Two-Lane Blacktop ( 1971 )
While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevrolet 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an enigmatic hitchhiker and the tall-tale-spinning driver of a GTO.
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Movie: Hannie Caulder ( 1971 )
After she is raped by the trio of outlaw brothers who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can exact her revenge.
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Movie: Blood from the Mummy's Tomb ( 1972 )
An archaeological expedition brings back to London the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magical powers. Her spirit returns in the form of a young girl and strange things start to happen.
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Movie: Brian's Song ( 1971 )
Buzz Kulik's beloved tearjerker is based on the real-life friendship between Chicago Bears teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond that was strengthened when Piccolo discovers that he has a fatal disease.
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Movie: Ransom for a Dead Man ( 1971 )
A brilliant tort attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.
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Movie: The Blood on Satan's Claw ( 1971 )
In early 18th century England, the children of a village slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
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Movie: Willard ( 1971 )
A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
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Movie: Bananas ( 1971 )
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
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Movie: Sunday Bloody Sunday ( 1971 )
The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.
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Movie: Trinity Is Still My Name ( 1971 )
Bambino tries to teach his brother Trinity how to become an outlaw, but the two wind up saving a pioneer family and breaking up an arms ring instead.
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Movie: Cold Turkey ( 1971 )
Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amid the media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge--and the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.
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Movie: Let's Scare Jessica to Death ( 1971 )
A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.
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Movie: Fools' Parade ( 1971 )
In 1935, after forty years in a West Virginia prison, three released convicts wish to open a legitimate business using the $25,000 earned in prison, but a crooked prison guard in cahoots with the town banker plans to defraud them.
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Movie: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song ( 1973 )
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
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Movie: The Mephisto Waltz ( 1971 )
An old, dying satanist arranges to transfer his soul into the body of a young concert pianist.
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Movie: The Anderson Tapes ( 1971 )
After ten years in prison to protect a mafia family, Duke Anderson is released and he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.
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Movie: The Hospital ( 1972 )
A hospital's chief-of-staff struggles to find meaning in his life during a spate of staff deaths.
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Movie: Taking Off ( 1971 )
While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover the pleasures of life as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.
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Movie: Sometimes a Great Notion ( 1972 )
A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggles to keep their family business alive amid changing times.
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Movie: A New Leaf ( 1971 )
When Henry Graham's lawyer informs him that his playboy lifestyle has consumed all of his funds, he must avoid sliding down the social ladder. He plans to marry wealthy scientist Henrietta Lowell--and kill her.
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Movie: The House That Dripped Blood ( 1971 )
An anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the U.K.
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Movie: The Hunting Party ( 1971 )
A cattle baron with a long-range rifle hunts the outlaw who kidnapped his wife.
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Movie: Four Flies on Grey Velvet ( 1972 )
A musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
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Movie: The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave ( 1972 )
A rich, mentally unstable man with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his late wife sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.
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Movie: The Nightcomers ( 1972 )
Prequel to Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw", focusing on groundskeeper Peter Quint's slow corruption of the virtuous governess Miss Jessel and the children she looks after.
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Movie: 10 Rillington Place ( 1971 )
What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
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Movie: Villain ( 1971 )
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
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Movie: Murphy's War ( 1971 )
A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.
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Movie: The Cat o' Nine Tails ( 1971 )
A reporter and a blind puzzle writer investigate a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company conducting secret genetic experiments, finding themselves targeted by the killer.
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Movie: The Emigrants ( 1971 )
An 1840s Swedish farming family struggle with their unyielding land and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
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Movie: A Touch of Zen ( 1971 )
A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.
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Movie: Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1972 )
During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.
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Movie: Support Your Local Gunfighter ( 1971 )
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
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Movie: When Eight Bells Toll ( 1971 )
In a vein similar to the James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
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Movie: The Last Valley ( 1971 )
During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.
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Movie: Valdez Is Coming ( 1971 )
A Mexican-American sheriff (Burt Lancaster) must resort to violence against a powerful rancher (Frank Tanner, played by Jon Cypher) in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.
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Movie: Wild Rovers ( 1971 )
Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.
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Movie: What's the Matter with Helen? ( 1971 )
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
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Movie: Minnie and Moskowitz ( 1972 )
A museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant.
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Movie: Carry on at Your Convenience ( 1971 )
WC Boggs' Lavatory factory faces industrial unrest, with union rep Vic Spanner frequently calling strikes, eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes.
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Movie: The Point ( 1971 )
A father reads his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who is banished from the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things for having no point.
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Movie: 200 Motels ( 1971 )
The great Frank Zappa's outrageous psychedelic precursor to today's music videos features "The Mothers of Invention" wreaking havoc in a typical American town. Ringo Starr narrates.
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Movie: Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different ( 1972 )
An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
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Movie: On Any Sunday ( 1971 )
Documentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.
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Movie: The Light at the Edge of the World ( 1971 )
A ruthless pirate captures the keeper of a lighthouse, in the most southern city in Argentina. His goal is obvious and horrific. He plans to control the lighthouses signals in a way that the passing ships will be crushed on the rocks.
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Movie: They Might Be Giants ( 1971 )
In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital, a man convinced that he is Sherlock Holmes is treated by a female doctor who happens to be named Watson.
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Movie: Red Sky at Morning ( 1971 )
An adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight World War II. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in the area, must deal with making friends, the strange new land, and first love. Meanwhile, his mother becomes increasingly withdrawn. When they learn that his father has been killed, ...Read all
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Movie: The Barefoot Executive ( 1971 )
A mailroom clerk and a chimp team up to pick hit TV shows.