1974 – Stream On Demand

Christopher Lee is ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ on HBO Max

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Roger Moore plays James Bond for the second time in this 1974 spy spectacle that pits him against a deadly asasassin who kills with golden bullets.

‘The Three Musketeers’ – Swashbuckling swordplay and slapstick fun Prime Video

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Michael York is the naive but earnest D’Artagnan and Oliver Reed the haunted Pathos in Richard Lester’s spirited 1974 film of the grand Alexander Dumas adventure classic.

Luc Merenda stars in Fernando di Leo's crime drama from Italy

‘Shoot First, Die Later’ – Revenge of the corrupted on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, gangsters, International Cinema, Spaghetti Cinema 01/14/2023 Sean Axmaker

Fernando di Leo’s seventies Italian gangster thriller stars Luc Merenda as a hotshop young cop on the take and features some of the most impressive car chases of its era.

Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw star in the great NYC subway heist

‘The Taking of Pelham One Two Three’ – The great subway heist on HBO Max

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Walter Matthau stars in this ingenious crime caper / hostage drama from 1974, one of the great New York crime films of the 1970s.

‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’ on Amazon Prime

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Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges become unlikely partners in this offbeat road movie / caper film from 1974.

Marlon Brando stars in the Oscar-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ trilogy on Peacock

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Al Pacino is Michael Corleone in the great American epic of the immigrant dream turned family business in the Oscar-winning trilogy based on the novel by Mario Puzo.

‘Young Frankenstein’ – Classic horror on laughing gas on Prime Video

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Mel Brooks’ lovingly hilarious spoof of the Universal Frankenstein films is both the funniest and the most loving tribute to classic movies ever made.

Pam Grier stars in 'Foxy Brown' and 'Coffy,' directed by Jack Hill.

Pam Grier is ‘Coffy’ and ‘Foxy Brown’ on Prime Video

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Grier became a leading lady and a seventies icon in these two ‘blaxpoitation’ classics directed by Jack Hill.

‘Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell’ – Hammer horror on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Hulu, Science Fiction, SVOD 06/24/2021 Sean Axmaker

Though it wasn’t Hammer Studio’s final film, Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1974) can be considered its swan song, an intelligent, inventive, stylized reworking of the themes that had sustained the series for almost two decades. Dr. Frankenstein has buried his old identity and reigns over an insane asylum as Dr. Victor (Peter Cushing […]

‘Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter’ – swashbuckling horror on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, adventure, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, horror, Hulu, SVOD 04/05/2021 Sean Axmaker

Forget Van Helsing. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) is the great swashbuckling dispatcher of the bloodsucking undead. Hard-faced Horst Janson is the brooding Kronos, a rangy, sword-wielding soldier who hunts the vampire scourge with his jovial hunchbacked partner, Grost (John Cater) and takes time out from his athletic battles and meditative interludes for a few […]