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1970s Movies

Connecting Rooms (1970)

December 5, 2020December 29, 2022 - by greatmovies

Connecting Rooms xplores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London owned by dour Mrs. Brent (Kay Walsh). Amongst them are busker Wanda Fleming (Bette Davis), who is flattered by the attention paid her by rebellious pop songwriter wannabe Mickey Hollister (Alexis Kanner), and former schoolmaster James Wallraven (Sir Michael Redgrave), who has been accused of pedophilia and reduced to working as a janitor in an art gallery.

Die Screaming, Marianne (1971)

October 4, 2020January 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

Die Screaming, Marianne movie storyline. After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate her father, who was a crooked judge.

55 Days at Peking (1963)

August 13, 2020January 18, 2023 - by greatmovies

55 Days at Peking movie storyline. During the 1899 to 1901 Boxer Rebellion, Peking is an open city with the Chinese, and several European countries vie for control. The Boxers, who oppose Christianity and the western powers, who still exercised complete sovereignty over their compounds and their citizens.