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1970s Movies

The Best Way to Walk (1976)

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The Best Way to Walk movie storyline. Marc and Philippe are two teenage summer-camp counselors at a vacation camp somewhere in the French country in 1960. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. One night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe. Despite their late-adolescent rivalries and sexual confusion, each of them achieves some sort of awakening.

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In Search of Noah’s Ark (1976)

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In Search of Noah’s Ark movie storyline. An investigation into the theory that Mt. Ararat in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah’s Ark. In Search of Noah’s Ark is a 1976 documentary film released by Sunn Classic Pictures that explores the alleged final resting place of Noah’s Ark. In Search of Noah’s Ark grossed $55.7 million at the North American box office and was the sixth highest grossing film of 1976 in the United States.

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Sheba, Baby (1975)

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Sheba, Baby movie storyline. Louisville businessman, Andy Shayne (Rudy Challenger), who owns a small financial agency which helps provide loans and credit to the under-privileged, is roughed up by a group of hired thugs, who want to send a message; sell his business to a competitor.

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In Celebration (1975)

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In Celebration takes place in the Derbyshire mining town of Langwith. The Shaws’ three sons have returned home to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. Shaw has been a coal miner for 49 years, and has only one year left until retirement. Mrs Shaw is the daughter of a pig breeder, meaning she came from a higher social class.

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Mahler (1975)

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Mahler movie storyline. Both trifles and structure are tossed out the door by director Ken Russell in this film. Here, historical content matters not so much as metaphors, feelings, emotions, and interpretations, and pay close attention, as every word and frame is intended to be important.

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Barry Lyndon (1975)

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Barry Lyndon movie storyline. The rise and fall of the adult life of Irishman Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal), who, in his later life, would be known as Barry Lyndon, from the mid to late eighteenth century, is presented. Growing up in humble means, largely due to the early death of his aspiring lawyer father, the potential family breadwinner, Barry strives to live up to the standards of being a gentleman in every respect of the word, including monetarily.

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Such Good Friends (1971)

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Julie Messinger (Dyan Cannon) has it made. She is a New York housewife whose husband, Richard (Laurence Luckinbill), is an editor for a prominent photography magazine. They have a small circle of friends, including well-meaning, but inept Dr. Timothy (James Coco) Spector, photographer Cal Whiting (Ken Howard) and Cal’s live-in girlfriend Miranda (Jennifer O’Neill). Julie’s mother spends her days getting pedicures and manicures, applying make-up and fake eye-lashes and buying expensive clothes, all the while criticizing her daughter for her looks and behavior.

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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

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Nicholas and Alexandra opens in 1904 with Alexei’s birth during the Russo-Japanese War. Tsar Nicholas II is warned by his cousin Grand Duke Nicholas and the Prime Minister Count Sergei Witte that the war is futile and costing too many lives. They also tell him there is a rising demand by the Russian people for representative government, health care, voting, and workers’ rights, but Nicholas wants to maintain the autocracy. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky have formed.

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Family Life (1971)

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Family Life movie storyline. A young woman, Janice (Sandy Ratcliff), is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life, and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie storyline. In a small town, Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum), a poor paperboy, watches kids visit a candy shop. Walking home, he passes Willy Wonka’s (Gene Wilder) chocolate factory. A mysterious tinker recites the first lines of William Allingham’s poem “The Fairies” and tells Charlie that “nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out.”