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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.

1970s Movies

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

October 23, 2020January 5, 2023 - by greatmovies

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.

1930s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

July 31, 2020January 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Lady Vanishes movie storyline. Passengers on a scheduled train out of the mountainous European country of Mandrika are delayed by a day due to an avalanche, and thus get up close and personal with each other out of necessity in the only and what becomes an overcrowded inn in the area.

1960s Movies

The Innocents (1961)

June 20, 2020February 14, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Innocents movie storyline. Victorian England. Since the death of their parents, adolescents Miles (Martin Stephens) and Flora (Pamela Franklin) have been under the guardianship of their wealthy selfish uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave), who admits he has no place emotionally for them in his life.

1970s Movies

Goodbye Gemini (1970)

June 14, 2020February 22, 2023 - by greatmovies

Goodbye Gemini movie synopsis. Jacki (Judy Geeson) and Julian (Martin Potter) Dewar, a pair of fraternal twins, arrive via bus in London on Spring break from university, while their father is in Mexico on business. The pair launch themselves into London’s underground party scene, clubbing at strip bars, accompanied by Jacki’s teddy bear, Agamemnon, whom the twins address—and regard—as a father figure.