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1970s Movies

Bluebeard (1972)

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Bluebeard movie storyline. Baron Kurt Von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives.

1960s Movies

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

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Anne of the Thousand Days movie storyline. King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) of England is contemplating what to do about his nearly one thousand day union to his second wife, Anne Boleyn (Geneviève Bujold).

1960s Movies

The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

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The Taming of the Shrew movie storyline. Baptista (Michael Hordern), a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca (Natasha Pyne), will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina (Elizabeth Taylor), a hellish shrew, has wed.

1960s Movies

Boom! (1968)

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Boom! movie storyline. Flora ‘Sissy’ Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders (Richard Burton), nicknamed “Angelo Del Morte” (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a very young man). The mysterious man may or may not be “The Angel of Death”.

1970s Movies

Raid on Rommel (1971)

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In Libya in 1942, Captain Alex Foster (Burton), an intelligence officer with the British Army, allows himself to be captured by a German Afrika Korps convoy transporting British prisoners, pretending to be injured. Once integrated with the prisoners, remnants of a commando force and a medical unit, Foster outlines his plans to take over the convoy, with the help of the prisoners, and redirect it towards the Libyan port town of Tobruk.

1960s Movies

Candy (1968)

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Candy Christian (Ewa Aulin) is an innocent young girl when she first hears MacPhisto, an alcoholic Welsh poet, talk of love and self-sacrifice. Candy narrowly escapes MacPhisto’s attempt to rape her, only to succumb to her father’s Mexican gardener, Emmanuel (Ringo Starr). When her father catches her with the gardener, he banishes her to a trip with his twin brother, Uncle Jack, and Jack’s wife Aunt Livia, who are headed for New York City.

1970s Movies

The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)

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The Assassination of Trotsky is Joseph Losey’s mood piece that delves into the psychological makeup of Frank Jackson, the assassin of exiled Russian Communist leader Leon Trotsky.

1970s Movies

Exorcist 2: The Heretic (1977)

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Exorcist 2 movie storyline. Dr. Gene Tuskin works with troubled children, perhaps none more troubled than Regan MacNeil, who suffers from bad dreams and repressed memories.

1970s Movies

Equus (1977)

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Equus movie storyline. Hesther Salomon, a magistrate, asks her platonic friend Martin Dysart, a disillusioned psychiatrist who works with disturbed teenagers at a hospital in Hampshire, England.

1970s Movies

The Medusa Touch (1978)

May 19, 2020July 11, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Medusa Touch movie storyline. John Morlar is watching a British television broadcast when an anchorman states that American astronauts are trapped in orbit around the moon.