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1970s Movies

Chato’s Land (1972)

August 8, 2020January 19, 2023 - by greatmovies

Chato’s Land movie storyline. After a deadly confrontation with the racist local sheriff in the town’s whites-only bar, the half-Apache, Pardon Chato, flees into the unforgiving desert. Hell-bent on making Chato pay, the famed former Confederate officer, Captain Quincey Whitmore, assembles an angry posse of blood-thirsty men.

1960s Movies

Bullitt (1968)

July 20, 2020January 23, 2023 - by greatmovies

Bullitt movie storyline. Chicago, Illinois, hoodlum Johnny Ross defrauds his Mafia associates and escapes to San Francisco, California, where he agrees to testify before a Senate subcommittee on crime headed by ambitious politician Walter Chalmers.

1970s Movies

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

July 5, 2020February 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever movie storyline. At the behest of her mainstream conservative fiancé Warren, scatterbrained five-pack-a-day chain smoker and clairvoyant Daisy Gamble attends a class taught by psychiatrist Marc Chabot for help in kicking her habit. She becomes unintentionally hypnotized and manages to convince Chabot to attempt to cure her nicotine addiction with hypnotherapy.

1960s Movies

Who Was That Lady? (1960)

June 22, 2020February 14, 2023 - by greatmovies

Who Was That Lady? movie storyline. Sarah Alexander catches her straight-laced husband, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Chemistry Randy Alexander, kissing another woman. From Russ’s perspective, he was the one being kissed innocently, the woman in question being a grateful transfer student. However, Ann wants a divorce.

1950s Movies

I Want to Live! (1958)

June 19, 2020February 17, 2023 - by greatmovies

The riveting true story of brazen bad girl Barbara Graham, a perpetual offender who tries to go straight but is sent to death row after being implicated in a murder. When journalist Ed Montgomery, whose initial newspaper articles on Barbara’s crime played up her recklessness, becomes convinced that she may be innocent, he begins a desperate campaign to save her from the gas chamber.

1960s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Psycho (1960)

July 29, 2019July 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

Psycho movie storyline. Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married.

1960s Movies

West Side Story (1961)

July 28, 2019July 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

West Side Story is the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo.