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1970s Movies

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

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Cable Hogue is a prospector who is abandoned in the desert, with no water, by his so-called partners. Nearing death, he discovers a natural spring and he’s soon at the nearest town to register a land claim. There he meets a pretty local prostitute, Hildy. Back at his claim site, he christens it Cable Springs and opens a stagecoach station where the horses can be watered and the passengers fed.

1970s Movies

Up in Smoke (1978)

December 8, 2020July 2, 2023 - by greatmovies

In California, jobless hippie and stoner Anthony “Man” Stoner (Chong) is kicked out of his house by his rich and classy father. He drives off in his fathers car, which breaks down, and Anthony is left stranded near a beach, left to sleep in a ditch over night with his belongings.

1970s Movies

Red Sky at Morning (1971)

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Red Sky at Morning movie storyline. An adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight World War II.

1960s Movies

The Deadly Companions (1961)

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The Deadly Companions movie storyline. Intending of robbing Gila City’s bank, the ex-Union soldier Yellowleg makes a pact with Turk, a Confederate loose cannon and his showy sharpshooter companion, Billy Keplinger, only to see another gang get to the bank first.

1970s Movies

Hannie Caulder (1971)

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Hannie Caulder movie storyline. With the Mexican Federal Police hot on their trail after a botched bank robbery, the Clemens Brothers – the vicious gang of the bloodthirsty outlaws, Emmett (Ernest Borgnine), Rufus (Strother Martin), and Frank (Jack Elam) – find refuge in Jim and Hannie Caulder’s (Raquel Welch’s) secluded relay station.

1970s Movies

The Champ (1979)

June 26, 2020February 13, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Champ movie storyline. Director Franco Zeffirelli (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet) trades in his puffy shirts for boxing gloves in this 1979 re-make of the Wallace Berry/Jackie Cooper classic. Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, a down-on-his-luck boxer who is working as a stable man for horses in Florida. T.J. (Ricky Schroder) is his plucky son who looks after him. An unrepentant gambler and drinker, Billy needs looking after.

1960s Movies

Harper (1966)

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Harper movie synopsis. Lew Harper (Paul Newman) is a Los Angeles based private investigator whose marriage to Susan Harper, who he still loves, is ending in imminent divorce since she can’t stand being second fiddle to his work, which is always taking him away at the most inopportune of times.

1960s Movies

The Wild Bunch (1969)

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The Wild Bunch movie storyline. After a botched robbery attempt in Texas, Pike Bishop and his gang head south across the Rio Grande and into Mexico.

1960s Movies

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

July 28, 2019July 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, partners and arguably the most renowned outlaws in the area, they who hold up banks or trains.

1960s Movies

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

July 27, 2019July 23, 2023 - by greatmovies

Cool Hand Luke movie storyline. A social misfit Luke is arrested for destroying parking meters and imprisoned in a Southern prison farm, commanded by a sadistic, prison officer Captain.