Archive for January, 1971
007 Diamonds Are Forever
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| Plot Summary: | When Bond investigates mysterious activities in the world diamond market, he discovers that the evil Ernst Blofeld (Charles Gray) is stockpiling the precious gems to use in a deadly laser satellite capable of destroying massive targets on land, sea and air. Bond, with the help of beautiful smuggler Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), sets out to stop the madman, but first he must grapple with a host of enemies. He confronts offbeat assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, as well as Bambi and Thumper–two scantily-clad beauties who are more than a match for Bond in hand-to-hand combat! Finally, there’s the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean), who may just hold a vital clue to Blofeld’s whereabouts. |
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French Connection, The
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| Taglines: | 1: A $32,000,000 chase turns into the American thriller of the year! 2: Doyle is bad news - but a good cop. 3: The time is right for an out and out thriller like this. 4: There are no rules and no holds barred when Popeye cuts loose! |
| Plot Summary: | William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between ‘Popeye’ Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. |
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Duel
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| Taglines: | 1: Fear is the driving force. 2: Terror in your rear view mirror. 3: The Killer’s Weapon - A 40 Ton Truck 4: The most bizarre murder weapon ever used! 5: When the headlights of a truck become the eyes of a psychopath. |
| Plot Summary: | David Mann (’Dennis Weaver (I)’ (qv)) is just a regular family man on a business trip. Unfortunately, things go from bad to worse when a huge gasoline truck in front of him forces him to drive slower than he wants. As the drive continues, Mann realizes that he’s not dealing with just another road hog. Though he can never see the trucker’s face, the driver proves to be psychopathic, starting to run Mann off the road and trick or force him into a number of deadly situations. As the horrific trip continues, Mann tries to lose the truck, but each time he thinks he’s finally in the clear, the truck returns to terrify him more. Finally, the horrific conflict builds to a point where he realizes that running won’t save him, and that he must take a stand and fight back against the insane trucker. |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
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| Taglines: | 1: Charlie is let loose in the chocolate factory and every kid’s dream comes true. 2: Enter a world of pure imagination. 3: It’s everybody’s non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun! 4: It’s Scrumdiddlyumptious! 5: Your golden ticket to imagination and adventure! |
| Plot Summary: | Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done? |
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Dirty Harry
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| Taglines: | 1: Clint Eastwood is “Dirty Harry.” And boy, does he get all the dirty jobs. 2: Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn’t break murder cases. He smashes them. 3: do you feel lucky punk? 4: With his .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, Dirty Harry wipes out crime to hell. 5: You don’t assign him to murder cases, You just turn him loose. |
| Plot Summary: | In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude. |
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