"The Andromeda Strain" is a science fiction movie about a team of scientists sent by the government to investigate a potentially deadly organism that comes to earth from outer space, aboard a U. S. research satellite that crashes in rural Arizona. Director Robert Wise ("The Sound of [..]

"THX 1138" is the futuristic story of the human race living in vast underground cities with the world government forcing the population to take medication that suppress emotion. When a man and a woman stop taking their meds, they fall in love and become outlaws of the [..]

"The Omega Man" is a solid science fiction story about the sole survivor of a world-wide biological war between China and the Soviet Union. Charlton Heston lends his considerable acting skills and imposing screen presence as the main character, who must battle scores of mutant humans to survive. [..]

"Diamonds are Forever" is the seventh James Bond film telling the story of 007 battling a plot by old nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld to use diamonds as a space-based laser weapon to destroy Washington, D. C. Director Guy Hamilton ("Goldfinger" 1964) gives this film the usual [..]

Steve McQueen stars in an authentic depiction of the LeMans auto race in France, skillfully directed by Lee H. Katzin ("Heaven with a Gun" 1969), written by Harry Kleiner. "LeMans" contains actual film footage [..]

"Savage Guns" is a western film about a gunfighter out for revenge on an outlaw who killed his brother in a massacre at a tavern. Director Demofilo Fidani, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mila Vitelli Valenza, put together a low-budget Spaghetti Western with mediocre production values. One good [..]

"Walkabout" is the story of two white children who are left to fend for themselves in the Australian outback, and luckily run into an Aboriginal boy who helps them to survive. He is himself enduring a rite of passage to adulthood, called a walkabout by Aboriginals, where the [..]

"Millhouse: A White Comedy" is a documentary film about the career of Richard M. Nixon from his election to Congress in 1946 to his ascension to the U. S. Presidency in 1968. Producer-director Emile de Antonio basically put together a montage of videos of his speeches (without voice-over [..]

"Bad Man's River" is western film that tells the story of a man who robs a bank, and then marries a beautiful woman, only to have her run off with the money. This attempt to emulate Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns fell flat on its face with sloppy [..]

"Big Jake" is the typical John Wayne vehicle where he plays a man returning to his estranged family only to find that his grandson has been kidnapped. Big Jake then embarks on a journey to deliver the ransom but has no intention of handing over the cash [..]