The Best Picture of 1970 is....."Patton." The roller coaster career of the legendary World War II General George S. Patton Jr. is recreated in this epic film. The tour de force performance by actor George C. Scott dominated the screentime of this engrossing 172-minute motion picture. Director Franklin [..]

Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut in a big way in the psychological thriller "Play Misty for Me." Eastwood's taut direction resulted in very few wasted scenes and a fast-moving 102 minute running time. He played the male lead, a radio disc jockey stalked by a [..]

There is no shortage of drama in "Mary, Queen of Scots," the lavish Hal B. Wallis production of the historical conflict between Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England and Catholic Queen Mary of Scotland. Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson are perfectly cast as the two monarchs, superbly directed [..]

"Shaft" is a crime drama about a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a black Harlem mobster to rescue his daughter, kidnapped by Italian mobsters. Director Gordon Parks put tons of action in the film, from a well written screenplay by Ernest Tidyman and John [..]

Clint Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier who takes shelter in in a girl's school in Mississippi during the Civil War, and soon becomes embroiled in the dysfunctional female-dominated environment there. Director Don Siegel ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 1956) put together a well-organized film with greater [..]

"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 [..]