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August 14: The cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London. November 2: Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini is brutally murdered in Ostia (Rome). November 23: Sneak Previews, the first American film review show, premieres and launches the careers of critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. They will remain a team, and a ...
Set in a British Indian Army barracks in the late 19th-century, the film centers on an impromptu court-martial following the assault of an officer's widow. Conduct Unbecoming was released by British Lion Films on 5 October 1975, to generally positive reviews. The American National Board of Review ranked the film in its Top Ten Films of 1975.
From 1975, Film Review Digest gives it a mixed review: recognising its artistic pretensions, it says the filmmakers went "just about as far as they could dare in a commercial context". [ 2 ] On its DVD release in 2007, DVD Drive-In praised it as more than exploitation cinema: they called it a "stylish art movie", comparing it to Easy Rider and ...
The film has a 93% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 115 critics, with an average rating of 9.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher are worthy adversaries in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , with Miloš Forman's more grounded and morally ambiguous approach to Ken Kesey's surrealistic ...
20th Century Fox / Constantin Film / MFG-Film / T.R.A.C. Maximilian Schell (director/screenplay); Roberto de Leonardis (screenplay); Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Calderoni, Norbert Schiller, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Donald Sutherland: 14 Moonrunners: United Artists
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
1776 (1972) – historical musical drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence [72]; Aguirre, the Wrath of God (German: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972) – West German-Mexican-Peruvian epic historical drama film about Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who lead a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South ...
Overlord is a 1975 black-and-white British war film written and directed by Stuart Cooper.Set during the Second World War, around the D-Day invasion (Operation Overlord), the film is about a young British soldier's experiences and his meditations on being part of the war machinery, including his premonitions of death.