Amazing Grace
Theatrical Release Date: 08/30/1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Stan Lathan
Actors: Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Rosalind Cash, Moses Gunn, James Karen, George Lee Miles
Dead of Night ( Deathdream )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/30/1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Clark
Actors: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe , Anya Ormsby, Jane Daly
Plot: A soldier turns up alive in the family house, after he was declared dead. Filmed during the war, it painfully reiterate the drama of soldiers gone, never to come back.
The Longest Yard
Theatrical Release Date: 08/30/1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, Bernadette Peters
Plot: A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his
prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by)
the guards.
Marketa Lazarová
Theatrical Release Date: 08/30/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Czech
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frantisek Vlácil
Actors: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka, Frantisek Velecký, Karel Vasicek
Plot: A minor Czech family survives by robbing travelers. When one such job goes south - the clan fears the wrath of the king. Calling on his neighbor to help - his persuasion fails and in anger and desperation, kidnaps his daughter as she leaves for the convent. Meanwhile the king gathers an army to take on the clan - a Medieval tale against the backdrop of Paganism shifting to Christianity.
99 and 44/100% Dead
Theatrical Release Date: 08/29/1974
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Constance Ford, Zooey Hall
Plot: An aging mob boss calls upon hit man Harry Crown to take down a rival. But when Crown's girlfriend is kidnapped by Big Eddie, things get personal.
Caravan to Vaccares
Theatrical Release Date: 08/28/1974
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Geoffrey Reeve
Actors: David Birney, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozzuffi, Michael Bryant, Serge Marquand
Reason to Live, a Reason to Die, A ( Ragione per vivere e una per morire, Una )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/28/1974
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tonino Valerii
Actors: James Coburn, Telly Savalas, Bud Spencer, José Suárez, Georges Géret, Ugo Fangareggi
Elective Affinities ( Wahlverwandtschaften, Die )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/27/1974
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Siegfried Kühn
Actors: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hilmar Thate, Magda Vásáryová, Gerry Wolff, Horst Schulze, Christine Schorn
