Charley Varrick
Theatrical Release Date: 10/19/1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Sheree North, Jacqueline Scott
Plot: An unlucky crop-dusting pilot robs a bank, only to find that the bank is used by the Mafia to launder money.
The Way We Were
Theatrical Release Date: 10/19/1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors
Plot: A love story that focuses on two people who are basically polar opposites. They meet in college in the '30s, and their relationship spans a twenty-year period.
I.F. Stone's Weekly
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/1973
Overall Rating: 1.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jerry Bruck Jr.
Actors: I.F. Stone, Tom Wicker
The Optimists
Theatrical Release Date: 10/18/1973
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Anthony Simmons
Actors: Peter Sellers, Marjorie Yates, Donna Mullane, John Chaffey, David Daker, Pat Ashton
Hellhounds of Alaska, The ( blutigen Geier von Alaska, Die )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/16/1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Harald Reinl
Actors: Doug McClure, Harald Leipnitz, Angelica Ott, Roberto Blanco, Kristina Nel, Klaus Löwitsch
The Paper Chase
Theatrical Release Date: 10/16/1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James Bridges
Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann, Craig Richard Nelson
Plot: A first year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Badlands
Theatrical Release Date: 10/15/1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Alan Vint, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Gary Littlejohn
Plot: Loosely based on the Starkweather serial killer, a young girl and her much
older boy friend kill several people including her family and run from the
law in South Dakota during the 1950's.
World on a Wire ( Welt am Drah )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/14/1973
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Ulli Lommel, Adrian Hoven
Plot: In the future, Henry Vollmer leads a project to create a virtual world: Simulacron. When Vollmer dies, his successor Dr. Fred Stiller begins to experience strange phenomena from people disappearing, to his own existence being questioned. Is he in the real world or has Simulacron taken over?
