61. Deliverance
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Boorman
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, Bill McKinney, Ed Ramey
Plot: Four business men decide to tame the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into a lake. Their carefully planned adventure takes a wrong turn when some unfriendly locals take an interest in them.
62. Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Actors: Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner, Robie Lester
Plot: A mailman is answering questions about Santa Claus and winds up telling the origin story of the man who delivers the toys every Christmas.
63. Superman
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Margot Kidder
Plot: The story of an outsider from another planet who has Jesus like abilities
- based on the comic of the same name.
64. Sleuth
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
Plot: A man how is having an affair with another man's wife, is invited over for theater and games in which one of them takes it too far.
65. Day for Night ( nuit américaine, La )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion
Plot: Truffaut's seriocomic, strangely documentarian, and always affectionate look at the trials and travails of filmmaking.
66. Tree of Wooden Clogs, The ( Albero degli zoccoli, L' )
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Actors: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli
Plot: Ermanno Olmi's epic film charts the destinies of four families in an Italian peasant community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The title refers to the landlord's tree a peasant cuts down so his son can have shoes to go to school.
67. Autumn Sonata ( Höstsonaten )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen
Plot: After being absent, a world-famous pianist returns home to her daughter.
When she arrives, she is surprised to discover that Eva has also taken in
her mentally-disabled sister, Helena from the institutions where she had
been left years before. After a tense number of days, a late-night
conversation will release everything that has been kept unsaid throughout
the years.
68. Robin Hood
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Peter Ustinov, Brian Bedford, Terry-Thomas, Monica Evans, Phil Harris, Andy Devine
Plot: Disney animates Robin Hood in this imaginative retelling where animals sub for humans. The outlaw and hero of the people Robin Hood and his gang of merry men take on the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and usurper Prince John.
69. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul ( Angst essen Seele auf )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt, Marquard Bohm
Plot: An aging woman falls for a Berber man ten years her junior - and all those around her oppose the relationship, especially when they decide to marry. Yet even as the date draws closer, each has their own personal doubts about how to continue.
70. That Obscure Object of Desire ( Cet obscur objet du désir )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber, Ellen Bahl
Plot: An aging man finds himself in love with an infuriating but captivating younger woman, played interchangeably by two actresses, one a cool, icy Frenchwoman, the other a fiery Spaniard.
