Seventies Films

Snowbound westerns. Thanksgiving counterculture. Forgotten Christmas TV movies. From 1967–1983, seasonal cinema got wonderfully strange.

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Despite its unmistakably British atmosphere, Deep End (1970) was filmed largely in Munich, not London. Jerzy Skolimowski recreated the city's public baths and seedy surroundings in Germany, creating one of the most distinctive cinematic portraits of London in the era.

Deep End (1970) A teenage attendant at a London bathhouse becomes dangerously obsessed with his older co-worker. Jane Asher and John Moulder-Brown star in Jerzy Skolimowski's unsettling coming-of-age drama.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematography: Charly Steinberger
Music: Cat Stevens and Can

French Connection II (1975) Gene Hackman's Popeye Doyle pursues a drug kingpin through Marseille, where the hunter becomes the hunted. John Frankenheimer delivers a brutal, relentless sequel.

Frankenheimer filmed the exteriors in Marseille, using Paris soundstages for several interiors. He later revealed that Fox cut eight minutes after its release without his permission, including a subplot involving Popeye and a volleyball player.

Director: John Frankenheimer
Cinematography: Claude Renoir
Music: Don Ellis

The idea for 10 (1979) came from a real encounter. While driving in Brussels, Blake Edwards spotted a beautiful bride in a limousine and wondered whether his ideal woman had just passed him by. That fleeting moment inspired the film's central obsession.

10 (1979) Dudley Moore stars as a middle-aged composer whose pursuit of the perfect woman leads to romantic disaster. Julie Andrews and Bo Derek co-star in Blake Edwards' hit comedy.

Director/Writer: Blake Edwards
Cinematography: Frank Stanley
Music: Henry Mancini

Pam Grier helped devise some of COFFY's (1973) most memorable weapons. The razor blades concealed in her hair and the bobby pins used in combat were her own ideas. Director Jack Hill credited her real-life experience for giving the character those resourceful touches.

Director/Writer: Jack Hill
DP: Paul Lohmann
Music: Roy Ayers