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Top 10 Favourite 70s films that haven't been released in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

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Can only narrow it down to 11:

The Beguiled
Coming Home (glad to hear it's on its way)
Day of the Locust
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Funny Lady
Klute
Mame (yes, really!)
The Owl and the Pussycat
Prince of the City
Theatre of Blood
The Yakuza

Would also love to see Arnold (glad to hear I'm not the only one who remembers this.)
 

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Kyrsten Brad said:
Big Bad Mama (1974): From IMDB; "After the death of her lover, Wilma takes over his bootlegging business, but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred, who convinces her and her daughters to join him for his next big heist. In the meantime, Wilma also kidnaps the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom. Will Wilma and Fred be able to retire with their ill-gotten gains, or will the law eventually catch up with them?"
From Brad: One of my sentimental favorites as this Roger Corman film was a late night staple on cable in the 80s. Most striking feature, Angie Dickinson at age 40 doing her first nude scenes...and she put most Playboy centerfolds to shame.
I'm 99.9% sure that they used a body double for the most explicit love scene in that film.
 

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Andromeda Strain
Godspell
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Rabid
FM
Thank God It's Friday
Foul Play
Phantasm
Prophecy
Foul Play
 

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A lot of great titles listed already, so I'll just add:

[*]The Night Stalker / The Night Strangler (TV)
[*]Killdozer (TV)
[*]Trilogy of Terror (TV)
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...and my personal Holy Grail, The Legend of Boggy Creek, forever (?) marooned in Public Domain hell.
 

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atfree said:
Not so sure about that for Angie .....but my brain wishes they'd used one for William Shatner. :eek:

But she did in fact use one in "Body Double"
I'll double check but I believe a write up somewhere (IMDB has some indications) that everybody did their own nudity, including Angie. And from what I've read, she was all gung-ho doing it. So that really is Angie we see in all her nude scenes.

Thirteen years later in the sequel Big Bad Mama II (1987), it obvious that body doubles were used for Angie's nude scenes as Angie was 53 by that time.
Oh and I still need some mind bleach after seeing Shatner in the buff but as the IMDB article put it, "we are spared a view of the Captain's Log".
 

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atfree said:
Not so sure about that for Angie .....but my brain wishes they'd used one for William Shatner. :eek:

But she did in fact use one in "Body Double"
Just to be accurate, Angie wasn't in Body Double. I think you may mean Dressed to Kill.
 

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Lots to pick from, but lowering it down -Lady FrankensteinVan Nuys Blvd.Angels BrigadeCar WashThe WanderersSkatetown USACorvette SummerBlazing MagnumThe Red Queen Kills 7 TimesMannajaPlus 5 more!The Case Of The Bloody IrisVon Richthofen And BrownAll The Colors Of The DarkBuck RogersKiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park
 

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Top of my head.

Charley Varrick
The Front Page
Murder By Death/The Cheap Detective double-feature ( I can dream can't I? )
Mikey and Nicky
The Brinks Job
The Candidate
Hardcore
Klute
Start the Revolution Without Me
Moonrunners
 

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My top ten choices of those lacking a Region 1 Blu-ray release:

1. 1776
2. Murder on the Orient Express
3. Death on the Nile
4. Murder by Death
5. The Turning Point
6. The Music Lovers
7. The Boy Friend
8. Farewell, My Lovely
9. Movie Movie
10. Paper Moon
 

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[*]Tales from the Crypt - USA release
[*]Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla
[*]Terror of Mechagodzilla
[*]Warlords of Atlantis
[*]Land That Time Forgot
[*]Phantasm
[*]What Have You Done to Solange ?
[*]Time After Time
[*]I,Monster
[*]The Creeping Flesh
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I love Dawn of the Dead but since Arrow released a great blu ray of it Im in no hurry for a USA version. I love the 70s ! :)
 

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clambake said:
Lots to pick from, but lowering it down -Lady FrankensteinVan Nuys Blvd.Angels BrigadeCar WashThe WanderersSkatetown USACorvette SummerBlazing MagnumThe Red Queen Kills 7 TimesMannajaPlus 5 more!The Case Of The Bloody IrisVon Richthofen And BrownAll The Colors Of The DarkBuck RogersKiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park
I could go for Van Nuys.
 

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Two of my holy grails have just been announced (Bedknobs and Broomsticks and All That Jazz, and make it three if you count the music-licensing-nightmare-plagued WKRP in Cincinnati), so here's 10 more from the 1970s I'd like to see:

The Hospital (1971, Arthur Hiller)
Cold Turkey (1971, Norman Lear)
Death in Venice (1971, Luchino Visconti)
Pink Flamingos (1972, John Waters)
Day of the Jackal (1973, Fred Zinnemann)
Fritz the Cat (1973, Ralph Bakshi)
Female Trouble (1974, John Waters)
Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975, John Hough)
Desperate Living (1977, John Waters)
 

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I've been pretty lucky, because I had to stretch to reach 10 (that Star Wars is something of a ringer), and don't think I could come up with another.

The Andromeda Strain
Chisum
Duel
Finian's Rainbow
Foul Play
The Front Page
MacArthur
1776
The Shootist
Star Wars original version

If you talk really really really want, there's only four (Finian, MacArthur, 1776, Shootist).
 

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