Comments on: 15 Thrillers From The 1970s You May Not Know

By: MODAREC

MODAREC — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 18:21:56 +0000

The \”Black Sunday\” screenshot is from Mario Bava\’s Italian horror \”Black Sunday\” from 1960. It\’s a great film too.

By: MAL

MAL — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Disagree with your opinion on the Kremlin Letter but aside from that SUPERB list and comments.

By: NC

NC — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

So funny you used the screenshot of Barbara Steele in Mario Bava\’s Black Sunday in lieu of the later Frankenheimer film.

By: Tom Swift V

Tom Swift V — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Coma. No other film has quite this sense of paranoia without fully crossing over into horror the way Invasion of the Body Snatchers does. Anyone looking for the exact tone of the \’70s fear of corporate control need look no further, though The China Syndrome is a very good companion piece.

By: charles in charge

charles in charge — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Alec Guinness – best le Carre adaptation ever.. Suitably paranoid and really well done.

By: Michael A. Gonzales

Michael A. Gonzales — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Wonderful list, but how you can call a great film like The Anderson Tapes a "misfire" is a mystery to me.

By: Gaines

Gaines — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Great list, love the sub-genre, lots of titles I haven't heard of, and definitely gonna check out.

One of my favourite '70s thriller was "Two-Minute Warning" (1976). Mind you, it's not a great film (not sure if it's a little known gem, or simply little known; last time I've seen it was 10-ish years ago, so I probably need to rewatch it at some point to see if it holds up), but it builds its suspense nicely – it's about a nameless, faceless sniper targeting a football stadium, the authorities trying to prevent the attack, and a bunch of disparate people, including Beau Bridges, Martin Balsam and Gena Rowlands, going to/preparing for the big game -, and it has Charlton Heston's detective playing off of John Cassavetes as a SWAT team leader.

By: Marshall Fox

Marshall Fox — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Here's a worthy, offbeat title: "Winter Kills" (1979) –a totally interesting paranoid folly (from a book by Richard Condon) with a killer cast: Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Boone, and an uncredited Elizabeth Taylor!

By: FÃ¼rchtegott

FÃ¼rchtegott — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Paul Schraders "Blue Collar" with a fantastic cast (Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto). No supercops, no supervillains – but a very realistic view to the economic downfall at the end of the Seventies. A "social" thriller.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Straight Time and another Connery flick, The Great Train Robbery

By: sidney falco

sidney falco — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Great article…I could read about 70's thrillers forever…a very under-rated TV gem is Michael Crichton's PURSUIT. It's based on a book he wrote under John Lange entitled "Binary" and he directed it too. Top tension as a political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agent Ben Gazarra is sent to catch him. Joe Bob says, "Check It Out!!"

By: max

max — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Good list.
Another picture I'd love to shoe-horn in is Richard Lester's terrific sea thriller from 1974, JUGGERNAUT. It was an obvious influence on Jan De Bont's 1994 action thriller, SPEED.

By: Ron Paul Reubens

Ron Paul Reubens — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

"John Williams scored both movies and we swear he subtly steals from his own oeuvre"

Wouldn't be surprising considering he has stolen from everyone else's.

By: G.T.O.

G.T.O. — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Nice article ! Day of the Jackal is a great film.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Into the "interesting other" category I'll throw out 1972's "Prime Cut" by Michael Ritchie. Featuring the seedy underbelly of the Kansas City ground meat mafia (in an apparent drug war with the Chicago mob), Lee Marvin, and Gene Hackman as a character named Mary Ann.

Not great, but awesome.

By: wes

wes — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:21 +0000

Day of the Jackal and Z!