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Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fiddler-on-the-roof-1971 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:18:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fiddler-on-the-roof-1971
Director: Norman Jewison
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-horsemen-1971 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:05:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-horsemen-1971
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cinematographer: Claude Renoir, James Wong Howe
In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thx-1138-1971 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:24:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thx-1138-1971
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Albert Kihn, David Myers
In the twenty-fifth century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-valley-1971 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:12:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-valley-1971
Director: James Clavell
Cinematographer: Norman Warwick, John Wilcox
During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/play-misty-for-me-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:06:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/play-misty-for-me-1971
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/king-lear-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:46:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/king-lear-1971
Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro
Cinematographer: Jonas Gricius
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-clockwork-orange-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:40:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-clockwork-orange-1971
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: John Alcott
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/duel-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:11:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/duel-1971
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Jack A. Marta
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/die-bettwurst-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:50:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/die-bettwurst-1971
Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Cinematographer: Rosa von Praunheim
It's love at first sight: elderly secretary Luzi and young, unemployed Dietmar find each other by accident in Rosa von Praunheim's outrageous genre, social satire. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-gang-that-couldnt-shoot-straight-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:32:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-gang-that-couldnt-shoot-straight-1971
Director: James Goldstone
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York City. The weaker gang uses a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeed in stopping one of the gangs, while the other remains without the boss. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shaft-2-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:10:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shaft-2-1971
Director: Gordon Parks
Cinematographer: Urs Furrer
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/klute-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:12:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/klute-1971
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pink-narcissus-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:29:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pink-narcissus-1971
Director: James Bidgood
Cinematographer: James Bidgood
An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-decameron-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:03:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-decameron-1971
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron". ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mary-queen-of-scots-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:04:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mary-queen-of-scots-1971
Director: Charles Jarrott
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/night-of-dark-shadows-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:31:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/night-of-dark-shadows-1971
Director: Dan Curtis
Cinematographer: Richard Shore
A painter and his wife move into a home and find themselves plagued by ghosts and spirits of his ancestors that used to be witches. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/love-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:17:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/love-1971
Director: Károly Makk
Cinematographer: János Tóth
The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-french-connection-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:06:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-french-connection-1971
Director: William Friedkin
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/vanishing-point-2-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:04:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/vanishing-point-2-1971
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
During the 1970s, car delivery driver Kowalski delivers hot rods in record time but always runs into trouble with the highway cops. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-hospital-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:44:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-hospital-1971
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cinematographer: Victor J. Kemper
An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-johnstown-monster-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:10:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-johnstown-monster-1971
Director: Olaf Pooley
Cinematographer: Ray Sturgess, Clive Tickner
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Director: Boris Sagal
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/catlow-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:21:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/catlow-1971
Director: Sam Wanamaker
Cinematographer: Edward Scaife
An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/200-motels-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:38:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/200-motels-1971
Director: Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa
Cinematographer: Tony Palmer
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-andromeda-strain-1971 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:02:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-andromeda-strain-1971
Director: Robert Wise
Cinematographer: Richard H. Kline
A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/willy-wonka-the-chocolate-factory-1971 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:40:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/willy-wonka-the-chocolate-factory-1971
Director: Mel Stuart
Cinematographer: Arthur Ibbetson
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. ]]>