https://shotonwhat.com/1973 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:19:17 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/f-for-fake-1973 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:46:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/f-for-fake-1973
Director: Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach
Cinematographer: François Reichenbach
A documentary about fraud and fakery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/live-and-let-die-1973 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:46:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/live-and-let-die-1973
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/badlands-1973 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:42:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/badlands-1973
Director: Terrence Malick
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto, Stevan Larner, Brian Probyn
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mean-streets-1973 Mon, 27 May 2024 16:51:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mean-streets-1973
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Kent L. Wakeford
A small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/world-on-a-wire-episode-1-1-1973 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:52:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/world-on-a-wire-episode-1-1-1973
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fred Stiller, who is working on a computerized simulation of reality, enters a world of mystery when friend Guenther Lause disappears. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/world-on-a-wire-episode-1-2-1973 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:51:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/world-on-a-wire-episode-1-2-1973
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fred Stiller becomes convinced he is living in a simulation, causing everyone to question his sanity. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-12-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:07:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-12-1973
In the series conclusion, Pat watches Grant and his band audition at a local club. Delilah visits Bill, who sends her back to Pat with a new outfit he bought for her. Pat models the ensemble and makes a sarcastic comment about Bil... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-11-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:06:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-11-1973
October 1971. Grant and his friend get stoned and receive a phone call from Lance who says he's amassed a fortune in Hawaiian shirts and a 50 page letter from Bill. Later, Lance boards a flight to Santa Barbara. The family collect... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-10-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:06:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-10-1973
September 13, 1971. Delilah and a bored, sleepy Grant register for their high school classes. Bill spends the morning shopping for his new bachelor pad. The kids complain about their first day of school. Kevin returns from Southea... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-9-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:05:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-9-1973
A nervous Grant drives Bill home from the airport. When they arrive, Pat ambushes Bill with news that she's divorcing him and wants him to leave their home immediately. Pat stares out a bedroom window and the family is subdued as ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-8-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:05:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-8-1973
While Bill takes an extended business trip through the southern and Midwestern United States, Pat meets with an attorney to instigate divorce proceedings. Later, she drives to her brother Tom's home in Glendale. Tom and wife Yvonn... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-7-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:04:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-7-1973
After another quarrel between her parents, an embarrassed Delilah confides to Brad that she'll live with a man before committing to marriage. At the Santa Barbara fiesta, Bill flirts outrageously with other women, while a wounded ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-6-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:04:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-6-1973
It's late July 1971, and Pat has returned from New Mexico. Over a lunch of scotch and martinis, Bill and Pat express antithetical attitudes regarding their children. Pat's afraid of losing them, while Bill can't wait for them to l... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-5-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:03:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-5-1973
July 1971 is a time of departures for the Loud family. Pat, Delilah, Michelle, and Delilah's friend Suzanne Tate leave on a road trip to an artists' colony in Taos, New Mexico. Meanwhile, Bill is sending Kevin off to Southeast Asi... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-4-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:03:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-4-1973
June 1971. Lance reveals to the family that he has a new apartment without Soren. He's planning a trip to Europe with a theater group. Pat flies to her hometown of Eugene, Oregon to celebrate her mother's birthday. Pat and Grandma... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-3-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:02:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-3-1973
Pat stops in Baltimore on the way home from visiting Lance and takes care of some business for Bill. Back in Santa Barbara, the kids fool around in the yard, and Delilah slips off with boyfriend Brad to kiss. Bill meets Pat at the... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-2-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:02:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-2-1973
Director: Craig Gilbert
Memorial Day weekend, 1971, Pat takes a room at the Chelsea in New York for a visit with Lance. She meets Lance's roommate Soren Ingenue, fellow resident Holly Woodlawn, and their colorful coterie of Manhattan friends. Lance and S... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-1-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:01:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-episode-1-1-1973
On December 31, 1971, producer Craig Gilbert introduces the audience to the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California: Bill Loud, his wife Pat, and their five children: Lance, Kevin, Grant, Delilah, and Michele. At the Loud home, P... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-1973 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 01:23:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/an-american-family-1973
Director: Craig Gilbert
This was the original "Real World". The show was a weekly documentary which followed the real life travails of the Loud family, a mixed up cluster of suburbanites. The show picked up lots ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/magnum-force-1973 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:55:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/magnum-force-1973
Director: Ted Post
Cinematographer: Frank Stanley
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/high-plains-drifter-1973 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:04:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/high-plains-drifter-1973
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/don-quixote-1973 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:27:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/don-quixote-1973
Director: Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
A film adaptation of the Ludwig Minkus ballet, completely re-orchestrated and with additional music by John Lanchbery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-sting-1973 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:44:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-sting-1973
Director: George Roy Hill
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/serpico-1973 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:49:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/serpico-1973
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cinematographer: Arthur J. Ornitz
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/enter-the-dragon-1973 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:47:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/enter-the-dragon-1973
Director: Robert Clouse
Cinematographer: Gil Hubbs
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-exorcist-1973 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:46:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-exorcist-1973
Director: William Friedkin
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-night-strangler-1973 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:40:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-night-strangler-1973
Director: Dan Curtis
Cinematographer: Robert B. Hauser
A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-mackintosh-man-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:15:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-mackintosh-man-1973
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-of-sheila-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 23:14:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-of-sheila-1973
Director: Herbert Ross
Cinematographer: Gerry Turpin
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multi-millionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gordons-war-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:36:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gordons-war-1973
Director: Ossie Davis
Cinematographer: Victor J. Kemper
Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/welt-am-draht-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:08:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/welt-am-draht-1973
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus, Ulrich Prinz
Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/two-people-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:15:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/two-people-1973
Director: Robert Wise
Cinematographer: Henri Decaë
Evan Bonner is an army deserter who returns home to deal with the fallout of his actions. He becomes distracted when he meets attractive model Diedre McCluskey, thinking he's fallen in love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-crazies-2-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:52:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-crazies-2-1973
Director: George A. Romero
Cinematographer: S. William Hinzman
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sleeper-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:10:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sleeper-1973
Director: Woody Allen
Cinematographer: David M. Walsh
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-long-goodbye-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:01:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-long-goodbye-1973
Director: Robert Altman
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam then gets implicated in his wife's murder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/my-name-is-nobody-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:55:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/my-name-is-nobody-1973
Director: Tonino Valerii
Cinematographer: Armando Nannuzzi, Giuseppe Ruzzolini
A young, easygoing gunman (Hill) worships and competes with an old gunfighter (Fonda) who only wants to retire. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dillinger-2-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:16:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dillinger-2-1973
Director: John Milius
Cinematographer: Jules Brenner
John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/papillon-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:04:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/papillon-1973
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cinematographer: Fred J. Koenekamp
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/frankenstein-the-true-story-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:19:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/frankenstein-the-true-story-1973
Director: Jack Smight
Cinematographer: Arthur Ibbetson
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-paper-chase-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:47:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-paper-chase-1973
Director: James Bridges
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hell-up-in-harlem-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:05:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hell-up-in-harlem-1973
Director: Larry Cohen
Cinematographer: Fenton Hamilton
A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blume-in-love-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:46:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blume-in-love-1973
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/soylent-green-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:09:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/soylent-green-1973
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cinematographer: Richard H. Kline
In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/coffy-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:05:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/coffy-1973
Director: Jack Hill
Cinematographer: Paul Lohmann
A black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dont-look-now-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:34:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dont-look-now-1973
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Cinematographer: Anthony B. Richmond
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lady-ice-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:11:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lady-ice-1973
Director: Tom Gries
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
An insurance investigator romances a wealthy young beauty when he suspects she may be involved in fencing stolen jewels. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/le-train-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:01:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/le-train-1973
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre
Cinematographer: Walter Wottitz
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/santee-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:20:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/santee-1973
Director: Gary Nelson
Cinematographer: Donald M. Morgan
A bounty hunter takes in the son of a man he killed. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/la-grande-bouffe-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:14:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/la-grande-bouffe-1973
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cinematographer: Mario Vulpiani
A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/black-caesar-1973 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:53:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/black-caesar-1973
Director: Larry Cohen
Cinematographer: Fenton Hamilton
Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney. ]]>