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Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:45:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore, Oswald Morris
James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-towering-inferno-1974 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:53:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-towering-inferno-1974
Director: John Guillermin
Cinematographer: Fred J. Koenekamp
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1974 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:36:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1974
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cinematographer: Daniel Pearl
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chinatown-1974 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:37:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chinatown-1974
Director: Roman Polanski
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo, Stanley Cortez
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-parallax-view-1974 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:19:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-parallax-view-1974
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-ripper-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:20:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-ripper-1974
Director: Allen Baron
Cinematographer: Donald Peterman
Carl may be up against the original Jack the Ripper, a black-caped, bullet-resistant, super-human killer of women. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-zombie-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:20:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-zombie-1974
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Cinematographer: Alric Edens
An old African American woman uses voodoo to resurrect her dead grandson to kill the mobsters who murdered him, as well as those like Kolchak who would interfere with her revenge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-they-have-been-they-are-they-will-be-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:20:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-they-have-been-they-are-they-will-be-1974
Director: Allen Baron
Cinematographer: Eduardo Ricci
Kolchak connects a string of bizarre thefts committed by a powerful invisible entity that targets metal deposits to a string of suspicious animal and human deaths connected by the fact that the victims' bone marrow is missing. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-vampire-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:20:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-vampire-1974
Director: Don Weis
Cinematographer: Ronald W. Browne
Sent to L.A. to interview a controversial guru, Carl instead tries to track down and stop an extremely vicious female vampire, unknowingly unearthed near Vegas by a road construction crew, who may be connected to his first case. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-werewolf-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:19:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-werewolf-1974
Director: Allen Baron
Cinematographer: Ronald W. Browne
Kolchak is on assignment to interview singles aboard a cruise ship, and finds out some kind of wolf creature is killing passengers during the full moon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-firefall-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:19:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-firefall-1974
Director: Don Weis
Cinematographer: Ronald W. Browne
Kolchak discovers that the evil spirit of a murdered gangster who loved classical music is somehow incinerating his former enemies, while simultaneously trying to take over the body of a popular music conductor and live again. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-devils-platform-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:19:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-devils-platform-1974
Director: Allen Baron
Cinematographer: Ronald W. Browne
Kolchak discovers that a promising young politician on the rise has made a deal with the Devil to gain the ability to turn himself into a Rottweiler from Hell and murder off his competition in ways made to look like freak accidents. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-bad-medicine-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:19:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-bad-medicine-1974
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Cinematographer: Ronald W. Browne
A Native American legend materializes in Chicago, and Carl discovers it when he investigates the mysterious deaths of two wealthy society matrons who possessed priceless jewels. When the ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-energy-eater-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:19:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-energy-eater-1974
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Cinematographer: Ronald W. Browne
Carl realizes that Matchemonedo, a monstrous restless bear-like spirit, is eating up the structure of a new hospital built over its resting place and draining patients of their protein. He asks Native American Jim Elkhorn for help. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-spanish-moss-murders-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:18:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-the-spanish-moss-murders-1974
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cinematographer: Ronald W. Browne
A research experiment in dream deprivation produces a corporeal Cajun boogeyman covered in Spanish moss. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-horror-in-the-heights-1974 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:18:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kolchak-the-night-stalker-horror-in-the-heights-1974
Director: Michael Caffey
Cinematographer: Ronald W. Browne
Residents of the Roosevelt Heights neighborhood are being caught off guard, and killed, by a flesh-eating demon with the ability to appear as a person they know and trust. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-kirkoff-case-1974 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:40:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-kirkoff-case-1974
Director: Lou Antonio
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Rockford is hired by Larry Kirkoff to find the identity of his parents killer. There are a number of possible suspects including Travis Buckman and Tawnia Baker who were lovers of Mrs. and ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-backlash-of-the-hunter-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:47:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-backlash-of-the-hunter-1974
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Jim helps a young girl (Lindsay Wagner) whose father was murdered and LAPD has closed the case on without finding the killer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-dark-and-bloody-ground-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:47:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-dark-and-bloody-ground-1974
Director: Michael Schultz
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Jim reluctantly agrees to work for Beth Davenport. His job is to help her prove her client, Ann Calhoun, is innocent of the crime she is accused of; murdering her husband Kevin Calhoun. ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-countess-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:47:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-countess-1974
Director: Russ Mayberry
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
A woman meets a man on a lonely stretch of highway while Rockford is filming the exchange from a hillside. Jim is working for the woman. Her name is Deborah Ryder and she is being ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-exit-prentiss-carr-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:47:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-exit-prentiss-carr-1974
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Rockford has been hired by Janet Carr to locate her husband Prentiss. He finds him dead in a hotel bungalow in Bay City. It looks like murder to Jim but later when the police investigate ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-this-case-is-closed-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:47:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-this-case-is-closed-1974
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Jim travels to Newark, and draws the attention of organized crime and the FBI. The FBI is protecting Jim's target because he is a former federal witness. The target is found dead, and Jim's client has some explaining to do. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-tall-woman-in-red-wagon-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:46:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-tall-woman-in-red-wagon-1974
Director: Jerry London
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Jim is hired by a newspaper woman to find her missing friend, who then insists on tagging along to "help" his investigation. The missing friend had a sordid past, and several of her old friends want to find her just as badly. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-find-me-if-you-can-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:46:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-find-me-if-you-can-1974
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Rockford reluctantly takes a unique assignment: a beautiful mystery woman wants him to find her, to see if someone she fears could also track her down. With a check poised to bounce, the ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-big-ripoff-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:46:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-big-ripoff-1974
Director: Vincent McEveety
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Suspecting her ex-lover, Steve, was killed by his wife, a woman hires Rockford. Rockford suspects Steve faked his death, and when he tells her, she stiffs him for his fee and quickly leaves... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-in-pursuit-of-carol-thorne-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:46:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-in-pursuit-of-carol-thorne-1974
Director: Charles S. Dubin
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Jim tails a woman just released from prison. She was involved in a robbery of a Marine Payroll. The mastermind of the crime and his henchman follow her as well. They search for the remaining robber who wound up with the loot. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-dexter-crisis-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:46:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-the-dexter-crisis-1974
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Rockford ends up in the Nevada desert (starting with the bright lights of Las Vegas) searching for a rich guy's mistress and her suitcase of precious "documents." ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-caledonia-its-worth-a-fortune-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:45:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-caledonia-its-worth-a-fortune-1974
Director: Stuart Margolin
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
When knowledge of a critically ill convict's hidden fortune comes to light, Rockford becomes involved in helping the con's wife find the treasure before his former partner arrives and demands his share. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-profit-and-loss-part-1-profit-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:45:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-profit-and-loss-part-1-profit-1974
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Jim investigates a large corporation when one of its executives is kidnapped and the wife of another executive claims the company murdered her husband. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-profit-and-loss-part-2-loss-1974 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 15:45:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-rockford-files-profit-and-loss-part-2-loss-1974
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Cinematographer: Lamar Boren
Rockford discovers the investment firm Fiscal Dynamics is a financial fraud and its president Leon Fielder will do anything to prevent him from destroying his company. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/truck-turner-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:41:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/truck-turner-1974
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Cinematographer: Charles F. Wheeler, Michael Kahn
Blaxploitation film about a former professional football player who becomes a bounty hunter in Los Angeles. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/arabian-nights-2-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:03:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/arabian-nights-2-1974
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Ancient Arabia. A youth is chosen by a beautiful slave girl to be her new master; she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories; love, travel and the whims of destiny. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-four-musketeers-miladys-revenge-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:15:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-four-musketeers-miladys-revenge-1974
Director: Richard Lester
Cinematographer: David Watkin
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/its-alive-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:09:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/its-alive-1974
Director: Larry Cohen
Cinematographer: Fenton Hamilton
The Davies expect a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing when it's scared. And it's easily scared. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-missiles-of-october-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:14:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-missiles-of-october-1974
Director: Anthony Page
In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/f-scott-fitzgerald-and-the-last-of-the-belles-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:48:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/f-scott-fitzgerald-and-the-last-of-the-belles-1974
Director: George Schaefer
Cinematographer: Edward R. Brown
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gator-bait-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:14:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gator-bait-1974
Director: Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian
Cinematographer: Ferd Sebastian
Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mr-majestyk-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:09:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mr-majestyk-1974
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cinematographer: Richard H. Kline
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cats-play-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:07:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cats-play-1974
Director: Károly Makk
Cinematographer: János Tóth
The story of two elderly sisters who exchange letters, and through brief flashbacks we see glimpses of their younger years. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/le-fantome-de-la-liberte-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:24:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/le-fantome-de-la-liberte-1974
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/alice-doesnt-live-here-anymore-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:16:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/alice-doesnt-live-here-anymore-1974
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Kent L. Wakeford
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-godfather-part-ii-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:42:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-godfather-part-ii-1974
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/macon-county-line-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:57:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/macon-county-line-1974
Director: Richard Compton
Cinematographer: Daniel Lacambre
A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-woman-under-the-influence-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:53:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-woman-under-the-influence-1974
Director: John Cassavetes
Cinematographer: Mitch Breit, Al Ruban
Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/winter-kill-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:51:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/winter-kill-1974
Director: Jud Taylor
Cinematographer: Frank Stanley
A sniper is killing residents at a winter resort. Who will die next? And why? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-photographer-2-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:38:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-photographer-2-1974
Director: William Byron Hillman
Cinematographer: Michael Shea
A murder story with a comedic twist. A famous photographer uses his models for more than taking pictures. He needs them as victims to satisfy his blood-lust. Each murder becomes more bizarre than the next. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/electra-my-love-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:21:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/electra-my-love-1974
Director: Miklós Jancsó
Cinematographer: János Kende
It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/uptown-saturday-night-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:22:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/uptown-saturday-night-1974
Director: Sidney Poitier
Cinematographer: Fred J. Koenekamp
At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:06:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away? ]]>