SHR - 1970
by robotmonkeycat | created - 01 Oct 2022 | updated - 06 Feb 2023 | PublicCreated for the Self Help Radio* show "1970 Revisited - 20th Anniversary Show!", which aired on KBOO 90.7 Portland on 10/4/22. (*not a self help show)
List is of films that were US produced and co-produced in 1970 that are available to stream for free. (You may need to check IMDb page to find out where.)
More info here: https://twitter.com/robotmonkeycat/status/1577135976777797632
Also, check out the YouTube playlist I made with trailers & full films from the list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2NHRFDvuiYQmGSTzLoUAluKCxylM87U6
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1. The Dunwich Horror (1970)
R | 90 min | Horror
Wilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon. But, little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner
Votes: 5,180 | Gross: $0.45M
2. Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
R | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, the barber and baker hatch a plan to murder and make human pies to be sold in his shop.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: John Miranda, Annabella Wood, Berwick Kaler, Jane Hilary
Votes: 664 | Gross: $0.22M
3. Torture Dungeon (1969)
R | 80 min | Drama, Horror
In Medival England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne of England so he can claim the title crown for himself.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Gerald Jacuzzo, Susan Cassidy, Patricia Dillon, Neil Flanagan
Votes: 351
4. Cain's Cutthroats (1970)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have... See full summary »
Director: Ken Osborne | Stars: John Carradine, Scott Brady, Robert Dix, Don Epperson
Votes: 174
5. Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)
GP | 85 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the near future with a intergalactic vampire plague threatening earth, an expedition is sent to a distant galaxy in hopes of discovering the plague's source. Landing on a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Al Adamson | Stars: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante, Joey Benson
Votes: 1,132
6. Kook's Tour (1970)
Not Rated | 53 min | Comedy, Family
After nearly 50 years of eye-poking and face-slapping, the Stooges decide to retire and tour the world with their dog, Moose. They start by touring America's national parks, however, with ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Maurer | Stars: Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Norman Maurer
Votes: 237
7. Hercules in New York (1970)
G | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Hercules is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Arnold Stang, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Deborah Loomis, James Karen
Votes: 19,602
8. The Animals (1970)
R | 86 min | Western
A woman tracks down the five men who raped her, helped by an Apache.
Director: Ron Joy | Stars: Michele Carey, Henry Silva, Keenan Wynn, John Anderson
Votes: 432
9. The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970)
R | 80 min | Action, Drama
A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
Director: David L. Hewitt | Stars: Jody McCrea, Maray Ayres, Mick Mehas, Casey Kasem
Votes: 195
10. Bloody Mama (1970)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A psychologically disturbed matriarch presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Shelley Winters, Don Stroud, Pat Hingle, Diane Varsi
Votes: 3,728
11. A Man Called Horse (1970)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader.
Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Jean Gascon, Manu Tupou
Votes: 9,363 | Gross: $1.94M
12. Hi, Mom! (1970)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and peers through other people's windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers Black theater.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Lara Parker, Charles Durning
Votes: 5,831
13. Barquero (1970)
R | 115 min | Drama, Western
At a river crossing, a stand-off between a gang of outlaws and local townsfolk ensues when the ferry barge operator refuses to ferry the gang across the river.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker, Kerwin Mathews
Votes: 2,063 | Gross: $0.14M
14. The Losers (1970)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A quintet of CIA-trained Hells Angels take their specially armored hogs to Cambodia and head across southeast Asia to rescue a captured presidential advisor.
Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: William Smith, Bernie Hamilton, Adam Roarke, Houston Savage
Votes: 618 | Gross: $0.46M
15. Kongi's Harvest (1970)
G | 85 min | Drama
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) seeks advice from the king (Rashidi Onikoyi) he ousted on modernizing his tribal nation.
Director: Ossie Davis | Stars: Wole Soyinka, Rasidi Onikoyi, Banjo Solaru, Femi Johnson
Votes: 43
16. The Hawaiians (1970)
R | 134 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Whip returns to Hawaii. He's inherited "worthless" land. He starts a plantation, staffed with a Chinese couple from his ship. Drilling thru lava for water and stealing/smuggling pineapple from French Guyana, things look brighter.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin, Mako
Votes: 1,436 | Gross: $0.28M
17. Catch-22 (1970)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel
Votes: 26,508 | Gross: $24.91M
18. The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
GP | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Long before faith-based films became a regular feature of mainstream movie theaters, there was "The Cross and The Switchblade," the story of Pastor David Wilkerson and gang member Nicky Cruz.
Director: Don Murray | Stars: Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, Jacqueline Giroux, Jo-Ann Robinson
Votes: 1,217 | Gross: $0.41M
19. Where's Poppa? (1970)
R | 82 min | Comedy
When an attorney meets the girl of his dreams, he fears that his batty mother will scare her off, so he schemes to eliminate the senile old woman.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish Van Devere
Votes: 2,338 | Gross: $1.10M
20. The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man who has been in a coma since infancy is awakened.
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts
Votes: 930
21. Cromwell (1970)
G | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 6,963 | Gross: $1.37M
22. Moonfire (1970)
PG | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Truckers battle a Nazi who has hidden out in Mexico. Subplot involves the disappearance of a reclusive billionaire.
Director: Michael Parkhurst | Stars: Richard Egan, Charles Napier, Sonny Liston, Dayton Lummis
Votes: 135
23. The Student Nurses (1970)
R | 89 min | Drama
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds.
Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Elaine Giftos, Karen Carlson, Brioni Farrell, Barbara Leigh
Votes: 551
24. Bigfoot (1970)
GP | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.
Director: Robert F. Slatzer | Stars: John Carradine, Joi Lansing, Judith Jordan, John Mitchum
Votes: 987
25. Togetherness (1970)
GP | 103 min | Comedy
Nina, a gorgeous blonde communist, attracts the attention of two wealthy bon vivants. Prince Solomon and Jack attempt to impress the young woman and win out over their rival, surrounded by the stunning scenery of Greece.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: George Hamilton, Peter Lawford, Olga Schoberová, Jesse White
Votes: 59
26. The Family (1970)
R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, a hit-man sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it.
Director: Sergio Sollima | Stars: Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland, Umberto Orsini
Votes: 3,465
27. The Naked Zoo (1970)
R | 85 min | Drama
A seductive matron lives in Miami with her wealthy, wheelchair-bound husband. Frustrated, she beds a young author. The gravy train abruptly derails when her husband finds out, and murder ensues.
Director: William Grefé | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Steve Oliver, Canned Heat, Fay Spain
Votes: 357
28. Guru, the Mad Monk (1970)
62 min | Horror
A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Neil Flanagan, Jaqueline Webb, Judith Israel, Jack Spencer
Votes: 671
29. Mark of the Witch (1970)
GP | 78 min | Horror
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
Director: Tom Moore | Stars: Robert Elston, Anitra Walsh, Darryl Wells, Jack Gardner
Votes: 590
30. 4 Clowns (1970)
G | 97 min | Comedy
The "four clowns" of this Robert Youngson anthology are: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase and Buster Keaton. There are examples of Laurel and Hardy's individual work prior to their ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Votes: 167
31. I Walk the Line (1970)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 2,335
32. Black Angels (1970)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama
When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.
Director: Laurence Merrick | Stars: Des Roberts, John King III, Linda Jackson, James Whitworth
Votes: 178
33. I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
GP | 92 min | Drama, Music
A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons
Votes: 3,001 | Gross: $0.85M
34. The Only Way (1970)
G | 86 min | Drama, War
A Jewish family tries to escape from Denmark in October 1943 during the German occupation.
Director: Bent Christensen | Stars: Ebbe Rode, Helle Virkner, Jane Seymour, Ove Sprogøe
Votes: 324
35. The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Ray Sager, Judy Cler, Wayne Ratay, Phil Laurenson
Votes: 4,018 | Gross: $0.02M
36. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page
Votes: 13,312 | Gross: $3.30M
37. Santa and the Three Bears (1970)
G | 46 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
When a park ranger tells two bear cubs about Christmas and Santa Claus, they want to skip hibernation to celebrate, but their mother doesn't believe in Saint Nick and wants them to sleep.
Directors: Tony Benedict, Barry Mahon | Stars: Hal Smith, Jean Vander Pyl, Chris Gilmore, Bobby Riha
Votes: 727
38. The Devil's Backbone (1970)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Western
Army deserter Capt. Viktor Kaleb is offered a pardon and reinstatement in the cavalry if he agrees to lead a special forces group in a raid against an Apache stronghold into Mexico.
Directors: Burt Kennedy, Niksa Fulgosi | Stars: Bekim Fehmiu, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors, Ricardo Montalban
Votes: 522
39. Love Story (1970)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland
Votes: 37,454 | Gross: $106.40M
40. Rio Lobo (1970)
G | 114 min | Drama, War, Western
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam
Votes: 13,668 | Gross: $9.27M
41. Night of the Bloody Transplant (1970)
R | 71 min | Horror
Amateur film about a doctor who performs an illegal heart transplant only to have his drunken brother botch it. Film features actual open-heart surgery footage, as well as scenes of body painting and performance art.
Director: David W. Hanson | Stars: Ann Antell, Dick Grimm, David Haller, Elizabeth Rawlings
Votes: 84
42. Carnival of Blood (1970)
GP | 87 min | Horror
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, who he then murders and dismembers.
Director: Leonard Kirtman | Stars: Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Kaly Mills
Votes: 639
43. I Drink Your Blood (1971)
R | 83 min | Horror
A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.
Director: David E. Durston | Stars: Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong, Rhonda Fultz, George Patterson
Votes: 4,149
44. Dream No Evil (1970)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young orphan girl obsessed with finding her father gets adopted by a traveling church. She grows up and gets engaged, but her obsession with locating her father is about to turn deadly.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Brooke Mills, Marc Lawrence, Michael Pataki
Votes: 660
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