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Netflix is missing out on a boatload of profit by choosing to not negotiate streaming rights for movies like "The Day of The Jackal" and instead producing their own third rate movies.
Netflix could shut down tomorrow and the world wouldn’t miss a thing. If another movie is never made we’ll be just fine. We have such a rich catalog of masterpieces that would take 2 lives to watch them all. I don’t watch new movies anymore. If I never hear another scratchy violin ever again, I’ll be just fine.
Two films that have undeservedly fallen by the wayside from the 70's are "Jeremiah Johnson" and "The Great Waldo Pepper", both starring Robert Redford. If you can catch "The Great Waldo Pepper" on the largest screen available, you won't be disappointed. The aerial photography is astounding!
I'm scarred by that film (The Great Waldo Pepper) but I don't want to give it away. Why is Robert Redford so not as well recognized now as Clint Eastwood I wonder?
I remember when it came out, it didn't do well at the box office. His previous film was the huge hit The Exorcist and with the title Sorcerer people assumed it was the same type of film.
How you show your comprehension of the art you showcase, and your commitment to express your understanding of the films you love is an eye-opener. What has opened my eyes? The art and craft of your essays on the featured films - some i have watched; some I haven’t. Yet, here’s the magic, your work on expressing your view on these films is a work of art itself; I will return to your channel again and again because you have sparked a journey through layers of interpretation and deep meaning. A master curator. Thank you so much.
It was a fun ride. I don't think it is good as some of the other films on the list. I would have probably replaced it with The Marathon Man or Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.
I watched this movie about a year ago for the first time and I really loved it. It was somewhat campy but when considered within the context of what it was trying to achieve, what it was going for, I find the movie was almost perfect. I couldn't think of anything to change about the film to make it better, thats the sign of a masterpiece. Other films I think compared to it nicely from the same period are The Boys From Brazil (1978) Silent Running (1972) Rollerball (1975) these four movies are all great examples of somewhat realistic sci-fi themed movies of the 70's that in my opinon must have inspired authors like Michael Crichton, who wrote Jurrasic Park 1 and 2, Congo, and Sphere, all of which were made into movies in the 90s. The mix of fantastical sci-fi and realistic explanations for it was amazing and fun to watch. It'd be cool if Vintage Verse made some movies specifically about hidden gem Sci-fi movies
The Day of the Jackal is my favourite out of this selection. Edward Fox played his role superbly. The tension and suspense is a perfect balance, you are never bored, or tempted to turn off. The Parallax View is also a great film in its own way. Warren Beatty plays a good part, It is something of a meatier role than he may have played in previous films. The story in many ways has perhaps just a suggestion of real-life events to those of us who may be of a certain age.
Great essay; some of my favorite movies are listed. I would add to the list Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1974), a "love on the run" story set in Los Angeles and featuring a great soundtrack of contemporary songs.
Good writing- the last remnants of director-driven vision. Have seen more than half of these that could have included Coppola's The Conversation. My, how the business had changed just a few years later.
I highly recommend THEATER OF BLOOD, starring Vincent Price, in his favorite of all movie roles, Diana Rigg, and an all-star cast of Brit greats. Price is Lionheart, a conceited actor who kills his critics using the murder scenes from Shakespeare for inspiration. If you've read the Bard you know this movie is not for the squeamish. Bon appetit!
@@dyanstoutenburg9974 You're welcome. Make sure you rent the unexpurgated version. The condensed THEATER OF BLOOD excises some of the Bard's gorier murder scenes.
Great job! Great decade of life/films. I'm 64, and saw a few of these, but didn't know others existed.Thanks man. One suggestion: Keep a graphic of the titles somewhere on top or bottom throughout summaries. Subbed. Peace.
I just watched The Day of the Jackal not a day before this video came out! It was quite good! I saw someone say that way to make an audience love a character is to make them really good at their job. Which means you have to know how to be really good at whatever job you write about. The Day of Jackal is a masterclass in doing this, all the characters are so competent it's inspiring. A Competency Showcase if you will. The thing I hate more than anything in a story is sadly something thats become more common now than ever before and thats characters being stupid. Sometimes called a "Stupid Plot" it's when a story hinges on one character acting really dumb and failing to do something most people could accomplish without issue. It's so commonly used today and it's disappointing because it was a well known failure of writing back in the day, something that would never be produced into a movie because of the how amateur it was considered by professional screenwriters and film producers. Yet it has somehow become completely acceptable today to an absurd degree. "And then he had to not expose himself to the villains but he ends up going out for a drink at the bar after forgetting what kind of trouble he's in and being caught." I've actually seen multiple movies with a plot that hinges on people being this stupid before, at least a dozen and I try to avoid movies like this. but all the movies Vintage Verse recommends never have this problem! thats why I love this channel. I'm watching "The Red Circle" now (from another video of Vintage's) and it's incredible. It's very similar to "The Day of the Jackal" though, almost identical in several ways, like both taking place in Paris and being about the police trying to catch a supposed murderer."
Good list. Sorcerer is one of my all time favorite films. I would probably replace Black Top Highway with Vanishing Point or Dirty Larry and Crazy Mary but maybe those are not hidden enough. People should also check out Marathon Man.
@@theman4884 Sorcerer criminally under seen, agreed. Marathon Man had general acceptance with two great leads and box office success, not a hidden gem. Would place your road movie recommendations equally among each other.
I bet ive seen these films collectively more than 100 times easily. Amazingly few have seen sleuth, but the dialogue is great. One of caine’s best roles. Sorceror is dark and slow and brooding, but it is so tense and ao unrelenting, and you end up pulling for everyone. So great!
Great choices.Day of the Jackal on TV (in UK ) tonight .Utterly brilliant .Three days of the condor and Parallax view ,superb . The others I do not know so well though have seen most of them . Basically what you need is a superb script ,great actors ,and a director who knows what he is trying to achieve.You dont need a massive budget and stunts etc .
I would add 1. Joe 2. The Last Detail 3. The Heartbreak Kid 4. Carnal Knowledge 5. Looking for Mr Goodbar 6, Serpico 7. The Taking of Pelham 123 8. Where’s Poppa
Along with Serpico the movie Looking For Mr Goodbar is also a true story, and the movie is pretty accurate to the actual events, it's not heavily fictionalized for "dramatic purposes", it's the story of Roseanne Quinn and the unfortunate night she met a guy who couldn't come to term with the fact he was gay, it caused him to go into a fit of rage while with her leading to him killing her. And there was a follow-up 1983 made for TV movie starring George Segal about the capture of the guy who did it, first he fled to Florida then wound up in Indiana with his family and was captured there by the police after a NYC detective discovered who he was, I can't remember the name of that movie but I saw it last year on I believe Tubi after finding out about it, look up the list of movies Segal was in and it'll be listed as a 1983 TV movie.
Great! You definitely know your stuff! I have a topic for you…”Films that have fallen of the face of the earth”. 70’s movies like… White dawn, Junior Bonner, The thief who came to dinner and Report to the commissioner. I’m not saying these are unseen gems, only that I saw them in the theaters and they basically disappeared from the general public. Anyways, I think I’ve found my new favorite channel. I look forward to seeing what you have next!😃
Junior Bonner is a good one, did you know the girl that starred in it is who married John DeLoren a few years later? She was with him when he started his car company and then all that trouble happened.
@@Ian7854 Oh snap, I thought you wrote JW Coop, this happens more and more as I'm getting older, I see something and it registers as something else. Junior Bonner is a good one also, JW Coop however is the movie I was thinking about that has the young woman, Christina Ferrare, who married DeLorean a few years after the movie came out, they're both rodeo movies.
Other films I think compared to it nicely from the same period are The Boys From Brazil (1978) Silent Running (1972) Rollerball (1975) these movies are all great examples of somewhat realistic sci-fi themed movies of the 70's that in my opinon must have inspired authors like Michael Crichton, who wrote Jurrasic Park 1 and 2, Congo, and Sphere, all of which were made into movies in the 90s. The mix of fantastical sci-fi and realistic explanations for it was amazing and fun to watch. It'd be cool if Vintage Verse made some movies specifically about hidden gem Sci-fi movies
I saw "Sleuth" for the first time in the theater in London with my brother who knew the plot, and made an idiot of myself all during intermission speculating on what the second act would involve. That one with getcha.
Love The tree days of the Condor, but I’d add Shampoo to the list. It’s got Julie Christie, Goldie Hahn & Carrie Fisher’s first film appearance. Warren Beatty is excellent as George the hairdresser. Great soundtrack too.
I recall our family went to the local Natick Drive In to see Pete and Tillie. The opener was Day Of The Jackal. It was the most pleasant surprise. We were so engaged, so drained, that we left before the so called main feature finished. An incredible experience, made all the better by the unexpected greatness. Agree with all others that I have seen on this list. Will check out the three I have not. Would suggest, Night Moves, The Silent Partner The Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe and the disturbing and misrepresented, Alice Sweet Alice as other possibilities.
I am writing a screenplay and this is excellent food for thought. However Sir, no list of Classic 70's Films can be complete without 'Kentucky Fried Movie', 'Walking Tall' and 'Little Big Man'. 😶🌫️🖖🙏👀
I own THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, SORCERER, TWO LANE BLACKTOP, CAPRICORN ONE, 3 WOMEN, STRAW DOGS & PARALLAX VIEW on blu ray Both DAYS OF HEAVEN & THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR on blu ray & 4K versions. I own SLEUTH on DVD and I also have the remake on blu ray.
"Day of the Jackal" has always been one of my favorite films, and I found out why a few years ago: It's a type of story recently termed Competency Porn. C.P. is about highly competent individuals and the antagonist is the challenge they must overcome. Competency Porn allows men to cooperate as a team. It allows the screenwriter to show off his own expertise in a particular field. Getting it right is important to the filmmaker. But in "DotJ" two highly competent characters conflict: the "Jackal" and "Deputy Commissioner Lebel" are at cross-purposes. The assassin and the cop are not in face-to-face conflict, each works out their plans and overcome their obstacles and set-backs parallel to one another -- until they finally meet in the end.
Electra Glide in Blue. Also. Frogs. Not in the same league maybe but tackled things . Frogs was well ahead of it's time about nature revenging itself on human mistreatment.
Definitely forgotten but memorable. "The Groove Tube" (1974) & "Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977). Spoof cult classics for the era they were made in. "Tube" satirized television & the counterculture of the early 1970s. "Fried Movie" was the daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.
Add "Z" (1969) a taut political thriller set in a Cold War Europe "fictional" country. Would fit well on this list along side "Day of the Jackal", "Three days of the Condor", and "Sleuth". Over the next 20 years I saw the plot play out in real life in many settings repeatedly. I sat through it twice trying to follow the plot. I missed a bit at the start so I was trying to figure it out through much of the movie. Seeing from the start immediately after, I felt like I was watching a different movie. I saw it from a totally different point of view. That really changed the ending for me. Great movie, still relevant if a bit dated.
Joe 1970 The Landlord 1970 The Hospital 1971 Doc 1971 Prime Cut 1972 The New Centurions 1972 The King of Marvin Gardens 1972 Cinderella Liberty 1973 The Don is Dead 1973 California Split 1974 Thieves Like Us 1974 Night Moves 1975 Shampoo 1975 The Tenent 1976 Black Sunday 1976
Day of the Jackal, Sleuth, Three Days of the Condor 👍. The rest, not so much. My only problem with Day of the Jackal is whoever heard of a blonde assassin? It just doesn't happen.
Sleuth is a brilliant film, and a source of nightmares when I watched some of it as a kid (marionettes and dummies are creepy) The remake with Michael Caine switching roles is also good. Day of the Jackal and Three days of the Condor are two of my alltime favourites. Blue Collar with Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel is a great film that isnt well known, as well as The Long Goodbye being another.
These films are all worth celebrating. Yet, they are hardly unknown. They all fit under the banner of “cult films.” Where is “ Loveless” “El Topo” or “Panic in Needle Park?” Etc…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) with Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, and Leonard Nimoy, is a gem we don’t hear about much today. Except for some gratuitous nudity towards the end, it’s a masterpiece.
There's a nod to the actor Sterling Hayden in 3 Days of The Condor that hardly anyone ever catches, and it has to do with him being an OSS (the forerunner of the CIA) agent during WW2. The part in the movie where Cliff Robinson is talking to John Houseman's character and asks him if he "Saw any action during the war" and Houseman replies "I sailed the Adriatic with a movie star". Sterling Hayden had sailed boats before the war working for a business that would move sailboats around for rich people, so after he enlisted when the US entered the war the OSS recruited him to sail spies in and out of Yugoslavia via its Mediterranean coast on sailboats under the noses of the Germans, the screenwriter of the movie knew about it and put that part in as a little tribute to his wartime OSS missions.
Some excellent choices and I suppose there could be more. (The Andromeda Strain). However, there was nothing 'hidden' about Capricorn One. Cheesier than any export from France, it is the very definition of a popcorn movie.
SORCERER: Masterpiece of REAL, anti-CGI-cinema! And back then those smart ass, lame, softie critics blablahed about "the original was more intense... the remake does not reach it..." Of course, WAGES OF FEAR is a classic. But it was (only) shot in the sounth of France. William Friedkin went to the jungle!
These lists are great, but since you don't have chapters, I have lost patience with watching them. You need chapters if you want to retain people for longer than a couple videos. Sometimes you've seen a movie and you don't want to scroll around. So these videos are cool but ultimately lack the value they should have.
These lists are so annoying. If you lived during that era and were interested in cinema you know most of these titles. DAYS OF HEAVEN underrated and forgotten? Give me a break.
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Netflix is missing out on a boatload of profit by choosing to not negotiate streaming rights for movies like "The Day of The Jackal" and instead producing their own third rate movies.
TUBI has quite a few of these on for free
The same can be said for the Bruce Willis remake.
Netflix could shut down tomorrow and the world wouldn’t miss a thing. If another movie is never made we’ll be just fine. We have such a rich catalog of masterpieces that would take 2 lives to watch them all. I don’t watch new movies anymore. If I never hear another scratchy violin ever again, I’ll be just fine.
Parallax View, Day of the Jackal, Three Days of the Condor - absolutely phenomenal gripping movies.
Day of the Jackal was one of my very favorites as a teenager. Wonderful.
should we feel guilty for wanting the Jackal to succeed?
@@ranchokitty1 Maybe then we wouldn't have had to put up with jr. high French classes.
Its STILL one of mine. How do you make a film when everyone knows the ending ? Answer The day of the jackal
It is a TV series now.
@@ranchokitty1 Ah ha! Great question. Edward Fox was so well cast in this.
Two films that have undeservedly fallen by the wayside from the 70's are "Jeremiah Johnson" and "The Great Waldo Pepper", both starring Robert Redford. If you can catch "The Great Waldo Pepper" on the largest screen available, you won't be disappointed. The aerial photography is astounding!
@@dlhdonn I consider Jeremiah Johnson the best Western ever made. Few come close.
OMG Jeremiach Johnson. "She was the meanest b____h that ever bal led for beads..."
My uncle was an extra in The Great Waldo Pepper but unfortunately his part hit the cutting room floor.
I'm scarred by that film (The Great Waldo Pepper) but I don't want to give it away. Why is Robert Redford so not as well recognized now as Clint Eastwood I wonder?
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It’s not a western.
It’s a 19th century, Midwest mountain man movie. 👻
I recently bought Sorcerer because I love it so much. I remember seeing it when it first came out. This film is beyond brilliant
It is great. You should also watch “Wages of Fear,” on which it is based.
"Sorcerer" is singularly the greatest and most unrecognized masterpiece of 20th century American cinema. Period.
Sorcerer is my go to movie recommendation.
@@jimbreed5192 Furthermore, the people who put this together don't seem to know it's a remake of Wages of Fear.
I remember when it came out, it didn't do well at the box office. His previous film was the huge hit The Exorcist and with the title Sorcerer people assumed it was the same type of film.
Can't beat the '70s for music and films I'm so lucky to have watched 90% of the stuff you refer to. As an unhappy but curious 15 year old.
Totally relating here.
And Sleuth is my personal favorite (Jackal coming in second).
Happy Holidays
How you show your comprehension of the art you showcase, and your commitment to express your understanding of the films you love is an eye-opener.
What has opened my eyes? The art and craft of your essays on the featured films - some i have watched; some I haven’t. Yet, here’s the magic, your work on expressing your view on these films is a work of art itself; I will return to your channel again and again because you have sparked a journey through layers of interpretation and deep meaning. A master curator. Thank you so much.
I saw Parallax View at the Texaa Theater, where Oswald was caught, earlier this year. A great film, I want to watch it again to get all the details.
I love Capricorn One. It definitely kept my attention when I first saw it back in 1978. It is as relevant today as it was then
It was a fun ride. I don't think it is good as some of the other films on the list. I would have probably replaced it with The Marathon Man or Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.
The Mars lander should have been a new vehicle rather than reusing the Lunar lander which would not have worked.
I watched this movie about a year ago for the first time and I really loved it. It was somewhat campy but when considered within the context of what it was trying to achieve, what it was going for, I find the movie was almost perfect. I couldn't think of anything to change about the film to make it better, thats the sign of a masterpiece.
Other films I think compared to it nicely from the same period are
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Silent Running (1972)
Rollerball (1975)
these four movies are all great examples of somewhat realistic sci-fi themed movies of the 70's that in my opinon must have inspired authors like Michael Crichton, who wrote Jurrasic Park 1 and 2, Congo, and Sphere, all of which were made into movies in the 90s. The mix of fantastical sci-fi and realistic explanations for it was amazing and fun to watch. It'd be cool if Vintage Verse made some movies specifically about hidden gem Sci-fi movies
GREAT movie!! 😎
The Day of the Jackal is my favourite out of this selection. Edward Fox played his role superbly. The tension and suspense is a perfect balance, you are never bored, or tempted to turn off. The Parallax View is also a great film in its own way. Warren Beatty plays a good part, It is something of a meatier role than he may have played in previous films. The story in many ways has perhaps just a suggestion of real-life events to those of us who may be of a certain age.
Ahhh. I watch _Day of the Jackal_ twice a year. Perfect film. Travelogue of London, Paris, and environs. And fine acting, plus suspense.❤❤
Sorcerer has an amazing soundtrack from Tangerine Dream.
The Hot Rock. Great heist action comedy with Robert Redford.
Yes!!!! Three Women! Thank you
Having hated her in the Shining, my respect for Shelley Duvall increased with every act of Three Women.
@@araucariapasquale1 “Thoroughly Modern Millie”
Great essay; some of my favorite movies are listed. I would add to the list Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1974), a "love on the run" story set in Los Angeles and featuring a great soundtrack of contemporary songs.
How about adding "The Marathon Man" (1976) to your list?
" Is it safe...?"
Marathon Man was never hidden
YES!
The book was good, too.
Good writing- the last remnants of director-driven vision. Have seen more than half of these that could have included Coppola's The Conversation. My, how the business had changed just a few years later.
I've seen and loved most of those films. I would add JERIMIAH JOHNSON (1972), WESTWORLD (1973), and THE ODESSA FILE (1974) to the list.
Westworld? YES!
A solid list. Compared to the others, Capricorn One is silly, yet undeniably rousing.
Not silly at all. Probably a documentary when finally NASA are exposed.
I highly recommend THEATER OF BLOOD, starring Vincent Price, in his favorite of all movie roles, Diana Rigg, and an all-star cast of Brit greats. Price is Lionheart, a conceited actor who kills his critics using the murder scenes from Shakespeare for inspiration. If you've read the Bard you know this movie is not for the squeamish. Bon appetit!
Thanks for the recommendation.
This is you dish!
@@dyanstoutenburg9974
You're welcome. Make sure you rent the unexpurgated version. The condensed THEATER OF BLOOD excises some of the Bard's gorier murder scenes.
Great job! Great decade of life/films. I'm 64, and saw a few of these, but didn't know others existed.Thanks man. One suggestion: Keep a graphic of the titles somewhere on top or bottom throughout summaries. Subbed. Peace.
I just watched The Day of the Jackal not a day before this video came out! It was quite good! I saw someone say that way to make an audience love a character is to make them really good at their job. Which means you have to know how to be really good at whatever job you write about. The Day of Jackal is a masterclass in doing this, all the characters are so competent it's inspiring. A Competency Showcase if you will.
The thing I hate more than anything in a story is sadly something thats become more common now than ever before and thats characters being stupid. Sometimes called a "Stupid Plot" it's when a story hinges on one character acting really dumb and failing to do something most people could accomplish without issue. It's so commonly used today and it's disappointing because it was a well known failure of writing back in the day, something that would never be produced into a movie because of the how amateur it was considered by professional screenwriters and film producers. Yet it has somehow become completely acceptable today to an absurd degree. "And then he had to not expose himself to the villains but he ends up going out for a drink at the bar after forgetting what kind of trouble he's in and being caught." I've actually seen multiple movies with a plot that hinges on people being this stupid before, at least a dozen and I try to avoid movies like this.
but all the movies Vintage Verse recommends never have this problem! thats why I love this channel. I'm watching "The Red Circle" now (from another video of Vintage's) and it's incredible. It's very similar to "The Day of the Jackal" though, almost identical in several ways, like both taking place in Paris and being about the police trying to catch a supposed murderer."
Good list. Sorcerer is one of my all time favorite films.
I would probably replace Black Top Highway with Vanishing Point or Dirty Larry and Crazy Mary but maybe those are not hidden enough.
People should also check out Marathon Man.
@@theman4884 Sorcerer criminally under seen, agreed. Marathon Man had general acceptance with two great leads and box office success, not a hidden gem. Would place your road movie recommendations equally among each other.
3 Days of the Condor one of my all time favorites! Saw it when originally released , I was in high school
The sting at the end! Oooh!
Brilliant!
The scene when Degaulle moves his head is to me one of cinemas iconic moments. Breathtaking.
Kinda like what happened to Trump.
Don't forget the epic1974 TV movie "Killdozer!".
Oh yeah, remember that one. How about this one then, The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973) TV movie. Demons were very busy in the 70s.
3 Women was & still is an amazing film!
Thanks!
Thanks Steve!
I bet ive seen these films collectively more than 100 times easily. Amazingly few have seen sleuth, but the dialogue is great. One of caine’s best roles. Sorceror is dark and slow and brooding, but it is so tense and ao unrelenting, and you end up pulling for everyone. So great!
I love this movie but it had a poor title. I would have opted for "Four Desperate Men." Would have worked.
I love sleuth! Excellent
"2 Lane Blacktop" with musician James Taylor !
Great choices.Day of the Jackal on TV (in UK ) tonight .Utterly brilliant .Three days of the condor and Parallax view ,superb .
The others I do not know so well though have seen most of them .
Basically what you need is a superb script ,great actors ,and a director who knows what he is trying to achieve.You dont need a massive budget and stunts etc .
Hello there Vintage Verse person from over here in England 🎉🎉 I absolutely LOVE the original Day of The Jackal I cou,d watch it over & over 🌹🌹
❤️
Great list -- might want to add Chayefsky's "The Hospital" as well.
Good one! Chaddy Payefsky is a BEAST!
Another well-composed video from this guy. I've seen only "Days of Heaven."
I would add
1. Joe
2. The Last Detail
3. The Heartbreak Kid
4. Carnal Knowledge
5. Looking for Mr Goodbar
6, Serpico
7. The Taking of Pelham 123
8. Where’s Poppa
All of those are great
Along with Serpico the movie Looking For Mr Goodbar is also a true story, and the movie is pretty accurate to the actual events, it's not heavily fictionalized for "dramatic purposes", it's the story of Roseanne Quinn and the unfortunate night she met a guy who couldn't come to term with the fact he was gay, it caused him to go into a fit of rage while with her leading to him killing her.
And there was a follow-up 1983 made for TV movie starring George Segal about the capture of the guy who did it, first he fled to Florida then wound up in Indiana with his family and was captured there by the police after a NYC detective discovered who he was, I can't remember the name of that movie but I saw it last year on I believe Tubi after finding out about it, look up the list of movies Segal was in and it'll be listed as a 1983 TV movie.
Thumbs up to The Taking of Pelham 123 I recently rewatched it. Brilliant.
Thumbs up for "The Last Detail" and "The Heartbreak KId"
Heartbreak Kid
Pelham 123
YES!
Great! You definitely know your stuff! I have a topic for you…”Films that have fallen of the face of the earth”. 70’s movies like… White dawn, Junior Bonner, The thief who came to dinner and Report to the commissioner. I’m not saying these are unseen gems, only that I saw them in the theaters and they basically disappeared from the general public. Anyways, I think I’ve found my new favorite channel. I look forward to seeing what you have next!😃
Junior Bonner is a good one, did you know the girl that starred in it is who married John DeLoren a few years later? She was with him when he started his car company and then all that trouble happened.
I did one for the 80s, hidden gems, let me know if you've seen any of them.
@@Ian7854
Oh snap, I thought you wrote JW Coop, this happens more and more as I'm getting older, I see something and it registers as something else.
Junior Bonner is a good one also, JW Coop however is the movie I was thinking about that has the young woman, Christina Ferrare, who married DeLorean a few years after the movie came out, they're both rodeo movies.
Other films I think compared to it nicely from the same period are
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Silent Running (1972)
Rollerball (1975)
these movies are all great examples of somewhat realistic sci-fi themed movies of the 70's that in my opinon must have inspired authors like Michael Crichton, who wrote Jurrasic Park 1 and 2, Congo, and Sphere, all of which were made into movies in the 90s. The mix of fantastical sci-fi and realistic explanations for it was amazing and fun to watch. It'd be cool if Vintage Verse made some movies specifically about hidden gem Sci-fi movies
I saw "Sleuth" for the first time in the theater in London with my brother who knew the plot, and made an idiot of myself all during intermission speculating on what the second act would involve. That one with getcha.
Somebody probably said it earlier, but Friedkin's Sorcerer was a remake of Clouzot's Le Salaire de la Peur, a French-Italian masterpiece from the 50s.
Excellent list! Seen most of these (many times!)
Love The tree days of the Condor, but I’d add Shampoo to the list.
It’s got Julie Christie, Goldie Hahn & Carrie Fisher’s first film appearance.
Warren Beatty is excellent as George the hairdresser.
Great soundtrack too.
I recall our family went to the local Natick Drive In to see Pete and Tillie. The opener was Day Of The Jackal. It was the most pleasant surprise. We were so engaged, so drained, that we left before the so called main feature finished. An incredible experience, made all the better by the unexpected greatness. Agree with all others that I have seen on this list. Will check out the three I have not. Would suggest, Night Moves, The Silent Partner The Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe and the disturbing and misrepresented, Alice Sweet Alice as other possibilities.
The Movie "" Scarecrow "" starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman was a Great movie from that era.
Sleuth was the inspiration for Deathtrap. A play that was amazing and a wonderful film
Sleuth and 3 Women are on a whole other level of great filmmaking. I always want to like Days of Heaven, but it leaves me cold.
I am writing a screenplay and this is excellent food for thought. However Sir, no list of Classic 70's Films can be complete without 'Kentucky Fried Movie', 'Walking Tall' and 'Little Big Man'. 😶🌫️🖖🙏👀
and Flesh Gordon! don't forget Flesh Gordon!!
I agree!! Saw Kentucky Fried Movie when it came out at the drive-in….back when that was the place to be! Great flicks to add on to the list!
Capricorn one!!!! Totally unappreciated!!!
I always expected there were 3 actresses playing the 3 women. I guess it was just Orsen Welles the whole time. Or Richard Jeer
Who'll Stop the Rain, bleak and devastating. Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, a story of how drugs destroy everything and everybody they touch.
I own THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, SORCERER, TWO LANE BLACKTOP, CAPRICORN ONE, 3 WOMEN, STRAW DOGS & PARALLAX VIEW on blu ray
Both DAYS OF HEAVEN & THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR on blu ray & 4K versions.
I own SLEUTH on DVD and I also have the remake on blu ray.
Straw Dogs? Good stuff but not for the weak hearted.
I have the remake as well.. It's a compelling story.
"Day of the Jackal" has always been one of my favorite films, and I found out why a few years ago: It's a type of story recently termed Competency Porn. C.P. is about highly competent individuals and the antagonist is the challenge they must overcome. Competency Porn allows men to cooperate as a team. It allows the screenwriter to show off his own expertise in a particular field. Getting it right is important to the filmmaker. But in "DotJ" two highly competent characters conflict: the "Jackal" and "Deputy Commissioner Lebel" are at cross-purposes. The assassin and the cop are not in face-to-face conflict, each works out their plans and overcome their obstacles and set-backs parallel to one another -- until they finally meet in the end.
Would you include "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" as CP?
How about a review of “Where the Lilies Bloom” (1974) with Harry Dean Stanton and a number of unknown child actors. This is a genuinely forgotten gem.
Great list I love several of these films.
Buster and Billie. Simple story with no unrealistic plot. Almost unbearably real .
the casting in Two lane blacktop was inspired, I don't think those 2 rock stars were in anything else!
I must add documentaries “ Elvis : That’s The Way It Is” & “ Elvis on Tour “.
Sorcerer is a total masterpiece. Billy Freidkin’s greatest, hands down.
Electra Glide in Blue. Also. Frogs. Not in the same league maybe but tackled things . Frogs was well ahead of it's time about nature revenging itself on human mistreatment.
5 stars + Day of the jackel
Great choices. I've subscribed.
Oh, and the score ❤❤❤❤
Definitely forgotten but memorable. "The Groove Tube" (1974) & "Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977).
Spoof cult classics for the era they were made in. "Tube" satirized television & the counterculture of the early 1970s. "Fried Movie" was the daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.
I've seen Kentucky Fried Movie, never been able to get ahold of Groove Tube
Add "Z" (1969) a taut political thriller set in a Cold War Europe "fictional" country. Would fit well on this list along side "Day of the Jackal", "Three days of the Condor", and "Sleuth".
Over the next 20 years I saw the plot play out in real life in many settings repeatedly.
I sat through it twice trying to follow the plot.
I missed a bit at the start so I was trying to figure it out through much of the movie. Seeing from the start immediately after, I felt like I was watching a different movie. I saw it from a totally different point of view. That really changed the ending for me.
Great movie, still relevant if a bit dated.
Another 70s classic underrated “ Cops and Robbers “.
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Joe 1970
The Landlord 1970
The Hospital 1971
Doc 1971
Prime Cut 1972
The New Centurions 1972
The King of Marvin Gardens 1972
Cinderella Liberty 1973
The Don is Dead 1973
California Split 1974
Thieves Like Us 1974
Night Moves 1975
Shampoo 1975
The Tenent 1976
Black Sunday 1976
I gotta say that "It's Alive' was a great movie in its own way... scared me outta my seat.
Day of the Jackal, Sleuth, Three Days of the Condor 👍. The rest, not so much.
My only problem with Day of the Jackal is whoever heard of a blonde assassin? It just doesn't happen.
Sleuth is a brilliant film, and a source of nightmares when I watched some of it as a kid (marionettes and dummies are creepy) The remake with Michael Caine switching roles is also good. Day of the Jackal and Three days of the Condor are two of my alltime favourites.
Blue Collar with Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel is a great film that isnt well known, as well as The Long Goodbye being another.
Sleuth is such a nearly forgotten gem- just brilliant.
I believe it is one of two movies where every member of the cast was nominated for an Academy Award. I do not recall the other.
J'aime bcp les comédiennes...😊
Sorcerer was a remake of a French film from a few decades earlier. Did you mention that?
These films are all worth celebrating. Yet, they are hardly unknown. They all fit under the banner of “cult films.” Where is “ Loveless” “El Topo” or “Panic in Needle Park?” Etc…
Jackel, the novel was great.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) with Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, and Leonard Nimoy, is a gem we don’t hear about much today. Except for some gratuitous nudity towards the end, it’s a masterpiece.
Saw the original, looking for this one😊
3 days of the condor 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
There's a nod to the actor Sterling Hayden in 3 Days of The Condor that hardly anyone ever catches, and it has to do with him being an OSS (the forerunner of the CIA) agent during WW2.
The part in the movie where Cliff Robinson is talking to John Houseman's character and asks him if he "Saw any action during the war" and Houseman replies "I sailed the Adriatic with a movie star".
Sterling Hayden had sailed boats before the war working for a business that would move sailboats around for rich people, so after he enlisted when the US entered the war the OSS recruited him to sail spies in and out of Yugoslavia via its Mediterranean coast on sailboats under the noses of the Germans, the screenwriter of the movie knew about it and put that part in as a little tribute to his wartime OSS missions.
3 days of watching this over, and over, and over😮 5stars
The. original was called " The Wages of Fear " The Sorceror was the new version.The load wad Nitroglicerine !
Where is FORCE TEN FROM NAVERONE, DARK STAR, ASSUALT ON PRECENT 13, THX 1138, or THE WARRIORS? You should make a second list.
Sorceror (Remake of Wages of Fear)
Wages of Fear (1953) is fantastic. One of Clouzot's best.
@@postmodernrecycler I saw this "will they survive another kilometer or blow up" movie on Turner Classic Movies' TCM Imports some years back.
Some excellent choices and I suppose there could be more. (The Andromeda Strain). However, there was nothing 'hidden' about Capricorn One. Cheesier than any export from France, it is the very definition of a popcorn movie.
I could watch Andromeda Strain over and over. In my top ten of sci-fi movies.
SORCERER: Masterpiece of REAL, anti-CGI-cinema! And back then those smart ass, lame, softie critics blablahed about "the original was more intense... the remake does not reach it..." Of course, WAGES OF FEAR is a classic. But it was (only) shot in the sounth of France. William Friedkin went to the jungle!
These lists are great, but since you don't have chapters, I have lost patience with watching them. You need chapters if you want to retain people for longer than a couple videos. Sometimes you've seen a movie and you don't want to scroll around. So these videos are cool but ultimately lack the value they should have.
I agree. We need chapters.
How about Badlands or The Outfit?
_The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Fat City (1972), Taking Off (1971)_
i'm sad because i've already seen most of them … but they're really good. "duel" is on a list somewhere too?
Sorcerer is based on the wonderful Wages of Fear
Well I can't fault any of these choices. Best ones for me there would be Sorcerer, and Sleuth.
Do :"Holy Mountain"!
Three Days of the Condor is a hidden gem? A recognized classic by any standard.
@HydraulicJackThen it is not recognized.
@HydraulicJackThey'll print it.
I mean Day of the Jackal is hardly 'hidden', it's widely considered a classic. Same goes for 3 Days of the Condor, Parallax View, and Straw Dogs imho.
Not talked about much by the new generation who automatically know JAWS & STAR WARS.
caine & olivier...what more could you need?
Seen them all. Two-Lane Blacktop was a snore.
These lists are so annoying. If you lived during that era and were interested in cinema you know most of these titles. DAYS OF HEAVEN underrated and forgotten? Give me a break.
These lists are great for younger generations discovering old movies (and for older ones who might have missed a few).
You forgot LOST HORIZON 1973
I saw the movie too! And it wasn't 48 hrs it was 24!!!😅
Only Hidden if you have no film knowledge whatsoever...
Day of the Jackal is a very good movie.