stephen symons

Can anybody recommend any good British 70's films. Especially with lots of street/road scenes in them?
I love 70's British stuff and would like to build a collection up.
Thank you

Steve.

The Talented Mr Borthwick

Very late 70's but The Long Good Friday is well worth having as part of your collection.

djdave

How about these:

Sweeney! (1976)
Brannigan (1975) - John Wayne film set in London, with good car chase

Steve Crook

10 Rillington Place (1971)
The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)
Born to Boogie (1972)
Brannigan (1975)
Callan (1974)
Carry On Girls (1973)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970)
Frenzy (1972)
The Kids Are Alright (1979)
Life of Brian (1979)
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
Melody (1971)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Performance (1970)
Quadrophenia (1979)


There's a nice mixed bag for you. Quite a few thrillers, not a favourite genre of mine, but they do have a lot of street scenes in them. There's also a few music documentaries to catch the mood of the age. A couple of classic Python films that nobody should miss out on. And some oddities like Roger Moore caught doing some acting in The Man Who Haunted Himself.

Steve

penfold

The newly-released 'Death Line', the Hitchcocks, 'Frenzy', both real period pieces...

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Stu

Hi.
Have a look at these
GET CARTER (1971) Newcastle.
HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERY BUSH (1967) Stevenage.
ON THE BUSES (1971), HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES (1973), MUTINY ON THE BUSES (1972) Various.
CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER (1974) Borehamwood.
Stu.

DB7

With 70s street scenes? Have you seen a directors cut?

Steve Crook

70 BC?
They didn't say 1970s

No, I included that because it has lots of street scenes and it was made in the 70s - which is how I read the request. And because everybody should have a copy.

Steve

Bob Rusk

Sitting Target with Oliver Reed
Villain with Richard Burton
Theatre of Blood with Vincent Price
Frightmare with Sheila Keith

There’s a lovely shot in Frightmare of the BBC when Rupert Davies meets Deborah Fairfax outside.

Billy Liar

Frightmare is a good call, as is any of Pete Walkers 70's output. Dracula AD 1972 was always a in the back of the closet fav of mine.

samkydd

I saw Brannigan when it first came out and although it was a pretty good "US cop comes over to Scotland Yard" yarn it was more notable for the appearance of the new Ford Capri Mk 2 (although technically it should have been a Mk 3 because they made a American-looking coupe version of the Ford Consul Classic in the early 60s and called it a Capri).

The new Capri in Brannigan was the latest hatchback styling later seen in The Professionals as Bodie's car of choice and also Terry McCann's ropy white one with the black vinyl roof in Minder. In Brannigan it was commandeered by The Duke and used in a car chase and it leapt over the gap as Tower Bridge opened, which was quite a spectacular stunt at the time and was widely publicised in the national press when it was filmed. There are many shots of 70s London as you'd expect, which is always a nice thing to see.

It's one of those films that is rarely repeated on the box, and there was a strong British supporting cast including Judy Geeson.

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Bob Rusk

Billy Liar,

You just can’t beat a bit of Pete Walker. The king of 70s British exploitation, gawd bless him.

Bring Dracula AD 72 out of your closet and into the world, there should be no shame. I think The Satanic rites of Dracula is probably a better film but AD 72 is just pure unadulterated fun. I was lucky enough a few years ago to see Dracula AD 72 at the NFT and the screening was introduced by Caroline Munro.

stephen symons

Thank you all who have recommended films. I've already watched The long Good Friday. Great!!
Also watched Quadrophenia. I have Here We Go Around the Mulberry Bush on its way. Also The Kids Are Alright and Bedazzled with Peter Cook.
Thanks once again everybody and keep them coming I Want a BIG collection!!
Cant seem to find Brannigan or Sweeney though, shame.

Steve.

smudge

I don't reckon there's much difference between AD 72 and SATANIC RITES in terms of quality ; both pretty poor. AD 72 was dated in the year of release, but it does have that higher fun factor. The DVD release of 72 is very nice after all the dodgy old TV prints...

Swinging !

SMUDGE

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djdave

Good luck in the search....they're both cracking films.

regards

David