Movies like this and other cool ones of the '70s can't match what they make today. Which is nothing very good.
Check out these crime dramas of the '70s.
Across 110th Street
The Geteway
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Anderson Tapes
Charly Varrick
The Outfit
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
Crazy Joe
Prime Cut
Straight Time - A Dustin Hoffman special and a must see.
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Nick "A hell of a great guy! NOT!"
newdrivers has a pretty good '70s crime drama list. That was a great decade for this genre. Here's my list of favorites:
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
French Connection
The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
Mean Streets
The Seven-Ups
Taxi Driver
These are all gritty crime dramas set in New York City, and all made during the '70s.
That's an A list, and better than mine. All of those flicks together makes for a fun summer...Heh-heh!
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Nick "A hell of a great guy! NOT!"
Boy do you have a great list there buddy!! Those films are some of my favorites! Here are some others that come to mind that haven't been mentioned: The Mechanic and The Stone Killer- two of Bronson's best action films, Badge 373- Duvall gives a great hard-nosed cop performance, Blazing Magnum- Stuart Whitman, Martin Landau and a 15 minute tire-screeching car chase that gives me chills just thinking about it!, Gordon's War- Paul Winfield is a bad-ass who forms a vigilante squad to go after drug dealers, Magnum Force- probably the most action packed of the Dirty Harry series and Get Carter- Michael Caine dukes it out in gritty Newcastle- one of the best!!! I can go and on naming these gems from an era which produced some memorable films. You are right on the money, the films of today cannot match the stories, writing, acting, and action of films from the seventies. If they are not remaking something they are producing horrendous junk with wooden actors or otherwise. Hope to hear more from people on this message board!
shareMcQ. 1973 starring John Wayne.
shareGreat lists above as I own most of those movies and watch them all of the time.....a few others would be The Laughing Policeman and The Driver....I'm pretty stoked the someone mentioned "The Mechanic"
shareIt was certainly a Gothamized time. It struck me even then that not only were blaxploitation films coming out but movies about white ethnics, too. In the 7-Ups, wasn't there a scene in Roy Scheider's old neighborhood where people ask him when he is going to get married?
"Two more swords and I'll be Queen of the Monkey People." Roseanne
Indeed there was. He was asked by Mrs. Pugliesi.
3 more 70's classics:
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER
THE SUPER COPS
DEATH WISH
wrfarley again. I forgot her name! I was a big Roy Scheider fan, still am, when the film came out. I remember thinking "pick me" when watching that scene with Mrs. Pugliesi.
"Two more swords and I'll be Queen of the Monkey People." Roseanne
I hear you, Noir-It-All. He is totally hot. Sat in back of him during a preview performance of "The Elephant Man", circa 1980 and didn't pay much attention to the play. Was too much in awe to even make eye contact, let alone say anything to him.
"No, I don't like to cook, but I have a chicken in the icebox, and you're eating it."
Alicia, what an amazing story!
shareThe Nickel Ride (1974) starring Jason Miller .
Great downer gangster noir. LA not NY though
thanks
shareWhat are you talking about? Movies today have so much more action than these ones do, not to mention great special effects
sharedamn these posts are 18 years old!
the 70's are almost twice as far away now as when these posts were written!