171. Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Austin Stoker, Lew Ayres
Plot: After the fall of humanity, Earth is run by highly evolved apes. But tensions have risen as the intelligent beasts threaten to enslave the remaining humans, while a faction of human fighters have set their sights set on regaining the planet. The peaceful ape Caesar and his supporters may be the only chance of stopping a devastating war.
172. Wattstax
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mel Stuart
Actors: Isaac Hayes, Richard Pryor, Mavis Staples, Little Milton, Jesse Jackson, Raymond Allen
173. The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, George Hamilton, Jay Silverheels
Plot: Romance unfolds between an outlaw (Burt Reynolds) on the run after
avenging his wife's murder and a woman (Sarah Miles) running from an
abusive husband as they travel, along with his robber pals, across country
to find his son.
174. Jeremy
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Arthur Barron
Actors: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Len Bari, Leonardo Cimino, Ned Wilson, Chris Bohn
Plot: A 15-year-old musician, Jeremy, falls in love with a girl at his high school, an aspiring dancer named Susan.
177. Under Milk Wood
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrew Sinclair
Actors: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant, Siân Phillips
178. One Little Indian
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bernard McEveety
Actors: James Garner, Vera Miles, Pat Hingle, Jodie Foster, Morgan Woodward, John Doucette
Plot: In the middle of an Indian raid, a cavalry rider goes AWOL in order to save the lives of the Native American women and children.Later, when he is crossing the desert in New Mexico on a camel, he meets a white boy who was raised by an Indian and is trying to find his tribe, and the two travel on together.
179. The Don is Dead
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins, Charles Cioffi
Plot: A mistress of a Mafia leader is murdered causing him to hunt down the killer in order to exact a bloody vengeance.
180. Scalawag
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Kirk Douglas
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester, Neville Brand, Lesley-Anne Down, Danny DeVito, George Eastman
Plot: A boy and his sister tag along with a group of ne'er-do-wells searching
for gold in the American West. Loosely based on "Treasure Island," with
Kirk Douglas in the Long John Silver role.
