11. Play Misty for Me
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Don Siegel
Plot: Clint Eastwood stars and directs the original crazy ex-girlfriend flick.
When a popular California Jazz DJ gets mixed up with his stalker, things
go terribly wrong.
12. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, Shelley Duvall, Corey Fischer
Plot: John McCabe is charismatic but thick-headed and his plans to set up a whorehouse in a newly-minted Pacific Northwest town seem doomed, until the shrewd madame, Mrs. Miller, shows up and takes charge. The two form a lucrative partnership - and maybe something more - until the town attracts the attention of a major corporation who wants to buy things out.
13. 10 Rillington Place
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Miss Riley
Plot: A depraved, socially maladroit man murders the young women to who he lets the upstairs of his London flat, while one of his other boarders is imprisoned for the crimes. Based on the true story of John Christie, serial killer in WWII-era England.
14. Big Jake
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Sherman
Actors: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bruce Cabot, Bobby Vinton
Plot: The McCandles ranch is run over by a gang of cutthroats led by the evil John Fain. They kidnap little Jacob McCandles and hold him for a million dollar ransom. There is only one man who is brave enough and smart enough to bring him back, and that man is Big Jake.
15. The Andromeda Strain
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell
Plot: A U.S. army satellite falls to the town of Piedmont, New Mexico and brings back something alien that wipes out nearly the entire town. A team of five scientists are brought in to solve the mystery behind the biological terror before it spreads.
16. Duck, You Sucker ( Giù la testa )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: James Coburn, Rod Steiger, Antoine Saint-John, Franco Graziosi, Giulio Battiferri, Romolo Valli
Plot: An IRA member meets up with a Mexican bandit during the Mexican Revolution as they blow things up and cause havoc.
17. Klute
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam
18. Walkabout
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra, Peter Carver
19. Johnny Got His Gun
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dalton Trumbo
Actors: Don 'Red' Barry, Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Byron Morrow
Plot: Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee.
20. Murmur of the Heart ( souffle au coeur, Le )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen
Plot: This darkly comic coming-of-age film follows 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier and his dysfunctional family through the summer of 1954.
