11. High Plains Drifter
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch
Plot: Eastwood stars as the Fury of Vegence is this savage tale of blood and hypocracy. In a role similiar to his legendary Man With No Name in A Fistful of Dollars, Clint rides into a town terrorized by a band of ruthless gunmen who promise to wreck havac the moment they are released from prison. But this town harbors a flithy secret . . . and only blood will wash it clean. Eastwood's darkest role.
12. Robin Hood
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Actors: Peter Ustinov, Brian Bedford, Terry-Thomas, Monica Evans, Phil Harris, Andy Devine
Plot: Disney animates Robin Hood in this imaginative retelling where animals sub for humans. The outlaw and hero of the people Robin Hood and his gang of merry men take on the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and usurper Prince John.
13. Day for Night ( nuit américaine, La )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion
Plot: Truffaut's seriocomic, strangely documentarian, and always affectionate look at the trials and travails of filmmaking.
14. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco, Steven Keats, Joe Santos
Plot: Eddie Coyle is a small-time hood looking at a long sentence for repeat
offenses. In order to avoid jail time he decides to turn on his "friends"
providing information to the feds. But he is still supplying guns to his
bank-robbing buddies - and he may not be the only one turning snitch.
15. Don't Look Now
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa
Plot: The parents of a drowned child go to Venice and experience strange occurrences, including the arrival of what appears to be their dead little girl.
16. Andrey Rublyov ( Andrei Rublev )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Irma Raush, Nikolai Burlyayev
Plot: Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece about the great 15th century Russian icon painter.
17. The Last Detail
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty
Plot: Two tough Navy lifers are tasked with bringing a young pilferer to justice - where he will serve eight years for petty theft. After witnessing the somewhat sad sack, the two decide to show him a good time before he he has to serve his time.
18. The Day of the Jackal
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey
Plot: In early 1960s France, the disbanded members of the former French Foreign Legion want to kill current president Charles DeGaulle - turning him into one of the most guarded men in the world. In desperation they turn to "The Jackal", codename of a notorious assassin who agrees to take the job for half-a-million in payment. As he plans the perfect assassination, the police desperately try to track him down.
19. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bill Melendez
Actors: Todd Barbee, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea, Hilary Momberger-Powers, Christopher DeFaria, Jimmy Ahrens
Plot: Charlie Brown decides to throw a Thanksgiving Day dinner... with the help of his friends.
20. Spirit of the Beehive, The ( espíritu de la colmena, El )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Víctor Erice
Actors: Teresa Gimpera, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Ketty de la Cámara, Ana Torrent, Juan Margallo
Plot: Visually beautiful film about a young girl in fascist Spain who, after seeing a traveling exhibition of James Whale's classic "Frankenstein," believes the monster is hiding out in an abandoned barn.
