41. Traffic
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tati
Actors: Jacques Tati, Tony Knepper, Franco Ressel, Mario Zanuelli, Maria Kimberly, Marcel Franval
Plot: Mr. Hulot has his self-made RV and is ready to hit the road to showcase the vehicle at an Amsterdam auto show. But, of course, nothing goes right for him and his poor PR exec, the trendy, young Maria, must go along for the ride.
42. Blue Water, White Death
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb
Actors: Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody, Peter Matthiessen, Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb
43. On Any Sunday
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bruce Brown
Actors: Bruce Brown, David Evans, Steve McQueen, Mert Lawwill, Malcom Smith, Dave Aldana
44. The Beguiled
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Mae Mercer
Plot: Near the end of the Civil War, wounded Yankee soldier John McBurney is close to death when he is rescued by a twelve-year-old girl from a Louisiana boarding school. As John recovers, he begins to charm the girls, becoming the object of their awakening sexuality and jealousy runs rampant.
45. Support Your Local Gunfighter
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Burt Kennedy
Actors: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Joan Blondell, Marie Windsor
46. The Omega Man
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Boris Sagal
Actors: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric Laneuville, Lincoln Kilpatrick
Plot: After biological warfare decimated the world, Dr. Robert Neville is the last person alive in Los Angeles thanks to an experimental vaccine he injected himself with. But he is not alone. An albino, light-sensitive violent group calling themselves The Family want to destroy all science and technology, including Neville.
47. Shaft
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gordon Parks
Actors: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman
Plot: Private Eye John Shaft is hired by a criminal to find his missing daughter.
48. Willard
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Daniel Mann
Actors: Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante, Jody Gilbert
Plot: Willard is a social outcast, belittled at work and at home. When he keeps two rats instead of exterminating them, he finds a certain kinship. Soon he has many rats and finds he can control them - but when one of them is killed by his domineering boss, he fights back.
49. Lawman
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Winner
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall, Sheree North, Joseph Wiseman
Plot: A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.
50. Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Actors: Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Rhetta Hughes
