51. Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman ( Shin zatô Ichi: Yabure! Tôjin-ken )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Actors: Shintarô Katsu, Yu Wang, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada, Kôji Nanbara, Tôru Abe
52. A Safe Place
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Phil Proctor, Jack Nicholson, Dov Lawrence, Sylvia Zapp
53. Mr. Forbush and the Penguins ( Cry of the Penguins )
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Arne Sucksdorff, Alfred Viola
Actors: John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton, Joss Ackland, Thorley Walters
54. Wanda
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Barbara Loden
Actors: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes, Jerome Thier, Marian Thier
55. And Soon the Darkness
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Fuest
Actors: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès, John Nettleton, Clare Kelly, Hana Maria Pravda
56. The Hired Hand
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Fonda
Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden, Rita Rogers
57. Kotch
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jack Lemmon
Actors: Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Ellen Geer, Donald Kowalski
Plot: In Jack Lemmon's only directing effort, Walter Matthau plays an old man at odds with his grown children, and with the changing world. He befriends and aids a pregnant girl.
58. Black Beauty
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: James Hill
Actors: Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence, Uschi Glas, Maria Rohm, Patrick Mower
59. Little Murders
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Arkin
Actors: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Doris Roberts, John Randolph, Marcia Rodd, Alan Arkin
60. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Fuest
Actors: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas, Sean Bury, Susan Travers
Plot: The maniacal Dr. Phibes uses the biblical plagues visited upon Egypt as a model for revenge against the surgeons he blames for his wife's demise.
