61. Horror Express
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Eugenio Martín
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Telly Savalas, Julio Peña
Plot: An English anthropologist believes his has found the Missing Link in the frozen wastes of Manchuria. As he transports his find on a trans-Siberian express, the creature thaws, awakens and begins the slaughter.
62. Dead of Night ( Deathdream )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Clark
Actors: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe , Anya Ormsby, Jane Daly
Plot: A soldier turns up alive in the family house, after he was declared dead. Filmed during the war, it painfully reiterate the drama of soldiers gone, never to come back.
63. Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian Clemens
Actors: Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane Briant, Caroline Munro, John Cater, Lois Daine
64. Mr. Majestyk
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo, Taylor Lacher
Plot: A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
65. Nada
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Chabrol
Actors: Fabio Testi, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Aumont, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Garrel
66. The Odessa File
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey
Plot: A journalist investigating the suicide of an elderly Jewish man uncovers a conspiracy involving former SS officers named ODESSA that leads back to his own family.
67. Seduction of Mimi, The ( Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lina Wertmüller
Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Turi Ferro, Agostina Belli, Luigi Diberti, Elena Fiore
68. Juggernaut
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Lester
Actors: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight, Ian Holm
69. Night Porter, The ( portiere di notte, Il )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Liliana Cavani
Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati, Isa Miranda
Plot: Years after surviving a sadomasochistic relationship at a concentration camp, a woman happens upon the former SS officer working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel. As they begin their tortured relationship once again, a group of former SS officers seeks to stop them before they are all exposed.
70. Phantom of the Paradise
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham, George Memmoli, Archie Hahn
Plot: Brian de Palma's wild "rock opera" (with songs by Paul Williams) combining elements of "The Phantom of the Opera" with "Faust" and satirical attacks on the glam rock era. Struggling songwriter Winslow Leach (William Finley) is plagiarized by producer-tycoon Swann (Williams), and survives an attempted murder in order to seek revenge as a phantom stalking Swann's rock palace -- the Paradise.
