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Ten Memorable Hollywood ladies, Coffy starring Pam Grier and
Films of 1973: Cleopatra Jones, with Tamara Dobson as
“6-feet-2 of dynamite.” Picked the second,
The biggest hit in Hollywood in 1973, was directed by Jack Starrett, because of the
the horror film, The Exorcist, unarguably statuesque leading lady, with her array of
the most scary film ever made. It was James Bond gadgets, her Corvette and her
a good year for American movies, but ability to kick ass without breaking into a
memories are made of films seen and sweat.
loved; while making a list, it is often a toss
between this film or that, but these come Enter The Dragon:
out of the storage vault of the mind, some Who did not fall in love
because they were trend setters, some with Bruce Lee and karate
because they were Oscar winners, and when this Robert Clouse
others that meant something to the viewer. movie hit the theatres in
In alphabetical order, the most memorable India. He played a man
films that turn 50 this year without sent to a mysterious
showing signs of age: island to investigate a
American Graffiti: martial arts tournament
George Lucas came to be run by a drug lord. The whirlwind fights
known as the creator of the and that unforgettable sequence in a hall of
epic Star Wars, but before mirrors were crazily cool. Also, Bruce Lee
he became a Hollywood died that year and made a place for himself
mogul, he made the in the pantheon of martial arts deities.
ultimate coming of age
film, starring Richard The Exorcist:
Dreyfus, Ron Howard, In William Friedkin’s
Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, about film, based on a best
four teenagers, spending a summer of selling book by William
freedom and love before they go to college. Peter Blatty, a little girl
The film is pure Sixties nostalgia, with an (Linda Blair) is possessed
incredible rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack. by an evil spirit—all
that head rotation and
Cleopatra Jones: green spewing—and her
The Seventies was the desperate mother (Ellen Burstyn) has to
decade of Blaxploitation seek the help of a priest, Max von Sydow to
movies—a series of movies battle that demon and exorcise it.
in which Black actors
were protagonists, not Live And Let Die
just sidekicks to white Not the best James Bond movie, but for
stars. Women, however, fans, every film counts. Roger Moore
were relegated to the played 007, in the film directed by Guy
background, till, incredibly, in one year, Hamilton, Jane Seymour with her hypnotic
there were two films with Black leading two-colour eyes played a tarot card reader,
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