1971

Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 100 Films 1 Performance 2 Murphy’s War 3 The Music Lovers 4 The Last Valley 5 10 Rillington Place 6 Little Murders 7 The House That Dripped Blood 8 Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia) 9 The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) 10 When Eight Bells Toll/Puppet on a Chain 11 Get Carter 12 THX 1138 13 Lawman 14 Dad’s Army 15 Vanishing Point 16 The Andromeda Strain 17 The Beguiled 18 Just Before Nightfall (Juste Avant La Nuit) 19 Taking Off 20 Melody 21 Trafic 22 Summer of ’42 23 Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song 24 Bananas 25 Murmur of the Heart (Le Souffle au coeur) 26 Billy Jack 27 WR: Mysteries of the Organism 28 Blue Water, White Death 29 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 30 Escape from the Planet of the Apes 31 Big Jake 32 Daughters of Darkness 33 Carry On Henry 34 The Ceremony (Gishiki) 35 The Anderson Tapes 36 Willard 37 Klute 38 Wild Rovers 39 Le Mans 40 McCabe and Mrs Miller 41 Shaft 42 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 43 Drive, He Said 44 Carnal Knowledge 45 Walkabout 46 Sunday Bloody Sunday 47 Two-Lane Blacktop 48 The Panic in Needle Park 49 Blood on Satan’s Claw 50 Godzilla vs. Hedorah 51 The Devils 52 Johnny Got His Gun 53 The Hired Hand 54 Villain 55 The Omega Man 56 The Decameron 57 Let’s Scare Jessica to Death 58 The Touch 59 Beware of a Holy Whore (Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte) 60 The Big Doll House 61 A Bay of Blood 62 Out 1 63 The Go-Between 64 Company Limited 65 Monty Python’s And Now for Something Completely Different 66 The Last Movie 67 Kotch 68 The Last Picture Show 69 Blanche 70 The French Connection 71 Wake in Fright 72 Punishment Park 73 Twins of Evil 74 Hands of the Ripper 75 Play Misty for Me 76 The Big Boss (Táng Shān Dà Xiōng) 77 A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker!) 78 Fiddler on the Roof 79 Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde 80 Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb 81 200 Motels 82 Bedknobs and Broomsticks 83 Mon Oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine) 84 Duel 85 Two English Girls (Les Deux Anglaises et le continent) 86 A Touch of Zen (Xia Nu) 87 Straw Dogs 88 Man in the Wilderness 89 Nicholas and Alexandra 90 Bleak Moments 91 Family Life 92 Gumshoe 93 The Hospital 94 Macbeth 95 Four Flies on Grey Velvet 96 A Clockwork Orange 97 Harold and Maude 98 Mary, Queen of Scots 99 Dirty Harry 100 Diamonds Are Forever The Good, the Bad and the Weird: The Best of the Rest Notes Select Bibliography Picture Section