Genre: Action Comedies
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Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart …
Directed by: Ossie Davis
Most 1970s blaxploitation vehicles function as violent, sociological artifacts with soulful soundtracks. This raucous urban action-comedy delivers genuine laughs. Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey…
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Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1970)
Cast: Brett Halsey, Charles Southwood, Marilù Tolo …
Directed by: Mario Bava
After ending their partnership with a fistfight, outlaws Roy Colt and Winchester Jack go their separate ways -- and soon become rivals when Roy gets his hands on a treasure map that's…
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Little Big Man (1970)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George …
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Dustin Hoffman stars as Jack, a 121-year-old man who recounts a long and colorful life in the Wild West, including being raised by Native Americans. His recollections form a Western epic that…
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Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manuel Fabregas …
Directed by: Don Siegel
In this antic Western, Hogan (Clint Eastwood) is a mercenary who hires his gun out to the highest bidder. But he meets his match in Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine), who's committed to…
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Trader Hornee (1970)
Cast: Buddy Pantsari, Elisabeth Monica, John Alderman …
Hired to find the missing daughter of zoologists slain two decades ago, detective Hamilton Hornee (Buddy Pantsari) leads a sex-obsessed search party to Africa. After being captured by…
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One More Time (1970)
Cast: Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., John Wood …
Directed by: Jerry Lewis
It's another one for the road for Chris Pepper (Peter Lawford) and Charlie Salt (Sammy Davis Jr.) in this sequel to the uproarious film Salt and Pepper. Lawford pulls double duty as…
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Mr. Superinvisible (1970)
Cast: Dean Jones, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin …
Directed by: Antonio Margheriti
While researching a cure for the common cold, Dr. Peter Denwell (Dean Jones) stumbles across a potion that turns him invisible, but nefarious foreign agents catch wind of the discovery and…
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The Adventures of Gerard (1970)
Cast: Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach …
Directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
In this comedy adventure period piece based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a boisterous French hussar and womanizer, Col. Etienne Girard (Peter McEnery), falls for a noblewoman…
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The Italian Job (1969)
Cast: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill …
Directed by: Peter Collinson
In director Peter Collinson's Golden Globe-nominated caper flick, enterprising swindler Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) hatches an ingenious plan to steal a huge cache of Chinese gold en…
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Hercules in New York (1969)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, Deborah Loomis …
Directed by: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Long before he became governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger (billed as Arnold Strong) starred as the titular god in this comic adventure. Bored of life on Mount Olympus, Herc is…
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Pit Stop (1969)
Cast: Richard Davalos, Brian Donlevy, Ellen Burstyn …
Directed by: Jack Hill
Rick Bowman (Richard Davalos) is a fast-driving and fast-living race car driver who rises to the top of his sport of "figure 8" racing in this acclaimed cult classic. But when Bowman begins…
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The Reivers (1969)
Cast: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White …
Directed by: Mark Rydell
In director Mark Rydell's comedic drama based on a William Faulkner novel, 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin (Mitch Vogel) finds an unlikely friend in Boon (Steve McQueen), a handyman and…
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Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
Cast: Tony Curtis, Terry-Thomas, Dudley Moore …
Directed by: Ken Annakin
An all-star cast drives this classic comedy tracking the contestants of an international auto race from the starting block in Monte Carlo all the way to the finish line. After playing a…
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Only When I Larf (1969)
Cast: Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, Alexandra Stewart …
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Basil Dearden directs this caper comedy that follows veteran con man Silas (Richard Attenborough), his lover Liz (Alexandra Stewart) and their young protégé Bob (David Hemmings) as they trot…
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A Talent for Loving (1969)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Caroline Munro …
Directed by: Richard Quine
This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw (Topol). At the ranch, the gambler discovers that his new lands have…
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Support Your Local Sheriff (1968)
Cast: James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan …
Directed by: Burt Kennedy
James Garner stars in this Wild West parody as a sharpshooting drifter who stumbles upon the lawless gold rush town of Calendar and winds up appointed as the new sheriff. With memorable…
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Salt and Pepper (1968)
Cast: Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates …
Directed by: Richard Donner
Even though they're not the young hep cats they once were, Chris Pepper (Peter Lawford) and Charlie Salt (Sammy Davis Jr.) are convinced they still have what it takes to swing with the…
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The Wrecking Crew (1968)
Cast: Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate …
Directed by: Phil Karlson
When the dastardly Count Contini (Nigel Green) masterminds a scheme to hijack an economy-wrecking sum of $1 billion in gold, suave secret agent Matt Helm (Dean Martin) reluctantly teams with…
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In Like Flint (1967)
Cast: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
Suave Derek Flint returns in the sequel to Our Man Flint. A group of female tycoons have concocted a way to brainwash women; with the world's ladies enslaved, the dominatrixes hijack the…
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Fathom (1967)
Cast: Raquel Welch, Anthony Franciosa, Ronald Fraser …
Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
Curvaceous Raquel Welch is Fathom Harvill, a featured skydiver with the U.S. team touring Europe. Before you can say, "Pull the ripcord," a Scottish colonel working for a top secret…
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How I Won the War (1967)
Cast: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear …
Directed by: Richard Lester
John Lennon and Michael Crawford star in Richard Lester's stylized World War II comedy, a surreal collage of bizarre situations, slapstick humor and authentic newsreel footage that…
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The Ambushers (1967)
Cast: Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule …
Directed by: Henry Levin
After exiled dictator Jose Ortega (Albert Salmi) seizes control of a government-built flying saucer, ultrasmooth spy Matt Helm (Dean Martin) journeys to Acapulco, Mexico, alongside the…
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Matchless (1967)
Cast: Patrick O'Neal, Ira von Fürstenberg, Donald Pleasence …
Directed by: Alberto Lattuada
This action-packed romp pokes fun at James Bond while supplying a bounty of chases, espionage and pretty girls. American journalist Perry Liston (Patrick O'Neal) is suddenly thrust into…
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Batman: The Movie (1966)
Cast: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether …
Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
In director Leslie H. Martinson's campy action comedy based on the tongue-in-cheek 1960s TV series, Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) battle sharks, Catwoman (Lee Meriwether), The…
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The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey …
Directed by: Frank Tashlin
Engineer Bruce Templeton (Rod Taylor) makes quite a catch when he reels in public-relations worker and part-time mermaid Jennifer Nelson (Doris Day). Smitten with the costumed cutie, Bruce…