Movie List for "short"

Cool Breeze (1972)

Thalmus is the leader for a group of criminals who gather in L.A. to rob a bank. Their goal is to found a new bank. Year 1972.

Generes: Crime, Drama
Director: Barry Pollack
Writer: W.R. Burnett (novel), Barry Pollack
Actors: Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace, Julian Christopher, Lincoln Kilpatrick

The Cowboys (1972)

Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of cattle rustlers is trailing them. Year 1972.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, Western
Director: Mark Rydell
Writer: William Dale Jennings (novel), Irving Ravetch (screenplay), Harriet Frank Jr. (screenplay), William Dale Jennings (screenplay)
Actors: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst

Dirty Little Billy (1972)

A more realistic, based-on-reality, unsensationalistic portrayal of the gritty early years of one of the most famous Wild West outlaws in history, Billy The Kid. Year 1972.

Generes: Western
Director: Stan Dragoti
Writer: Charles Moss (story), Stan Dragoti (story), Charles Moss (screenplay), Stan Dragoti (screenplay)
Actors: Michael J. Pollard, Richard Evans, Lee Purcell, Charles Aidman

Come Back Charleston Blue (1972)

Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black … Year 1972.

Generes: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director: Mark Warren
Writer: Chester Himes (based on a novel by), Ernest Kinoy (screenplay), Peggy Elliott (screenplay)
Actors: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Peter De Anda, Percy Rodrigues

Chaplinesque, My Life and Hard Times (1972)

The biography of silent film legend Charlie Chaplin is brought to the screen with the narration of fellow silent star, Gloria Swanson. Year 1972.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Harry Hurwitz
Writer: Harry Hurwitz
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Gloria Swanson

Cocksucker Blues (1972)

This fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour, their first return to the States since the tragedy at Altamont. Because of the free-form … Year 1972.

Generes: Documentary, Music
Director: Robert Frank
Writer: N/A
Actors: Truman Capote, Dick Cavett, Marshall Chess, Chris Collins

The Love Pill (1972)

A man discovers a candy can also be used as an aphrodisiac–and a contraceptive. Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Ken Turner
Writer: Laurence Barnett (screenplay), Jesner (screenplay), John Lindsay (story), Ken Turner (screenplay)
Actors: Henry Woolf, Toni Sinclair, David Pugh, Mel Churcher

Buck and the Preacher (1972)

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West. Year 1972.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, Western
Director: Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent
Writer: Ernest Kinoy (screenplay), Ernest Kinoy (story), Drake Walker (story)
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell

Butterflies Are Free (1972)

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door. Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Milton Katselas
Writer: Leonard Gershe (screenplay), Leonard Gershe (play)
Actors: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser

Blood Sabbath (1972)

A coven of witches captures a young man traveling through the woods. He gets involved in a power struggle between a beautiful witch and the evil queen who heads the coven. Year 1972.

Generes: Horror
Director: Brianne Murphy
Writer: William A. Bairn
Actors: Anthony Geary, Susan Damante, Sam Gilman, Steve Gravers

Bone (1972)

A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as … Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Director: Larry Cohen
Writer: Larry Cohen
Actors: Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Berlin

Boxcar Bertha (1972)

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad. Year 1972.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Ben L. Reitman (book), Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay), John William Corrington (screenplay)
Actors: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey

The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)

John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her later. Back in school, he is not very attentive and … Year 1972.

Generes: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: Michael Powell
Writer: Emeric Pressburger (original story), Emeric Pressburger (screenplay)
Actors: Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir, Brian Worth

For the Love of Ada (1972)

Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them. Year 1972.

Generes: Comedy, Romance
Director: Ronnie Baxter
Writer: Harry Driver (screenplay), Vince Powell (screenplay)
Actors: Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst

Apna Desh (1972)

Akash is a honest and educated young man, employed by the Bombay Municipal Corporation as a clerk. He lives with his equally honest brother, his sister-in-law, a niece, Sharda, and a nephew… Year 1972.

Generes: Action, Drama, Family
Director: Jambulingam
Writer: Inder Raj Anand (dialogue), Raj Baldev Raj (dialogue director)
Actors: Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Om Prakash, Jagdeep

The Biscuit Eater (1972)

In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a field trials. Year 1972.

Generes: Drama, Family
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: James Street (story), Lawrence Edward Watkin
Actors: Earl Holliman, Pat Crowley, Lew Ayres, Godfrey Cambridge