Film Index

American cinema: 1970s

The Twelve Chairs (1970)
Mel Brooks

In 1923, Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov is summoned to his mother's deathbed in Soviet Russia. Before she dies, the old woman tells her son that, during the Bolshevik Revolution, she concealed jewels of inestimable value in one of her twelve dining room chairs...   [More...]

Up the Sandbox (1972)
Irvin Kershner

On the face of it, Margaret Reynolds has nothing to complain about. She is a happily married mother of two leading a comfortable, if slightly humdrum, existence in New York City...   [More...]

The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Roy Ward Baker

In the mid-1800s, General von Spielsdorf is hosting a ball at his mansion in the small European country of Styria. When one of his guests, an unnamed countess, is called away, the General gladly agrees to take care of her daughter Marcilla...   [More...]

The Vault of Horror (1973)
Roy Ward Baker

Five strangers enter an elevator in a London office block and are surprised when they end up being trapped in a plush room in the basement...   [More...]

Westworld (1973)
Michael Crichton

In the throes of a messy divorce, Peter Martin agrees to accompany his friend John Blane on a visit to Delos, an adult amusement park where the guests can live out their wildest fantasies for a thousand dollars a day...   [More...]

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Mel Stuart

Willy Wonka, the most famous confectionary maker in the world, creates worldwide pandemonium when he announces that he will admit five lucky people to his ultra-secret chocolate factory...   [More...]

Young Frankenstein (1974)
Mel Brooks

Dr Frederick Frankenstein is a medical school lecturer who just happens to be the grandson of the mad scientist Baron von Frankenstein, whose monster-making exploits have been widely reported in books, films and comic books by irresponsible sensationalists...   [More...]


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