The Homecoming - A Christmas Story
Movie / 1971-12-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
Earth II
Movie / 1971-11-28 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Lalo Schifrin
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station. Can the crew disarm the bomb before it detonates, not only destroying the station but setting off World War III?
Straw Dogs
Movie / 1971-11-25 / United Kingdom / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Fielding
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.
Man in the Wilderness
Movie / 1971-11-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Johnny Harris
In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
Duel
Movie / 1971-11-13 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Billy Goldenberg
Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Hannie Caulder
Movie / 1971-11-08 / United Kingdom / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Ken Thorne
After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.
Fiddler on the Roof
Movie / 1971-11-03 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alexander Courage
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
La Corta notte delle bambole di vetro
Movie / 1971-10-28 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Ennio Morricone
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
A Town Called Hell
Movie / 1971-10-27 / Spain / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Waldo de los Ríos
A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
The Organization
Movie / 1971-10-20 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Gil Mellé
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
The French Connection
Movie / 1971-10-09 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Don Ellis
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
See No Evil
Movie / 1971-09-02 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
The Omega Man
Movie / 1971-08-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Ron Grainer
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Klute
Movie / 1971-06-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Michael Small
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
Shaft
Movie / 1971-06-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Isaac Hayes
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Big Jake
Movie / 1971-05-26 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Movie / 1971-05-20 / United States / Releases: 6 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Bananas
Movie / 1971-04-28 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Marvin Hamlisch
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Mephisto Waltz
Movie / 1971-04-09 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
The Andromeda Strain
Movie / 1971-03-12 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Gil Mellé
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Harpy
Movie / 1971-03-12 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by David Shire
Architect's life is plagued by his ex-wife, a master manipulator, whose constant clawing is about to drive off his new love, and his clientèle. As a hobby, he enjoys training a rare harpy eagle, with a Native-American pal, who empathizes with his plight, and a plan of action coalesces.
Lawman
Movie / 1971-03-11 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Fielding
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
A Step Out of Line
Movie / 1971-02-26 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
Three financially down-and-out buddies plot to pull a bank robbery to cure their financial woes.
Cold Turkey
Movie / 1971-02-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Randy Newman
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Movie / 1970-10-29 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.