Past the Golden Age: 1960-70

[Gene]

How could we forget Airplane! (1980 but still pretty 70's).

 

[C-dot]

How could we forget Airplane! (1980 but still pretty 70's).

Looks like I quit the wrong week to quit drinking.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Looks like I quit the wrong week to quit drinking.

...or sniffing glue.

Don't forget the awful sci fi and disaster movies from the '70s:

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Poseidon Adventure (1972) -- Leslie Nielsen's brief role as the captain paved the way for his subsequent comedy film career
Earthquake (1974) -- look for an unknown (and unrecognizable) Victoria Principal in an afro wig!
The Towering Inferno (1974) -- Notable for its casting of Lorne Greene and Ava Gardner as father and daughter (they were just a few years apart in age!)
Roller Ball (1975)
Logan's Run (1976)
Capricorn One (1978) -- my favorite. I especially love watching O.J. Simpson being chased by a black helicopter!
The Swarm (1978?)

 

[C-dot]

I've seen all of those movies, mostly because of my sci-fi and comic book freak father. lol

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

correction: Lorne Greene and Ava Gardner were in Earthquake

also

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), aka "John Boy in Space"

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Dark Star (1974)
I love the theme song

[video=youtube;PbbYn7d_W8s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbbYn7d_W8s&feature=related[/video]

 

[Gregg Axley]

With all the suggestions, we won't see the original poster for years.
The Gumball Rally
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074597/
I love this movie because of the cars, even though it is a bit hokey.

 

[C-dot]

I love this movie because of the cars, even though it is a bit hokey.

I love The Gumball Rally!!!

 

[Gregg Axley]

What's funny is that the trivia section says "the actors drove their own cars/did their own stunts."
Also, the 2 cobras used were real! (as most car guys know that's a lot of dough nowdays, but back then maybe they weren't as valuable)
And Gary Busey doing something dangerous, I mean that was acting wasn't it?

 

[Gene]

"Straight Time" with Dustin Hoffman is a really underrated classic of the 70's. It later partially inspired "Reservoir Dogs."

 

[DNO]

These films really are the sixties:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Graduate (1967)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Failsafe (1964)
Z (1969)

Who can forget General Jack D. Ripper?

 

[Kirk H.]

The Sixties were famous for the spy flicks and not just the James Bond ones.
1. Funeral in Berlin
2. The Ipcress File
3. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

Kirk H.

 

[Atomic Age]

I would suggest "Klute"(1971) and "The Parallax View" (1974), both by the director of "All The President's Men" Also...

"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (1974)
"Dirty Harry" (1971)
"The Sugarland Express" (1974)
"Marathon Man" (1976)
"Coma" (1978)
"The French Connection" (1971)
"Bullitt" (1968)
"Three Days of the Condor" (1975)
"The Seven Ups" (1973)
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977)


I would also recommend the original Columbo TV show.

Doug

 

[Benzadmiral]

"The Apartment," Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine; one of Billy Wilder's best

"Wait Until Dark" (one of THE great thrillers), Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin (trivia: Lee Remick and Robert Duvall played the roles on Broadway)

"Planet of the Apes" -- a shocker in its time: "Get your stinking hands off of me, you damned dirty ape!"

Another Rod Serling script, "Assault on a Queen," w/ Sinatra -- and other heist films like "Gambit", "Topkapi,""How to Steal a Million"

I went to "Bullitt" to see my man Robert Vaughn, and got the neat surprise of that car chase. Months later when school started, my classmates were still talking about it.

Oh, and the original "True Grit"! Plus "Rosemary's Baby." Polanski's directing style exactly matched author Ira Levin's writing style.

ETA: "Father Goose," probably Cary Grant's most delightful film. He's on record somewhere as saying his role as Walter was the most like his own persona of any character he ever played.

 

[ButteMT61]

You know, I have fond memories of 60's and 70's movies, but when I watch 95% of them today, they're AWFUL! I mean, the wardrobe, the acting, the sets, everything!
And they look like they were shot on 8mm film. Maybe it's just that new stuff is so good - but older movies look great too. Something about that era(s) that just should be almost left in the vaults. The exception being music. That was probably and arguably the best rock/pop ever to be made. Well, that and the 60's muscle cars

 

[Gregg Axley]

You watch it for the plot?