Action
The enduring popularity of the action movie has drenched the genre in cliche yet glorious invention abounds around the globe - fighting is the international language. Fashionable styles of film-making come and go but action movies just change their shoes and remain centre-stage.
Great glittering galaxies of genre from across the Alice universe have been gleaned to assemble a suitably kick-ass selection of ballistic ballet and poetic pugilism to scintillate the delicate senses of our discerning clientele. Are you ready to rumble? Are you feeling lucky, Sir/Madame? Our suggestions for a hearty evening of action are listed below.
Pictured: Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang springs into action. Sean Connery as agent 007 in "Diamonds are Forever" (1971).
The Getaway ( Blu-ray ) (1972)
7.5/10
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers
Steve McQueen plays a bank robber whose wife (Ali MacGraw) makes a deal with a Texas politician to have her husband released from prison in return for... Read more
Deliverance ( Blu-ray ) (1972)
7.7/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds
Four Atlanta businessmen's weekend canoe trip turns into a desperate fight for survival in John Boorman's riveting adaptation of James Dickey's novel.... Read more
The Mechanic (1972)
7/10
Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland
Charles Bronson is a steely-eyed 'mechanic', an unparalleled professional assassin who takes a cold-hearted apprentice (Jan-Michael Vincent) under his... Read more
Zatoichi 23: At Large (1972)
Director: Kazuo Mori
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Rentaro Mikuni, Hisaya Morishige, Etsushi Takahashi, Fujio Morit...
One of the best of the original series of 25, this sees our blind hero deliver the baby of a dying mother (and breastfeed it!), then set off to find t... Read more
Zatoichi 24: In Desperation (1972)
Director: Shintaro Katsu
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Kiwako Taichi, Kyoko Toshizawa, Yasuhiro Koume, Fujio Morita
Directed by the actor who plays Zatoichi, this is possibly the darkest and most sombre of the series; the yakuza are meaner and the body count is high... Read more
The Magnificent Seven Collection ( The Magnificent Seven / Return of the Magnificent Seven / Guns of the Magnificent Seven / The Magnificent Seven Ride! ) (Blu-ray) (1972)
Director: Burt Kennedy, John Sturges, Paul Wendkos, George McCowan
Starring: Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Steve M...
A collection containing the four 'Magnificent Seven' features. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) - In this western remake of "Seven Samurai," paid gunsli... Read more
The Magnificent Seven Collection ( The Magnificent Seven / Return of the Magnificent Seven / Guns of the Magnificent Seven / The Magnificent Seven Ride! ) (1972)
Director: Burt Kennedy, John Sturges, Paul Wendkos, George McCowan
Starring: Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Steve M...
A collection containing the four 'Magnificent Seven' features. "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) - In this western remake of "Seven Samurai," paid gunsli... Read more
Lone Wolf and Cub 4: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
Director: Buiichi Saito
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama
His services cost 500 pieces of gold. Once he agrees to take an assignment, he never fails. But now Ogami Itto faces his greatest challenge yet - he h... Read more
The Water Margin (1972)
6.8/10
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: David Chiang, Ti Lung, Lily Ho, Feng Chin
There are martial art epics and "brotherhood hero" films, but then there is nothing out there that comes even close to "The Water Margin". Based on th... Read more
Lone Wolf and Cub 1: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Director: Kenji Misumi
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama
He was Ogami Itto, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido, entrusted by the Shogun with the gravest of responsibilities, that of official... Read more