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).
Lone Wolf and Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Director: Kenji Misumi
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama
The Yagyu clan has murdered Ogami Itto's wife, and had him stripped of his position of Official Shogunate Second. Now Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro w... Read more
Lone Wolf and Cub 3: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Director: Kenji Misumi
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama
"Child and Expertise For Rent" reads the sign on the crude baby cart that Ogami Itto pushes, carrying his infant son, Daigoro, as they wander the Japa... Read more
Kung Fu: Season 1 (1972)
7.8/10
Starring: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera
He is a man of peace in a violent land. He is Kwai Chang Caine (David Carradine), schooled in the spirit-mind-body ways of the Shaolin priesthood by t... Read more
The Getaway (1972)
7.5/10
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers
Great adventure and excitement occur when Bank robbers Steve McQueen and wife Ali MacGraw take on the law when a robbery goes haywire. Read more
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
7.1/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Gene Hackman, Roddy McDowall, Shelley Winters, Car...
A massive ocean liner is at sea on New Year's Eve when just after midnight a freak wave smacks into her side, flipping her upside down in the freezing... Read more
Way of the Dragon (1972)
7.3/10
Director: Bruce Lee
Starring: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao, Robert Wall
A.k.a. 'Return of the Dragon'. Bruce Lee travels to Rome to help a friend whose restaurant is being terrorised by gangsters. Amazing fights, climaxed... Read more
Fist of Fury (1972)
7.3/10
Director: Lo Wei
Starring: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien, Robert Baker
AKA 'The Chinese Connection'. In what many enthusiasts consider to be 'the ultimate martial arts movie', Bruce Lee is a true force of nature as he bat... Read more
A Fistful of Dynamite ( aka Duck You Sucker ) (1972)
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Romolo Valli, Rod Steiger, James Coburn
James Coburn is top-billed as an Irish soldier of fortune with a penchant for explosives. Rod Steiger plays another mercenary who wants to utilize Cob... Read more
Joe Kidd (1972)
6.5/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, John Saxon, Don Stroud
Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall are at their best in this story of a gunman hired by a cattle baron to track down some Mexican Americans who are figh... Read more
Deliverance (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