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).
Duel (1971)
7.7/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver stars as the travelling salesman driving through the American Southwest who wages a desperate battle for survival after he is mysterious... Read more
Rio Lobo ( Blu-ray ) (1970)
6.8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Jack Elam, Jennifer O'Neill, John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Victor French, Christophe...
The final film of Howard Hawks, and the fifth pairing over a 22-year period with the Duke, is a classic action-filled John Wayne western set into moti... Read more
Cold Sweat (1970)
5.9/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Charles Bronson, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Liv Ullmann
Aka "De la part des copains". One evening, Joe Martin (Charles Bronson), an American living in France, is approached by Captain Ross (James Mason), an... Read more
The 12 Golden Medallions (1970)
Director: Cheng Kang
Starring: Chin Ping, Chiao Chiao, Huang Tsung Hsin, Ching Miao, Yao Hua
In this kung fu classic from the Shaw Brothers, Traitorous minister Chin Kuei tries to halt General Yueh Fei's victorious battles against the country'... Read more
Yakuza Deka 1: Secret Police (1970)
Director: Yukio Noda
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Tetsuro Tanpa
Sonny Chiba plays a hard-bitten undercover cop trying to win the confidence of two rival yakuza gangs in order to bust their illegal drugs operations.... Read more
Yakuza Deka 2: The Assassin (1970)
Director: Yukio Noda
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Ryohei Uchida, Fumio Watanabe, Osman Yusuf, Giant Baba
Sonny Chiba returns as undercover cop Hayata. This time he's after a marijuana syndicate, and he's going to have to go very undercover to net these g... Read more
Valdez Is Coming (1970)
6.9/10
Director: Edwin Sherin
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher
This rugged, guns-a-blazing Western tale adapted from an Elmore Leonard story, stars Burt Lancaster as a Mexican-American who wages a violent crusade... Read more
The Last Valley (1970)
7.4/10
Director: James Clavell
Starring: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan
Famed author James Clavell scripted and directed this historical adventure set in 17th-century central Europe, when the continent was embroiled in the... Read more
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
7.5/10
Director: Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda
Starring: Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E G...
This $25 million epic collaboration faithfully recreates the events leading up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour. An insightful and well-crafted Wor... Read more
Hercules in New York (1970)
3.2/10
Director: Arthur Seidelman
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, Taina Elg
AKA "Hercules Goes Bananas". Arnold Schwarzenegger made his film debut (with someone else dubbing his voice!) as the legendary muscleman who lands in... Read more