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The Hired Hand (1971) on 11 august 1971
, 1h33Directed by Peter Fonda
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Warren Oates, Peter Fonda, Verna Bloom, Severn Darden, Ann Doran, Ted Markland
Rating68%
Harry Collings (Fonda) and Arch Harris (Oates) are two saddle tramps who have grown weary after seven years of wandering through the American Southwest. Along with a younger companion, Dan Griffen (Robert Pratt), they stop off in Del Norte, a ramshackle town in the middle of nowhere, which is run by the corrupt McVey (Severn Darden). Harris and Griffen discuss traveling to California to look for work when Collings abruptly informs them he has decided to return to the wife he left years before. Griffen temporarily leaves the two in a bar and goes to buy supplies. Some town thugs shoot him to death out of pure meanness. Collings and Harris escape, but they return that night. Collings shoots McVey in the feet, crippling him.
The Superwitness (1971) on 11 august 1971
Genres Comedy
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Orazio Orlando, Véronique Vendell, Franco Balducci, Nerina Montagnani
Rating67%
Quand une prostituée dont il est le souteneur est retrouvée assassinée, c'est tout naturellement que Mario Bottecchia dit Mocassino, est suspecté. Accusé par Isolina Panto, témoin du crime, il est condamné à 20 ans de prison. Incarcéré, Marino reçoit des visites régulières d'Isolina qui va tout mettre en œuvre pour le faire libérer.
The Love Machine (1971) on 14 august 1971
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Genres Drama
Actors John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Edith Atwater
Rating47%
Robin Stone a d'autres ambitions que de présenter le JT. Beau gosse auquel nulle femme ne résiste, c'est sur Judith Austin qu'il jette son dévolu. Pour sa beauté bien sûr, mais surtout parce qu'elle est la femme du président d'une chaîne de télévision. Il espère bien qu'elle va l'aider à faire s'envoler sa carrière.
The Love Machine (1971) on 14 august 1971
, 1h48Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Genres Drama
Actors John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Maureen Arthur
Rating47%
Robin Stone works at a powerful TV network doing the news. He encounters an array of women, among them Judith Austin, the wife of a network executive. Judith asks her husband Greg to promote Robin and he does so. Robin and Judith then get into an extramarital affair while her husband is in the hospital for cardiac care.
Brother John (1971) on 15 august 1971
, 1h35Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about religion
Actors Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd, Ramon Bieri, Warren J. Kemmerling
Rating63%
His arrival into town is clouded by unrest at a factory where workers are seeking to unionize. Local authorities wrongly suspect John to be an outside agitator for the union cause. The suspicions of the local Sheriff and Doc Thomas' son, the District Attorney, grow after they search John's room and find a passport filled with visa stamps from countries all over the world, even some that few Americans are allowed to travel to. They also find newspaper clippings in a variety of different languages. Only Doc Thomas suspects that John's real purpose is something else.