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Hollywood and the Reds: Cold War in the 1970ies

by Max_in_Vienna • Created 10 years ago • Modified 10 years ago
This list is part of a series (see below), work in progress.

Related lists:
  • Hollywood and the Reds: Post-WW II, 1950ies, 1960ies, 1970ies, 1980ies, 1990ies, 2000 to Today, The Hollywood Ten, HUAC & McCarthyism


Other lists:
  • Cold War Movies by ur26969106
  • The 20 best films on cold war by ur32589342
  • Cold War in films by ur27547912


Sources:
  • Wikipedia: http://goo.gl/XAoM9m
  • Harvard Film Archive - "Cold War Paranoia": http://goo.gl/uACQSw
  • Illinois.edu - "The Hollywood Blacklist": http://goo.gl/XNU3Ph
  • Washington.edu - "The All-Powers Project" : http://goo.gl/fDkGFW


On YouTube:
  • "Victims of Hollywood's Blacklist": http://goo.gl/mPME2b
  • "The Hollywood Ten" (1950): http://goo.gl/7Ls0uL
  • "The Hollywood Blacklist: 1947-1960": http://goo.gl/WieTa3
  • "Committee On Un-American Activities": http://goo.gl/an3DSw
(see also YouTube list "Popular Hollywood blacklist Videos" (107 videos): http://goo.gl/xHMBiK)
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  • Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, and Jo Ann Pflug in M*A*S*H (1970)

    1. M*A*S*H

    19701h 56mR80Metascore
    7.3 (81K)
    The staff of a Korean War field hospital uses humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
    DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDonald SutherlandElliott GouldTom Skerritt
  • Donald Sutherland, Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, and Diane Varsi in Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

    2. Johnny Got His Gun

    19711h 51mPG71Metascore
    7.8 (19K)
    During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
    DirectorDalton TrumboStarsTimothy BottomsKathy FieldsMarsha Hunt
  • Burt Lancaster, Will Geer, Paul Carr, and Robert Ryan in Executive Action (1973)

    3. Executive Action

    19731h 31mPG
    6.7 (3.6K)
    Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.
    DirectorDavid MillerStarsBurt LancasterRobert RyanWill Geer
  • The Way We Were (1973)

    4. The Way We Were

    19731h 58mPG61Metascore
    7.0 (29K)
    During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.
    DirectorSydney PollackStarsBarbra StreisandRobert RedfordBradford Dillman
  • Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in Three Days of the Condor (1975)

    5. Three Days of the Condor

    19751h 57mR63Metascore
    7.4 (66K)
    A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
    DirectorSydney PollackStarsRobert RedfordFaye DunawayCliff Robertson
  • Woody Allen in The Front (1976)

    6. The Front

    19761h 35mPG
    7.3 (10K)
    In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
    DirectorMartin RittStarsWoody AllenZero MostelHerschel Bernardi
  • Hollywood on Trial (1976)

    7. Hollywood on Trial

    19761h 45mNot Rated
    7.3 (275)
    The documentary analyzes a dark period in Hollywood's history due to the Red Scare of the 1940's and 1950's, when actors, writers and directors were persecuted and investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee after being considered suspects of committing Anti-American acts by preaching the Communism in their films and television shows.
    DirectorDavid HelpernStarsWalter BernsteinAlvah BessieLester Cole
  • Tail Gunner Joe (1977)

    8. Tail Gunner Joe

    19772h 25mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.7 (210)
    A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
    DirectorJud TaylorStarsPeter BoyleJohn ForsytheHeather Menzies-Urich
  • Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976)

    9. Marathon Man

    19762h 5mR64Metascore
    7.4 (73K)
    After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.
    DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanLaurence OlivierRoy Scheider
  • Charles Bronson and Lee Remick in Telefon (1977)

    10. Telefon

    19771h 42mPG
    6.5 (6.6K)
    A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
    DirectorDon SiegelStarsCharles BronsonLee RemickDonald Pleasence
  • Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

    11. Twilight's Last Gleaming

    19772h 26mR
    6.7 (4K)
    An imprisoned rogue USAF general, with a secret personal agenda, escapes the brig and takes over an ICBM silo, threatening to start World War III.
    DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBurt LancasterRichard WidmarkRoscoe Lee Browne
  • The Last Grenade (1970)

    12. The Last Grenade

    19701h 34mM
    5.3 (254)
    Two soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not forgive him for what he regards as a betrayal, all the more as Thompson now turns his guns against Grigsby's troops and, accordingly, against his former friend. While he is London recovering from tuberculosis, Grigsby is assigned a new mission that he gladly accepts: to eliminate Thompson, now in Hong Kong causing tensions with neighboring China by creating border incidents.
    DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsStanley BakerAlex CordHonor Blackman
  • The MacKintosh Man (1973)

    13. The MacKintosh Man

    19731h 38mPG
    6.3 (5.5K)
    A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
    DirectorJohn HustonStarsPaul NewmanDominique SandaJames Mason
  • Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Bernard Hepton, and Terence Rigby in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

    14. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    19797 epsTV-14TV Mini Series
    8.4 (10K)
    In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
    StarsAlec GuinnessMichael JaystonAnthony Bate
  • Orson Welles, Bibi Andersson, George Sanders, Max von Sydow, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Patrick O'Neal, and Barbara Parkins in The Kremlin Letter (1970)

    15. The Kremlin Letter

    19702hM/PG
    6.2 (2.5K)
    During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.
    DirectorJohn HustonStarsBibi AnderssonRichard BooneNigel Green
  • The Missiles of October (1974)

    16. The Missiles of October

    19742h 30mTV Movie
    8.1 (1.2K)
    In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
    DirectorAnthony PageStarsWilliam DevaneRalph BellamyHoward Da Silva
  • Jon Voight and Mary Tamm in The Odessa File (1974)

    17. The Odessa File

    19742h 10mPG
    7.0 (13K)
    Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
    DirectorRonald NeameStarsJon VoightMaximilian SchellMaria Schell
  • The Black Windmill (1974)

    18. The Black Windmill

    19741h 46mPG50Metascore
    6.3 (3.6K)
    A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
    DirectorDon SiegelStarsMichael CaineDonald PleasenceDelphine Seyrig
  • "The Human Factor" (Saul Bass Poster) 1979

    19. The Human Factor

    19791h 55mR62Metascore
    6.1 (1.7K)
    When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.
    DirectorOtto PremingerStarsRichard AttenboroughNicol WilliamsonDerek Jacobi
  • Hanna Schygulla in The Third Generation (1979)

    20. The Third Generation

    19791h 51m
    6.7 (3K)
    A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
    DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsEddie ConstantineHanna SchygullaVolker Spengler
  • Ivan Desny, Klaus Löwitsch, and Hanna Schygulla in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

    21. The Marriage of Maria Braun

    19792hR
    7.7 (16K)
    Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
    DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsHanna SchygullaKlaus LöwitschIvan Desny
  • Your Neighbor's Son (1981)

    22. Your Neighbor's Son

    198155m
    8.3 (57)
    The documentary dramatizes the recruiting and training of a young men into the Greek police during the 1967-1974 military junta rule. Seemingly decent young men are selected based on traits viewed as exploitable by the recruiters : illiterate, anti-communist, young and male. The film interviews Michailis Petrou, one of the Greek policeman involved in the tortures who agreed to testify against his peers in exchange for a reduced sentence. Petrou's testimony reveals that the training methods themselves were brutal and often torturous and was viewed as a necessity to ensure the robotic and brutal obedience of the trainees. During the dramatic reenactments of the training camps, the directors draw parallels to modern military boot camps and the methods used in the training of soldiers.
    DirectorsJørgen Flindt PedersenErik StephensenStarsSimon PatroklosMichailis Petrou
  • Balance of Truth (1973)

    23. Balance of Truth

    19732mShort
    6.2 (78)
    Two neighbors live side-by-side. One decides to buy a shotgun. The other responds by buying his own shotgun. This quickly escalates into a massive arms race between the two neighbors.
    DirectorEduard Nazarov

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