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Hercules in New York (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Hercules in New York
director: Arthur Allan Seidelman actor: Arnold Stang / Arnold Schwarzenegger …
other title: Ercole a New York / Hercules i New York …
Hercules is sent from Mount Olympus to modern-day Manhattan, where he takes up professional wrestling before getting mixed up with a gang of mobsters.
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Thank God It's Friday (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Thank God It's Friday
director: Robert Klane actor: Jeff Goldblum / Raymond Vitte …
other title: Grazie a Dio è Venerdì / Graças a Deus É Sexta-Feira …
It's Friday and everyone is going to the hottest new disco in Los Angeles. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.
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Lady Snowblood (1973)
修羅雪姫
8.1 (16 ratings) director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Meiko Kaji / Toshio Kurosawa …
other title: Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld / 修羅雪姫 …
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
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The Outfit (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Outfit
director: John Flynn actor: Robert Duvall / Karen Black …
other title: Organizzazione crimini / Revolte in der Unterwelt …
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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The Aristocats (1970)
The Aristocats
director: Wolfgang Reitherman actor: Phil Harris / Eva Gabor …
other title: Gli Aristogatti / Aristocats …
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
April 17, 2026 watched
Rewatched (after 45+? years) in the #Comedon watch party on Mastodon.

It held up better than I'd have guessed, although there are brief moments with racist stereotypes.
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The Bodyguard (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
ボディガード牙
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Mari Atsumi …
other title: Kiba, der Leibwächter - Seine Rechte mäht wie eine Sense / Le garde du corps …
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?
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Son of Dracula (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Son of Dracula
director: Freddie Francis actor: Harry Nilsson / Ringo Starr …
other title: Il figlio di Dracula / Young Dracula (the BLOOD-SUCKER with a BEAT!)
Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician, Count Downe — son of Dracula — falls in love with beautiful mortal Amber and finds himself in conflict with Baron Frankenstein, who is vying for the same honourary title.
April 13, 2026 watched
Meandering mess with a few musical moments of interest. Ringo Starr in particular underwhelms as Merlin.

Watched in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon after #Monsterdon
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The Arena (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Arena
director: Steve Carver actor: Pam Grier / Margaret Markov …
other title: La rivolta delle gladiatrici / La Révolte des gladiatrices
Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.
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Big Bad Mama (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Big Bad Mama
director: Steve Carver actor: Angie Dickinson / Tom Skerritt …
other title: F.B.I. e la banda degli angeli / Krudt, knald og kællinger …
Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.
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Starship Invasions (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Starship Invasions
director: Ed Hunt actor: Robert Vaughn / Christopher Lee …
other title: Suicidio dallo spazio / Invasion der Raumschiffe …
Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?
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Slaughter in San Francisco (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
黃面老虎
director: Lo Wei actor: Don Wong Tao / Chuck Norris …
other title: Massacro a San Francisco / Yellow Faced Tiger (aka Slaughter In San Francisco) …
A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.
March 24, 2026 watched
Poor dialogue but good pacing & plenty of fights. But too much Chuck Norris body hair!

Watched in #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
director: Gordon Hessler actor: John Phillip Law / Caroline Munro …
other title: Il viaggio fantastico di Sinbad / Sinbads gyldne rejse …
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile, Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.
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Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)
招半式闖江湖
director: Chen Chi-Hwa actor: Jackie Chan / James Tien Chun …
other title: Karate Bomber / Le Protecteur …
A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.
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Demon Pond (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB
夜叉ヶ池
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Tamasaburō Bandō V / Gō Katō …
other title: L'Étang du démon / El estanque endemoniado …
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.