Action Movies of 1972
Fuzz
Fuzz treads the line between raucous comedy and gut-churning melodrama. Based ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon, an ocean liner larger than the Queens Elizabeth and Mary combined, is charting its course on New Year's Eve. Just after midnight, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) spots the mother of all tidal ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
The Getaway
In Sam Peckinpah's version of Walter Hill's script, from Jim Thompson's novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved years, Doc ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
The Bravos
Filmed in Flagstaff, Arizona, The Bravos top-bills George Peppard as a frontier cavalry commander. It is Peppard's job to protect his fort, and the wagon ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Skyjacked
Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
The fourth Planet of the Apes film is set in 1991, 20 years since the assassination of talking, time-traveling apes Cornelius and Zira at the end of Escape From the Planet of the Apes. The ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
The Final Comedown
When an underqualified white man is given the job that Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) is infinitely more qualified for, the young black man becomes involved in a violent, radical ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
The Chinese Connection
One of the best action films starring the legendary Bruce Lee, this movie features the martial artist as Chen ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Shaft's Big Score!
This is the hurriedly produced sequel to Gordon Parks' trend-setting hit Shaft. Richard Roundtree is on hand once again, portraying "the cat who's a bad ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
The Culpepper Cattle Company
Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventure, he ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Black Gunn
This violent blaxploitation film stars Jim Brown as the owner of a Los Angeles ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Karzan, il favoloso uomo della giungla
In this campy jungle adventure, courageous, stiff-upper-lipped Captain Fox and his entourage ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Seven Blows of the Dragon
Based on the Chinese novel All Men Are Brothers, Seven Blows of the Dragon revolves ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Slaughter
In this action film, football great Jim Brown stars as Slaughter, an ex-Green Beret. He seeks to avenge the bombing death of his parents. Having done that, he is persuaded to go to Mexico to hunt down some ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Kung Fu: The Punch of Death
In this period martial arts action drama, Fong Si Yu (Meng Fei) is a gifted but arrogant young man who has not learned how to manage his anger or use his gifts for the martial arts for positive purposes. Fong's reckless attacks upon the corrupt ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Fist of Unicorn
Bruce Lee makes a brief appearance in this vintage martial arts action drama, which stars his longtime friend and mentor Unicorn Chan. When a rover named Lung is befriended by a young man named Tiger, he accepts an invitation to ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Five Fingers of Death
One of the Shaw Brothers Studios most well-known films, King Boxer was an international success that helped instigate the kung fu craze of the '70s. It opens with an old master (Wen Chung Ku) attacked in an alley. He fends off the ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
A Scream in the Streets
Two detectives, one a strictly by-the-book operator and the other a maverick who has gotten into trouble before for not following the rules, are assigned to track down a particularly vicious rapist-murderer who is terrorizing the Los ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Bloody Fists
Yuen Woo Ping, who would in time become one of the ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Chow Ken
The oppressive Manchu dynasty is contested by a revolutionary journeying to Japan. ~ All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub 3: Baby Cart to Hades
Installment number three in the Lone Wolf and Cub saga finds Ogami hired by a female yakuza to kill a corrupt governor. While wandering the countryside, Ogami stumbles upon a brutal crime being committed by three mercenaries ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
The first in a series of six films based on the long-running manga concerns ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx
The second installment in the Lone Wolf and Cub saga finds Ogami hired to kill a defecting worker about to reveal the secrets of a prosperous clan's dyeing process to Ogami's nemesis Lord Retsudo Yagyu. Little does Ogami know that Lord Yagyu has ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub 4: Baby Cart in Peril
A group of grieving widows hires Ogami to kill tattooed female assassin Oyuki in this noir-ish fourth entry in the popular Lone Wolf and Cub series. After being raped and ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
The legendary Shaw Brothers push boundaries and smash taboos with this outrageous tale of a beautiful young ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Indio
The Spanish-language Mexican vigilante drama Indio concerns an unscrupulous and sociopathic land developer who schemes to wrest a piece of land away from an Apache Indian tribe. His diabolical plan involves poisoning most of ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Street Mobster
Legendary director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale, The Black Lizard) takes the helm for this stylish and violent take on the life of a lower echelon yakuza thug ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Kung Fu: Season 01
Season one of Kung Fu finds Chinese-American drifter Kwai Chang Caine (David ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Shadow Hunters
A trio of deadly assassins takes on a mission to deliver a ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Ma Su Chen
The quest is on to find the one warrior fearsome enough to survive a brutal ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
Girl Boss Guerilla
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The Trail of Blood
A wandering yakuza solder seeking redemption finds that the only path out of the underworld leads the fiery inferno of hell in ... [ Action movie - 1972 ]
