Action Movies of 1973
Lady Ice
In this stylish caper drama, Andy Hammond (Donald Sutherland) is a detective working with an insurance company who is investigating the theft of $3 million in diamonds. While Andy is initially eager to crack the case and bring the burglars to ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Hell Up in Harlem
This hastily assembled sequel to the blaxploitation hit ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Emperor of the North
In this gritty and violent period drama set in the depths of the Great Depression, Lee Marvin stars as "A No. 1", the acknowledged King of the Hoboes. A No. 1 is famous among his fellow tramps ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Last American Hero
Lamont Johnson's subtle direction graces this true-life success story about racecar driver Junior Jackson (Jeff Bridges), based on stock-car champion Junior Johnson. As a ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Live and Let Die
Roger Moore makes his first appearance as "Bond...James Bond" in 1973's Live and Let Die. Bond is ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Magnum Force
The second Dirty Harry movie, Magnum Force concerns itself with a vigilante group that has ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Slaughter's Big Ripoff
The sequel to Slaughter, this film follows the adventures of Slaughter (Jim Brown) as he struggles to kill a group of vengeful mobsters, led by the sinister Duncan (Ed McMahon), before they kill ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
The fifth and last of the original series of motion pictures based ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
White Lightning
When the police pick up Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) for running ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Walking Tall
A runaway box-office hit to the tune of 17 million dollars, Walking Tall is the unabashedly ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Final Programme
Jon Finch stars as Jerry Cornelius, swinging ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Seven-Ups
This was the only directorial effort of Philip D'Antoni, producer of the action classic Bullitt (1968). Roy Scheider stars as Buddy Manucci, a New York City Police Department ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Shaft in Africa
In the third and last in the original Shaft (1971) series of ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Enter the Dragon
One of the most popular kung fu films ever, and perhaps the peak of the famed Bruce Lee's career, Enter the Dragon achieved success by ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Electra Glide in Blue
A police officer who would rather use his brains than his gun is put into a situation where neither can help him in this police drama. John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) is a sawed-off and street-smart Arizona motorcycle cop who dreams of climbing ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Willie Dynamite
Willie Dynamite (Roscoe Orman) is a Manhattan pimp whose life and career are documented in this blaxploitation flick. Willie makes it to the top of his precarious profession, only to hit rock bottom again in record time. In her last movie role, ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Coffy
Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby, Switchblade Sisters) managed to beat Death Wish to the screens by a year with this violent tale of a citizen touched by crime ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Cleopatra Jones
Tamara Dobson stars as Cleopatra Jones in Jack Starrett's blaxploitation programmer that, in its own ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Return of the Dragon
Bruce Lee's pre-Enter the Dragon outing is a surprising change of pace from his usual hard-hitting action fare because it favors humor as much as it ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Detroit 9000
Titled Detroit Heat for video release, this blaxploitation flick concerns two Motor City detectives ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Doll Squad
When a Cape Kennedy space mission is interrupted by terrorists, Senator Stockwell (John Carter) turns to a massive computer for an analyzed report of which secret agents to trust with the case. The electronic brain suggests the Doll ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Extreme Close-Up
A TV reporter becomes obsessed with a story about ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Fearless Young Boxer
In this action film, a man dedicates himself to the study of martial arts in order to settle a score with ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Heavy Traffic
Heavy Traffic represents a follow-up to animator Ralph Bakshi's first feature film, Fritz the Cat (1972). The central character is Michael, the ingenuous son of an Italian father and Jewish mother. An aspiring cartoonist, Michael leaves home in a ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Kung Fu's Hero
Chief Detective Cheng (Cheung Lik) attempts to jail a violent ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Policewomen
Lee Frost's police action film Policewomen stars Sondra Currie as officer Lucy Bond. She goes undercover to bring down a group of female convicts who have escaped from jail and joined forces with smugglers. After ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Queen Boxer
This lively martial-arts film features a female protagonist whose savage kicks prove that she is tougher than any mere man as she struggles to save her ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee's cult favorite novel of political unrest was brought to the screen in this drama, which also earned a small but loyal following. A congressman hoping to attract ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Survival of the Dragon
The martial arts film Survival of the Dragon concerns a Kung Fu Master who sets ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Two Great Cavaliers
Relying on his martial art expertise, a Ming warrior takes on soldiers from the Manchurian army. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Young Tiger
Wo Ma directs Meng Fei, Tzi Thian, and Lin Chi in the Hong Kong action film Young Tiger. When Shen Sin ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Black Mama, White Mama
Two female prisoners, one black and one white attempt to ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Lightning Swords of Death
Lightning Swords of Death was one of the most popular of the long-running ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
That Man Bolt
Set amid the exciting, exotic streets of Vegas, LA and ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
The Blood Brothers
A vicious despot embarks upon a violent reign of terror, with horrific results for the oppressed populace. A number of highly skilled kung fu experts join forces in an effort to overturn ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Fearless Fighters
The skills of martial arts assist a gang of Oriental terrorists scheming to take a ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Fists of Vengeance
And still they come. Fists of Vengeance stars a martial-arts whiz by the name of Kung Bun. He plays an agent of the Chinese government, dispatched to a 1930s mining community. Here he discovers that the miners are being ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Screaming Ninja
The story is set in China in the early 1900's. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang Yu ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Murder in the Orient
Manuel G. Songo directs Ron Marchini and Leo Fong in the martial arts action film ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub 5: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Five swordsmen hire Ogami, each revealing a portion of ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub 6: White Heaven in Hell
While boasting one of the most memorable battles ever filmed, the final installment in the Lone Wolf and Cub series ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
El Santo y la Tigresa
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Kung Fu: Season 02
As Kung Fu enters its second season, the mystical, mysterious Kwai Chang Caine (David ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Sex and Fury
This was the first of two films in which Japanese exploitation star Reiko Ike played the character of Inoshika Ocho. After a brief prologue depicting the murder of Ocho's policeman father, it is revealed that ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Slaughter in the Snow
The bloody mayhem that began in The Trail of Blood and continued in The Fearless Avenger concludes in the third and final chapter of the "Mikogami" trilogy that pits the vengeful Jokichi against the master of the throwing knife. ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Rica 2: Lonely Wanderer
When everyone connected with a mysterious boat systematically fall prey to an unknown killer, sexy martial arts expert Rica teams with a rough and tumble detective in order to get to the bottom of ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Girl Boss Revenge
The underworld explodes into chaos after a car filled with female delinquents and bound for boarding school crashes, and the escaped girls ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
Horror of Malformed Men and Blind Woman's Curse director Teruo Ishii shifts his focus from tormented mutants to sword-swinging samurais with this outrageous, blood-spattered adaptation of an ... [ Action movie - 1973 ]
