Action Movies of 1974
The Towering Inferno
A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of the ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Earthquake
Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to moviegoers from thousands of films. A huge number of ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Juggernaut
Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The Three Musketeers and The Four ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Gold
Peter Hunt directed this old fashioned -- if not reactionary -- action film about gold-mining in South Africa. The story concerns a nefarious scheme to ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Truck Turner
Isaac Hayes puts his gun where his groove is in his role as hard-case bounty hunter Mack ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Airport 1975
In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man With the Golden Gun, Roger Moore's second outing as James Bond (Live and ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Three outlaws hit the road until the road hits back in this supercharged action thriller. Larry (Peter Fonda) is a stock ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Il Cittadino si Ribella
When the police cannot prosecute heinous crimes effectively, some very brave men will do their jobs for them, this film seems to say. Carlo (Franco Nero) gets in the way of a group of ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Wealthy Mexican Emilio Fernandez puts a million-dollar bounty on the head of Alfredo ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Big Bad Mama
Angie Dickinson essays the title role in Big Bad Mama. This Depression-era crime caper casts the future star of Police Woman as sexy Ma Barker type Wilma McClatchie, who forces her nubile daughters (Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee) ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Ransom
Sean Connery stars in Caspar Wrede's hostage melodrama, featuring lustrous cinematography by Sven Nykvist. A group of terrorists hijack an ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Terror on the 40th Floor
In this made-for-television disaster film, seven officer workers find themselves trapped in a towering inferno after a drunken janitor accidently torches the high-rise in which they work. Believing that they will surely die, ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
The Street Fighter
While most martial arts films focus mainly on showing the ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
A late entry from the foundering Hammer Studios, this intriguing and highly original twist on the vampire motif -- featuring for once a hero more charismatic than the vampires with which he does battle ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
The Executioner
This exciting action film from prolific director Teruo Ishii stars Sonny Chiba as Kouga, a descendant of a long line of ninja warriors who has put his amazing physical abilities behind him and lost his way. Eventually, however, ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Emergency Squad
This entry in the Italian crime film cycle of the '70s presents an interesting take on the format. Emergency Squad seems unusually postmodern for its time because it places an equal amount of dramatic focus ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
The Black Godfather
The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
The Black Six
Football fans should enjoy this low-budget biker movie starring several of the 1970s' greatest gridiron stars. "Mean" Joe ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Devil's Possessed
When the campesinos of a medieval overlord can stand his tyrannical rule no longer, they revolt with terrible ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
I Spit on Your Corpse
This low-budget action film from cult director Al Adamson ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Return of the Chinese Boxer
Jimmy Wang Yu, probably the most well-known martial arts star before the ascendance of Bruce Lee, directs himself in the martial ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Sister Street Fighter
This kung-fu outing was a spin-off of martial arts star Sonny Chiba's popular Street Fighter series. Like those films, it combines high-kicking martial arts with ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Super Kung Fu Kid
Super Kung Fu Kid tells a familiar story of revenge. Man Lung is approached by the ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Tiger's Claw
Shaolin Tiger Claw chronicles the struggle of Yu's (Cliff Lok) search for self-discovery, which leads him on an extraordinary trek across the continent. Determined to prove himself the best fighter in the land, he seeks a man called Tiger ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Sting of the Dragon Masters
Female martial-arts star Angela Mao is top-billed in When Taekwondo Strikes. The scene is Korea; the time is WW II. A group of resistance fighters, led by Mao, do their best ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Women's Prison Escape
In this exploitation adventure, four female inmates bust out and head for the Everglades, where they face untold dangers. ~ ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Stone
This Australian actioner was a major hit. It centers on a narcotics officer who is assigned to investigate the death of a public official and ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Thriller
After being raped as a child by a greasy derelict, Madeleine (Christina Lindberg) is left mute. Fifteen years ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Five Shaolin Masters
Star David Chiang is but one of the Five Masters of Death. They've got a cartel of evil emperors angry at them. Violent clashes are inevitable, and frequent. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1974 ]
The Furious
When a drug smuggler in Southeast Asia slips through the security of International police, they hire a martial arts expert to assist. ~ All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Rage of the Master
Set in the Ching Dynasty, Rage of the Master follows the efforts of commissioner Ma Chuicau to capture Hsiung-Wu, an infamous bandit. To Ma's dismay, however, martial arts extraordinaire Hsiung-Wu is the one doing all the capturing. This film ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Rumble in Hong Kong
Jackie Chan has a small role in the martial arts action film Rumble in Hong Kong, originally titled Police Woman. Chan ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance
The bloody saga of Lady Snowblood draws to an exciting ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Knight Errant
In this vintage martial arts adventure, Huo-shan (Jimmy Wang Yu) is a cabbie in Hong Kong who needs to raise money to pay for a medical ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
This new entry in the popular Zero Woman film series, Zero ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Lupin the 3rd: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
Japan's most famous animated anti-hero comes to life in director Takashi ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
Aan: Men at Work
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The Face Behind the Mask
When the three most feared fighters in the land are defeated by The First Family and leader Chen Tien Wei is elected Chief of the Martial World, the treachery that follows will find the noble leader attempting to uncover the traitor that has ... [ Action movie - 1974 ]
