Best Action Films of 1972
Fuzz
Fuzz treads the line ... fellow officer Bert Kling (Tom Skerritt). And as a bonus, viewers are treated to Burt Reynolds' first "drag" scene. [ best action films - 1972 ]
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon, an ocean ... Effects; L.B. Abbott and A.D. Flowers were the recipients. A sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, came out in 1979. [ best action films - 1972 ]
The Getaway
In Sam Peckinpah's version ... MacGraw, The Getaway was a substantial hit. It was lackadaisically remade with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in 1994. [ best action films - 1972 ]
The Bravos
Filmed in Flagstaff, Arizona, ... the death of their own chief's son. The Bravos was the 90-minute pilot film for a never-sold western series. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Skyjacked
Sky Terror is the ... by the Storer Corporation, which had a hard and fast rule against screening any film concerning a hijacked plane. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
The fourth Planet of ... only director to helm two Planet of the Apes films when he returned for the fifth and final installment. [ best action films - 1972 ]
The Final Comedown
When an underqualified white ... the young black man becomes involved in a violent, radical movement to rise up against the perpetrators of racism. [ best action films - 1972 ]
The Chinese Connection
One of the best ... two and a half decades later as Fist of Legend (1999), with Jet Li in the role of Chen. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Shaft's Big Score!
This is the hurriedly ... of any leads. Now Shaft must track down the real killer to get his Harlem neighbors off the hook. [ best action films - 1972 ]
The Culpepper Cattle Company
Gary Grimes stars in ... of successful films starring Burt Reynolds, can be spotted in a small role as Burgess, one of the cowboys. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Black Gunn
This violent blaxploitation film ... the Damned and Corruption, while Brown went on to more successful genre fare in Slaughter and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Karzan, il favoloso uomo della giungla
In this campy jungle ... jungle dangers, but not a one prepares them for the fearsome, mythical ape-man Karzan (think Tarzan with a "K"). [ best action films - 1972 ]
Seven Blows of the Dragon
Based on the Chinese ... and features both epic sword and spear fights, as well as brutal hand-to-hand combat. The film stars David Chiang. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Slaughter
In this action film, ... his parents. Having done that, he is persuaded to go to Mexico to hunt down some really dangerous criminals. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Kung Fu: The Punch of Death
In this period martial ... Yu, most of which were produced by the Grand Old Men of the Kung Fu genre, the Shaw Brothers. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Fist of Unicorn
Bruce Lee makes a ... behind-the-scenes footage of Lee rehearsing the actors and stuntmen was edited into the film to create Lee's cameo role. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Five Fingers of Death
One of the Shaw ... is more commonly known as Five Fingers of Death, the more exploitative title given to it by Warner Brothers. [ best action films - 1972 ]
A Scream in the Streets
Two detectives, one a ... area. What makes their job even tougher is that the rapist is able to successfully pose as a woman. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Bloody Fists
Yuen Woo Ping, who ... in both Chinese and Japanese fighting disciplines passes through town, and takes it upon himself to settle the feud. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Chow Ken
The oppressive Manchu dynasty ... contested by a revolutionary journeying to Japan. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub 3: Baby Cart to Hades
Installment number three in ... violence as Ogami single-handedly faces off against an entire army of men, then faces Kanbei on the blood-drenched battlefield. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
The first in a ... intelligent. The first two episodes of the series were edited together and released in the U.S. as Shogun Assassin. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx
The second installment in ... and great period atmosphere; this episode is considered by some to be one of the best of the series. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Lone Wolf and Cub 4: Baby Cart in Peril
A group of grieving ... Yagyu himself. This thrilling battle is notable as the only time the two actually cross swords in the series. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
The legendary Shaw Brothers ... and Betty Pei Ti star in the audacious kung-fu classic that inspired the action-packed cult hit Naked Killer (1994). [ best action films - 1972 ]
Indio
The Spanish-language Mexican vigilante ... Irate and hell-bent on vengeance, he determines to locate the murderous developer and make him pay for his actions. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Street Mobster
Legendary director Kinji Fukasaku ... misfit forms his own gang with the intention of getting revenge on those who wronged him in the past. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Kung Fu: Season 01
Season one of Kung ... ten-year-old Jodie Foster (as a murder witness), and star David Carradine's real-life father, John Carradine, and brother, Robert Carradine. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Shadow Hunters
A trio of deadly ... the Shadow Hunters will have to carve a bloody swath through legions of fierce ninjas and deadly female warriors. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Ma Su Chen
The quest is on ... in an action packed martial arts classic produced by Godfrey Ho and starring Richard Harrison and Hwang Jang Lee. [ best action films - 1972 ]
Girl Boss Guerilla
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The Trail of Blood
A wandering yakuza solder ... is the first installment of a violent trilogy that also includes The Fearless Avenger and Slaughter in the Snow. [ best action films - 1972 ]
