Best Crime Films of 1972
Un Flic
Parisian police commissioner Coleman ... a head. One of the highlights of this film is a stunt involving a helicopter and a moving train. [ best crime 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 crime films - 1972 ]
The Hot Rock
Peter Yates directs the ... Alan's father (Zero Mostel) helps him break out of jail, which leads to a series of other heist attempts. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Across 110th Street
Across 110th Street is ... Bobby Womack, was later used in Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino's extended homage to the crime flicks of the 1970s. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Bluebeard
Bluebeard is the retelling ... but all the humor is unintentional and the actors, particularly Richard Burton all seem to wish they were elsewhere. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Prime Cut
Michael Ritchie, better known ... -- two of which are Poppy and Violet (Sissy Spacek and Janit Baldwin -- both in their film debuts). [ best crime films - 1972 ]
The Master Touch
Despite the objections of ... gymnast (Giuliano Gemma), the thief plans to defeat a fool-proof safe in Germany and make off with $1 million. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
The Valachi Papers
This crime action movie ... tale necessarily takes place in a number of episodes, it never fails to have lots of drama and action. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Piazza Pulita
Any 1972 film starring ... cast are gravel-voiced Lionel Stander and easily excitable Irene Papas. All the actors involved have been better served elsewhere. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
The Mechanic
Charles Bronson re-teams with ... Bishop shows Steve the ropes. Between action scenes, Bronson's wife Jill Ireland makes an appearance as a sexy hooker. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Crime Boss
In this Italian crime ... a new Don takes over a Mafia family and finds himself fighting for his life. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
La Tarantola dal ventre nero
This frightening horror-thriller stars ... many Italian thrillers of the period -- voyeurism is the primary motif. Barbara Bach and Carla Mancini appear briefly. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
The second in a ... of the women. The women hijack the bus, but the police continue to pursue them and force a showdown. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Trick Baby
The Double Con is ... of the slicksters can pass for white, enabling the two to pull off any number of clever race-related scams. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
The Abductors
Don Schain directed this ... star of Last House on the Left (1972). Caffaro returned the following year in Schain's Girls Are for Loving. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Angels' Wild Women
Speed (Ross Hagen) is ... but King escapes and it's up to Speed and his brother, Turk (Preston Pierce), to exact the proper revenge. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
The Big Bird Cage
In this exploitative women's ... site of incredible decadence and brutality. Only two of the covey of beautiful young women prisoners survive the attempt. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Chain Gang Women
A model prisoner and ... writer, director and cinematographer on Chain Gang Women, which despite its title only features two women in its cast. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
The Mad Bomber
In this crime drama, ... with delusions of grandeur who has been razing Los Angeles buildings to punish the evil sinners that live therein. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
The Wolves
Wolves is set in ... against the old ways. Evocatively photographed, Wolves allows Western audiences a glimpse of an oft-ignored chapter in Japanese history. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Acapulco Gold
This crime drama is ... Hawaiian island of Kauai and follows the exploits of an undercover cop who involves himself in a drug-smuggling operation. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Doomsday Voyage
In this grim, violent ... daughter, holds her captive in his cabin and rapes her while her father agonizes over what he should do. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Hammer
In this African-American boxing ... himself controlled by the Mafia. Trouble ensues when the fighter must choose between his beloved and a championship match. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
The Stoolie
Comedian Jackie Mason made ... Jackie Mason himself; it received very limited release in 1972, then was given a second unsuccessful distribution in 1974. [ best crime films - 1972 ]
Trouble Man
An inner-city point man ... Smithers). Trouble Man also stars Paula Kelly's as T's love interest, and features an original score by Marvin Gaye. [ best crime 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 crime films - 1972 ]
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
A novelist suffering from ... series of brutal slayings leads him to believe that someone very close to him is harboring a deadly secret. [ best crime films - 1972 ]Supplemental Navigation
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