What are some of your favorite pre-80's movies?

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I always really liked Marathon Man.
Creepy and mind blowing, especially for it's time.

Great story and great acting.
Roy Scheider, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman, William Devane
 
one funny, cheesy movie that I loved was Viva Max. I loved the Mexican band, as the Mexican soldiers march from Mexico to San Antonio to take over the Alamo.

Harry Potter was the local sheriff. Hilarious
 
It's 1981, but Thief directed by Michael Mann and starring James Caan is one of the tightest, best movies out there.

The Last Detail is another great 70s movie.
 
Bullitt. Steve McQueen at his best.

Also agree Marathon Man is excellent, and underrated. Thief is great, but the category is pre-1980.

Other thoughts: Deliverance, The Wild Bunch
 
Yesterday I saw The Left-Handed Gun made in 1958 with a young Paul Newman as Billy the Kid. The history is interesting, not for the Billy the Kid accuracy but more for the late 50's early 60's genre of troubled youth movies like Rebel Without a Cause, The Wild Ones and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Less a western than a timeless Greek tragedy. Good soundtrack.
 
The 70s was my prime movie going time. I tried to see everything major that came out. The were so many: The Godfather, The Godfather II, Rocky, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Jaws, The Exorcist, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Last Picture Show, etc. etc. etc.

One of my favorites was A Clockwork Orange. It's cyncial view of society and human nature still strikes a cord with me. The "new speak" language they speak is almost poetic.
 
The underrated character actor Brad Dourif who plays the kid who commits suicide in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest also played Doc Cochran in Deadwood here invoking a curse/prayer beseeching the almighty in season 1's final episode.
 
Spartacus...saw it as a kid with my parents at the Osage drive-in theatre in Corpus Christi. I think I was in third grade. Still one of my all-time faves.
 
Planet of the Apes. I want to bash the **** out of the Orange'ish one with a sledgehammer. Love that movie.
 
Spartacus is an all-time classic. Others with a Roman theme are Ben Hur, of course, and Quo Vadis. 1975 was a great year which gave us Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Rocky Horror.
 
Agree on Easy Rider, One Flew, Planet of the apes, The Godfather and The Last Picture Show. I would have to add 2001: A Space Odyssey.
 
In comedies I adore all Peter Sellers movies, The Great Race and Murder by Death. Comedies, when not needing to rely on shock value, were amazing. Not that all rely on it now but many do. I still laugh my *** off at some modern ones but it's not the same.
 
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WTH! Why has no one listed Star Wars? Star Wars is the movie that made James Cameron want to make movies. It took sci-fi to a new level. On that note, I nominate Alien.
 
my fav movies of the 70's in no particular order

Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Jaws, Taxi Driver, Godfather I&II, Annie Hall, the Deer Hunter, Close Encounters, Rocky....i mean the list goes on and on, there are about 50 movies made during the 70's that are better than anything made in the last decade.
 
Even with all the historical inaccuracies El Cid is still one of my favorites. As well as Ben Hur. Pretty much anything done by the late great Charleton Heston.
 
Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, Once Upon A Time in the West, Sean Connery James Bond films, The Man Who Would Be King, Wizard of Oz spring immediately to mind that haven't been mentioned yet. This category is so large there are literally hundreds of movies that could be listed here. We're talking over 60 yrs of movies
 
Duck Soup; A Night at the Opera; The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming; Dr. Strangelove; Pink Panther; Lawrence of Arabia; The Day the Earth Stood Still.
 
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