The MoFo Top 100 of the 1970s: Countdown

#155 Papillon (34 points, four votes)
#254 The Rescuers (17 points, three votes)

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#148 Escape from Alcatraz (36 points, four votes)
#156 Silent Running (34 points, two votes)
#246 Cross of Iron (18 points, two votes)
#397 The Parallax View (3 points, just you)

It's a conspiracy. Why can't anyone see that?!?

*gunshot*

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#188 Che? (25 points, only you)
#190 Next Stop, Greenwich Village (25 points, three votes)
#212 Straight Time (22 points, two votes)
#227 Wise Blood (10 points, two votes)
#398 Payday (3 points, just you)

#146 The Last Waltz (37 points, three votes)
#151 Scum (36 points, two votes)
#194 The Drunken Master (24 points, three votes)
#201 The Ballad of Orin (23 points, just you)
#248 Fists of Fury (18 points, just you)
#268 The Abominable Dr. Phibes (15 points, just you)
#290 Lady Snowblood (13 points, just you)
#321 The Hills Have Eyes (10 points, just you)
#367 Un Flic (5 points, just you)
#378 The Magnificent Butcher (4 points, just you)
#408 The Way of the Dragon (2 points, just you)

#142 Play It Again, Sam (40 points, two ballots)
#144 Play Misty for Me (38 points, five ballots)

I had 8 that didn't make it but was mostly wondering if anyone else voted for Coming Home or The Beguiled?

1 Jaws
2 Taxi Driver
3 Death Race 2000
4 Enter The Dragon
5 Chinatown
6 The Warriors
7 The Godfather
8 Over The Edge
9 The Taking Of Pelham One, Two, Three
10 Dawn Of The Dead
11 Rollerball
12 Get Carter
13 Picnic At Hanging Rock
14 All The President's Men
15 Convoy
16 Coffy
17 Assault On Precinct 13
18 Foxy Brown
19 Logan's Run
20 Halloween
21 Macbeth
22 Capricorn One
23 Theatre Of Blood
24 The Wicker Man
25 The Exorcist

I'm fairly confident that Over The Edge, Convoy and Theatre Of Blood were mine alone, but was I the only person to vote for Capricorn One? Surely someone else must've. When I made my list I thought Rollerball and Get Carter might make it. I certainly thought they had a better chance than Logan's Run and Assault On Precinct 13.

Dammit all, it's been fun, hasn't it?

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#237 Pumping Iron (19 points, three votes)
#301 Tommy (12 points, just you)
#356 The Last Tango in Paris (6 points, just you)

Sexy, Yoda had Pumping Iron as his number fourteen, and Peter Vincent had it as his number twenty.

1. The Muppet Movie
2. Carrie
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
5. Alien
6. The Tenant
7. Days of Heaven
8. Dirty Ho
9. Little Big Man
10. Amar Akbar Anthony
11. They Might Be Giants
12. The Long Goodbye
13. The Exorcist
14. Phantom of the Paradise
15. The Godfather
16. Enter the Dragon
17. F for Fake
18. Vengeance is Mine
19. Even Dwarfs Started Small
20. Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspicion
21. Jaws
22. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
23. Le Cercle Rouge
24. The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima)
25. A Bridge Too Far

Nobody else voted for Coming Home, your eighteen points were all it got, somehow. One other person voted for The Beguiled, bringing its total to eighteen points, as well.

I stand by my just yous!

Great fun!
Out of yours Capricorn One did go on my long list. I loved that film at the time. Get Carter was there too - excellent film.

I'm surprised no one else voted for The Hills Have Eyes, it's a bit of a cult film within our family so I guess we've overstated it's popularity! I thought you or Tatty might've voted for Scum, but it was just me and n3wt.
I thought I'd be the only person voting for quite a few of mine but I didn't mind cos I love the ones on my list. The Abominable Doctor Phibes tho, come on ! it's great!

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#176 Death Race 2000 (28 points, three votes)
#251 Over the Edge (18 points, just you)
#304 Convy (11 points, just you)
#369 Capricorn One (4 points, just you)
#400 Theatre of Blood (3 points, just you)

5. Alien (1979)
7. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
26. Eraserhead (1977)
27. Harold & Maude (1971)
28. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
30. Annie Hall (1977)
36. Carrie (1976)
40. Cabaret (1972)
55. Serpico (1973)
58. Badlands (1973)
62. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
86. Autumn Sonata (1978)
99. The Omen (1976)

^ The ones I voted for that ended up on the final 70s list, and the ones that didn't that I voted for:

1. Klute
6. Phantom of the Paradise
7. Punishment Park
11. Who Can Kill A Child?
12. Black Christmas
14. Interiors
18. The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
20. Family Plot
22. Daughters of Darkness
23. Julia
24. The Seven Ups

wow I'd love to have that as a poster for my wall! Yoda should open a shop

I just listened to the podcast. Have a listen if you haven't already, it highlights how much work Holden put into it but also how much enthusiasm he has too

Yeah, I'm gonna pimp the bonus podcast one more time. It's short, breezy, and Holden's enthusiasm for the subject is evident throughout. Always a lot of fun to just wind him up and let him go off making historical connections left and right.

For anyone interested in such things, here is an alphabetical list of all four hundred and twenty-seven titles that received at least one vote...

10 (1979)
1776 (1972)
3 Women
36th Chamber of Shoalin
Abominable Dr. Phibes
Across 110th Street
Aguirre the Wrath of God
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice in the Cities
Alien
All That Jazz
All the President's Men
Allegro Non Troppo
Amar Akbar Anthony
Amarcord
American Friend
American Graffiti
Amityville Horror
And Justice for All
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Ascent, The
Assault on Precinct 13
Autumn Sonata
Bad News Bears
Badlands
Ballad of Orin, The
Bang the Drum Slowly
Barry Lyndon
Bed & Board
Bednobs & Broomsticks
Beguiled, The
Being There
Beware of a Holy Whore
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Bird with Crystal Plumage
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Black Christmas
Black Stallion
Blazing Saddles
Bleak Moments
Blind Woman's Curse
Blue Fin
Boy and His Dog
Boys in the Band
Breaking Away
Brewster McCloud
Bridge Too Far, A
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Brood, The
Buffet Froid
Bugsy Malone
Cabaret
Caliber 9
California Split
Caligula
Capricorn One
Car, The
Carnal Knowledge
Carrie
Castle of Cagliastro
Catch-22
Celine & Julie Go Boating
Ceremony, The
Champ, The
Charley Varrick
Charlotte's Web
Che?
Chess Players
China Syndrome
Chinatown
Cita Violenta
Claire's Knee
Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cockfighter
Coffy
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Coming Home
Concert for Bangledesh
Conformist
Conversation, The
Convoy
Cowboys, The
Crazies, The
Cria Cuervos
Cries & Whispers
Cross of Iron
Cuadecuc, Vampir
Daughters of Darkness
Dawn of the Dead
Day for Night
Day of the Jackal
Days of Heaven
Death in Venice
Death Race 2000
Death Wish
Deathtrap
Decameron
Deep End
Deep Red
Deep, The
Deer Hunter
Deliverance
Dersu Uzala
Devil, Probably
Devils, The
Diamonds Are Forever
Dirty Harry
Dirty Ho
Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie
Disney's Aristocats
Disney's Robin Hood
Disney's The Rescuers
Distant Thunder
Dog Day Afternoon
Don't Look Now
Drunken Master
Duck, You Sucker!
Duel
Duellists
Eagle Has Landed
Edvard Munch
El Topo
Electra Glide in Blue
Electric Horseman
Emperor of the North
Empire of Passion
End, The
Enforcer, The
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Enter the Dragon
Eraserhead
Escape from Alcatraz
Escape to Witch Mountain
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Every Which Way But Loose
Exorcist
F for Fake
Family Plot
Fantastic Planet
Farewell, My Lovely
Fat City
Fiddler On the Roof
Fifth Seal
Fist of Fury
Five Easy Pieces
Force 10 from Navarone
Four Musketeers
Fox & His Friends
Foxy Brown
Freaky Friday
French Connection
French Connection II
Frenzy
Friends of Eddie Coyle
Frisco Kid
From the Clouds to the Resistance
Fury
Galaxy Express 999
Gates of Heaven
Gauntlet, The
Get Carter
Getaway, The
Godfather
Godfather Part II
Goodbye Girl
Grease
Great MacArthy
Great Train Robbery
Hair
Halloween
Hard Times
Harold & Maude
Harry & Tonto
Hausu
Heartbreak Kid
Heaven Can Wait
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
High Anxiety
High Plains Drifter
Hills Have Eyes, The
Hired Hand
Holy Mountain
Hot Rock
Hot Stuff
House of Whipcord
Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Ice
Ici et Alleurs
Illumination, The
Images
Interiors
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce…
Jeremiah Johnson
Jerk, The
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joe
Johnny Got His Gun
Julia
Juvenile Court
Karate Bullfighter
Kelly's Heroes
Kentucky Fried Movie
Killer of Sheep
King Kong
King of Marvin Gardens
Klute
Kramer vs. Kramer
Lady Snowblood
Last Detail
Last House on the Left
Last Picture Show
Last Tango in Paris
Last Waltz, The
Le Boucher
Le Cercle Rouge
Le Grande Bouffe
Le Mans
Lenny
Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean
Little Big Man
Little Prince
Live and Let Die
Logan's Run
Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Long Goodbye, The
Lords of Flatbush
Love & Death
Love at First Bite
Love in the Afternoon
Macbeth
Mad Max
Magnificent Butcher
Man Called Horse
Man Who Fell To Earth
Man Who Sleeps
Man Who Would Be King
Man with the Golden Gun
Manhattan
Marathon Man
Marriage of Maria Braun
MASH
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Mean Streets
Meatballs
Mechanic, The
Midnight Express
Mikey & Nicky
Minnie & Moskowitz
Mirror, The
Missouri Breaks
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Moonraker
Moses & Aaron
Mother and the Whore
Muppet Movie
Murder by Death
Murmur of the Heart
My Name Is Nobody
Nashville
Network
New York, New York
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Night Moves
Night Stalker (1972)
Night Strangler (1973)
Norma Rae
Nosferatu the Vampyre
O Lucky Man!
Odd Angry Shot
Omega Man
Omen, The
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Opening Night
Othon
Outfit, The
Outlaw Josey Wales
Over the Edge
Panda! Go Panda!
Panic in Needle Park
Paper Moon
Papillon
Parallax View
Passenger
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Patton
Payday
Perceval le Gallios
Performance
Phantasm
Phantom of Liberty
Phantom of the Paradise
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pictures of the Old World
Pink Flamingos
Pink Panther Strikes Again
Play It Again, Sam
Play Misty for Me
Poseidon Adventure
Pumping Iron
Punishment Park
Quadrophenia
Real Life
Red Psalm
Rica (1972)
Richard Pryor, Live in Concert
Robin & Marian
Rock N Roll High School
Rocky
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rocky II
Rollerball
Ruling Class
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
Saturday Night Fever
Scarecrow
Scenes from a Marriage
Scum
Serpent's Egg
Serpico
Seven-Ups
Shootist
Silent Movie
Silent Partner
Silent Running
Silver Streak
Sisters
Slap Shot
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sleeper
Sleuth
Smokey & the Bandit
Solaris
Soldier of Orange
Sorcerer
Sounder
Soylent Green
Spirit of the Beehive
Spy Who Loved Me
Stalker
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars
Start the Revolution Without Me
Sting, The
Storm Boy
Straight Time
Straw Dogs
Street Fighter (1974)
Stroszek
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Sugarland Express
Summer City
Sunday Too Far Away
Sunshine Boys
Superman: The Movie
Supervixens
Suspiria
Swedish Love Story
Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Tale of Tales
Taxi Driver
Tenant, The
Tess
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
That Obscure Object of Desire
Theatre of Blood
They Might Be Giants
Third Part of the Night
Three Days of the Condor
Three Musketeers
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
Thursday's Game
Time After Time
Tin Drum
Tommy
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Touch of Zen
Towering Inferno
Trafic
Traveling Players
Tristana
Turkish Delight
Turning Point, The
Two-Lane Blacktop
Un Flic
Under the Blossoming Cherry Tree
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Unmarried Woman
Up in Smoke
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Vanishing Point
Vengeance is Mine
Wake in Fright
Walkabout
Wanda
Wanderers, The
Warriors, The
Watership Down
Way of the Dragon
Way We Were
We Won't Grow Old Together
Welfare
Westworld
What's Up, Doc?
When A Stranger Calls
Where the Red Fern Grows
Who Can Kill a Child?
Whole Shootin' Match
Wicker Man
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Wise Blood
Woman Under the Influence
Woodstock
World on a Wire
Year of the Hare
Young Frankenstein
Zombi 2
Zombie Flesh Eaters


*WHEW*

Yes, that was what I meant.

Thanks for this info. I'm not surprised about a few of those movies, (especially the comedies towards the bottom of my list), but I'm very surprised there were so few votes for some of the other movies, especially Time After Time, Three Days of the Condor, 1776, The Hot Rock, and The Seven-Ups.

The ones that you haven't heard of that I would recommend the most are Time After Time starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen, and The Hot Rock starring Robert Redford and George Segal.

Over the Edge and Capricorn One almost made my list. Both movies were still being considered up until the very last day that I submitted my list.

I'd recommend Time After Time as well, Camo. It's a good film.

GBG, I'm pleased to see that someone else was, at least, considering Capricorn One. I'm surprised to see that you were thinking of Over The Edge, too. It's not unknown, but I was the only person I was aware of who'd even consider it for a list like this.

I like that from these postings we can see just how many films were seperated by so few points. There's one point between Cap One and Theatre Of Blood, ut 31 places.

EDIT: That's quite a list, Holden. Thanks. I sense a challenge. BTW, Zombie 2 and Zombie Flesheaters is the same film. I doubt it matters, but I thought I'd mention it.