Movie of the 70's - page 2

11 July 2008

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3.Star Wars: A New Hope

Originally just called Star Wars, A New Hope saw the beginning of one of the most successful film franchises of all time and kicked off the career of several actors, in particular Harrison Ford.

The film follows Luke Skywalker who finds himself thrust into the role of a hero when he discover the pans to the Death Star in a droid named R2-D2 that also contains a distress message from Princess Leia for Obi Wan Kenobi.

4. The Godfather

Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the family patriarch balancing a love of his family with an ambitious criminal instinct.

At the wedding of the Don's daughter Connie (Talia Shire), youngest son Michael (Al Pacino) is reunited with his family.

A subsequent assassination attempt leaves the Don too ill to run the family business, forcing Michael and Sonny (James Caan), with the help of consigliere Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), to lead the Corleones into a vendetta-filled war with other mob families.

Violent revenge ensues as the family tries to change from its old criminal ways into legitimacy.

Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo the film won Best Picture at the Oscar is 1973 and the sequel repeated this success two years later.

5.Rocky

1976 saw the birth of the Rocky franchise that made a star out of Sylvester Stallone as well as showing his script writing abilities.

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), is an underdog boxer who gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect, and the world heavyweight title. Rocky is a down-on-his-luck Philadelphia southpaw who works at a meat-packing factory while fighting at a local club.

He's given the chance of a lifetime when the world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), chooses him as an unlikely opponent in his championship bicentennial fight.

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