This is the second part of a six-part series about American movies from 1976.
Part 1 focused on John G. Avildsen’s “Rocky”. Part 3 will focus on Michael Ritchie’s “The Bad News Bears”. Part 4 will focus on John Cassavetes’s “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie”. Part 5 will focus on Brian De Palma’s “Obsession”. Part 6 will focus on John Guillermin’s “King Kong”.
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Referenced media:
- “Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)
- “Rocky” (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
- “Magnum Force” (Ted Post, 1973)
- “Sudden Impact” (Clint Eastwood, 1983)
- “Jackass” (Jeff Tremaine, 2002)
- “The Dead Pool” (Buddy Van Horn, 1988)
- “All in the Family” (Norman Lear, 1971-1979)
- “Gran Torino” (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
- “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!” (David Zucker, 1988)
- “Sledgehammer” (Alan Spencer, 1986-1988)
- “Pulp Fiction” (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
- “In the Head of the Night” (Norman Jewison, 1967)
- “Noir Alley” (Eddie Muller, 2017-now)
- “Village of the Damned” (Wolf Rilla, 1960)
- “The Lineup” (Don Siegel, 1958)
- “Over the Top” (Menahem Golan, 1987)
- “Charly” (Ralph Nelson, 1968)
- “RoboCop” (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
- “Serpico” (Sidney Lumet, 1973)
- “Death Wish” (Michael Winner, 1974)
- “The Outlaw Josey Wales” (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
- “Police Woman” (Robert L. Collins, 1974-1978)
- “Coming Home” (Hal Ashby, 1978)
- “Platoon” (Oliver Stone, 1986)
- “Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
- “Blow Job” (Andy Warhol, 1964)
- “Rabid” (David Cronenberg, 1977)
- “Annie Hall” (Woody Allen, 1977)
- “Cross of Iron” (Sem Peckinpah, 1977)
- “Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977)
- “Smokey and the Bandit” (Hal Needham, 1977)
- “Swamp Thing” (Wes Craven, 1982)
- “Cagney & Lacey” (Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday, 1982-1988)
