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National General Corporation (NGC) was a theater chain holding company, film distribution and production company and was considered one of the "instant majors".
Its division National General Pictures (NGP) was a production company which was active between 1967 and 1973. NGP produced nine motion pictures in-house. The company was a division of the National General Corporation (NGC) which started as the spun out Fox Theatre chain of movie houses, which were later sold to the Mann Theatres Corporation.
National General had their own record label, National General Records, that operated for at least three years and was distributed by Buddah Records.
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Adam at Six A.M. (1970)
, 1h40Directed by Robert Scheerer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Douglas, Lee Purcell, Joe Don Baker, Louise Latham, Charles Aidman, Grayson Hall
The film revolves around Adam Ganes (Douglas), a semantics professor at a California college. He becomes complacent in his life and hears about the death of a relative in Missouri. He drives cross country to attend the funeral and pay his respects, and decides to spend the summer there working as a laborer. He meets Jerri Jo Hopper (Purcell) and falls in love, along the way developing new friendships with the town locals. He then must decide what direction he wants his life to go, whether to stay in Missouri or return to California.
The Baby Maker (1970)
, 1h49Directed by James Bridges
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors Barbara Hershey, Scott Glenn, Collin Wilcox, Jeannie Berlin, Helena Kallianiotes, Brenda Sykes
Barbara Hershey portrays a flower child who is hired to have the baby of a middle-class couple (Collin Wilcox-Horne and Sam Groom).
The Grasshopper (1970)
, 1h38Directed by Jerry Paris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Joseph Cotten, Ed Flanders, Christopher Stone, Ramon Bieri, Indira Stefanianna
Christine Adams (Jacqueline Bisset), a cheerful 19-year-old from British Columbia, Canada, travels to Los Angeles to be with her fiance, who works there in a bank. When the relationship doesn't work out, she moves to Las Vegas.
Something For Everyone (1970)
, 1h52Directed by Harold Prince
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, Jane Carr, Eva Maria Meineke, Jack White
A handsome young stranger, Konrad, is fascinated by a castle in an Austrian town. He tries to get a job working for Countess Herthe von Ornstein, who inherited it from her late husband, but due to financial difficulties the castle is closed.
Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970)
, 1h28Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Tarzan films
Actors Ron Ely, Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode, Manuel Padilla, Jr., Nichelle Nichols, Robert DoQui
Tarzan loses his hearing after a bomb blast, and is hunted through the jungle by the ruthless Colonel.
, 1h29Directed by Burgess Meredith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors James Mason, Jack MacGowran, Irene Tsu, Jeff Bridges, Peter Lind Hayes, Clarissa Kaye
An American draft dodger and aspiring writer named Nero Finnigan (Jeff Bridges) becomes involved with the notorious Mr. Go (James Mason), an oriental organized crime mastermind. They conspire to blackmail an American weapons scientist into providing secrets to Mr. Go's organization for resale to the highest bidder. "The Dolphin" then arrives, who is an American CIA agent and James Joyce scholar, and is charged with recovering the scientist and his work by whatever means necessary.
The Boys in the Band (1970)
, 1h55Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill, Frederick Combs, Keith Prentice
The film is set in an Upper East Side apartment in New York City in the late 1960s. Michael, a Roman Catholic sporadically-employed writer, and recovering alcoholic, is preparing to host a birthday party for his friend Harold. Another of his friends, Donald, a self-described underachiever who has moved from the city, arrives and helps Michael prepare. Alan, Michael's (presumably straight) old college roommate from Georgetown, calls with an urgent need to see Michael. Michael reluctantly agrees and invites him to come over.
Darker Than Amber (1970)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Clouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Ahna Capri, William Smith, Suzy Kendall, Jane Russell
The film is faithful to the plot of the novel. McGee and his close friend Meyer are fishing underneath a bridge when a young woman (a former prostitute named Vangie) is thrown off the bridge, weighted with a cement block around her ankles. McGee dives in and saves her, and is surprised when she insists that he not contact the police. She admits that she was nearly killed due to her involvement in a prostitution ring and a murder scheme. The trio travels to Nassau to investigate her would-be murderers, who work in male/female pairs to lure rich, lonely men traveling on cruise ships into their confidence, rob them, and then toss them overboard to drown. McGee and Meyer set out to dismantle the operation.
A Man Called Horse (1970)
, 1h54Directed by Elliot Silverstein
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, James Gammon, Jean Gascon, Iron Eyes Cody, Manu Tupou
Initially enslaved and mocked by being treated as an animal, John Morgan comes to respect his captors' culture and gain their respect. He is aided in understanding the Sioux by a captive, Baptiste, the tribe's half-breed fool, who had tried to escape and was hamstrung behind both knees.
Rio Lobo (1970)
, 1h54Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors John Wayne, Jennifer O'Neill, Jorge Rivero, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum, Victor French
The film opens during the American Civil War. Col. Cord McNally (John Wayne) has instructions telegraphed to his close friend, Lt. Ned Forsythe (Peter Jason), in charge of the Union troops on a Union army payroll train. However, Confederates led by Capt. Pierre Cordona (Jorge Rivero) and Sgt. Tuscarora Phillips (Christopher Mitchum) hijack the train. They have an elegant plan of listening in on the telegraph wires, greasing the tracks to stop the train, disconnecting the payroll wagon from the engine so it would roll back down the hill, using a hornet's nest to force the Union guards to jump off the train, then catching the train with many ropes tied to trees. In the process, Lt. Forsythe is fatally injured.
Scrooge (1970)
, 2hDirected by Ronald Neame
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Time travel films, Ghost films, Musical films
Actors Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Michael Medwin, Laurence Naismith
Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) is a cold-hearted and greedy old miser whose only concern is money and profit and hates everything to do with Christmas. After Scrooge scares off a group of boys who were singing a carol outside his door, his nephew Fred (Michael Medwin) arrives to invite him to Christmas dinner with his wife and friends. Scrooge, however, refuses. After Fred leaves, Scrooge gives his clerk Bob Cratchit (David Collings) the next day off as it is Christmas, but he expects him back all the earlier the next morning. Bob meets two of his children, including Tiny Tim (Richard Beaumont), in the streets, and they buy the food for their Christmas dinner. Scrooge, meanwhile, is surveyed by two other men (Derek Francis and Roy Kinnear) for a donation for the poor but Scrooge refuses to support the prisons and workhouses and even says "if they rather die, then they better do it and decrease the surplus population." On his way home, Scrooge meets some of his clients, including Tom Jenkins (Anton Rogers), and reminds them the debts they owe him. In a running gag, Scrooge is stalked and being made fun of by the same street urchins seen at the start of the film, calling him "Father Christmas.
Latitude Zero (1969)
, 1h29Directed by Ishirō Honda
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films
Actors Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel, Patricia Medina
Three men (Dr. Ken Tashiro, Dr. Jules Masson, and Perry Lawton) are trapped in a bathysphere due to seismic activity. They are rescued by the crew of the supersubmarine Alpha, captained by Craig Mackenzie (Cotten), who they learn is over 200 years old (and that the Alpha was launched in the early 19th century). Mackenzie takes them to Latitude Zero to deal with the serious injuries of Dr Masson. While returning to Latitude Zero, they are attacked by a rival supersubmarine, the Black Shark, captained by Kuroi, who works for a rival of Mackenzie, Malic, who is also over 200 years old and has a base at Blood Rock.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
, 1h26Directed by Charles Monroe Schulz, Bill Meléndez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about dogs, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Sally Dryer, Bill Meléndez, Erin Sullivan, Christopher DeFaria
When Charlie Brown's baseball team loses the first Little League game of the season, he becomes convinced that he will never win anything. Linus encourages him to maintain a positive attitude and suggests that people learn more from losing. When Charlie Brown remains morose ("That makes me the smartest person in the world," he says), Linus assures him that he will eventually win at something...but then promptly makes a liar of himself by beating Charlie at a game of tic-tac-toe. That night, Snoopy has a nightmare about being shot down while fighting an aerial battle with an unshown enemy, and he takes over Charlie Brown's bed. When Charlie Brown stops at Lucy's psychiatric help booth, she prepares slides to show him all of his faults; the experience only leaves him more depressed. At a playground, Lucy jokingly suggests that Charlie Brown enter the school spelling bee. Linus, however, considers it a good idea and encourages him despite the jeers of Lucy, Patty, and Violet ("Failure Face").
The April Fools (1969)
, 1h35Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Myrna Loy, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Charles Boyer
Howard Brubaker (Lemmon) is married to Phyllis (Sally Kellerman), who doesn't love him. Catherine (Deneuve) is the stunning wife of an equally uncaring husband, Howard's philandering boss Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford).
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
, 1h48Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Carol White (actrice anglaise), Mala Powers, Suzanne Somers, Scott Hylands, Paul Burke, Edith Atwater
Cathy Palmer (White), a young British woman, comes to San Francisco to live. There she meets Kenneth Daly (Hylands), a relationship develops and she becomes pregnant, but when Cathy sees another side of Kenneth's personality, she elects to break off their engagement and abort the pregnancy.