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1971: Bleak, Uncompromising, Groundbreaking Violence in Cinema

June 18, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe ventures back to 1971, a year full of gritty, hard hitting and iconic crime films…  Does 1971 seem that long ago? Well guess what… It’s half a century ago. Looking back at the year in movies shows an array of trailblazing cinema, punctuated by a fascination in pessimism, gritty violence and uncompromising meanness. […]

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