Crowhaven Farm (1970)

In this 1970 made-for-tv horror, an unhappily married couple moves into the country estate she has inherited but far from benefitting their marriage as they had hoped, the move results in her having visions of distant-past witch trials and encountering other weirdness in her present day - but by far the most horrible thing in this mild tv distraction is not witches but an irksome subplot involving the couple's ten-year-old foster daughter.

★★☆☆☆

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The Red Circle (Le Cercle Rouge) (1970)

Spare and electric like a Georges Simenon novel, this French crime thriller's first half is an account of how unlikely coincidence brings two crims together; the second half tells of their Rififi-esque jewellery heist with the police on their tail; and the rambling, overreaching whole is delivered with uber 70s French-Italian cool with trenchcoated gumshoes, American cars cutting through Parisian streets, some startling camera work and Alain Delon's icy grey eyes. 

★★★★☆

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Airport (1970)

As if there were any doubt airports are the dullest places in the world to have to spend a few hours, here is the daggy 1970 drama Airport to drive - no, fly - home the idea, giving audiences an all-access pass to the very unscintillating world of Trans Global Airlines' operations out of a Chicago airport, with highlights including a "flight-attendant cam" scene that lets viewers experience first-hand what it is like to walk the aisle of a plane facing complaints from passengers about things like stale inflight snacks, and a bomb threat (a highlight, but mainly for bringing an end to the whole mindnumbing business).

★★☆☆☆

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