It was to be a deeply psychedelic movie, a western characterised more by its out-there visuals than by any moral message. Alamy Released in 1971, Zachariah was part acid-western à la El Topo ...

Clint Eastwood may be famous for Dirty Harry or the Dollars trilogy, but his darkest Western is one of his most underrated films.

while the second turned out such films as The Blair Witch Project, Fight Club and The Matrix. Yet 1971 also gave us Hal Ashby’s kooky Harold and Maude, Robert Altman’s revisionist western ...