One of the most underrated films of the 1970s was director Martin Ritt's production of The Molly Maguires which told of the hard scrapple life of Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania in the year 1876. The film traced the subversive tactics employed by The Molly Maguires, an anonymous band of rebels who used violent tactics to fight against greedy mine owners. The big budget film starred Richard Harris and Sean Connery but was a notorious box-office bomb despite the fact it made for riveting drama. Click here to read an article on the resurgence of interest in the film- especially among residents of the areas the movie was shot in.