British directors in the early 1970s were a controversial bunch. Ken Russell scandalized everyone with "The Devils," and Michael Winner caused a stir by championing vigilantism in "Death Wish." After making the first X-certificate film to win a Best Picture Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy," John Schlesinger caused further pearl-clutching with his frank depiction of homosexuality in "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Then there was John Boorman, a director often described as "idiosyncratic." He gave us Sean Connery in a nappy in "Zardoz" and "Exorcist II: The Heretic," regarded as one of the worst movies ever made. Even his multi-Oscar-nominated "Deliverance" wasn't entirely free from some level of craziness, resulting in rumors of a punch-up between Boorman and his rough-and-tumble screenwriter, James

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