List of American films of 1973
This is a list of American films released in 1973 .
Box office
The highest-grossing American films released in 1973, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by The Numbers , are as follows:[ 1]
Highest-grossing films of 1973
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic gross
1
The Exorcist
Warner Bros.
$193,000,000
2
The Sting
Universal
$159,616,327
3
American Graffiti
$115,291,850
4
Papillon
Allied Artists
$53,267,000
5
The Way We Were
Columbia
$49,919,870
6
Magnum Force
Warner Bros.
$44,680,473
7
Live and Let Die
United Artists
$35,400,000
8
Robin Hood
Walt Disney
$32,056,467
9
Paper Moon
Paramount
$30,933,743
10
Serpico
Paramount Pictures
$27,274,150
January–March
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
J A N U A R Y
5
Sweet Kill
New World Pictures / Curtis Lee Hanson Tamaroc Productions
Curtis Hanson (director/screenplay); Tab Hunter , Isabel Jewell , Roberta Collins , John Aprea , Rory Guy , John Pearce , Cherie Latimer, Nadyne Turney, Linda Leider
10
The No Mercy Man
Cannon Film Distributors
Daniel Vance (director/screenplay); Mike Nolin (screenplay); Steve Sandor , Rockne Tarkington , Sid Haig , Ron Thompson , Mike Lane , Richard X. Slattery , Heidi Vaughn, David Booth, Daniel Oaks, Tom Scott, Michael Prichard, Peg Stewart, Richard Collier, Darlene Feasel, Russell Morrell
11
The Offence
United Artists / Tantallon
Sidney Lumet (director); John Hopkins (screenplay); Sean Connery , Trevor Howard , Vivien Merchant , Ian Bannen , Peter Bowles , Derek Newark , Ronald Radd , John Hallam , Richard Moore , Anthony Sagar , Maxine Gordon , Howard Goorney , Hilda Fenemore
13
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Toei
Kinji Fukasaku (director); Kazuo Kasahara (screenplay); Bunta Sugawara , Hiroki Matsukata , Nobuo Kaneko , Tatsuo Umemiya , Kunie Tanaka , Goro Ibuki , Tamio Kawaji , Tsunehiko Watase , Mayumi Nagisa , Takuzo Kawatani , Shinichiro Mikawi, Harumi Sone, Keiji Takamiya, Toshie Kimura, Asao Uchida, Hiroshi Nawa, Eiko Nakamura, Kinji Nakamura
Manson
American International Pictures
Robert Hendrickson , Laurence Merrick (directors)
19
Black Mama White Mama
American International Pictures / Four Associates Ltd .
Eddie Romero (director); H.R. Christian (screenplay); Margaret Markov , Pam Grier , Sid Haig , Lynn Borden , Zaldy Zshornack , Eddie Garcia , Alona Alegre , Vic Diaz , Lotis M. Key , Alfonso Carvajal , Ricardo Herrero , Andrés (Andy) Centenera , Laurie Burton, Dondo Fernanco, Wendy Green, Jess Ramos, Carpi Asturias
25
The Death of a Lumberjack
Les Film Mutuels / Canadian Film Development Corporation / Famous Players Limited
Gilles Carle (director/screenplay); Arthur Lamothe (screenplay); Carole Laure , Willie Lamothe , Daniel Pilon , Pauline Julien , Marcel Sabourin , Roger Lebel , Denise Filiatrault , J. Léo Gagnon, Ernest Guimond, Jacques Gagnon, Gil Laroche, Jacques Bouchard, Yvonne Diabo, Eugene Lahache, Marcel Fournier
The Love Ban
British Lion Films / Welbeck Films
Ralph Thomas (director); Kevin Laffan (screenplay); Hywel Bennett , Nanette Newman , Milo O'Shea , Angharad Rees , Nicky Henson , Georgina Hale , Madeline Smith , Peter Barkworth , John Cleese , Marianne Stone , Nina Baden-Semper , Cheryl Hall , Jacki Piper , Tommy Godfrey , Tony Haygarth , David Howey, James Leith
27
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
United Artists / Associated London Films
Norman Cohen (director/screenplay); Spike Milligan , Johnny Byrne (screenplay); Jim Dale , Arthur Lowe , Bill Maynard , Tony Selby , Geoffrey Hughes , Jim Norton , John Forgeham , Windsor Davies , Spike Milligan , Pat Coombs , Bob Todd , Gregory Phillips , Alvar Liddell , Robert Longden
Last Tango in Paris
United Artists / Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA) / Les Productions Artistes Associés
Bernando Bertolucci (director/screenplay); Franco Arcalli , Agnès Varda (screenplay); Marlon Brando , Maria Schneider , Maria Michi , Giovanna Galletti , Jean-Pierre Léaud , Massimo Girotti , Catherine Allégret , Catherine Breillat , Darling Légitimus , Veronica Lazăr , Gitt Magrini, Luce Marquand, Dan Diament, Catherine Sola, Mauro Marchetti, Peter Schommer, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Armand Abplanalp, Rachel Kesterber, Ramón Mendizábal, Mimi Pinson, Gérard Lepennec, Stéphane Koziak
31
Shamus
Columbia Pictures / Robert M. Weitman Productions
Buzz Kulik (director); Barry Beckerman (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Dyan Cannon , John Ryan , Joe Santos , Giorgio Tozzi , Ron Weyand, Larry Block , Beeson Carroll, Kevin Conway , John Glover , Mickey Freeman , Tommy Lane , Ric Mancini , Frank Sivero , Alex Stevens
Steelyard Blues
Warner Bros.
Alan Myerson (director); David S. Ward (screenplay); Donald Sutherland , Jane Fonda , Peter Boyle , Howard Hesseman , John Savage , Mel Stewart , Roger Bowen , Garry Goodrow , Richard Schaal , Morgan Upton, Jessica Myerson, Dan Morrows, Nancy Fish, Lynette Bernay, Edward Greenberg
F E B R U A R Y
1
The World's Greatest Athlete
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Robert Scheerer (director); Dee Caruso , Gerald Gardner (screenplay); Tim Conway , Jan-Michael Vincent , John Amos , Roscoe Lee Browne , Dayle Haddon , Billy De Wolfe , Nancy Walker , Danny Goldman , Don Pedro Colley , Vito Scotti , Liam Dunn , Ivor Francis , Leon Askin , Joe Kapp , Clarence Muse , Virginia Capers , Philip Ahn , John Lupton , Sarah Selby , Russ Conway , Al Checco , Dick Wilson , Howard Cosell , Frank Gifford , Jim McKay , Bud Palmer , Bill Toomey
4
Wattstax
Columbia Pictures / Stax Records / Wolper Productions
Mel Stuart (director); The Staple Singers , Richard Pryor , Carla Thomas , Rufus Thomas , Luther Ingram , Kim Weston , Johnnie Taylor , The Bar-Kays , Isaac Hayes , Albert King , Dale Warren , Tommy Jacquette , Jesse Jackson , Melvin Van Peebles , Jimmy Jones , Eric Mercury , Freddie Robinson , Ernie Hines , Little Sonny , The Temprees , Frederick Knight , William Bell , Eddie Floyd , Rance Allen , David Porter , Tommy Tate , The Soul Children , Fred Williamson , The Dramatics , The Emotions , Little Milton , Mel and Tim , Raymond Allen , Erik Kilpatrick , Ted Lange , Fred Berry , Ossie Davis , Ruby Dee , Billy Eckstine , Felton Pilate , Jackie Robinson , Deborah Manning, Louise McCord, Lee Sain, The Newcomers
7
Black Caesar
American International Pictures / Largo
Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Fred Williamson , Gloria Hendry , Art Lund , D'Urville Martin , Julius Harris , Minnie Gentry , William Wellman Jr. , Val Avery , Don Pedro Colley , Myrna Hansen , Philip Roye, James Dixon, Patrick McAllister, Omer Jeffery, Michael Jeffery
The Train Robbers
Warner Bros. / Batjac Productions
Burt Kennedy (director/screenplay); John Wayne , Ann-Margret , Rod Taylor , Ben Johnson , Christopher George , Bobby Vinton , Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalbán
8
The Harder They Come
New World Pictures / International Films Inc.
Perry Henzell (director/screenplay); Trevor D. Rhone (screenplay); Jimmy Cliff , Carl Bradshaw , Ras Daniel Heartman , Winston Stona , Leslie Kong , Prince Buster , Clover Lewis , Ed "Bim" Lewis , Aston "Bam" Wynter , Alton Ellis , Janet Bartley, Basil Keane, Elijah Chambers, Bob Charlton, Volier Johnson, Lucia White, Beverly Anderson, Bobby Loban, Joanne Dunn, Adrian Robinson, Don Topping, Karl Leslie, Sandra Redwood, Ulla Fraser, Carol Lawes
9
The Creeping Flesh
Columbia Pictures / World Film Services
Freddie Francis (director); Peter Spenceley, Jonathan Rumbold (screenplay); Christopher Lee , Peter Cushing , Lorna Heilbron , Jenny Runacre , George Benson , Kenneth J. Warren , Duncan Lamont , Harry Locke , Michael Ripper , Robert Swann , David Bailie , Tony Wright , Marianne Stone , Alexandra Dane , Larry Taylor , Sue Bond , Hedger Wallace, Catherine Finn, Maurice Bush, Martin Carroll, Dan Meaden
Jory
AVCO Embassy Pictures
Jorge Fons (director); Gerald Herman, Robert Irving (screenplay); John Marley , B.J. Thomas , Robby Benson , Claudio Brook , Brad Dexter , Benny Baker , Anne Lockhart , Ted Markland , Linda Purl , Patricia Aspíllaga, Todd Martin, Quintín Bulnes, Carlos Cortés, John Kelly, Eduardo López Rojas
14
Save the Tiger
Paramount Pictures / Filmways
John G. Avildsen (director); Steve Shagan (screenplay); Jack Lemmon , Jack Gilford , Laurie Heineman , Norman Burton , Patricia Smith , Thayer David , William Hansen , Harvey Jason , Lin Von Linden , Lara Parker , Eloise Hardt , Ned Glass , Biff Elliot , Madeline Lee , Janina, Pearl Shear, Ben Freedman
20
Nothing but the Night
Fox -Rank Distributors
Peter Sasdy (director); Brian Hayles (screenplay); Christopher Lee , Peter Cushing , Diana Dors , Georgia Brown , Keith Barron , Gwyneth Strong , Fulton Mackay , John Robinson , Morris Perry , Michael Gambon , Duncan Lamont , Shelagh Fraser , Kathleen Byron , Andrew McCulloch , Michael Brennan
22
Payday
Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Fantasy Films / Fantasy Records / Pumice Finance Company
Daryl Duke (director); Don Carpenter (screenplay); Rip Torn , Ahna Capri , Michael C. Gwynne , Jeff Morris , Cliff Emmich , Sonny Shroyer , Elayne Heilveil, Henry O. Arnold, Bobby Smith, Dallas Smith, Richard Hoffman, Walter Bamberg, Eleanor Fell, Clara Dunn, Linda Spatz, Earle Trigg, Winston McNair, Frazier Moss, Phillip Wende, Ed Neeley
Turkish Delight
Nederland Film / VNF
Paul Verhoeven (director); Gerard Soeteman (screenplay); Monique van de Ven , Rutger Hauer , Tonny Huurdeman , Hans Boskamp , Dolf de Vries , Wim van den Brink, Manfred de Graaf, Dick Scheffer, Marjol Flore, Bert Dijkstra
Walking Tall
Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Bing Crosby Productions
Phil Karlson (director); Mort Briskin (screenplay); Joe Don Baker , Elizabeth Hartman , Lurene Tuttle , Noah Beery Jr. , Dawn Lyn , Leif Garrett , Felton Perry , Logan Ramsey , Rosemary Murphy , Gene Evans , Bruce Glover , Kenneth Tobey , Don Keefer , Douglas Fowley , Pepper Martin , Ted Jordan , Red West , Brenda Benet , Arch Johnson , Sidney Clute , Russell Thorson , Gil Perkins , Carey Loftin , Gene LeBell , Del Monroe , Richard X. Slattery , Warner Venetz, Ed Call, Richard Donald
21
Lolly-Madonna XXX
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Richard C. Sarafian (director); Rodney Carr-Smith, Sue Grafton (screenplay); Rod Steiger , Robert Ryan , Jeff Bridges , Scott Wilson , Season Hubley , Katherine Squire , Joan Goodfellow , Tresa Hughes , Gary Busey , Randy Quaid , Timothy Scott , Kiel Martin , Ed Lauter , Paul Koslo
24
The Blood Brothers
Shaw Brothers Studio
Chang Cheh (director/screenplay); Ni Kuang (screenplay); David Chiang , Ti Lung , Chen Kuan Tai , Ching Li
M A R C H
1
Charlotte's Web
Paramount Pictures / Hanna-Barbera Productions / Sagittarius Productions
Charles A. Nichols , Iwao Takamoto (directors); E.B. White (screenplay); Debbie Reynolds , Henry Gibson , Paul Lynde , Agnes Moorehead , Don Messick , Herb Vigran , Pamelyn Ferdin , Martha Scott , Bob Holt , John Stephenson , Danny Bonaduce , William B. White, Dave Madden , Joan Gerber , Candy Candido , Rex Allen
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Warner Bros. / Bud Yorkin Productions
Bud Yorkin (director); Walter Hill (screenplay); Ryan O'Neal , Jacqueline Bisset , Warren Oates , Jill Clayburgh , Charles Cioffi , Ned Beatty , Austin Pendleton , Gregory Sierra , Michael Murphy , John Hillerman , Alan Oppenheimer , Margaret Fairchild , Jack Manning , Richard O'Brien , George Morfogen , Army Archerd , John Henry Faulk , Warren Munson , Noble Willingham
4
Baxter!
National General Pictures / Anglo-EMI Film Distributors / Group W Films / Hanna-Barbera Productions / Performing Arts
Lionel Jeffries (director); Reginald Rose (screenplay); Patricia Neal , Britt Ekland , Lynn Carlin , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Scott Jacoby , Sally Thomsett , Paul Eddington , Paul Maxwell , Ronald Leigh-Hunt , Dorothy Alison , Marianne Stone , Ian Thompson, Frances Bennett, George Tovey
7
Slither
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Howard Zieff (director): W.D. Richter (screenplay); James Caan , Peter Boyle , Sally Kellerman , Louise Lasser , Allen Garfield , Richard B. Shull , Alex Rocco , Seamon Glass , Diana Darrin , Stuart Nisbet , Virginia Sale , Alex Henteloff , Len Lesser , Garry Goodrow
The Long Goodbye
United Artists / Lion's Gate Films
Robert Altman (director); Leigh Brackett (screenplay); Elliott Gould , Nina van Pallandt , Sterling Hayden , Mark Rydell , Henry Gibson , David Arkin , Jim Bouton , Warren Berlinger , Pancho Córdova , Enrique Lucero , Rutanya Alda , Jack Riley , Jerry Jones, John S. Davies, Ken Sansom , David Carradine , Arnold Schwarzenegger
8
Ludwig
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Mega Film / Cinétel / Divina Film / Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion / RAI
Luchino Visconti (director/screenplay); Enrico Medioli , Suso Cecchi d'Amico (screenplay); Helmut Berger , Romy Schneider , Silvana Mangano , Trevor Howard , Gert Fröbe , Helmut Griem , Umberto Orsini , John Moulder-Brown , Sonia Petrovna , Folker Bohnet , Heinz Moog , Adriana Asti , Marc Porel , Nora Ricci , Mark Burns , Alexander Allerson , Kurt Großkurth , Gérard Herter , Karl-Heinz Peters , Clara Colosimo , Friedrich von Ledebur , Izabella Teleżyńska, Bert Bloch, Anne-Marie Hanschke, Jan Linhar, Clara Moustawcesky, Gernot Möhner, Wolfram Schaerf, Gunnar Warner, Raika Juri, Karl-Heinz Windhorst
10
Schlock
Jack H. Harris Enterprises
John Landis (director/screenplay); John Landis , Enrica Blankey , Eliza Garrett, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Richard Gillis, Tom Alvich, Walter Levine, Eric Allison, Ralph Baker, Gene Fox, Susan Weiser, Jonathan A. Flint, Amy Schireson, Belinda Folsey, E.G. Harty
The Vault of Horror
Metromedia Producers Corporation / Amicus Productions
Roy Ward Baker (director); Milton Subotsky (screenplay); Dawn Addams , Tom Baker , Michael Craig , Denholm Elliott , Glynis Johns , Edward Judd , Curt Jürgens , Anna Massey , Daniel Massey , Terry-Thomas , Robin Nedwell , Geoffrey Davies , Terence Alexander , John Witty , Ishaq Bux , John Forbes-Robertson , Maurice Kaufmann , Arthur Mullard , Mike Pratt , Marianne Stone , Erik Chitty , Tommy Godfrey , Jerold Wells , Jasmina Hilton
12
The Baby
Scotia International / Quintet Productions
Ted Post (director); Abe Polsky (screenplay); Anjanette Comer , Ruth Roman , Marianna Hill , Suzanne Zenor , Tod Andrews , Michael Pataki , Virginia Vincent , Beatrice Manley Blau, Erin O'Reilly, Don Mallon, Joseph Bernard, David Manzy
15
Tom Sawyer
United Artists / Reader's Digest
Don Taylor (director); Robert B. Sherman , Richard M. Sherman (screenplay); Johnny Whitaker , Celeste Holm , Warren Oates , Jeff East , Jodie Foster , Lucille Benson , Henry Jones , Noah Keen , Dub Taylor , Richard Eastham , Sandy Kenyon , Joshua Hill Lewis, Susan Joyce, Steve Hogg, Sean Summers, Kevin Jefferson, Kunu Hank
16
The Crazies
Cambist Films / Pittsburgh Films
George A. Romero (director/screenplay); W.G. McMillan , Lynn Lowry , Richard Liberty , Richard France , Ned Schmidtke , Bill Hinzman , Lane Carroll, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Harry Spillman, Will Disney, Leland Starnes, Bill Thunhurst, A.C. McDonald, Robert J. McCully, Robert Karlowsky, Tony Scott
Forced Entry
Variety Films / Boojum Productions
Shaun Costello (director/screenplay); Tim Long , Laura Cannon, Jutta David, Shaun Costello, Ruby Runhouse, Nina Fawcett
17
Lost Horizon
Columbia Pictures / Ross Hunter Productions
Charles Jarrott (director); Larry Kramer (screenplay); Peter Finch , Liv Ullmann , Sally Kellerman , George Kennedy , Michael York , Olivia Hussey , Bobby Van , James Shigeta , Charles Boyer , John Gielgud , Kent Smith , John Van Dreelen , Larry Duran
18
Two People
Universal Pictures
Robert Wise (director/screenplay); Peter Fonda , Lindsay Wagner , Estelle Parsons , Alan Fudge , Frances Sternhagen , Geoffrey Horne , Nathalie Baye
21
Godspell
Columbia Pictures
David Greene (director/screenplay); John-Michael Tebelak (screenplay); Victor Garber , David Haskell , Merrell Jackson , Gilmer McCormick , Jeffrey Mylett , Lynne Thigpen , Katie Hanley, Joanne Jonas, Robin Lamont, Jerry Sroka
23
Charley and the Angel
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Vincent McEveety (director); Roswell Rogers (screenplay); Fred MacMurray , Cloris Leachman , Harry Morgan , Kurt Russell , Kathleen Cody , Scott Kolden , Vincent Van Patten , George Lindsey , Edward Andrews , Mills Watson , Richard Bakalyan , Barbara Nichols , Kelly Thordsen , Liam Dunn , Larry D. Mann , George O'Hanlon , Susan Tolsky , Ed Begley Jr. , Christina Anderson, Roy Engel , Robert Hastings
27
Sisters
American International Pictures / Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation
Brian De Palma (director/screenplay); Louisa Rose (screenplay); Margot Kidder , Jennifer Salt , Charles Durning , Bill Finley , Lisle Wilson , Barnard Hughes , Dolph Sweet , Olympia Dukakis , Justine Johnston , Mary Davenport, Catherine Gaffigan
28
Black Snake
Trident Pictures
Russ Meyer (director/screenplay); Leonard Neubauer (screenplay); Anouska Hempel , David Warbeck , Percy Herbert , Thomas Baptiste , David Prowse , Milton McCollin, Bernard Boston, Vikki Richards
The Devil in Miss Jones
VCX Ltd. / MB Productions
Gerard Damiano (director/screenplay); Georgina Spelvin , Harry Reams , Mark Stevens , Albert Cork , John Clemens, Rick Livermore, Claire Lumiere, Sue Flaken
Kamouraska
New Line Cinema / France Cinéma Productions
Claude Jutra (director/screenplay); Geneviève Bujold , Richard Jordan , Philippe Léotard , Huguette Oligny , Camille Bernard , Janine Sutto , Olivette Thibault , Marcel Cuvelier, Marie Fresnières, Suzie Baillargeon, Colette Cortois, Gigi Duckett, Marcel Marineau, Len Watt
April–June
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
A P R I L
1
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
20th Century Fox
John Erman (director); Claudia Salter (screenplay); Cliff Robertson , Eric Shea , Pamela Franklin , Bernadette Peters , Rosemary Murphy , Alice Ghostley , Royal Dano , Don Keefer , Patricia Smith , Arthur Malet , Jim Boles , Kelly Jean Peters, Herb Gatlin, Ariane Munker, Hope Summers, Lew Brown, Robert Hamm, Brent Hurst, Rodger Peck, Jan Simms, Dixie Lee, Claudia Bryar, Felicity Van Runkle, Pat O'Connor, Bill Quinn
4
The Mack
Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Harbor Productions
Michael Campus (director); Robert J. Poole (screenplay); Max Julien , Richard Pryor , Juanita Moore , Carol Speed , Roger E. Mosley , Dick Anthony Williams , Don Gordon , William Watson , George Murdock , Paul Harris , Annazette Chase , Lee Duncan , June Wilkinson , Kai Hernandez, Junero Jennings, Sandra Brown, Christopher Brooks, Fritz Ford, Norma McClure, David Mauro
5
Theatre of Blood
United Artists / Harbour Productions Limited / Cineman Productions
Douglas Hickox (director); Anthony Greville-Bell (screenplay); Vincent Price , Diana Rigg , Dennis Price , Coral Browne , Ian Hendry , Robert Morley , Jack Hawkins
7
Night Flight from Moscow
AVCO Embassy Pictures / Pathfinder Pictures / Les Films de la Boétie / Euro International Film / Rialto Film
Henri Verneuil (director/screenplay); Gilles Perrault (screenplay); Yul Brynner , Henry Fonda , Dirk Bogarde , Philippe Noiret , Michel Bouquet , Martin Held , Virna Lisi , Paola Pitagora , Elga Andersen , Marie Dubois , Nathalie Nerval, Farley Granger , Luigi Diberti , Robert Alda
10
Class of '44
Warner Bros.
Paul Bogart (director); Herman Raucher (screenplay); Gary Grimes , Jerry Houser , Deborah Winters , William Atherton , Sam Bottoms , Murray Westgate , Michael A. Hoey , Oliver Conant
11
Book of Numbers
AVCO Embassy Pictures / Brut Productions
Raymond St. Jacques (director); Larry Spiegel (screenplay); Raymond St. Jacques , Philip Michael Thomas , Freda Payne , Hope Clarke , D'Urville Martin , Irma P. Hall , Willie Washington Jr., Doug Finell, Sterling St. Jacques, C.L. Williams, Jerry Leon, Gilbert Green, Frank De Sal, Temie Mae Williams, Charles F. Elyston, Queen Esther Gent, Chiquita Jackson, Katie Peters, Pat Peterson, Reginald T. Dorsey
Scarecrow
Warner Bros.
Jerry Schatzberg (director); Garry Michael White (screenplay); Gene Hackman , Al Pacino , Eileen Brennan , Ann Wedgeworth , Richard Lynch , Penelope Allen , Rutanya Alda , Dorothy Tristan, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani
12
The Iron Rose
Les Films ABC
Jean Rollin (director/screenplay); Tristan Corbière, Maurice Lemaître (screenplay); Françoise Pascal , Hugues Quester , Nathalie Perrey , Mireille Dargent , Michel Dalessalle
Tiffany Jones
Hemdale / Peter Walker (Heritage)
Pete Walker (director); Alfred Shaughnessy (screenplay); Anouska Hempel , Ray Brooks , Susan Sheers, Damien Thomas , Eric Pohlmann , Richard Marner , Martin Benson , Alan Curtis , John Clive , Geoffrey Hughes , Ivor Salter , Lynda Baron , Nick Zaran , Walter Randall , Martin Wyldeck , Bill Kerr , Tony Sympson
13
The Candy Snatchers
General Film Corporation / Marmot Productions
Guerdon Trueblood (director); Bryan Gindoff (screenplay); Tiffany Bolling , Ben Piazza , Dolores Dorn , Howard Shoup , Susan Sennett , Brad David, Vince Martorano, Bonnie Boland, Jerry Butts, Leon Charles, Phyllis Major, Bill Woodard, Christophe Trueblood
18
Bequest to the Nation
Universal Pictures / Hal Wallis Productions
James Cellan Jones (director); Terence Rattigan (screenplay); Glenda Jackson , Peter Finch , Michael Jayston , Anthony Quayle , Margaret Leighton , Dominic Guard , Nigel Stock , Roland Culver , Barbara Leigh-Hunt , Pat Heywood , Clelia Matania , John Nolan
Charley One-Eye
Paramount Pictures / David Paradine Productions
Don Chaffey (director); Keith Leonard (screenplay); Richard Roundtree , Roy Thinnes , Nigel Davenport , Aldo Sambrell , Alexander Davion , David Lodge , William Mervyn , Patrick Mower , Johnny Sekka , Jill Pearson, Luis Aller, Rafael Albaicín
19
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Columbia Pictures
Alan J. Pakula (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Maggie Smith , Timothy Bottoms , Jaime de Mora y Aragón , Charles Baxter, Emiliano Redondo , Margaret Modlin , May Heatherly , Lloyd Brimhall, Elmer Modlin
Scorpio
United Artists / The Mirisch Corporation / Scimitar Films
Michael Winner (director); David W. Rintels, Gerald Wilson (screenplay); Burt Lancaster , Alain Delon , Paul Scofield , John Colicos , Gayle Hunnicutt , J.D. Cannon , Joanne Linville , Mel Stewart , Vladek Sheybal , Mary Maude , Jack Colvin , James B. Sikking , Burke Byrnes , William Smithers , Shmuel Rodensky , Celeste Yarnall , Sandor Elès , Frederick Jaeger , George Mikell , Robert Emhardt
Soylent Green
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Richard Fleischer (director); Stanley R. Greenberg (screenplay); Charlton Heston , Leigh Taylor-Young , Chuck Connors , Joseph Cotten , Brock Peters , Paula Kelly , Edward G. Robinson , Stephen Young , Mike Henry , Lincoln Kilpatrick , Roy Jenson , Leonard Stone , Whit Bissell , Celia Lovsky , Dick Van Patten
20
Ganja & Hess
Kelly-Jordan Enterprises
Bill Gunn (director/screenplay); Duane Jones , Marlene Clark , Bill Gunn , Mabel King , Sam Waymon, Candece Tarpley
23
Messiah of Evil
International Cine Film Corp. / V/M Productions
Willard Huyck , Gloria Katz (directors/screenplay); Michael Greer , Marianna Hill , Joy Bang , Anitra Ford , Royal Dano , Elisha Cook Jr. , Charles Dierkop , Bennie Robinson, Walter Hill
27
And Now the Screaming Starts!
Fox-Rank / Amicus Productions
Roy Ward Baker (director); Roger Marshall (screenplay); Peter Cushing , Herbert Lom , Patrick Magee , Stephanie Beacham , Ian Ogilvy , Geoffrey Whitehead , Guy Rolfe , Rosalie Crutchley , Gillian Lind , Janet Key , Sally Harrison
M A Y
1
Guns of a Stranger
Universal Pictures / Marty Robbins Enterprises
Robert Hinkle (director); Charles W. Aldridge (screenplay); Marty Robbins , Chill Wills , Dovie Beams , Bill Coontz , Shug Fisher , Fred Graham , Steven Tackett, Tom Hartman, Charles W. Aldridge, Ronny Robbins, Melody Hinkle, Mark Reed, Don Winters, Bobby Sykes, Phil Strassberg, Al Wood, Harold Wells, Jack Swank, Du Shon, Glenn Bond, Jim Mooney, Jenny Needham, Nudie, Ron Nix
9
Billy Jack (re-release)
Warner Bros. / National Student Film Corporation
T.C. Frank (director); Frank Christina , Theresa Christina (screenplay); Tom Laughlin , Delores Taylor , Clark Howat , Bert Freed , Kenneth Tobey , Howard Hesseman , Cisse Cameron , Han Bong-soo , David Roya, Victor Izay, Julie Webb, Debbie Schock, Teresa Kelly, Lynn Baker, Stan Rice, John McClure, Susan Foster, Susan Sosa
Father, Dear Father
J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors / Sedgemoor Film Productions / M.M. Film Productions
William G. Stewart (director); Brian Cooke , Johnnie Mortimer (screenplay); Patrick Cargill , Natasha Pyne , Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson , Joyce Carey , Richard O'Sullivan , Ursula Howells , Jack Watling , Donald Sinden , Jill Melford , Beryl Reid , Joseph O'Conor , Elizabeth Adare , Clifton Jones
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Paramount Pictures / Tomorrow Entertainment / West Film
Ennio De Concini (director/screenplay); Gerhard Boldt , Maria Pia Fusco , Ivan Moffat, Wolfgang Reinhardt (screenplay); Alec Guinness , Simon Ward , Adolfo Celi , Diane Cilento , Gabriele Ferzetti , Eric Porter , Doris Kunstmann , Joss Ackland , John Bennett , John Barron , Barbara Jefford , Valerie Gray , Ann Lynn , Sheila Gish , Julian Glover , Michael Goodliffe , Mark Kingston , Timothy West , Andrew Sachs , Philip Stone
Paper Moon
Paramount Pictures / The Directors Company
Peter Bogdanovich (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Ryan O'Neal , Tatum O'Neal , Madeline Kahn , John Hillerman , Burton Gilliam , James N. Harrell , Noble Willingham , Randy Quaid , Hugh Gillin , Art Ellison , Jack Benny , Jim Jordan , Marian Jordan , P.J. Johnson, Rose-Mary Rumbley
11
The Harrad Experiment
Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Ted Post (director); Michael Werner, Ted Cassidy (screenplay); James Whitmore , Tippi Hedren , Don Johnson , Bruno Kirby , Laurie Walters , Robert Middleton , Billy Sands , Eric Server , Ted Cassidy , Gregory Harrison , Melody Patterson , George Memmoli , Bill Saluga , Fred Willard , Melanie Griffith , Victoria Thompson, Elliott Street, Sharon Ullrick, Maggie Wellman, Ron Kolman
Little Laura and Big John
Crown International / Louis Wiethe Productions
Luke Moberly, Bob Woodburn (directors/screenplay); Fabian Forte , Karen Black , Ross Kananga , Paul Gleason , Ray Barrett , Ivy Thayer, Ken Miller, Cliff Frates, Jerry Rhodes
15
Jeremy
United Artists / Kenesset Film Productions
Arthur Barron (director/screenplay); Robby Benson , Glynnis O'Connor , Leonardo Cimino , Ted Sorel , Eunice Anderson , Dennis Boutsikaris , Len Bari, Ned Wilson, Chris Bohn, Pat Wheel, Bruce Friedman
16
The Day of the Jackal
Universal Pictures / Warwick Film Productions / Universal Productions France
Fred Zinnemann (director); Kenneth Ross (screenplay); Edward Fox , Michel Lonsdale , Terence Alexander , Michel Auclair , Alan Badel , Tony Britton , Derek Jacobi , Denis Carey , Cyril Cusack , Maurice Denham , Delphine Seyrig , Jacques François , Olga Georges-Picot , Raymond Gérôme , Barrie Ingham , Jean Martin , Ronald Pickup , Vernon Dobtcheff , Eric Porter , Anton Rodgers , Donald Sinden , Jean Sorel , David Swift , Timothy West , Bernard Archard , Philippe Léotard , Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Edward Hardwicke , Howard Vernon , David Kernan , Féodor Atkine , Max Faulkner , Liliane Rovère
20
The Hireling
Columbia Pictures
Alan Bridges (director); Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay); Robert Shaw , Sarah Miles , Peter Egan , Caroline Mortimer , Elizabeth Sellars , Ian Hogg , Christine Hargreaves , Lyndon Brook , Patricia Lawrence , Petra Markham
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Sam Peckinpah (director); Rudy Wurlitzer (screenplay); James Coburn , Kris Kristofferson , Bob Dylan , Jason Robards , Richard Jaeckel , Rita Coolidge , Chill Wills , Barry Sullivan , R.G. Armstrong , Luke Askew , John Beck , Richard Bright , Matt Clark , Jack Dodson , Jack Elam , Emilio Fernández , Paul Fix , L.Q. Jones , Slim Pickens , Jorge Russek, Charles Martin Smith , Katy Jurado , Harry Dean Stanton , Claudia Bryar , John Davis Chandler , Michael T. Mikler, Aurora Clavel , Rutanya Alda , Walter Kelley, Rudy Wurlitzer , Elisha Cook Jr. , Gene Evans , Donnie Fritts , Dub Taylor , Don Levy, Sam Peckinpah , Bruce Dern
Terror in the Wax Museum
Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Andrew J. Fenady Productions / Bing Crosby Productions
Georg Fenady (director); Andrew J. Fenady (screenplay); Ray Milland , Elsa Lanchester , Maurice Evans , John Carradine , Broderick Crawford , Louis Hayward , Patric Knowles , Shani Wallis , Mark Edwards , Lisa Lu , Ben Wright , Peggy Stewart , Sandy Helberg , Steven Marlo, Nicole Shelby, Mathilda Calnan, Leslie Thompson, Don Herbert, Judy Wetmore, Jo Williamson, George Farina, Diane Wahrman, Rosa Huerta, Ben Brown, Rickie Weir, Paul Wilson, Ralph Cunningham, Don Williamson, Evelyn Reynolds
22
A Doll's House
Paramount Pictures
Patrick Garland (director); Christopher Hampton (screenplay); Claire Bloom , Anthony Hopkins , Ralph Richardson , Denholm Elliott , Edith Evans , Anna Massey , Helen Blatch , Kimberley Hampton, Mark Summerfield, Stefanie Summerfield
24
Day for Night
Warner -Columbia Film / Les Films du Carrosse / PECF / PIC
François Truffaut (director/screenplay); Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman (screenplay); Jacqueline Bisset , Valentina Cortese , Dani , Alexandra Stewart , Jean-Pierre Aumont , Jean Champion , Jean-Pierre Léaud , François Truffaut , Nike Arrighi , Nathalie Baye , David Markham , Bernard Ménez , Zénaïde Rossi , Xavier Saint-Macary , Claude Miller , Gaston Joly, Jean Panisse
Emperor of the North Pole
20th Century Fox / Inter-Hemisphere
Robert Aldrich (director); Christopher Knopf (screenplay); Lee Marvin , Ernest Borgnine , Keith Carradine , Charles Tyner , Malcolm Atterbury , Harry Caesar , Elisha Cook Jr. , Liam Dunn , Simon Oakland , Matt Clark , Vic Tayback , Hal Baylor , Robert Foulk , James Goodwin, Raymond Guth , Sid Haig , Karl Lukas , John Steadman , Dave Willock , Lance Henriksen
J U N E
6
The Blockhouse
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Cannon Films
Clive Rees (director/screenplay); John Gould (screenplay); Peter Sellers , Charles Aznavour , Jeremy Kemp , Per Oscarsson , Peter Vaughan , Nicholas Jones , Leon Lissek , Alfred Lynch
Little Cigars
American International Pictures
Chris Christenberry (director); Louis Garfinkle , Frank Ray Perilli (screenplay); Angel Tompkins , Billy Curtis , Jerry Maren , Frank Delfino , Felix Silla , Emory Souza, Joe De Santis , Jon Cedar , Philip Kenneally, Barbara Rhoades , Todd Susman , Michael Pataki
8
Cannibal Girls
American International Pictures
Ivan Reitman (director); Daniel Goldberg (screenplay); Eugene Levy , Andrea Martin , Alan Gordon , Earl Pomerantz , Fishka Rais , Ronald Ulrich, Randall Carpenter, Bonnie Neilson, Mira Pawluk, Bob McHeady, Allan Price, May Jarvis, Gino Marrocco, Rick Maguire, Bunker, Marion Swadron
13
Wicked, Wicked
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Richard L. Bare (director/screenplay); David Bailey , Tiffany Bolling , Randolph Roberts , Scott Brady , Edd Byrnes , Madeleine Sherwood , Arthur O'Connell , Indira Danks
14
The Last of Sheila
Warner Bros. / Hera Productions
Herbert Ross (director); Anthony Perkins , Stephen Sondheim (screenplay); Richard Benjamin , Dyan Cannon , James Coburn , Joan Hackett , James Mason , Ian McShane , Raquel Welch , Yvonne Romain
15
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
20th Century Fox / APJAC Productions
J. Lee Thompson (director); John William Corrington , Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay); Roddy McDowall , Claude Akins , Natalie Trundy , Severn Darden , Lew Ayres , Paul Williams , John Huston , Austin Stoker , Noah Keen , Richard Eastham , France Nuyen , Paul Stevens , John Landis , Heather Lowe, Bobby Porter, Michael Stearns, Cal Wilson, Pat Cardi
Idaho Transfer
Cinemation Industries / Pando Company
Peter Fonda (director); Thomas Matthiesen (screenplay); Keith Carradine , Kelley Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Caroline Hildebrand, Ted D'Arms, Judy Motulsky, Dale Hopkins, Fred Seagraves, Joe Newman, Susan Kelly, Meridith Hull, Roy B. Ayers, Kim Casper, Debbie Scott, Devin Burke, Earl Crabb
Interval
AVCO Embassy Pictures / Euro-American Films
Daniel Mann (director); Gavin Lambert (screenplay); Merle Oberon , Robert Wolders , Claudio Brook , Ross Conway , Britt Leach , Peter von Zerneck
The Legend of Hell House
20th Century Fox / Academy Pictures Corporation
John Hough (director); Richard Matheson (screenplay); Pamela Franklin , Roddy McDowall , Clive Revill , Gayle Hunnicutt , Roland Culver , Peter Bowles , Michael Gough
16
Coffy
American International Pictures
Jack Hill (director/screenplay); Pam Grier , Booker Bradshaw , Robert DoQui , William Elliott , Allan Arbus , Sid Haig , Barry Cahill , Lee de Broux , Carol Locatell , Linda Haynes , Bob Minor , Ruben Moreno, Lisa Farringer, John Perak, Mwako Cumbuka, Morris Buchanan
17
Blume in Love
Warner Bros.
Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); George Segal , Susan Anspach , Kris Kristofferson , Marsha Mason , Shelley Winters , Paul Mazursky , Annazette Chase , Shelley Morrison , Mary Jackson , Ed Peck , Judyann Elder , Karl Lukas , Rutanya Alda , Jane Jenkins , Sally Kirkland , Albert Popwell , Donald F. Muhich, Erin O'Reilly, Carol Worthington
20
O Lucky Man!
Warner Bros.
Lindsay Anderson (director); David Sherwin (screenplay); Malcolm McDowell , Ralph Richardson , Rachel Roberts , Arthur Lowe , Helen Mirren , Graham Crowden , Dandy Nichols , Peter Jeffrey , Mona Washbourne , Philip Stone , Mary MacLeod , Wallas Eaton , Warren Clarke , Bill Owen , Michael Medwin , Vivian Pickles , Geoffrey Palmer , Christine Noonan , Geoffrey Chater , Anthony Nicholls , James Bolam , Brian Glover , Brian Pettifer , Edward Judd , Alan Price , Jeremy Bulloch , Ben Aris , Margot Bennett , Anna Dawson , Lindsay Anderson
One Little Indian
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Bernard McEveety (director); Harry Spalding (screenplay); James Garner , Vera Miles , Pat Hingle , John Doucette , Morgan Woodward , Andrew Prine , Robert Pine , Bruce Glover , Ken Swofford , Jay Silverheels , Jodie Foster , Walter Brooke , Hal Baylor , Terry Wilson , Paul Sorensen , Read Morgan , Richard Hale , Jim Davis , Clay O'Brien, Rudy Diaz, John C. Flinn III, Lois Red Elk
Shaft in Africa
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
John Guillermin (director); Stirling Silliphant (screenplay); Richard Roundtree , Frank Finlay , Vonetta McGee , Neda Arnerić , Marne Maitland , Spiros Focás , Jacques Herlin , Frank McRae , Nadim Sawalha , Thomas Baptiste , Glynn Edwards , Cy Grant , Jacques Marin , Aldo Sambrell , James E. Myers , Debebe Eshetu, Jho Jhenkins, Willie Jonah, Adolfo Lastretti, Zenebech Tadesse, A.V. Falana, Jon Chevron, Nik Zaran
Showdown
Universal Pictures
George Seaton (director); Theodore Taylor (screenplay); Rock Hudson , Dean Martin , Susan Clark , Donald Moffat , John McLiam , Vic Mohica , Ed Begley Jr. , Charles Baca, Jackson Kane, Ben Zeller, John Richard Gill, Philip L. Mead, Rita Rogers, Raleigh Gardenhire, Dan Boydston
A Touch of Class
AVCO Embassy Pictures / Brut Productions
Melvin Frank (director/screenplay); Jack Rose (screenplay); George Segal , Glenda Jackson , Paul Sorvino , Hildegarde Neil , K Callan , Cec Linder , Lisa Vanderpump , Michael Elwyn , Mary Barclay , Nadim Sawalha , Eve Karpf , David de Keyser , Timothy Carlton , Stuart Damon , David Healy , Donald Hewlett , John Sterland , Ian Thompson, Gaye Brown, Samantha Weysom
26
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Paramount Pictures
Peter Yates (director); Paul Monash (screenplay); Robert Mitchum , Peter Boyle , Richard Jordan , Steven Keats , Alex Rocco , Joe Santos , Mitchell Ryan , Helena Carroll , Jack Kehoe , Margaret Ladd , James Tolkan , Kevin O'Morrison , Matthew Cowles , Peter MacLean, Marvin Lichterman, Carolyn Pickman
Live and Let Die
United Artists / Eon Productions
Guy Hamilton (director); Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay); Roger Moore , Yaphet Kotto , Jane Seymour , Clifton James , Julius W. Harris , Geoffrey Holder , David Hedison , Gloria Hendry , Bernard Lee , Lois Maxwell , Earl Jolly Brown , Roy Stewart , Lon Satton , Joie Chitwood , Madeline Smith , Kubi Chaza , B. J. Arnau , Tommy Lane, Arnold Williams, Ruth Kempf, Michael Ebbin
28
40 Carats
Columbia Pictures / Frankovich Productions
Milton Katselas (director); Leonard Gershe (screenplay); Liv Ullmann , Edward Albert , Gene Kelly , Binnie Barnes , Deborah Raffin , Billy Green Bush , Nancy Walker , Don Porter , Rosemary Murphy , Natalie Schafer , Claudia Jennings , Sam Chew Jr.
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Richard C. Sarafian (director); Eleanor Perry (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Sarah Miles , Lee J. Cobb , Jack Warden , George Hamilton , Bo Hopkins , Robert Donner , Jay Silverheels , Jay Varela, James Hampton
30
Belladonna of Sadness
Nippon Herald Films / Mushi Production
Eiichi Yamamoto (director/screenplay); Yoshiyuki Fukuda (screenplay); Tatsuya Nakadai , Masakane Yonekura , Aiko Nagayama, Katsutaka Ito, Masaya Takahashi, Shigako Shimegi, Chinatsu Nakayama
July–September
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Title
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J U L Y
2
Oklahoma Crude
Columbia Pictures / Stanley Kramer Productions
Stanley Kramer (director); Marc Norman (screenplay); George C. Scott , Faye Dunaway , John Mills , Jack Palance , William Lucking , Harvey Jason , Ted Gehring , Cliff Osmond , Rafael Campos , Woodrow Parfrey , Harvey Parry , Hal Smith , James Jeter , Larry D. Mann , John Dierkes , Karl Lukas , Billy Varga , John Hudkins, Bob Herron, Jerry Brown, Jim Burk, Henry Wills, Cody Bearpaw, Wayne Storm
11
Cahill U.S. Marshal
Warner Bros. / Batjac Productions
Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Harry Julian Fink , Rita M. Fink (screenplay); John Wayne , George Kennedy , Gary Grimes , Neville Brand , Marie Windsor , Morgan Paull , Dan Vadis , Royal Dano , Denver Pyle , Jackie Coogan , Rayford Barnes , Harry Carey Jr. , Walter Barnes , Paul Fix , Pepper Martin , Hank Worden , James Nusser , Hunter von Leer , Clay O'Brien, Scott Walker, Dan Kemp, Murray MacLeod
12
Blue Blood
Impact Quadrant Films / Mallard Productions
Andrew Sinclair (director/screenplay); Oliver Reed , Fiona Lewis , Derek Jacobi , Anna Gaël , Meg Wynn Owen , Richard Davies , Elaine Ives-Cameron , Tim Wylton , Hubert Rees , Dilys Price , John Rainer, Gwyneth Owen, Patrick Carter, Andrew McCall, Sally Anne Newton, Timon Sinclair
13
Cleopatra Jones
Warner Bros.
Jack Starrett (director); Max Julien , Sheldon Keller (screenplay); Tamara Dobson , Bernie Casey , Shelley Winters , Antonio Fargas , Brenda Sykes , Bill McKinney , Dan Frazer , Stafford Morgan, Mike Warren , Albert Popwell , Caro Kenyatta, Esther Rolle , Don Cornelius , Frankie Crocker , Eugene W. Jackson III , Lee Weaver
Lady Ice
National General Pictures / Tomorrow Entertainment
Tom Gries (director); Harold Clemens, Alan Trustman (screenplay); Donald Sutherland , Jennifer O'Neill , Robert Duvall , Patrick Magee , Jon Cypher , Eric Braeden , Buffy Dee , Perry Lopez , Zvee Scooler , Dana Elcar
16
Ana and the Wolves
Carlos Saura (director/screenplay); Rafael Azcona (screenplay); Geraldine Chaplin , Fernando Fernán Gómez , José María Prada , José Vivó , Rafaela Aparicio , Charo Soriano, Marisa Porcel, Nuria Lage, María José Puerta, Sara Gil
18
Sssssss
Universal Pictures / The Zanuck/Brown Company
Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Hal Dresner, Daniel C. Striepeke (screenplay); Strother Martin , Dirk Benedict , Heather Menzies , Richard B. Shull , Tim O'Connor , Jack Ging , Reb Brown , Charles Seel , Noble Craig , Kathleen King, Ted Grossman, Ray Ballard
20
Dillinger
American International Pictures / F.P. Productions
John Milius (director/screenplay); Warren Oates , Ben Johnson , Cloris Leachman , Michelle Phillips , Harry Dean Stanton , John Ryan , Richard Dreyfuss , Geoffrey Lewis , Steve Kanaly , John Martino , Roy Jenson , Read Morgan , Frank McRae
25
Badge 373
Paramount Pictures
Howard W. Koch (director); Pete Hamill (screenplay); Robert Duvall , Verna Bloom , Henry Darrow , Eddie Egan , Felipe Luciano , Luis Avalos , Rose Ann Scamardella , Pete Hamill , Tracey Walter , Ric Mancini , Johnny Pacheco , Orestes Matacena , Jimmy Walker , Tina Cristiani, Marina Durell, Chico Martinez, Jose Duval, Louis Cosentino, Nubia Olivero, Sam Schacht, Edward F. Carey, "Big" Lee, Duane Morris, John Marriott, Joe Veiga, Mark Tendler, Robert Weil, Larry Appelbaum, Bob Farley, John Scanlon, Jimmy Archer, Mike O'Dowd, Robert Miano, Pompie Pomposello, Hector Troy, Miguel Alejandro, Harry Collazo, Damian Colon
The Mackintosh Man
Warner Bros. / Newman-Foreman Company
John Huston (director); Walter Hill , William Fairchild (screenplay); Paul Newman , Dominique Sanda , James Mason , Harry Andrews , Ian Bannen , Michael Hordern , Nigel Patrick , Peter Vaughan , Roland Culver , Percy Herbert , Robert Lang , Leo Genn , Jenny Runacre , John Bindon , Hugh Manning , Wolfe Morris , Noel Purcell , Niall MacGinnis , Eddie Byrne , Shane Briant , Eric Mason , Nosher Powell , Donal McCann , Joe Lynch , Tom Irwin , Donald Webster, Keith Bell, Michael Poole, Dinny Powell, Douglas Robinson, Marcelle Castillo
No Sex Please, We're British
Columbia Pictures
Cliff Owen (director); Brian Cooke , Johnnie Mortimer (screenplay); Ronnie Corbett , Ian Ogilvy , Susan Penhaligon , Beryl Reid , Arthur Lowe , Michael Bates , Cheryl Hall , David Swift , Deryck Guyler , Valerie Leon , Margaret Nolan , Gerald Sim , John Bindon , Stephen Greif , Michael Robbins , Frank Thornton , Michael Ripper , Lloyd Lamble , Mavis Villiers , Sydney Bromley , Brian Wilde , Eric Longworth , Edward Sinclair , Fred Griffiths , Lucy Griffiths , Robin Askwith
27
The Last American Hero
20th Century Fox
Lamont Johnson (director); William Roberts , William Kerby (screenplay); Jeff Bridges , Valerie Perrine , Geraldine Fitzgerald , Ned Beatty , Gary Busey , Art Lund , Ed Lauter , William Smith II , Gregory Walcott , Tom Ligon , Lane Smith , Ernie Orsatti Jr., Erica Hagen, James Murphy
A U G U S T
1
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Universal Pictures / RKF
Nathan H. Juran (director); Bob Homel (screenplay); Kerwin Mathews , Elaine Devry , Robert J. Wilke , George Gaynes , David S. Cass Sr. , Harold Goodwin , Paul Baxley , Scott Sealey, Susan Foster, Jack Lucas, Bob Homel, Loretta Temple
Maurie
National General Pictures / Ausable Films
Daniel Mann (director); Douglas Morrow (screenplay); Bernie Casey , Bo Svenson , Bill Walker , Maidie Norman , Ji-Tu Cumbuka , Janet MacLachlan
The Naked Ape
Universal Pictures / Playboy Enterprises
Donald Driver (director/screenplay); Johnny Crawford , Victoria Principal , Dennis Olivieri , Diana Darrin , Norman Grabowski , John Hillerman , Helen Horowitz, Robert Ito , Marvin Miller
3
Blackenstein
Prestige Pictures / Frisco Productions Limited
William A. Levey (director); Frank R. Saletri (screenplay); John Hart , Andrea King , Liz Renay , Don Brodie , Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue, Roosevelt Jackson, Nick Bolin, Karin Lind, Yvonne Robinson
The Neptune Factor
20th Century Fox
Daniel Petrie (director); Jack DeWitt (screenplay); Ben Gazzara , Yvette Mimieux , Walter Pidgeon , Ernest Borgnine , Donnelly Rhodes , Chris Wiggins , Michael J. Reynolds , Leslie Carlson , Stuart Gillard , David Yorston
8
Heavy Traffic
American International Pictures / Steve Krantz Productions
Ralph Bakshi (director/screenplay); Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson , Frank de Kova , Terri Haven, Mary Dean Lauria, Charles Gordone , Jim Bates, Jacqueline Mills, Lillian Adams , Peter Hobbs , Candy Candido
The Stone Killer
Columbia Pictures / De Laurentiis International Manufacturing / Company S.p.A.
Michael Winner (director); Gerald Wilson (screenplay); Charles Bronson , Martin Balsam , David Sheiner , Norman Fell , Ralph Waite , Paul Koslo , Stuart Margolin , Jack Colvin , John Ritter
White Lightning
United Artists
Joseph Sargent (director); William W. Norton (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Jennifer Billingsley , Ned Beatty , Bo Hopkins , Matt Clark , Louise Latham , Diane Ladd , R.G. Armstrong , Conlan Carter , Dabbs Greer , John Steadman , Laura Dern , Lincoln Demyan, Iris Korn, Stephanie Burchfield, Barbara Muller
9
Gordon's War
20th Century Fox / Palomar Pictures
Ossie Davis (director); Howard Friedlander, Ed Spielman (screenplay); Paul Winfield , Carl Lee , David Downing , Tony King , Gilbert Lewis , Carl Gordon , Nathan Heard , Grace Jones , Adam Wade , Hansford Rowe , Ralph Wilcox , Jackie Page, Chuck Bergansky, Warren Taurien, David Connell, Rochelle LeNoir, Charles McGregor
10
Night Watch
AVCO Embassy Pictures / Brut Productions / Nightwatch Films
Brian G. Hutton (director); Tony Williamson , Evan Jones (screenplay); Elizabeth Taylor , Laurence Harvey , Billie Whitelaw , Robert Lang , Tony Britton , Bill Dean , Pauline Jameson , Linda Hayden , Kevin Colson , David Jackson , Michael Danvers-Walker, Rosario Serrano, Laon Maybanke
11
American Graffiti
Universal Pictures / Lucasfilm Ltd. / The Coppola Company
George Lucas (director/screenplay); Gloria Katz , Willard Huyck (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss , Ron Howard , Paul Le Mat , Charles Martin Smith , Candy Clark , Mackenzie Phillips , Cindy Williams , Wolfman Jack , Bo Hopkins , Manuel Padilla Jr. , Harrison Ford , Lynne Marie Stewart , Terry McGovern , Kathleen Quinlan , Scott Beach , Jana Bellan, Susan Richardson , Kay Ann Kemper , Joe Spano , Debralee Scott , Suzanne Somers
15
Cops and Robbers
United Artists
Aram Avakian (director); Donald E. Westlake (screenplay); Cliff Gorman , Joseph Bologna , Delphi Lawrence , Charlene Dallas , John P. Ryan , Dolph Sweet , Joe Spinell , Shepperd Strudwick , Frances Foster , Walt Gorney , Ellen Holly , Randy Jurgensen , Albert Henderson , Gayle Gorman, George Harris II, James Ferguson
Jesus Christ Superstar
Universal Pictures
Norman Jewison (director/screenplay); Melvyn Bragg (screenplay); Ted Neeley , Carl Anderson , Yvonne Elliman , Barry Dennen , Bob Bingham , Larry Marshall , Josh Mostel , Kurt Yaghjian , Philip Toubus
17
Happy Mother's Day, Love George
Cinema 5 Distributing
Darren McGavin (director); Robert Clouse (screenplay); Patricia Neal , Cloris Leachman , Bobby Darin , Tessa Dahl , Ron Howard , Kathie Browne , Joe Mascolo , Simon Oakland , Thayer David
Romeo and Juliet (re-release)
Paramount Pictures / BHE Films / Verona Produzione / Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
Franco Zeffirelli (director/screenplay); Franco Brusati , Masolino D'Amico (screenplay); Leonard Whiting , Olivia Hussey , Milo O'Shea , Michael York , John McEnery , Natasha Parry , Pat Heywood , Robert Stephens , Antonio Pierfederici , Esmeralda Ruspoli , Bruce Robinson , Keith Skinner , Roberto Antonelli, Paul Hardwick , Dyson Lovell , Richard Warwick , Roy Holder , Roberto Bisacco , Paola Tedesco , Bruno Filippini , Laurence Olivier
Westworld
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Michael Crichton (director/screenplay); Yul Brynner , Richard Benjamin , James Brolin , Alan Oppenheimer , Victoria Shaw , Dick Van Patten , Linda Gaye Scott , Steve Franken , Michael Mikler, Terry Wilson , Majel Barrett , Anne Randall , Robert Hogan , Kenneth Washington , Nora Marlowe , Charles Seel , Robert Patten
19
Electra Glide in Blue
United Artists / Guercio-Hitzig
James William Guercio (director); Robert Boris (screenplay); Robert Blake , Billy "Green" Bush , Mitchell Ryan , Jeannine Riley , Elisha Cook , Royal Dano , Hawk Wolinski , Peter Cetera , Terry Kath , Lee Loughnane , Walter Parazaider , Michael Butler , Nick Nolte , Joe Samsil, Jason Clark, Susan Forristal
Enter the Dragon
Warner Bros. / Concord Production Inc.
Robert Clouse (director); Michael Allin (screenplay); Bruce Lee , John Saxon , Ahna Capri , Bob Wall , Shih Kien , Jim Kelly , Angela Mao Ying , Betty Chung , Geoffrey Weeks, Yang Sze , Peter Archer , Jackie Chan
22
High Plains Drifter
Universal Pictures / The Malpaso Company
Clint Eastwood (director); Ernest Tidyman (screenplay); Clint Eastwood , Verna Bloom , Mariana Hill , Billy Curtis , Mitchell Ryan , Jack Ging , Stefan Gierasch , Ted Hartley , Geoffrey Lewis , Dan Vadis , Anthony James , Walter Barnes , Paul Brinegar , Richard Bull , Robert Donner , John Hillerman , John Quade , Buddy Van Horn , William O'Connell , Russ McCubbin , Reid Cruickshank, James Gosa, Scott Walker
26
Bang the Drum Slowly
Paramount Pictures / BTDS Partnership / ANJA Films
John Hancock (director); Mark Harris (screenplay); Robert De Niro , Michael Moriarty , Vincent Gardenia , Phil Foster , Heather MacRae , Ann Wedgeworth , Tom Ligon , Danny Aiello , Selma Diamond , Barbara Babcock , Patrick McVey , Marshall Efron
S E P T E M B E R
11
I Escaped from Devil's Island
United Artists / The Corman Company
William Witney (director); Richard DeLong Adams (screenplay); Jim Brown , Christopher George , James Luisi , Paul Richards , Richard Rust , Jan Merlin , Robert Phillips , Stephen Whittaker , Richard Ely, Bob Harris, Eduardo Rosas López, Jonathan Dodge, Quintín Bulnes, Gabriella Rios, Ana De Sade
14
Chino
Intercontinental Releasing Corporation / Produzioni De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company / Coral Producciones Cinematográficas / Universal Productions France
Duilio Coletti , John Sturges (directors); Clair Huffaker (screenplay); Charles Bronson , Jill Ireland , Marcel Bozzuffi , Vincent Van Patten , Fausto Tozzi , Ettore Manni , Corrado Gaipa , Melissa Chimenti
17
The Pyx
Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Harvey Hart (director); Robert Schlitt (screenplay); Karen Black , Christopher Plummer , Donald Pilon , Jean-Louis Roux , Jacques Godin , Robin Gammell , Yvette Brind'amour, Lee Broker, Terry Haig , Louise Rinfret
Santee
Crown International Pictures / American Video Cinema / Vagabond Productions / Eaves Movie Ranch
Gary Nelson (director); Brand Bell (screenplay); Glenn Ford , Michael Burns , Dana Wynter , Jay Silverheels , Harry Townes , John Larch , Robert Wilke , Robert Donner , John Bailey , X Brands , Chuck Courtney , Lindsay Crosby , John Hart , Russ McCubbin , Boyd Morgan , Taylor Lacher, Caruth C. Byrd, William Ford, Robert Mellard, Brad Merhage, Ben Zeller
18
Hit!
Paramount Pictures
Sidney J. Furie (director); Alan Trustman , David M. Wolf (screenplay); Billy Dee Williams , Richard Pryor , Paul Hampton , Gwen Welles , Sid Melton , Norman Burton , Yves Barsacq , Henri Cogan , Pierre Collet , Tina Andrews , Warren J. Kemmerling, Janet Brandt, Zooey Hall, Todd Martin, Jenny Astruc, Jean-Claude Bercq
21
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
United Artists
Ivan Dixon (director); Melvin Clay, Sam Greenlee (screenplay); Lawrence Cook , Paula Kelly , J.A. Preston , Joe Mascolo , Janet League, Paul Butler, Don Blakely, David Lemieux, Jack Aaron, Elaine Aiken, Beverly Gill, Bob Hill, Martin Golar
23
Harry in Your Pocket
United Artists
Bruce Geller (director); James Buchanan, Ronald Austin (screenplay); James Coburn , Michael Sarrazin , Trish Van Devere , Walter Pidgeon
26
The Slams
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Penelope Productions
Jonathan Kaplan (director); Richard DeLong Adams (screenplay); Jim Brown , Judy Pace , Paul Harris , Frank DeKova , Ted Cassidy , Quinn Redeker , Roland Bob Harris, Frenchia Guizon, John Dennis, Jac Emel
27
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Cinema 5
Fielder Cook (director); Blanche Hanalis (screenplay); Ingrid Bergman , Sally Prager, Johnny Doran , George Rose , Georgann Johnson , Richard Mulligan , Madeline Kahn , Donald Symington , Bruce Conover, Mike Hammett, Linda Selman
29
Kid Blue
20th Century Fox / Marvin Schwartz Productions
James Frawley (director); Edwin Shrake (screenplay); Dennis Hopper , Warren Oates , Peter Boyle , Ben Johnson , Lee Purcell , Janice Rule , Ralph Waite , Clifton James , Mary Jackson , Claude Ennis Starlett Jr. , Warren Finnerty , Richard Rust , Howard Hesseman , M. Emmet Walsh , Mel Stewart , Eddy Donno , José Torvay, Jay Varela, Owen Orr, Bobby Hall
October–December
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Title
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O C T O B E R
2
Mean Streets
Warner Bros. / Taplin-Perry-Scorsese Productions
Martin Scorsese (director/screenplay); Mardik Martin (screenplay); Harvey Keitel , Robert De Niro , David Proval , Amy Robinson , Victor Argo , Richard Romanus , Cesare Danova , George Memmoli , Harry Northup , Martin Scorsese , David Carradine , Vincent Price , Catherine Scorsese
4
The Final Programme
New World Pictures / Goodtimes Enterprises / Gladiole Films
Robert Fuest (director/screenplay); Jon Finch , Jenny Runacre , Hugh Griffith , Patrick Magee , Sterling Hayden , Ronald Lacey , Harry Andrews , Graham Crowden , George Coulouris , Basil Henson , Derrick O'Connor , Sarah Douglas , Sandy Ratcliff , Julie Ege , Gilles Millinaire, Sandra Dickinson
15
Badlands
Warner Bros.
Terrence Malick (director/screenplay); Martin Sheen , Sissy Spacek , Warren Oates , Ramon Bieri , Alan Vint , John Carter , Bryan Montgomery , Terrence Malick , Charlie Sheen , Emilio Estevez
16
Don't Look Now
Paramount Pictures
Nicolas Roeg (director); Allan Scott , Chris Bryant (screenplay); Julie Christie , Donald Sutherland , Hilary Mason , Clelia Matania , Massimo Serato , Renato Scarpa , Leopoldo Trieste , David Tree , Giorgio Trestini, Ann Rye, Nicholas Salter, Sharon Williams, Bruno Cattaneo, Adelina Poerio
The Paper Chase
20th Century Fox
James Bridges (director/screenplay); Timothy Bottoms , Lindsay Wagner , John Houseman , Graham Beckel , James Naughton , Edward Herrmann , Craig Richard Nelson , Lenny Baker , David Clennon , Regina Baff , Blair Brown , Bob Lydiard
Scalawag
Paramount Pictures / The Bryna Company
Kirk Douglas (director); Sid Fleischman , Albert Maltz (screenplay); Kirk Douglas , Mark Lester , Neville Brand , George Eastman , Don Stroud , Lesley-Anne Down , Danny DeVito , Mel Blanc , Phil Brown , Stole Arandelovic , Fabijan Sovagovic , Davor Antolic, Shaft Douglas
19
Charley Varrick
Universal Pictures
Don Siegel (director); Dean Riesner , Howard Rodman (screenplay); Walter Matthau , Andy Robinson , Joe Don Baker , John Vernon , Sheree North , Felicia Farr , Norman Fell , Woodrow Parfrey , William Schallert , Jacqueline Scott , Benson Fong , Marjorie Bennett , Tom Tully , Kathleen O'Malley , Albert Popwell , Bob Steele , Don Siegel , Joe Conforte , James Nolan , Charles Matthau , Hope Summers , Monica Lewis , Christina Hart , Craig R. Baxley
The House in Nightmare Park
Anglo-EMI
Peter Sykes (director); Clive Exton , Terry Nation (screenplay); Frankie Howerd , Ray Milland , Hugh Burden , Kenneth Griffith , John Bennett , Rosalie Crutchley , Ruth Dunning , Elizabeth MacLennan , Aimée Delamain , Peter Munt
The Outfit
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
John Flynn (director/screenplay); Robert Duvall , Karen Black , Joe Don Baker , Robert Ryan , Timothy Carey , Richard Jaeckel , Sheree North , Felice Orlandi , Marie Windsor , Jane Greer , Henry Jones , Joanna Cassidy , Tom Reese , Elisha Cook , Bill McKinney , Anita O'Day , Archie Moore , Tony Young , Roland La Starza , Roy Roberts , Emile Meyer , Roy Jenson , Bern Hoffman , John Steadman , Paul Genge , Francis de Sales , Army Archerd , Tony Trabert , Lee de Broux , Jeannine Riley , George Savalas
The Way We Were
Columbia Pictures / Rastar
Sydney Pollack (director); Arthur Laurents (screenplay); Barbra Streisand , Robert Redford , Bradford Dillman , Lois Chiles , Patrick O'Neal , Viveca Lindfors , Allyn Ann McLerie , Murray Hamilton , Herb Edelman , Diana Ewing , Sally Kirkland , Marcia Mae Jones , Don Keefer , George Gaynes , Roy Jenson , James Woods , Constance Forslund , Robert Gerringer , Susan Blakely , Susanne Zenor , Marvin Hamlisch
21
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Columbia Pictures / Rastar
Gilbert Cates (director); Stewart Stern (screenplay); Joanne Woodward , Martin Balsam , Sylvia Sidney , Tresa Hughes , Dori Brenner , Nancy Andrews , Minerva Pious , Ron Rickards, Win Forman, Peter Marklin, Sol Frieder, Helen Ludlam, Grant Code, Gaetano Lisi, Lee Jackson
23
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Paramount Pictures
Hall Bartlett (director/screenplay); James Franciscus , Juliet Mills , Hal Holbrook , Dorothy McGuire , Richard Crenna , Philip Ahn , Kelly Harmon , David Ladd
24
The All-American Boy
Warner Bros.
Charles Eastman (director/screenplay); Jon Voight , Art Metrano , Jeanne Cooper , Bob Hastings , E. J. Peaker , Ned Glass , Anne Archer , Harry Northup , Rosalind Cash , Leigh French , Jaye P. Morgan , Nancie Phillips, Kathy Mahoney, Carole Androsky, Peggy Cowles, Ray Ballard, Ron Burns, Gene Borkan, Jeff Thompson, Mac Chandler, Owen Harian
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Five on the Black Hand Side
United Artists
Oscar Williams (director); Charlie L. Russell (screenplay); Clarice Taylor , Leonard Jackson , Virginia Capers , Glynn Turman , D'Urville Martin , Dick Anthony Williams , Ja'net Dubois , Carl Franklin , Godfrey Cambridge , Sonny Jim Gaines, Bonnie Banfield
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The Homecoming
American Film Theatre
Peter Hall (director); Harold Pinter (screenplay); Paul Rogers , Ian Holm , Cyril Cusack , Terence Rigby , Michael Jayston , Vivien Merchant
The Iceman Cometh
American Film Theatre
John Frankenheimer (director); Thomas Quinn Curtiss (screenplay); Lee Marvin , Fredric March , Robert Ryan , Jeff Bridges , Bradford Dillman , Sorrell Booke , Hildy Brooks , Juno Dawson, Evans Evans , Martyn Green , Moses Gunn , Clifton James , John McLiam , Stephen Pearlman , Tom Pedi , George Voskovec
That'll Be the Day
Anglo-EMI Film Distributors
Claude Whatham (director); Ray Connolly (screenplay); David Essex , Ringo Starr , Rosemary Leach , James Booth , Billy Fury , Rosalind Ayres , Keith Moon , Robert Lindsay , Deborah Watling , Brenda Bruce , Beth Morris , Daphne Oxenford , Kim Braden , Johnny Shannon , Karl Howman , Sue Holderness , Érin Geraghty , Sacha Puttnam, Peter Turner
N O V E M B E R
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Ash Wednesday
Paramount Pictures / Sagittarius Productions
Larry Peerce (director); Jean-Claude Tramont (screenplay); Elizabeth Taylor , Henry Fonda , Helmut Berger , Keith Baxter , Maurice Teynac , Margaret Blye , Monique van Vooren , Dina Sassoli , Dino Mele, Kathy Van Lypps, Carlo Puri, Andrea Esterhazy, Jill Pratt, Irina Wassilchikoff, Maximilian Windisch-Graetz, Nadia Stancioff, Rodolfo Lodi, Raymond Vignale, Jose De Vega , Samantha Starr, Elena Tricoli, Sandra Johnson
A Doll's House
Tomorrow Entertainment
Joseph Losey (director); David Mercer (screenplay); Jane Fonda , David Warner , Trevor Howard , Delphine Seyrig , Edward Fox , Anna Wing , Ingrid Natrud, Pierre Oudry, Morten Floor, Tone Floor, Frode Lien, Dagfinn Hertzberg, Ellen Holm
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Executive Action
National General Pictures
David Miller (director); Dalton Trumbo (screenplay); Burt Lancaster , Robert Ryan , Will Geer , John Anderson , Paul Carr , Ed Lauter , Walter Brooke , John Brascia , Richard Bull , Sidney Clute , Lee Delano , Lloyd Gough , Rick Hurst , Robert Karnes , James MacColl , Joaquín Martínez , Dick Miller , Hunter von Leer , Sandy Ward , Rutanya Alda , George Aiken , Eugene Carson Blake , Leonid Brezhnev , Earle Cabell , John Connally , Nellie Connally , Patrick Dean , Everett Dirksen , William C. Foster , J. William Fulbright , William Greer , Andrei Gromyko , Clint Hill , Hubert H. Humphrey , Lady Bird Johnson , Lyndon B. Johnson , Roy Kellerman , Ed Kemmer , John F. Kennedy Jr. , Caroline Kennedy , Jacqueline Kennedy , John F. Kennedy , Robert F. Kennedy , Nikita Khrushchev , Malcolm Kilduff , Martin Luther King , Jim Leavelle , John Lewis , Robert McNamara , Lee Harvey Oswald , Ike Pappas , David F. Powers , Joachim Prinz , A. Philip Randolph , Sam Rayburn , Walter Reuther , Jack Ruby , Dean Rusk , Leverett Saltonstall , George A. Smathers , Lewis Strauss , Edward Teller , U Thant , Cyrus Vance , Henry M. Wade , Roy Wilkins , Whitney Young , Gilbert Green, Colby Chester, Oscar Oncidi, Paul Sorenson, William Watson
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Carry On Girls
The Rank Organisation
Gerald Thomas (director); Talbot Rothwell (screenplay); Sid James , Barbara Windsor , Joan Sims , Kenneth Connor , Bernard Bresslaw , June Whitfield , Peter Butterworth , Jack Douglas , Patsy Rowlands , Jimmy Logan , Margaret Nolan , Valerie Leon , Joan Hickson , David Lodge , Angela Grant , Sally Geeson , Wendy Richard , Arnold Ridley , Robin Askwith , Patricia Franklin , Brian Osborne , Bill Pertwee , Marianne Stone , Brenda Cowling , Pauline Peart , Michael Nightingale , Hugh Futcher , Ron Tarr , Zena Clifton, Laraine Humphrys, Caroline Whitaker, Barbara Wise, Carol Wyler, Mavis Fyson
Robin Hood
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Wolfgang Reitherman (director); Larry Clemmons , Ken Anderson , Vance Gerry , Frank Thomas , Eric Cleworth, Julius Svendsen, David Michener (screenplay); Peter Ustinov , Phil Harris , Brian Bedford , Terry-Thomas , Roger Miller , Pat Buttram , George Lindsey , Andy Devine , Monica Evans , Carole Shelley , Ken Curtis , John Fiedler , Barbara Luddy , Candy Candido , J. Pat O'Malley , Don Bluth , Stan Freberg , Hal Smith , Billy Whitaker, Dana Laurita, Dori Whitaker, Richie Sanders
12
A Delicate Balance
American Film Theatre
Tony Richardson (director); Edward Albee (screenplay); Katharine Hepburn , Paul Scofield , Lee Remick , Kate Reid , Joseph Cotten , Betsy Blair
14
The Don Is Dead
Universal Pictures
Richard Fleischer (director); Christopher Trumbo , Marvin H. Albert , Michael Butler (screenplay); Anthony Quinn , Frederic Forrest , Robert Forster , Al Lettieri , Angel Tompkins , Charles Cioffi , Barry Russo, Louis Zorich , Ina Balin , Joe Santos , Frank DeKova , Abe Vigoda , Victor Argo , Val Bisoglio , Robert Carricart , Sid Haig , Vic Tayback , Bobby Bass , Dick Crockett , Lee Delano , Nick Dimitri , Bob Hoy , Roland La Starza , Tanya Lemani , George Robotham , Carlos Romero , Ted White
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Arnold
Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Fenady Associates / Bing Crosby Productions
Georg Fenady (director); Jameson Brewer, John Fenton Murray (screenplay); Stella Stevens , Roddy McDowall , Elsa Lanchester , Shani Wallis , Farley Granger , Victor Buono , John McGiver , Bernard Fox , Patric Knowles , Jamie Farr , Ben Wright , Murray Matheson , Norman Stuart, Wanda Bailey, Steven Marlo, Leslie Thompson
18
Breezy
Universal Pictures / The Malpaso Company
Clint Eastwood (director); Jo Heims (screenplay); William Holden , Kay Lenz , Roger C. Carmel , Marj Dusay , Joan Hotchkis , Jamie Smith-Jackson, Norman Bartold , Lynn Borden , Shelley Morrison , Dennis Olivieri , Eugene Peterson, Richard Bull , Don Diamond , Sandy Kenyon , Buck Young , Priscilla Morrill , Clint Eastwood
England Made Me
Cine Globe / Atlantic Productions / Centralni Filmski Studio / Two World Film
Peter Duffell (director/screenplay); Desmond Cory (screenplay); Peter Finch , Michael York , Hildegarde Neil , Joss Ackland , Michael Hordern , Tessa Wyatt , Michael Sheard , Richard Gibson , Lalla Ward , Demeter Bitenc , Vladan Živković , William Baskiville, Vlado Bacic, Mirjana Nikolic
20
The Affair
ABC / Sony Pictures Television / Spelling-Goldberg Productions
Gilbert Cates (director); Barbara Turner (screenplay); Natalie Wood , Robert Wagner , Bruce Davison , Jamie Smith-Jackson, Pat Harrington Jr. , Kent Smith , Paul Ryan , Frances Reid , Mark Roberts , Anna Karen , Victoria Carroll , Anna Aries, Steve Riskas, Brett Ericson, Robert Stull, Paul Pepper, Suzanne Taylor, Keith Walker, Marland Proctor
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Hex
20th Century Fox / Max L. Raab Productions
Leo Garen (director/screenplay); Stephen Katz (screenplay); Keith Carradine , Scott Glenn , Hillarie Thompson , Tina Herazo , Gary Busey , Dan Haggerty , Robert Walker , Iggie Wolfington , Mike Combs, Doria Cook, Tom Jones
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Fly Me
New World Pictures / Premiere Productions
Cirio Santiago (director); Miller Drake (screenplay); Pat Anderson , Lenore Kasdorf , Richard Young , Naomi Stevens , Richard Miller , Vic Diaz , Lyllah Torena, Ken Metcalfe, Richard Roake
The Holy Mountain
ABKCO Films / Producciones Zohar
Alejandro Jodorowsky (director/screenplay); Alejandro Jodorowsky , Juan Ferrara , Blanca Sánchez , Horacio Salinas, Ramona Saunders, Adriana Page, Burt Kleiner, Valerie Jodorowsky, Nicky Nichols, Richard Rutowsky, Luis Lomelí, Ana de Sade, David Silva, Basilio González, Lupita Peruyero, Héctor Ortega, Connie de la Mora, Leticia Robles
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Flesh for Frankenstein
Bryanston Distributing Company / Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
Paul Morrissey (director/screenplay); Joe Dallesandro , Udo Kier , Monique van Vooren , Dalila Di Lazzaro , Nicoletta Elmi , Liù Bosisio , Cristina Gaioni , Arno Juerging, Srdjan Zelenovic, Marco Liofredi
D E C E M B E R
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Serpico
Paramount Pictures / Artists Entertainments Complex, Inc. / Produzion De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company S.P.A.
Sidney Lumet (director); Waldo Salt , Norman Wexler (screenplay); Al Pacino , John Randolph , Jack Kehoe , Biff McGuire , Edward Grover , Tony Roberts , Allan Rich , Albert Henderson , Hank Garrett , Damien Leake , Joseph Bova , Alan North , Woodie King Jr. , James Tolkan , Bernard Barrow , Mildred Clinton , Nathan George , Richard Foronjy , Lewis J. Stadlen , M. Emmet Walsh , Ted Beniades , F. Murray Abraham , Val Bisoglio , Sully Boyar , John Brandon , Sam Coppola , Judd Hirsch , Bianca Hunter , Tony Lo Bianco , Kenneth McMillan , Stephen Pearlman , Jaime Sánchez , Tracey Walter , Charles Weldon , Mary Louise Weller , Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe
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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Walter Shenson Films
Joseph McGrath (director); Charles Isaacs, Michael Pertwee (screenplay); Jim Dale , Angela Douglas , Spike Milligan , John Bluthal , Milo O'Shea , Norman Rossington , Richard Beaumont , Dinsdale Landen , Garfield Morgan , Victor Spinetti , Harry Towb , Kenneth J. Warren , Bob Todd , Molly Urquhart , Frank Thornton , Victor Maddern , Sheila Steafel
Fantastic Planet
New World Pictures / Les Films Armorial / Ceskoslovenský Filmexport
René Laloux (director/screenplay); Roland Topor (screenplay); Cynthia Adler, Mark Gruner , Hal Smith , Barry Bostwick , Olan Soule , Marvin Miller , Janet Waldo , Nora Heflin, Monika Ramirez
Marco
Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Tomorrow Entertainment / Videocraft International
Seymour Robbie (director); Romeo Muller (screenplay); Desi Arnaz Jr. , Jack Weston , Zero Mostel , Fred Sadoff , Tetsu Nakamura , Van Christie , Masumi Okada , Romeo Muller , Cie Cie Win, Aimee Eccles, Mafumi Sakamoto, Osamu Okawa, Yuka Kamebuchi, Ikio Sawamura
The Wicker Man
Warner Bros.
Robin Hardy (director); Anthony Shaffer (screenplay); Edward Woodward , Christopher Lee , Britt Ekland , Annie Ross , Lesley Mackie , Diane Cilento , Ingrid Pitt , Lindsay Kemp , Russell Waters , Aubrey Morris , Irene Sunters , Donald Eccles , Walter Carr , Roy Boyd , Peter Brewis , Geraldine Cowper , John Young , Barbara Rafferty , John Sharp , John Hallam , Tony Roper , Rachel Verney, Jennifer Martin, Myra Forsyth, Alison Hughes
9
Treasure Island
Warner Bros.
Hal Sutherland (director); Ben Starr (screenplay); Richard Dawson , Davy Jones , Dal McKennon , Larry D. Mann , Larry Storch , Jane Webb , Lou Scheimer
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The Three Musketeers
20th Century Fox
Richard Lester (director); George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay); Oliver Reed , Raquel Welch , Richard Chamberlain , Michael York , Frank Finlay , Christopher Lee , Geraldine Chaplin , Simon Ward , Faye Dunaway , Charlton Heston , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Spike Milligan , Roy Kinnear , Georges Wilson , Nicole Calfan , Michael Gothard , Sybil Danning , Gitty Djamal , Joss Ackland , Gretchen Franklin , Ángel del Pozo , Francis de Wolff , Richard Briers , Michael Hordern
12
The Last Detail
Columbia Pictures / Acrobat Productions / Bright-Persky Associates
Hal Ashby (director); Robert Towne (screenplay); Jack Nicholson , Otis Young , Randy Quaid , Clifton James , Carol Kane , Michael Moriarty , Nancy Allen , Gilda Radner , Kathleen Miller , Luana Anders , Patricia Hamilton , Michael Chapman , Jim Henshaw , Derek McGrath , Hal Ashby , Gerald Ayres
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?
Gaumont Film Company
Robert Lamoureux (director/screenplay); Pierre Mondy , Jean Lefebvre , Aldo Maccione , Robert Lamoureux , Pierre Tornade , Robert Dalban , Jacques Marin , Robert Rollis , Erik Colin, Alain Doutey
14
My Name is Nobody
Universal Pictures / Rafran Cinematografica / Les Filmes Jacques Leitienne / La Societe Im. Ex. Ci. / La Societe Alcinter / Rialto Film Preben Philpsen
Tonino Valerii (director); Ernesto Gastaldi (screenplay); Terence Hill , Henry Fonda , Jean Martin , R.G. Armstrong , Leo Gordon , Steve Kanaly , Geoffrey Lewis , Piero Lulli , Mario Brega , Benito Stefanelli , Alexander Allerson , Antoine Saint-John , Franco Angrisano , Carla Mancini , Karl Braun, Neil Summers , Marc Mazza, Rainer Peets, Tommy Polgár, Antonio Palombi, Hubert Mittendorf, Emil Feist, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Angelo Novi
Superdad
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Vincent McEveety (director); Joseph L. McEveety, Harlan Ware (screenplay); Bob Crane , Barbara Rush , Kurt Russell , Joe Flynn , Kathleen Cody , Joby Baker , Dick Van Patten , Bruno Kirby , Judith Lowry , Ivor Francis , Jonathan Daly , Naomi Stevens , Nicholas Hammond , Jack Manning , Larry Gelman , Stephen Dunne , Leon Belasco , Ed Begley Jr. , Michael Rupert
The Seven-Ups
20th Century Fox
Philip D'Antoni (director); Albert Ruben, Alexander Jacobs (screenplay); Roy Scheider , Tony Lo Bianco , Larry Haines , Richard Lynch , Bill Hickman , Victor Arnold , Ken Kercheval , Joe Spinell , Rex Everhart , Frances Chaney , Jerry Leon, Lou Polan, Matt Russo, Robert Burr, David Wilson, Ed Jordan, Mary Multari, Benny Marino, Bill Funaro
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Hell Up in Harlem
American International Pictures
Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Fred Williamson , Julius Harris , Gloria Hendry , Margaret Avery , D'Urville Martin , Tony King , Esther Sutherland , Gerald Gordon, Bobby Ramsen, James Dixon, Charles MacGuire
Papillon
Allied Artists / Les Films Corona / General Production Company
Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Dalton Trumbo , Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay); Steve McQueen , Dustin Hoffman , Victor Jory , Don Gordon , Anthony Zerbe , Robert Deman , Woodrow Parfrey , Bill Mumy , George Coulouris , Ratna Assan, William Smithers , Val Avery , Gregory Sierra , Vic Tayback , Mills Watson , Ron Soble , Barbara Morrison, Don Hanmer , E.J. André , Len Lesser , John Quade , Fred Sadoff , Liam Dunn , Peter Brocco , Richard Farnsworth , Harry Monty , Dalton Trumbo
17
Sleeper
United Artists
Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Marshall Brickman (screenplay); Woody Allen , Diane Keaton , John Beck , Mary Gregory, Don Keefer , John McLiam , Bartlett Robinson , Chris Forbes, Marya Small , Peter Hobbs , Brian Avery, Spencer Milligan , Stanley Ralph Ross , Regis Cordic , Howard Cosell , George Furth , Seamon Glass , Charles H. Gray , Jerry Hardin , Harry Holcombe , Jackie Mason , Read Morgan , Richard Nixon , Albert Popwell , Douglas Rain , Whitney Rydbeck
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Amarcord
New World Pictures
Federico Fellini (director/screenplay); Tonino Guerra (screenplay); Bruno Zanin , Magali Noël , Pupella Maggio , Armando Brancia , Ciccio Ingrassia , Alvaro Vitali , Maria Antonietta Beluzzi , Giuseppe Ianigro, Nando Orfei, Stefano Proietti, Donatella Gambini, Gianfranco Marrocco, Ferdinando De Felice, Bruno Lenzi, Bruno Scagnetti, Francesco Vona, Josiane Tanzilli
Cinderella Liberty
20th Century Fox
Mark Rydell (director); Darryl Ponicsan (screenplay); James Caan , Marsha Mason , Kirk Calloway, Eli Wallach , Burt Young , Dabney Coleman , Bruno Kirby , Allyn Ann McLerie , Allan Arbus , Fred Sadoff , Jon Korkes , Don Calfa , Sally Kirkland , Mark Rydell , David Proval , Christopher Rydell , Jon Locke
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The 14
MGM-EMI
David Hemmings (director); Roland Starke (screenplay); Jack Wild , June Brown , Liz Edmiston , Cheryl Hall , Anna Wing , John Bailey , Alun Armstrong , Keith Buckley , Malcolm Tierney , Diana Beevers, Tony Calvin, Chris Kelly, Frank Gentry, Peter Newby, Paul Daly, Richard Haywood
The Day of the Dolphin
AVCO Embassy Pictures
Mike Nichols (director); Buck Henry (screenplay); George C. Scott , Trish Van Devere , Paul Sorvino , Fritz Weaver , Jon Korkes , Edward Herrmann , Leslie Charleson , John David Carson , Victoria Racimo, John Dehner , Severn Darden , William Roerick , Elizabeth Wilson , Phyllis Davis , Florence Stanley , Brooke Hayward , Buck Henry
Willie Dynamite
Universal Pictures / The Zanuck/Brown Company
Gilbert Moses (director); Ron Cutler, Joe Keyes Jr. (screenplay); Roscoe Orman , Diana Sands , Thalmus Rasulala , Norma Donaldson , Roger Robinson , Albert Hall , George Murdock , Royce Wallace , Mary Charlotte Wilcox , Ted Gehring , Wynn Irwin , Nathaniel Taylor , Ken Lynch , Davis Roberts , Tol Avery , Calvin Brown , Robert DoQui , Slim Gaillard , Olan Soule , Clarice Taylor , Alan Weeks , George Wyner , Joyce Walker, Juanita Brown, Judith Brown, Marilyn Coleman, Marcia McBroom, Ron Henriquez
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Alvin Purple
Sands Film Company / Hexagon Productions
Tim Burstall (director); Alan Hopgood (screenplay); Graeme Blundell , George Whaley , Jacki Weaver , Penne Hackforth-Jones , Abigail , Noel Ferrier , Jill Forster , Lynette Curran , Christine Amor , Dina Mann , Fred Parslow , Elke Neidhardt , Kris McQuade , Anne Pendlebury , Jon Finlayson , Brian Moll , Peter Cummins , Carole Skinner , Elli Maclure, Dennis Miller, Valerie Blake, Alan Finney, Gary Down, Peter Aanensen, Jenny Hagen, Stan Monroe, Jan Friedl, Barbara Taylor
The Laughing Policeman
20th Century Fox
Stuart Rosenberg (director); Thomas Rickman (screenplay); Walter Matthau , Bruce Dern , Louis Gossett Jr. , Anthony Zerbe , Albert Paulsen , Val Avery , Paul Koslo , Cathy Lee Crosby , Mario Gallo , Joanna Cassidy , William Hansen , Louis Guss , Frances Lee McCain , Clifton James , Gregory Sierra , Warren Finnerty , Matt Clark , Leigh French , Anthony Costello , Sacheen Littlefeather
21
The Deadly Trackers
Warner Bros.
Barry Shear (director); Lukas Heller (screenplay); Richard Harris , Rod Taylor , Al Lettieri , Neville Brand , William Smith , Paul Benjamin , Pedro Armendáriz Jr. , Isela Vega , Kelly Jean Peters, William Bryant , Sean Marshall , Read Morgan , Ray Moyer
Jimi Hendrix
Warner Bros.
Joe Boyd , John Head, Gary Weis (directors); Eric Clapton , Billy Cox , Alan Douglas , Germaine Greer , Mick Jagger , Eddie Kramer , Buddy Miles , Mitch Mitchell , Juggy Murray , Little Richard , Lou Reed , Pete Townshend , Jimi Hendrix , Paul Caruso, James A. "Al" Hendrix
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The Sting
Universal Pictures / The Zanuck/Brown Company
George Roy Hill (director); David S. Ward (screenplay); Paul Newman , Robert Redford , Robert Shaw , Robert Earl Jones , Charles Durning , Ray Walston , Eileen Brennan , Harold Gould , John Heffernan , Dana Elcar , Jack Kehoe , Dimitra Arliss , James J. Sloyan , Charles Dierkop , Lee Paul , Sally Kirkland , Avon Long , Arch Johnson , Ed Bakey , Brad Sullivan , John Quade , Larry D. Mann , Leonard Barr , Paulene Myers , Joe Tornatore, Jack Collins , Tom Spratley , Kenneth O'Brien, Ken Sansom , Ta-Tanisha , William "Billy" Benedict , Robert Brubaker , Kathleen Freeman , Susan French , Byron Morrow
Magnum Force
Warner Bros. / The Malpaso Company
Ted Post (director); John Milius , Michael Cimino (screenplay); Clint Eastwood , Hal Holbrook , Mitchell Ryan , David Soul , Tim Matheson , Kip Niven , Robert Urich , Felton Perry , Margaret Avery , Bob McClurg, John Mitchum , Albert Popwell , Richard Devon , Christine White , Tony Giorgio , Maurice Argent , Paul D'Amato , Will Hutchins , Terence McGovern , Suzanne Somers , Robert Trebor , Carl Weathers , Johnny Weissmuller Jr. , Joseph Whipp , Clifford A. Pellow, Jack Kosslyn, Bob March, Adele Yoshioka
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The Exorcist
Warner Bros.
William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (screenplay); Ellen Burstyn , Max von Sydow , Lee J. Cobb , Kitty Winn , Jack MacGowran , Jason Miller , Linda Blair , Father William O'Malley , Father Thomas Bermingham , Peter Masterson , Robert Symonds , Barton Heyman, Rudolf Schündler , Arthur Storch , Titos Vandis , William Peter Blatty , Mercedes McCambridge , Eileen Dietz , Vasiliki Maliaros, Dick Callinan, Gina Petrushka
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Tidal Wave (Japan )
Toho
Shiro Moritani (director); Shinobu Hashimoto (screenplay); Keiju Kobayashi , Tetsuro Tamba , Ayumi Ishida , Hiroshi Fujioka , Yusuke Takita , Shōgo Shimada , Andrew Hughes , Nobuo Nakamura , Haruo Nakajima , Hideaki Nitani , Isao Natsuyagi , Akira Nagoya , Sakyo Komatsu
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See also
References
External links
American films of the 1970s