List of American films of 1976
This is a list of American films released in 1976 .
Box office
The highest-grossing American films released in 1976, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by The Numbers , are as follows:[ 1]
Highest-grossing films of 1976
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic gross
1
Rocky
United Artists
$117,235,147
2
To Fly!
IMAX Films
$86,600,000
3
A Star Is Born
Warner Bros.
$63,129,898
4
King Kong
Paramount
$52,614,445
5
Silver Streak
20th Century Fox
$51,079,064
6
All the President's Men
Warner Bros.
$51,048,435
7
The Omen
20th Century Fox
$48,570,885
8
The Enforcer
Warner Bros.
$46,200,000
9
Midway
Universal
$43,220,000
10
The Bad News Bears
Paramount
$42,349,782
January–March
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
J A N U A R Y
11
Jim the World's Greatest
Universal Pictures
Don Coscarelli (director/screenplay); Craig Mitchell (screenplay); Gregory Harrison , Reggie Bannister , Rory Guy , Marla Pennington , Robbie Wolcott, Karen McLain, David Lloyd
14
Killer Force
American International Pictures
Val Guest (director); Gerald Sanford, Michael Winder (screenplay); Telly Savalas , Peter Fonda , Hugh O'Brian , O. J. Simpson , Maud Adams , Christopher Lee , Ian Yule , Richard Loring , Clive Scott , Robert Drayton , Michael Mayer, Victor Melleney, Stuart Brown, Marina Christelis, Frank Shelley, Peter Van Dissel, Cocky Thlothlalemaje
18
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
Dimension Pictures Inc.
William Crain (director); Lawrence Woolner (screenplay); Bernie Casey , Rosalind Cash , Marie O'Henry, Ji-Tu Cumbuka , Milt Kogan , Stu Gilliam , Marc Alaimo , Elizabeth Robinson , Della Thomas
27
The Four Deuces
Embassy Pictures / AmeriEuro Pictures Corp
William H. Bushnell (director); C. Lester Franklin (screenplay); Jack Palance , Carol Lynley , Warren Berlinger , Adam Roarke , Gianni Russo , Hard Boiled Haggerty , Johnny Haymer , Martin Kove , Robert Deman , Carl Weathers , Lois Foraker , James Jeter , Robert Shayne , Cherie Latimer, E.J. Peaker, Damon Douglas, Ben Frommer, Mickey Morton, Jack O'Leary, Sierra Bandit, Isaac Goz, Lany Gustavson, David Jolliffe, Richard Molinare, Arnold Moreno, Rob Reece
F E B R U A R Y
4
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
20th Century Fox
Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); Lenny Baker , Shelley Winters , Ellen Greene , Lois Smith , Christopher Walken , Antonio Fargas , Mike Kellin , Lou Jacobi , Dori Brenner , Jeff Goldblum , Bill Murray , Joe Spinell , Stuart Pankin , Vincent Schiavelli , Rochelle Oliver , Rashel Novikoff, Michael Egan
6
Echoes of a Summer
United Artists
Don Taylor (director); Robert L. Joseph (screenplay); Jodie Foster , Richard Harris , Lois Nettleton , Brad Savage , Geraldine Fitzgerald , William Windom
9
Taxi Driver
Columbia Pictures / Bill/Phillips Productions / Italo-Judeo Productions
Martin Scorsese (director); Paul Schrader (screenplay); Robert De Niro , Jodie Foster , Albert Brooks , Harvey Keitel , Leonard Harris , Peter Boyle , Cybill Shepherd , Harry Northup , Victor Argo , Joe Spinell , Martin Scorsese , Steven Prince
10
Hot Potato
Warner Bros.
Oscar Williams (director/screenplay); Jim Kelly , George Memmoli , Irene Tsu , Ron Prince , Yuen Biao , Geoffrey Binney, Judith Brown, Sam Hiona, Hardy Stockmann, Metta Rungrat, Supakorn Songssermvorakul, Somchai Meekunsut, Veerapol Pitavan, Puchong Makaraj
11
Gable and Lombard
Universal Pictures
Sidney J. Furie (director); Barry Sandler (screenplay); James Brolin , Jill Clayburgh , Allen Garfield , Red Buttons , Joanne Linville , Melanie Mayron , Alice Backes , Ross Elliot , Morgan Brittany , Noah Keen , Alan Dexter , S. John Launer , William Bryant , Robert Karnes , Betsy Jones-Moreland , Aron Kincaid , Army Archerd , Frank Ashmore , Ivan Bonar , Bill Quinn
No Deposit, No Return
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Norman Tokar (director); Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson (screenplay); David Niven , Darren McGavin , Don Knotts , Herschel Bernardi , Charles Martin Smith , Barbara Feldon , Kim Richards , Brad Savage , John Williams , Vic Tayback , Robert Hastings , Louis Guss , Barney Phillips , James Hong , Stu Gilliam , Milt Kogan , Iris Adrian , Henry Slate , Richard O'Brien, Ruth Manning, Olive Dunbar
13
Jack and the Beanstalk
Columbia Pictures / Group TAC / Nippon Herald Films
Gisaburō Sugii (director); Shūji Hirami (screenplay); Billie Lou Watt , Corinne Orr , Ray Owens, Jack Grimes
15
Deadly Hero
AVCO Embassy Pictures / City Time Partners
Ivan Nagy (director); George Wislocki, Don Petersen (screenplay); Don Murray , Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones , Lilia Skala , Conchata Ferrell , George S. Irving , Ron Weyand, Treat Williams , Hank Garrett , Dick Anthony Williams , Josh Mostel , Rutanya Alda , Charles Siebert , Beverly Johnson , Chu Chu Malave , Danny DeVito , Deborah Harry
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Faces Distribution
John Cassavetes (director/screenplay); Ben Gazzara , Timothy Carey , Seymour Cassel , Morgan Woodward , Azizi Johari , Robert Phillips , Meade Roberts , Haji , Val Avery , John Finnegan , James Lew , John Red Kullers, Al Ruban, Virginia Carrington, Alice Friedland, Donna Marie Gordon, Carol Warren, Derna Wong Davis, Kathalina Veniero, Soto Joe Hugh
19
Grey Gardens
Portrait Films
David Maysles , Albert Maysles , Ellen Hovde , Muffie Meyer (directors); Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale , Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale , Norman Vincent Peale , Albert Maysles , David Maysles , Jerry Torre , Lois Wright , Brooks Hyers, Jack Helmuth
27
Griffin and Phoenix
ABC Circle Films
Daryl Duke (director); John Hill (screenplay); Peter Falk , Jill Clayburgh , Sally Kirkland , George Chandler , John Harkins , Ken Sansom , John Lehne, Dorothy Tristan, Ben Hammer, Milton Parsons, Randy Faustino, Steven Rogers, Rod Haase
M A R C H
3
The First Nudie Musical
Paramount Pictures
Mark Haggard (director); Bruce Kimmel (director/screenplay); Leslie Ackerman , Diana Canova , Bruce Kimmel , Cindy Williams , Frank Doubleday , Hy Pyke , Susan Buckner , Ron Howard , Alan Abelew, Stephen Nathan, Alexandra Morgan, Kathleen Hietata, Art Marino, Greg Finley, Herb Graham, Rene J. Hall, Susan Stewart, Jerry Hoffman, Wade Crookham, Eileen Ramsey, Claude Spence, Allison Cohen
5
Black Shampoo
Dimension Pictures
Greydon Clark (director/screenplay); Alvin L. Fast (screenplay); John Daniels , Tanya Boyd , Skip E. Lowe , Joe Ortiz, Gary Allen, Anne Gaybis, Jack Mehoff, Bruce Kerley
11
Creature from Black Lake
Howco International Pictures / Cinema Shares International Distribution / Jim McCullough Productions
Joy N. Houck Jr. (director/screenplay); Jack Elam , Dub Taylor , Dennis Fimple , John David Carson , Bill Thurman , Roy Tatum
Robin and Marian
Columbia Pictures / Rastar
Richard Lester (director); James Goldman (screenplay); Sean Connery , Audrey Hepburn , Robert Shaw , Nicol Williamson , Denholm Elliott , Ronnie Barker , Kenneth Haigh , Ian Holm , Richard Harris , Bill Maynard , Esmond Knight , Veronica Quilligan, Peter Butterworth , John Barrett , Kenneth Cranham , Victoria Abril
12
I Will, I Will... for Now
20th Century Fox / Brut Productions
Norman Panama (director/screenplay); Albert E. Lewin (screenplay); Elliott Gould , Diane Keaton , Paul Sorvino , Victoria Principal , Robert Alda , Warren Berlinger , Madge Sinclair , Candy Clark , Carmen Zapata , George Tyne , Renata Vanni
13
One Summer Love
American International Pictures
Gilbert Cates (director); N. Richard Nash (screenplay); Beau Bridges , Susan Sarandon , James Noble , Ann Wedgeworth , Linda Miller , Mildred Dunnock , Harriet Rogers, Martin Burke, Michael B. Miller
17
Moving Violation
20th Century Fox / Santa Fe Productions
Charles S. Dubin (director); David R. Osterhout, William Norton (screenplay); Stephen McHattie , Kay Lenz , Eddie Albert , Lonny Chapman , Will Geer , Jack Murdock , John S. Ragin , Francis De Sales , Dick Miller , Paul Linke , Dennis Redfield, Michael Ross Verona
18
The Man Who Fell to Earth
British Lion Films
Nicolas Roeg (director); Paul Mayersberg (screenplay); David Bowie , Rip Torn , Candy Clark , Buck Henry , Bernie Casey , Adrienne La Russa , Albert Nelson , Claudia Jennings , Jim Lovell , Jackson D. Kane, Rick Riccardo, Tony Mascia
Mustang Country
Universal Pictures
John C. Champion (director/screenplay); Joel McCrea , Robert Fuller , Patrick Wayne , Nika Mina
25
The Slipper and the Rose
Universal Pictures / David Paradine Productions
Bryan Forbes (director/screenplay); Robert B. Sherman , Richard M. Sherman (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain , Gemma Craven , Annette Crosbie , Edith Evans , Christopher Gable , Michael Hordern , Margaret Lockwood , Kenneth More , Lally Bowers , Julian Orchard , Rosalind Ayres , Sherrie Hewson , John Turner , Keith Skinner , Peter Graves , Polly Williams
26
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw
American International Pictures
Mark L. Lester (director); Vernon Zimmerman (screenplay); Lynda Carter , Marjoe Gortner , Jesse Vint , Gerrit Graham , Belinda Balaski , Peggy Stewart , Chuck Russell , Virgil Frye , James Gammon , Merrie Lynn Ross, Gene Drew, Richard Breeding, John Durren, Howard R. Kirk, Aly Yoder, Jesse Price, Jose Toledo
Ride a Wild Pony
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Don Chaffey (director); Rosemary Anne Sisson (screenplay); Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith , Michael Craig , John Meillon , Alfred Bell, Roy Haddrick, Peter Gwynne , Melissa Jaffer , Lorraine Bayly , Wendy Playfair , Kate Clarkson, Jessica Noad, Neva Carr Glyn , Gerry Duggan
Sky Riders
20th Century Fox
Douglas Hickox (director); Jack DeWitt , Stanley Mann , Garry Michael White (screenplay); James Coburn , Susannah York , Robert Culp , Charles Aznavour , Harry Andrews , John Beck , Zouzou , Kenneth Griffith , Werner Pochath , Barbara Trentham , Henry Brown , Anthony Antypas, Ernie F. Orsatti
31
W.C. Fields and Me
Universal Pictures
Arthur Hiller (director); Bob Merrill (screenplay); Rod Steiger , Valerie Perrine , Jack Cassidy , John Marley , Bernadette Peters , Dana Elcar , Paul Stewart , Billy Barty , Allan Arbus , Milt Kamen , Louis Zorich , Andrew Parks , Linda Purl , Dennis Alwood, Selma Archerd , Donald Briggs , Frank De Vol , Eddie Firestone , Paul Mantee , Carlotta Monti , Kenneth Tobey
April–June
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
A P R I L
1
Caddie
Roadshow Entertainment / Umbrella Entertainment
Donald Crombie (director); Joan Long (screenplay); Helen Morse , Takis Emmanuel, Jack Thompson , Jacki Weaver , Melissa Jaffer , Ron Blanchard , Drew Forsythe , Lynette Curran , June Salter , John Ewart , John Gaden , Lucky Grills , Robyn Nevin , Kirily Nolan, Jane Harders , Philip Hinton, Mary Mackay, Sean Hinton, Marianne Howard
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
20th Century Fox
Melvin Frank (director/screenplay); Barry Sandler , Jack Rose (screenplay); George Segal , Goldie Hawn , Conrad Janis , Thayer David , Jennifer Lee , Pat Ast , Dick Farnsworth , Roy Jenson , Sid Gould, E. J. André , Clifford Turknett, Bob Hoy, Bennie Dobbins , Walter Scott, Jerry Gatlin
2
Lipstick
Paramount Pictures
Lamont Johnson (director); David Rayfiel (screenplay); Margaux Hemingway , Chris Sarandon , Mariel Hemingway , Anne Bancroft , Perry King , Robin Gammell , John Bennett Perry , Francesco Scavullo , Meg Wyllie , Inga Swenson , Catherine McLeod , Lauren Jones
5
The Blue Bird
20th Century Fox / Lenfilm
George Cukor (director); Hugh Whitemore , Alfred Hayes , Aleksei Kapler (screenplay); Elizabeth Taylor , Jane Fonda , Cicely Tyson , Will Geer , Nadezhda Pavlova , Ava Gardner , Robert Morley , Leonid Nevedomsky , Harry Andrews , Todd Lookinland, Patsy Kensit , Mona Washbourne , George Cole , Richard Pearson , Georgiy Vitsin , Margarita Terekhova , Oleg Popov , Valentina Ganibalova, Eugene Shcherbakov, Grant Bardsley
7
The Bad News Bears
Paramount Pictures
Michael Ritchie (director); Bill Lancaster (screenplay); Walter Matthau , Tatum O'Neal , Vic Morrow , Joyce Van Patten , Ben Piazza , Chris Barnes , Jackie Earle Haley , Alfred W. Lutter , Brett Marx , Brandon Cruz , Erin Blunt, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Quinn Smith, David Stambaugh, Jaime Escobedo, George Gonzales, David Pollock, Scott Firestone
Sparkle
Warner Bros. / RSO
Sam O'Steen (director); Joel Schumacher (screenplay); Irene Cara , Philip M. Thomas , Lonette McKee , Dwan Smith , Mary Alice , Dorian Harewood , Tony King , Beatrice Winde , Paul Lambert , Armelia McQueen , DeWayne Jessie , Norma Miller , Bob Delegall , Don Bexley , Ken Renard , Renn Woods , Joyce Easton, Talya Ferro
9
All the President's Men
Warner Bros. / Wildwood Enterprises
Alan J. Pakula (director); William Goldman (screenplay); Robert Redford , Dustin Hoffman , Jack Warden , Martin Balsam , Hal Holbrook , Jason Robards , Jane Alexander , Stephen Collins , Ned Beatty , Meredith Baxter , Penny Fuller , Penny Peyser , Lindsay Crouse , Robert Walden , F. Murray Abraham , David Arkin , Richard Herd , Dominic Chianese , Ron Hale , Nicolas Coster , Joshua Shelley , Polly Holliday , James Karen , Basil Hoffman , John McMartin , Paul Lambert , Richard Venture , John Furlong , Valerie Curtin , Jess Osuna , Allyn Ann McLerie , Christopher Murray , Frank Wills , Cara Duff-MacCormick , John Randolph , Henry Calvert, Nate Esformes, Ralph Williams, Gene Lindsey, Carol Trost, Stanley Bennett Clay, John Devlin
Family Plot
Universal Pictures
Alfred Hitchcock (director); Ernest Lehman (screenplay); Bruce Dern , Barbara Harris , William Devane , Karen Black , Cathleen Nesbitt , Ed Lauter , Katherine Helmond , Nicholas Colasanto , Edith Atwater , William Prince , Marge Redmond , Charles Tyner , Alexander Lockwood , Martin West , Elisabeth Brooks , Alan Fudge , Richard Hale , Louise Lorimer , Harriet E. MacGibbon , Fran Ryan , John Steadman , Vernon Weddle , Darrell Zwerling , Alfred Hitchcock
11
Jackson County Jail
United Artists / New World Pictures
Michael Miller (director); Donald E. Stewart (screenplay); Yvette Mimieux , Tommy Lee Jones , Robert Carradine , Severn Darden , Howard Hesseman , John Lawlor , Britt Leach , Nan Martin , Mary Woronov , Cliff Emmich , Betty Thomas , Hal Needham , Donald E. Stewart
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
AVCO Embassy Pictures / Haworth Productions by Martin-Poll Lewis John Carlino Production Sailor Company
Lewis John Carlino (director/screenplay); Sarah Miles , Kris Kristofferson , Earl Rhodes , Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham, Paul Tropea
14
The River Niger
Cine Artists Pictures / Continental Video / Reel Media International
Krishna Shah (director); Joseph A. Walker (screenplay); Cicely Tyson , James Earl Jones , Louis Gossett Jr. , Glynn Turman , Jonelle Allen , Roger E. Mosley , Ralph Wilcox , Teddy Wilson , Charles Weldon , Zakes Mokae , Tony Burton
23
Eat My Dust!
New World Pictures
Charles B. Griffith (director/screenplay); Ron Howard , Christopher Norris , Clint Howard , Charles Howerton , Rance Howard , Dave Madden , Robert Broyles , Paul Bartel , Corbin Bernsen , Don Brodie , Brad David, Kathy O'Dare, Peter Isacksen, Jessica Potter, Warren J. Kemmerling, Kedric Wolfe, John Kramer, W.L. Luckey
Stay Hungry
United Artists
Bob Rafelson (director/screenplay); Charles Gaines (screenplay); Jeff Bridges , Sally Field , Arnold Schwarzenegger , R.G. Armstrong , Robert Englund , Helena Kallianiotes , Roger E. Mosley , Woodrow Parfrey , Scatman Crothers , Kathleen Miller , Fannie Flagg
25
Hollywood Boulevard
New World Pictures
Allan Arkush , Joe Dante (directors); Danny Opatoshu (screenplay); Candice Rialson , Mary Woronov , Rita George, Jeffrey Kramer , Dick Miller , Richard Doran , Tara Strohmeier , Paul Bartel , John Kramer, Jonathan Kaplan , Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
M A Y
5
Baby Blue Marine
Columbia Pictures / Spelling-Goldberg Productions
John D. Hancock (director); Stanford Whitmore (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent , Glynnis O'Connor , Katherine Helmond , Dana Elcar , Bert Remsen , Bruno Kirby , Richard Gere , Art Lund , Michael Conrad , Allan Miller , Will Seltzer , Kenneth Tobey , Lelia Goldoni
16
Escape from the Dark
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Charles Jarrott (director); Rosemary Anne Sisson (screenplay); Alastair Sim , Peter Barkworth , Maurice Colbourne , Susan Tebbs, Andrew Harrison, Chloe Franks , Benjie Bolgar, Prunella Scales , Leslie Sands , Joe Gladwin , Jeremy Bulloch , Rich Moore
Grizzly
Film Ventures International / Columbia Pictures
William Girdler (director); David Sheldon (director/screenplay); Harvey Flaxman (screenplay); Christopher George , Andrew Prine , Richard Jaeckel , Joan McCall , Mike Clifford , Joe Dorsey, Charles Kissinger
That's Entertainment, Part II
United Artists
Gene Kelly (director); Leonard Gershe (screenplay); Fred Astaire , Gene Kelly , Abbott & Costello , Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson , Louis Armstrong , Lew Ayres , John Barrymore , Lionel Barrymore , Wallace Beery , Robert Benchley , Constance Bennett , Jack Benny , Jack Buchanan
19
The Missouri Breaks
United Artists
Arthur Penn (director); Thomas McGuane (screenplay); Marlon Brando , Jack Nicholson , Randy Quaid , Kathleen Lloyd , Frederic Forrest , Harry Dean Stanton , John McLiam , John Ryan , Sam Gilman , Steve Franken , Richard Bradford , James Greene , Luana Anders , Danny Goldman , Hunter von Leer , Virgil Frye , Charles Wagenheim , R.L. Armstrong, Dan Ades, Dorothy Neumann, Vern Chandler
The Premonition
AVCO Embassy Pictures / Movicorp Media
Robert Schnitzer (director/screenplay); Anthony Mahon (screenplay); Sharon Farrell , Danielle Brisebois , Richard Lynch , Jeff Corey , Robert Harper , Edward Bell, Ellen Barber, Chitra Neogy, Margaret Graham, Rosemary McNamara, Thomas Williams, Roy White
21
1900
Paramount Pictures
Bernardo Bertolucci (director/screenplay); Franco Arcalli , Giuseppe Bertolucci (screenplay); Robert De Niro , Gérard Depardieu , Dominique Sanda , Francesca Bertini , Laura Betti , Stefania Casini , Sterling Hayden , Ellen Schwiers , Alida Valli , Romolo Valli , Stefania Sandrelli , Donald Sutherland
Embryo
Cine Artists Pictures / Plura Service Company / Sandy Howard Productions
Ralph Nelson (director); Anita Doohan, Jack W. Thomas (screenplay); Rock Hudson , Barbara Carrera , Diane Ladd , Roddy McDowall , Anne Schedeen , Vincent Baggetta , Jack Colvin , Dick Winslow , Dr. Joyce Brothers , Ken Washington, Lina Raymond
Hawmps!
Mulberry Square Releasing
Joe Camp (director/screenplay); William Bickley, Michael Warren (screenplay); James Hampton , Christopher Connelly , Slim Pickens , Denver Pyle , Mimi Maynard , Jack Elam , Lee de Broux , Herb Vigran , Jesse Davis , Frank Inn , Don Starr , Alvin Wright , Gene Conforti, Dick Drake, Larry Swartz, Mike Travis, Tiny Wells, Dick Drake, Henry Kendrick, Catherine Hearne, Larry Strawbridge, Sheba
26
Drive-In
Columbia Pictures / George Litto Productions
Rod Amateau (director); Bob Peete (screenplay); Lisa Lemole , Glenn Morshower , Trey Wilson , Ashley Cox , Bill McGhee , Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Billy Milliken, Lee Newsom, Regan Kee, Andy Parks, Gordon Hurst, Kent Perkins, Barry Gremillion, Gloria Shaw, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Valgova, Michelle Franks, Hank Stohl
Mother, Jugs & Speed
20th Century Fox
Peter Yates (director); Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay); Bill Cosby , Raquel Welch , Harvey Keitel , Allen Garfield , Larry Hagman , Michael McManus , Allan Warnick, Bruce Davison , Dick Butkus , L.Q. Jones , Ric Carrott , Severn Darden , Bill Henderson , Valerie Curtin , Milt Kamen , Barra Grant , Toni Basil , Read Morgan , Tim Reid , Queenie Smith , Vivian St. John , Mark L. Taylor
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Paramount Pictures
Michael Winner (director); Arnold Schulman , Cy Howard (screenplay); Bruce Dern , Madeline Kahn , Art Carney , Phil Silvers , Ron Leibman , Teri Garr , Ronny Graham , Toni Basil , Dorothy Lamour , Joan Blondell , Virginia Mayo , Henny Youngman , Rory Calhoun , Aldo Ray , Ethel Merman , Nancy Walker , Rhonda Fleming , Dean Stockwell , Dick Haymes , Tab Hunter , Robert Alda , Victor Mature , Edgar Bergen
28
Leadbelly
Paramount Pictures
Gordon Parks (director); Ernest Kinoy (screenplay); Roger E. Mosley , Paul Benjamin , Madge Sinclair , Albert Hall , Art Evans , John Henry Faulk , Vivian Bonnell , Lynn Hamilton , William Wintersole , James Brodhead, Dana Manno
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Cannes Film Festival)
Astral Films / Cinema International Corporation / American International Pictures / Claremont Productions / Zev Braun Productions / I.C.L. Industries / La Societe Filmel / Ypsilon Films
Nicolas Gessner (director); Laird Koenig (screenplay); Jodie Foster , Martin Sheen , Alexis Smith , Mort Shuman , Scott Jacoby , Connie Foster
Shoot
AVCO Embassy Pictures / Essex Enterprises / Getty Pictures Corporation
Harvey Hart (director); Dick Berg (screenplay); Cliff Robertson , Ernest Borgnine , Henry Silva , James Blendick , Leslie Carlson , Kate Reid , Helen Shaver , Larry Reynolds, Gloria Carlin, Alan McRae, Ed McNamara, Peter Langley, Helena Hart, Allan Aarons, Sydney Brown
J U N E
1
A Clockwork Orange (re-release)
Warner Bros. / Polaris Productions / Hawk Films
Stanley Kubrick (director/screenplay); Malcolm McDowell , Patrick Magee , Michael Bates , Warren Clarke , John Clive , Adrienne Corri , Carl Duering , Paul Farrell
The Last Hard Men
20th Century Fox
Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Guerdon Trueblood (screenplay); Charlton Heston , James Coburn , Barbara Hershey , Jorge Rivero , Michael Parks , Larry Wilcox , Thalmus Rasulala , Morgan Paull , John Quade , Robert Donner , Christopher Mitchum , Riley Hill
2
Breaking Point
20th Century Fox
Bob Clark (director); Stanley Mann , Roger Swaybill (screenplay); Bo Svenson , Robert Culp , John Colicos , Belinda Montgomery , Linda Sorenson , Stephen Young , Doug Lennox
A Small Town in Texas
American International Pictures
Jack Starrett (director); William Norton (screenplay); Bo Hopkins , Susan George , Timothy Bottoms , John Karlen , Morgan Woodward , Art Hindle , Clay Tanner , Randee Lynne Jensen , Hank Rolike, George Buck Flower
4
Ode to Billy Joe
Warner Bros.
Max Baer Jr. (director); Herman Raucher (screenplay); Robby Benson , Glynnis O'Connor , Joan Hotchkis , Sandy McPeak , James Best , Terence Goodman, Becky Bowen, Simpson Hemphill, Ed Shelnut, Eddie Talr, William Hallberg, Rebecca Jernigan
11
The Cars That Ate Paris
British Empire Films / Australian Film Development Corporation / Royce Smeal Film Productions / Salt Pan Films
Peter Weir (director/screenplay); John Meillon , Terry Camilleri , Chris Haywood , Bruce Spence , Max Gillies , Edward Howell , Max Phipps , Melissa Jaffer , Kevin Miles, Rick Scully, Peter Armstrong, Joe Burrow, Deryck Barnes, Jack Ellerton
The Tenant
Paramount Pictures / Marianne Productions
Roman Polanski (director/screenplay); Gérard Brach (screenplay); Roman Polanski , Isabelle Adjani , Melvyn Douglas , Jo Van Fleet , Bernard Fresson , Rufus , Shelley Winters , Lila Kedrova , Josiane Balasko , Claude Dauphin , Claude Piéplu , Jacques Monod , Michel Blanc , Eva Ionesco , Albert Delpy , Patrice Alexsandre, Romain Bouteille, Jacques Rosny
17
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Columbia Pictures
Mark Rydell (director); John Byrum , Robert Kaufman , Don Devlin (screenplay); James Caan , Michael Caine , Elliott Gould , Diane Keaton , Charles Durning , Lesley Ann Warren , Burt Young , Kathryn Grody , Brion James , Jack Gilford , Val Avery , Dennis Dugan , Carol Kane
Silent Movie
20th Century Fox / Crossbow Productions
Mel Brooks (director/screenplay); Ron Clark , Rudy De Luca , Barry Levinson (screenplay); Mel Brooks , Marty Feldman , Dom DeLuise , Sid Caesar , Harold Gould , Ron Carey , Bernadette Peters , Burt Reynolds , James Caan , Liza Minnelli
18
The Food of the Gods
American International Pictures
Bert I. Gordon (director/screenplay); Marjoe Gortner , Pamela Franklin , Ralph Meeker , Jon Cypher , Ida Lupino , Belinda Balaski , Tom Stovall, John McLiam , Chuck Courtney
Midway
Universal Pictures / The Mirisch Corporation
Jack Smight (director); Donald S. Sanford (screenplay); Charlton Heston , Henry Fonda , James Coburn , Glenn Ford , Hal Holbrook , Toshiro Mifune , Robert Mitchum , Cliff Robertson , Robert Wagner , Robert Webber , Ed Nelson , James Shigeta , Christina Kokubo , Edward Albert
20
Once Upon a Girl
Severin Films / Concelation a Girl, Inc. / Tommy J Productions
Don Jurwich (director/screenplay); Hal Smith , Frank Welker , Richmond Johnson, Carol Piacente, Kelly Gordon
23
The Big Bus
Paramount Pictures
James Frawley (director); Lawrence J. Cohen , Fred Freeman (screenplay); Joseph Bologna , Stockard Channing , John Beck , Ned Beatty , José Ferrer , Ruth Gordon , Harold Gould , Larry Hagman , Sally Kellerman , Richard Mulligan , Lynn Redgrave , René Auberjonois , Bob Dishy , Richard B. Shull , Stuart Margolin , Howard Hesseman , Mary Wilcox , Walter Brooke , Vic Tayback , Murphy Dunne , Vito Scotti
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
American International Pictures
Don Taylor (director); Richard Shapiro (screenplay); Lee Marvin , Oliver Reed , Robert Culp , Elizabeth Ashley , Strother Martin , Sylvia Miles , Kay Lenz
Logan's Run
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Michael Anderson (director); David Zelag Goodman (screenplay); Michael York , Jenny Agutter , Richard Jordan , Roscoe Lee Browne , Farrah Fawcett-Majors , Peter Ustinov , Michael Anderson Jr. , Randolph Roberts , Gary Morgan , Ashley Cox , Lara Lindsay
Murder by Death
Columbia Pictures / Rastar
Robert Moore (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Eileen Brennan , Truman Capote , James Coco , Peter Falk , Alec Guinness , Elsa Lanchester , David Niven , Peter Sellers , Maggie Smith , Nancy Walker , Estelle Winwood , James Cromwell , Richard Narita, Fay Wray
24
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
United Artists
Robert Altman (director/screenplay); Alan Rudolph (screenplay); Paul Newman , Burt Lancaster , Geraldine Chaplin , Kevin McCarthy , Joel Grey , Harvey Keitel , John Considine , Will Sampson , Pat McCormick , Shelley Duvall , Allan F. Nicholls , Robert DoQui , Evelyn Lear , Bert Remsen , Denver Pyle , Jerri Duce , Patrick Reynolds , Frank Kaquitts, Mike Kaplan, Bonnie Leaders, Noelle Rogers, Ken Krossa, Fred N. Larsen
25
The Omen
20th Century Fox / Mace Neufeld Productions
Richard Donner (director); David Seltzer (screenplay); Gregory Peck , Lee Remick , David Warner , Billie Whitelaw , Harvey Stephens , Patrick Troughton , Martin Benson , Leo McKern , Robert Rietti , John Stride , Anthony Nicholls , Holly Palance , Roy Boyd , Freda Dowie , Sheila Raynor , Robert MacLeod, Bruce Boa , Don Fellows , Patrick McAlinney , Betty McDowall , Nicholas Campbell , Tommy Duggan
28
Sweet Revenge
United Artists
Jerry Schatzberg (director); Marilyn Goldin, B.J. Perla, Jor Van Kline (screenplay); Stockard Channing , Sam Waterston , Franklyn Ajaye , Jan D'Arcy , Evan Lottman , Richard Daughty, Norman Matlock, Edmund Villa, Adele Burnett
30
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Warner Bros. / The Malpaso Company
Clint Eastwood (director); Phil Kaufman , Sonia Chernus (screenplay); Clint Eastwood , Chief Dan George , Sondra Locke , Bill McKinney , John Vernon , Paula Trueman , Sam Bottoms , Geraldine Keams , Woodrow Parfrey , Joyce Jameson , Sheb Wooley , Royal Dano , Matt Clark , Will Sampson , William O'Connell , John Quade , Buck Kartalian , Len Lesser , Doug McGrath , John Russell , Charles Tyner , Bruce M. Fischer , John Mitchum , John Chandler , Clay Tanner , Bob Hoy , John Verros, Frank Schofield, Tom Roy Lowe
July–September
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
J U L Y
1
To Fly!
Conoco Inc. / MacGillivray Freeman Films / Francis Thompson, Inc.
Greg MacGillivray (director/screenplay); Jim Freeman, Thomas McGrath , Francis Thompson , Robert M. Young , Arthur Zegart (screenplay)
Treasure of Matecumbe
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Vincent McEveety (director); Don Tait (screenplay); Robert Foxworth , Joan Hackett , Peter Ustinov , Vic Morrow , Johnny Doran , Billy Attmore, Jane Wyatt , Virginia Vincent , Robert DoQui , Mills Watson , Don Knight , Dub Taylor , Dick Van Patten , George Lindsey , John Myhers , Logan Ramsey , Valentin de Vargas , Jonathan Daly , John Steadman , Rex Holman , Clint Ritchie , Ken Renard , Brion James , John Hayes , David S. Cass Sr. , Warde Donovan, James Brodhead, John C. Flinn III, Louie Elias, Richard Wright
6
Cannonball
New World Pictures
Paul Bartel (director/screenplay); Donald C. Simpson (screenplay); David Carradine , Bill McKinney , Veronica Hamel , Belinda Balaski , Archie Hahn , Gerrit Graham , Robert Carradine , Mary Woronov , James Keach , Dick Miller , Paul Bartel
7
Gus
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Vincent McEveety (director); Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson (screenplay); Edward Asner , Don Knotts , Gary Grimes , Tim Conway , Liberty Williams , Dick Van Patten , Harold Gould , Ronnie Schell
9
Mad Dog Morgan
British Empire Films / Motion Picture Productions
Philippe Mora (director/screenplay); Dennis Hopper , Jack Thompson , David Gulpilil , Frank Thring , Michael Pate , Wallas Eaton , Bill Hunter , John Hargreaves , Robin Ramsay
The Opening of Misty Beethoven
Catalyst Productions / Joy Bear Pictures / VCA Pictures
Radley Metzger (director/screenplay); Constance Money , Jamie Gillis , Jacqueline Beudant, Gloria Leonard , Terri Hall , Calvin Culver , Mark Margolis
14
Shadow of the Hawk
Columbia Pictures
George McCowan (director); Norman Thaddeus Vane , Herbert Wright (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent , Marilyn Hassett , Chief Dan George , Pia Shandel, Marianne Jones, Jacques Hubert
15
At the Earth's Core
American International Pictures / Amicus Productions
Kevin Connor (director); Milton Subotsky (screenplay); Doug McClure , Peter Cushing , Caroline Munro , Cy Grant , Godfrey James , Keith Barron , Robert Gillespie , Sean Lynch, Helen Gill, Anthony Verner, Michael Crane, Bobby Parr, Andee Cromarty
16
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Universal Pictures / Motown Productions
John Badham (director); Hal Barwood , Matthew Robbins (screenplay); Billy Dee Williams , James Earl Jones , Richard Pryor , Stan Shaw , Tony Burton , Jophery Brown , Leon Wagner , John McCurry , DeWayne Jessie , Ted Ross , Mabel King , Ken Foree , Carl Gordon , Rico Dawson, Sam "Birmingham" Brison
23
Lifeguard
Paramount Pictures
Daniel Petrie (director); Ron Koslow (screenplay); Sam Elliott , Anne Archer , Stephen Young , Parker Stevenson , Kathleen Quinlan , Sharon Weber , Steve Burns
Special Delivery
American International Pictures
Paul Wendkos (director); John Melson, James Edward Grant , Gilbert Ralston , Don Gazzaniga (screenplay); Bo Svenson , Cybill Shepherd , Tom Atkins , Sorrell Booke , Gerrit Graham , Michael C. Gwynne
A*P*E
Worldwide Entertainment / Kukje Movies / Lee Ming Film Co.
Paul Leder (director/screenplay); Richard Leder (screenplay); Rod Arrants , Joanna Kerns , Alex Nicol , Lee Nak-hoon , Paul Leder , Jules Levey , Yeon-jeong Woo, Jerry Harke
28
Futureworld
American International Pictures / The Aubrey Company
Richard T. Heffron (director); Mayo Simon , George Schenck (screenplay); Peter Fonda , Blythe Danner , Arthur Hill , Stuart Margolin , John Ryan , Yul Brynner , James M. Connor , Allen Ludden , Robert Cornthwaite , Angela Greene , Darrell Larson , Nancy Bell, Bert Conroy, Dorothy Konrad, Jim Antonio
29
Oz
Greater Union
Chris Löfvén (director/screenplay); Joy Dunstan , Graham Matters , Bruce Spence , Gary Waddell , Robin Ramsay , Michael Carman
Swashbuckler
Universal Pictures
James Goldstone (director); Paul Wheeler (screenplay); Robert Shaw , James Earl Jones , Peter Boyle , Geneviève Bujold , Beau Bridges , Geoffrey Holder , Avery Schreiber , Tom Clancy , Anjelica Huston , Mark Baker , Kip Niven , Louisa Horton , Bernard Behrens, Dorothy Tristan, Tom Fitzsimmons
30
Drum
United Artists / Dino De Laurentiis Company
Steve Carver (director); Norman Wexler (screenplay); Warren Oates , Isela Vega , Ken Norton , Pam Grier , Yaphet Kotto , John Colicos , Fiona Lewis , Paula Kelly , Brenda Sykes , Royal Dano , Lillian Hayman , Rainbeaux Smith , Clay Tanner , Lila Finn
Squirm
American International Pictures / The Squirm Company
Jeff Lieberman (director/screenplay); Don Scardino , Patricia Pearcy , Jean Sullivan , William Newman , R.A. Dow, Peter MacLean, Fran Higgins, Barbara Quinn, Carl Dagenhart, Angel Sande, Carol Jean Owens, Kim Leon Iocovozzi, Walter Dimmick, Leslie Thorsen, Julia Klopp
31
St. Ives
Warner Bros.
J. Lee Thompson (director); Barry Beckerman (screenplay); Charles Bronson , John Houseman , Jacqueline Bisset , Maximilian Schell , Harris Yulin , Dana Elcar , Harry Guardino , Joseph Roman , Jerome Thor , George Sawaya
A U G U S T
1
Obsession
Columbia Pictures / Yellowbird Productions
Brian De Palma (director); Paul Schrader (screenplay); Cliff Robertson , Geneviève Bujold , John Lithgow
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
Danton Films
Jack Arnold , Earl Bellamy , Bruce Bilson , Oscar Rudolph (directors); Ron Friedman , Howard Ostroff, Brad Radnitz, Sherwood Schwartz , Elroy Schwartz (screenplay); Bob Denver , Forrest Tucker , Ivor Francis , Jeannine Riley , Lori Saunders , William Cort , Eddie Little Sky , Don 'Red' Barry , Buck Young , James Gammon , Dennis Fimple , John Quade , Dick Peabody , James Jeter , Ernesto Esparza III, Taylor Lacher
4
The Return of a Man Called Horse
United Artists / Estudios Churubusco Azteca / Sandy Howard Productions
Irvin Kershner (director); Jack DeWitt (screenplay); Richard Harris , Gale Sondergaard , Geoffrey Lewis , William Lucking , Claudio Brook , Enrique Lucero , Pedro Damián , Jorge Luke, Jorge Russek, Regino Herrera, Humberto López, Alberto Mariscal, Eugenia Dolores, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Ana De Sade
8
From Noon till Three
United Artists
Frank D. Gilroy (director/screenplay); Charles Bronson , Jill Ireland , Douglas Fowley , Anne Ramsey
12
The Devil's Playground
Umbrella Entertainment / The Film House
Fred Schepisi (director/screenplay); Arthur Dignam , Nick Tate , Simon Burke , Charles McCallum, John Frawley , Jonathan Hardy , Gerry Duggan , Peter Cox, Thomas Keneally , Sheila Florance , John Diedrich , Alan Cinis , Richard Morgan , Jeremy Kewley
The Ritz
Warner Bros.
Richard Lester (director); Terrence McNally (screenplay); Jack Weston , Rita Moreno , Jerry Stiller , Kaye Ballard , F. Murray Abraham , Treat Williams , Dave King , Bessie Love , Paul B. Price, John Everson, Christopher J. Brown
18
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
New World Pictures / Yasny Talking Pictures II
Michael Pressman (director); David Kirkpatrick (screenplay); Claudia Jennings , Tara Strohmeier , Oliver Clark , Tom Rosqui , Danny Sullivan , Bart Braverman , Jim Boles , Christopher Pennock , Priscilla Pointer , Johnny Crawford , Jocelyn Jones, Miles Watkins, Nancy Bleier, Buddy Kling, Ed Steef, Peggy Brenner
20
The Gumball Rally
Warner Bros. / First Artists
Charles Bail (director); Leon Capetanos (screenplay); Michael Sarrazin , Norman Burton , Gary Busey , John Durren, Susan Flannery , Steven Keats , Tim McIntire , Joanne Nail, J. Pat O'Malley , Nicholas Pryor , Raúl Juliá , Vaughn Taylor , Tricia O'Neil , Harvey Jason , John Morton , Linda Vaughn , John Lawlor , Lazaro Perez, Wally Taylor, Eddy Donno, Dick Karie, Alfred Shelly, Whitey Hughes, Larry Silvestri, Wes Dawn, Stephen Blood
The Shootist
Paramount Pictures
Don Siegel (director); Miles Hood Swarthout , Scott Hale (screenplay); John Wayne , Lauren Bacall , Ron Howard , James Stewart , Richard Boone , John Carradine , Scatman Crothers , Richard Lenz , Harry Morgan , Sheree North , Hugh O'Brian , Bill McKinney , Gregg Palmer , Alfred Dennis , Dick Winslow , Melody Thomas Scott , Kathleen O'Malley , Charles G. Martin
25
Gator
United Artists / Levy-Gardner-Laven
Burt Reynolds (director); William W. Norton (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Jack Weston , Lauren Hutton , Jerry Reed , Alice Ghostley , Dub Taylor , Mike Douglas , Burton Gilliam , William Engesser , John Steadman , Alex Hawkins , Don Ferguson , Watson B. Duncan III , Lori Futch, Dudley Remus
J.D.'s Revenge
American International Pictures
Arthur Marks (director); Jaison Starkes (screenplay); Glynn Turman , Louis Gossett Jr. , Joan Pringle , James Watkins , Earl Billings , Carl W. Crudup, Fred Pinkard, Jo Anne Meredith, Alice Jubert, David McKnight, Stephanie Faulkner, Fuddie Bagley, Paul Galloway
S E P T E M B E R
1
High Velocity
Turtle Releasing / First Asian Films of California
Remi Kramer (director/screenplay); Michael Parsons (screenplay); Ben Gazzara , Britt Ekland , Paul Winfield , Keenan Wynn , Alejandro Rey , Joonee Gamboa , Liam Dunn , Richard O'Brien , Stacy Keach Sr. , Victoria Racimo, Rita Gomez, Joe Andrade, James Bacon, Jojo Juan
9
Vigilante Force
United Artists
George Armitage (director/screenplay); Kris Kristofferson , Jan-Michael Vincent , Victoria Principal , Bernadette Peters , Brad Dexter , Judson Pratt , David Doyle , Antony Carbone , Andrew Stevens
15
In the Realm of the Senses
Surrogate / Argos Films / Oceanic / Oshima Productions / Toho-Towa
Nagisa Ōshima (director/screenplay); Eiko Matsuda , Tatsuya Fuji , Taiji Tonoyama , Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri, Kanae Kobayashi, Kyôji Kokonoe, Naomi Shiraishi, Komikichi Hori
Bugsy Malone
Paramount Pictures
Alan Parker (director/screenplay); Jodie Foster , Scott Baio , John Cassisi , Andrew Paul , Jeffrey Stevens , Dexter Fletcher , Bonnie Langford , Mark Curry , Jonathan Scott-Taylor , Louise English , Florrie Dugger, Martin Lev, Paul Murphy, Sheridan Earl Russell, Albin 'Humpty' Jenkins, Paul Chirelstein, Donald Waugh, Peter Holder, Michael Kirkby, Davidson Knight, John Williams, Sarah E. Joyce, Helen Corran, Kathy Spaulding, Sharon Noonan, Vivienne McKone, Lynn Aulbaugh, Michael Jackson
17
The Front
Columbia Pictures
Martin Ritt (director); Walter Bernstein (screenplay); Woody Allen , Zero Mostel , Michael Murphy , Herschel Bernardi , Andrea Marcovicci , Remak Ramsay , Lloyd Gough , David Margulies , Joshua Shelley , Norman Rose , Charles Kimbrough , Josef Sommer , Danny Aiello
22
Mad Dog Morgan
British Empire Films / Motion Picture Productions
Philippe Mora (director/screenplay); Dennis Hopper , Jack Thompson , David Gulpilil , Frank Thring , Michael Pate , Wallas Eaton , Bill Hunter , John Hargreaves , Robin Ramsay
29
Norman... Is That You?
United Artists / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
George Schlatter (director/screenplay); Ron Clark , Sam Bobrick (screenplay); Redd Foxx , Pearl Bailey , Dennis Dugan , Michael Warren , Tamara Dobson , Vernee Watson , Jayne Meadows , George Furth , Barbara Sharma , Sergio Aragonés , Wayland Flowers
October–December
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
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O C T O B E R
3
Alex & the Gypsy
20th Century Fox
John Korty (director); Lawrence B. Marcus (screenplay); Jack Lemmon , Geneviève Bujold , James Woods , Robert Emhardt , Titos Vandis , William Cort , Frank Doubleday , Robert Miano , Al Checco , Harold Sylvester , Clyde Kusatsu , Eddra Gale , Gino Ardito, Todd Martin, Joseph X. Flaherty, Alan DeWitt, Victor Pinheiro
7
A Matter of Time
Variety Distribution
Vincente Minnelli (director); John Gay (screenplay); Liza Minnelli , Ingrid Bergman , Charles Boyer , Isabella Rossellini , Tina Aumont , Fernando Rey , Spiros Andros, Gabriele Ferzetti , Orso Maria Guerrini , Amedeo Nazzari , Giampiero Albertini , Arnoldo Foà , Anna Proclemer
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
SEPP, Brussels / Atlantic Releasing Corporation / Éditions Dupuis / Belvision Studios
José Dutillieu (director); Peyo (screenplay); Jacques Balutin , Angelo Bardi, Jacques Marin
8
Fighting Mad
20th Century Fox / Santa Fe Productions
Jonathan Demme (director/screenplay); Peter Fonda , Lynn Lowry , John Doucette , Philip Carey , Harry Northup , Noble Willingham , Kathleen Miller , Scott Glenn , Ted Markland
Marathon Man
Paramount Pictures / Robert Evans-Sidney Beckerman Productions
John Schlesinger (director); William Goldman (screenplay); Dustin Hoffman , Laurence Olivier , Roy Scheider , William Devane , Marthe Keller , Fritz Weaver , Richard Bright , Marc Lawrence , Tito Goya , Jacques Marin , Allen Joseph, Ben Dova, Lou Gilbert
Scorchy
American International Pictures / Hickmar Productions
Howard Avedis (director/screenplay); Connie Stevens , Cesare Danova , William Smith , Norman Burton , John Davis Chandler , Joyce Jameson , Greg Evigan , Nick Dimitri , Marlene Schmidt , Nate Long, Ingrid Cedergren, Ellen Thurston, Ray Sebastian, Mike Esky, Gene White
15
Harlan County, USA
Cinema 5 / Cabin Creek Films
Barbara Kopple (director)
18
Burnt Offerings
United Artists / Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA) / Dan Curtis Productions
Dan Curtis (director/screenplay); William F. Nolan (screenplay); Karen Black , Oliver Reed , Burgess Meredith , Eileen Heckart , Lee H. Montgomery , Dub Taylor , Bette Davis , Anthony James , Todd Tarquand
The Killer Inside Me
Warner Bros.
Burt Kennedy (director); Edward Mann, Robert Chamblee (screenplay); Stacy Keach , Susan Tyrrell , Tisha Sterling , Keenan Wynn , Don Stroud , Charles McGraw , John Dehner , Pepe Serna , John Carradine , Royal Dano , Julie Adams
20
Diary of the Dead
B.S. Moss Enterprises
Arvin Brown (director); I.C. Rapoport , Robert L. Fish , Ruth Rendell (screenplay); Geraldine Fitzgerald , Héctor Elizondo , Salome Jens , Joseph Maher , Austin Pendleton , Kate Wilkinson
The Song Remains the Same
Warner Bros.
Peter Clifton , Joe Massot (directors); Led Zeppelin
22
Car Wash
Universal Pictures
Michael Schultz (director); Joel Schumacher (screenplay); Franklin Ajaye , Bill Duke , George Carlin , Irwin Corey , Ivan Dixon , Antonio Fargas , Jack Kehoe , Clarence Muse , Lorraine Gary , The Pointer Sisters , Richard Pryor , Garrett Morris , Sully Boyar , Carmine Caridi
God Told Me To
New World Pictures
Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Tony Lo Bianco , Deborah Raffin , Sandy Dennis , Sylvia Sidney , Sam Levene , Robert Drivas , Mike Kellin , Richard Lynch , Sammy Williams , Harry Bellaver , Andy Kaufman
Up!
RM Films International
Russ Meyer (director/screenplay); Raven De La Croix , Robert McLane , Kitten Natividad , Edward Schaaf, Candy Samples, Su Ling, Janet Wood, Linda Sue Ragsdale, Monty Bane, Marianne Marks, Larry Dean, Bob Schott, Foxy Lae, Ray Reinhardt, Elaine Collins
24
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Universal Pictures / Alex Winitsky/Arlene Sellers Productions / Herbert Ross Productions
Herbert Ross (director); Nicholas Meyer (screenplay); Alan Arkin , Vanessa Redgrave , Robert Duvall , Nicol Williamson , Laurence Olivier , Joel Grey , Samantha Eggar , Charles Gray
26
Monsieur Klein
Fox-Lira (France) / Titanus (Italy) / Lira Films / Adel Productions / Nova Films / Mondial Televisione Film
Joseph Losey (director); Franco Solinas , Fernando Morandi (screenplay); Alain Delon , Jeanne Moreau , Michael Lonsdale , Francine Bergé , Juliet Berto , Massimo Girotti , Magali Clément , Louis Seigner , Jean Bouise , Suzanne Flon , Michel Aumont , Roland Bertin , Jean Champion , Étienne Chicot , Pierre Vernier , Gérard Jugnot , Hermine Karagheuz
31
Carry On England
The Rank Organisation
Gerald Thomas (director); David Pursall, Jack Seddon (screenplay); Kenneth Connor , Windsor Davies , Patrick Mower , Judy Geeson , Jack Douglas , Joan Sims , Peter Butterworth , Melvyn Hayes , Peter Jones , Diane Langton , Julian Holloway , David Lodge
N O V E M B E R
1
Buffalo Rider
Starfire Films
John Fabian, Dick Robinson, George Lauris (directors); Mollie Gregory, Bill McCallum, Jim Cisler, Tom Manning, Peter Powell, Pete Cornacchia (screenplay); C. Lindsay Workman , Hal Smith , Rick Guinn, John Freeman, Rich Scheeland, George Sager, Dick Robinson, Priscilla Lauris
3
Carrie
United Artists / Red Bank Films
Brian De Palma (director); Lawrence D. Cohen (screenplay); Sissy Spacek , Piper Laurie , Amy Irving , William Katt , John Travolta , Nancy Allen , Betty Buckley , P.J. Soles , Priscilla Pointer , Sydney Lassick , Stefan Gierasch , Michael Talbott , Edie McClurg , Doug Cox, Harry Gold, Noelle North, Cindy Daly, Deirdre Berthrong, Anson Downes, Rory Stevens
5
John Carpenter 's Assault on Precinct 13 . (Los Angeles and New York City openings).
Turtle Releasing Organization / The CKK Corporation
John Carpenter (director/screenplay); Austin Stoker , Darwin Joston , Laurie Zimmer , Martin West , Tony Burton , Charles Cyphers , Nancy Loomis
10
The Next Man
Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Richard C. Sarafian (director/screenplay); David M. Wolf, Morton S. Fine , Alan Trustman (screenplay); Sean Connery , Cornelia Sharpe, Albert Paulsen , Adolfo Celi , Marco St. John , Ted Beniades , Charles Cioffi , Jaime Sánchez
12
Two-Minute Warning
Universal Pictures / Filmways
Larry Peerce (director); Edward Hume (screenplay); Charlton Heston , John Cassavetes , Martin Balsam , Beau Bridges , Marilyn Hassett , David Janssen , Jack Klugman , Walter Pidgeon , Gena Rowlands , Brock Peters , David Groh , Mitchell Ryan , Joe Kapp , Pamela Bellwood
Welcome to L.A.
United Artists
Alan Rudolph (director/screenplay); Keith Carradine , Sally Kellerman , Geraldine Chaplin , Harvey Keitel , Lauren Hutton , Viveca Lindfors , Sissy Spacek , Denver Pyle , John Considine , Richard Baskin , James Remar , Tom Arnold , Diahnne Abbott , Allan F. Nicholls , Ron Silver
13
Alice, Sweet Alice
Allied Artists / Harristown Funding, Ltd.
Alfred Sole (director/screenplay); Rosemary Ritvo (screenplay); Linda Miller , Mildred Clinton , Brooke Shields , Jane Lowry , Louisa Horton , Antonino Rocca , Lillian Roth , Patrick Gorman
14
Sybil
NBC / Lorimar Productions
Daniel Petrie (director); Stewart Stern (screenplay); Sally Field , Joanne Woodward , Brad Davis , Martine Bartlett , Penelope Allen , Charles Lane , William Prince , Camila Ashland , Karen Obediear
19
The Last Tycoon
Paramount Pictures / Academy Pictures Corporation / Gelderse Maatschappij N.V.
Elia Kazan (director); Harold Pinter (screenplay); Robert De Niro , Tony Curtis , Robert Mitchum , Jeanne Moreau , Jack Nicholson , Donald Pleasence , Ray Milland , Dana Andrews , Ingrid Boulting , Theresa Russell , Tige Andrews , Morgan Farley , John Carradine , Jeff Corey , Diane Shalet , Seymour Cassel , Anjelica Huston
21
Rocky
United Artists / Chartoff-Winkler Productions
John G. Avildsen (director); Sylvester Stallone (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone , Talia Shire , Burt Young , Carl Weathers , Burgess Meredith , Thayer David , Joe Spinell , Al Silvani , George Memmoli , George O'Hanlon , Stan Shaw , Billy Sands , Pedro Lovell , DeForest Covan , Tony Burton , Shirley O'Hara , Frank Stallone , Lloyd Kaufman , Frank Stallone Jr. , Joe Frazier , Michael Dorn , Arnold Johnson , Stu Nahan , Frank Pesce , Chino 'Fats' Williams
24
Shout at the Devil
American International Pictures / Tonav Productions
Peter R. Hunt (director); Stanley Price , Alastair Reid (screenplay); Lee Marvin , Roger Moore , Barbara Parkins , Ian Holm , Rene Kolldehoff , Horst Janson , Karl Michael Vogler , Maurice Denham , Jean Kent , Heather Wright , George Coulouris , Murray Melvin , Bernard Horsfall
27
Network nationwide 13 days after its previous (November 14) Los Angeles and New York City openings.
United Artists
Sidney Lumet (director); Paddy Chayefsky (screenplay); Faye Dunaway , William Holden , Peter Finch , Robert Duvall , Wesley Addy , Ned Beatty , Beatrice Straight , Jordan Charney
D E C E M B E R
5
Bound for Glory
United Artists
Hal Ashby (director); Robert Getchell (screenplay); David Carradine , Ronny Cox , Melinda Dillon , Gail Strickland , Randy Quaid , Ji-Tu Cumbuka , Wendy Schaal , Bernie Kopell , Mary Kay Place , John Lehne, Elizabeth Macey, Susan Vaill, Guthrie Thomas
8
A Star Is Born
Warner Bros. / First Artists / Barwood Films
Frank Pierson (director/screenplay); John Gregory Dunne , Joan Didion (screenplay); Barbra Streisand , Kris Kristofferson , Gary Busey , Paul Mazursky , Joanne Linville , Oliver Clark , Venetta Fields , Clydie King , Sally Kirkland , Marta Heflin , Rita Coolidge , Tony Orlando , Susan Richardson , Robert Englund , Maidie Norman , Martin Erlichman , M.G. Kelly , Stephen Bruton , Donnie Fritts , Booker T. Jones , Art Munson, Charles Owens , Bobby Shew , Montrose , Sandy Helberg , Roslyn Kind
Silver Streak
20th Century Fox / Frank Yablans Presentations / Miller-Milkis Productions
Arthur Hiller (director); Colin Higgins (screenplay); Gene Wilder , Jill Clayburgh , Richard Pryor , Ned Beatty , Clifton James , Patrick McGoohan , Ray Walston , Scatman Crothers , Len Birman , Lucille Benson , Stefan Gierasch , Valerie Curtin , Richard Kiel , Fred Willard , Ed McNamara , Henry Beckman , Harvey Atkin , Bill Henderson , Robert Culp , J.A. Preston , Gordon Hurst
10
Alice in Wonderland
General National Enterprises / Cruiser Productions / Essex Pictures Company
Bud Townsend (director); Bucky Searles (screenplay); Kristine De Bell , Larry Gelman , Terri Hall , Gila Havana , Alan Novak, Jason Williams, Ron Nelson, Bucky Searles, J.P. Paradise, Bree Anthony, Tony Richards, Angel Barrett, Nancy Dare, Bruce Finklesteen, Juliet Graham, Astrid Hayase, John Lawrence, Ed Marshall, Melvina Peoples, Marcia Raven, Chris Steen
Queen Kong
Constantin Film / Cine-Art München / Dexter Film London
Frank Agrama (director/screenplay); Ron Dobrin, Fabio Piccioni (screenplay); Robin Askwith , Rula Lenska , Valerie Leon , Roger Hammond , Linda Hayden , John Clive , Carol Drinkwater , Vicki Michelle , Anna Bergman , Anthony Morton, Geraldine Gardner, Jeannie Collings
15
At the Earth's Core
American International Pictures / Amicus Productions
Kevin Connor (director); Milton Subotsky (screenplay); Doug McClure , Peter Cushing , Caroline Munro , Cy Grant , Godfrey James , Keith Barron , Robert Gillespie , Sean Lynch, Helen Gill, Anthony Verner, Michael Crane, Bobby Parr, Andee Cromarty
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
United Artists / Amjo Productions
Blake Edwards (director/screenplay); Frank Waldman (screenplay); Peter Sellers , Herbert Lom , Colin Blakely , Leonard Rossiter , Lesley-Anne Down , Burt Kwouk , André Maranne , Michael Robbins , Richard Vernon , Briony McRoberts , Dick Crockett , Byron Kane , Paul Maxwell , Gordon Rollings , Dudley Sutton , John Clive , Damaris Hayman , Deep Roy
Tracks
Trio
Henry Jaglom (director/screenplay); Dennis Hopper , Taryn Power , Dean Stockwell , Topo Swope , Alfred Ryder , Zack Norman , Frank McRae , James Frawley , Sally Kirkland , Michael Emil, Barbara Flood
17
The Shaggy D.A.
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Robert Stevenson (director); Don Tait (screenplay); Dean Jones , Suzanne Pleshette , Tim Conway , Keenan Wynn , Jo Anne Worley , Dick Van Patten , Vic Tayback , John Myhers
Freaky Friday
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Gary Nelson (director); Mary Rodgers (screenplay); Jodie Foster , Barbara Harris , John Astin , Patsy Kelly , Dick Van Patten , Vicki Schreck, Sorrell Booke , Kaye Ballard , Sparky Marcus , Marc McClure , Charlene Tilton , Alan Oppenheimer , Ruth Buzzi , Marie Windsor , Marvin Kaplan , Al Molinaro , Iris Adrian , Jack Sheldon , Laurie Main , Fritz Feld , Dermott Downs , James Van Patten
King Kong
Paramount Pictures / Dino De Laurentiis Corporation
John Guillermin (director); Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay); Jeff Bridges , Charles Grodin , Jessica Lange , John Randolph , René Auberjonois , Ed Lauter , Julius Harris , Jack O'Halloran , Dennis Fimple , Mario Gallo , John Lone , John Agar , Sid Conrad , Garry Walberg , Corbin Bernsen , Joe Piscopo , Walt Gorney , Rick Baker , Peter Cullen , Jorge Moreno, Keny Long, George Whiteman, Wayne Heffley
18
The Cassandra Crossing
AVCO Embassy Pictures / ITC Entertainment / C. Cinematografica Champion s.p.a.
George P. Cosmatos (director/screenplay); Tom Mankiewicz , Robert Katz (screenplay); Sophia Loren , Richard Harris , Burt Lancaster , Ava Gardner , Martin Sheen , O. J. Simpson , Lee Strasberg , Ingrid Thulin , Lionel Stander , Ann Turkel , John Phillip Law , Alida Valli , Lou Castel , Ray Lovelock , Thomas Hunter , Carlo De Mejo , Renzo Palmer , John P. Dulaney, Stefano Patrizi, Fausta Avelli
20
Across the Great Divide
Pacific International Enterprises
Stewart Raffill (director/screenplay); Robert Logan , Heather Rattray , George Buck Flower , Frank Salsedo , Mark Edward Hall, Hal Bokar
21
Mikey and Nicky
Paramount Pictures / Castle Hill Productions
Elaine May (director/screenplay); Peter Falk , John Cassavetes , Ned Beatty , Rose Arrick, Carol Grace , William Hickey , Sanford Meisner , Joyce Van Patten , M. Emmet Walsh , Elaine May
Nickelodeon
Columbia Pictures / EMI Films / British Lion Films
Peter Bogdanovich (director/screenplay); W.D. Richter (screenplay); Ryan O'Neal , Burt Reynolds , Tatum O'Neal , Brian Keith , Stella Stevens , John Ritter , Jane Hitchcock, Brion James , Sidney Armus , Lorenzo Music , Jeffrey Byron , Priscilla Pointer , Philip Bruns , Frank Marshall , Harry Carey Jr. , James Best , George Gaynes , M. Emmet Walsh , Miriam Byrd-Nethery , Les Josephson , Griffin O'Neal , Hamilton Camp , Joe Warfield, Elaine Partnow
22
The Enforcer
Warner Bros. / The Malpaso Company
James Fargo (director); Stirling Silliphant , Dean Riesner (screenplay); Clint Eastwood , Harry Guardino , Bradford Dillman , Tyne Daly , DeVeren Bookwalter , John Mitchum , Albert Popwell , John Crawford , Robert Hoy , Michael Cavanaugh , Dick Durock , M.G. Kelly , Terry McGovern , John Roselius , Rudy Ramos , Bill Ackridge, Jocelyn Jones, Samantha Doane
Voyage of the Damned (New York City , with its Los Angeles opening on the following day, 23rd.
AVCO Embassy Pictures / ITC Entertainment
Stuart Rosenberg (director); Steve Shagan , David Butler (screenplay); Faye Dunaway , Max von Sydow , Oskar Werner , Malcolm McDowell , Orson Welles , James Mason , Lee Grant
24
The Monkey Hustle
American International Pictures
Arthur Marks (director); Odie Hawkins, Charles Eric Johnson (screenplay); Yaphet Kotto , Rudy Ray Moore , Rosalind Cash , Thomas Carter , Debbi Morgan , Randy Brooks , Kirk Calloway, Lynn Harris, Donn Carl Harper
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
American International Pictures / Charles B. Pierce Film Productions, Inc.
Charles B. Pierce (director); Earl E. Smith (screenplay); Ben Johnson , Andrew Prine , Dawn Wells , Charles B. Pierce , Jimmy Clem, Jim Citty, Robert Aquino, Cindy Butler, Christine Ellsworth, Mike Hackworth, Misty West, Rick Hildreth, Steve Lyons, Bud Davis, Vern Stierman
In Search of Noah's Ark
Sunn Classic Pictures
James L. Conway (director/screenplay); Charles E. Seller Jr. (screenplay); Brad Crandall , Vern Adix
25
The Eagle Has Landed
Cinema International Corporation / ITC Entertainment
John Sturges (director); Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay); Michael Caine , Donald Sutherland , Robert Duvall , Jenny Agutter , Donald Pleasence , Anthony Quayle , Jean Marsh , Sven-Bertil Taube , Judy Geeson , Siegfried Rauch , John Standing , Treat Williams , Larry Hagman , Michael Byrne , Maurice Roeves , Keith Buckley , Jeff Conaway , Terry Plummer, David Gilliam, Kent Williams
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American films of the 1970s