List of American films of 1977
This is a list of American films released in 1977 .
Box office
The highest-grossing American films released in 1977, by domestic box office gross revenue , are as follows:[ 1]
Highest-grossing films of 1977
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic gross
1
Star Wars
20th Century Fox
$221,280,994
2
Smokey and the Bandit
Universal
$126,737,428
3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Columbia
$116,395,460
4
Saturday Night Fever
Paramount
$94,213,184
5
The Goodbye Girl
MGM / Warner Bros.
$83,700,000
6
A Bridge Too Far
United Artists
$50,750,000
7
The Deep
Columbia
$47,346,365
8
The Spy Who Loved Me
United Artists
$46,838,673
9
Oh, God!
Warner Bros.
$41,687,243
10
Annie Hall
United Artists
$38,251,425
January–March
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
J A N U A R Y
7
The Sentinel
Universal Pictures
James B. Harris (director); Jeffrey Konvitz (screenplay); Chris Sarandon , Cristina Raines , José Ferrer , Martin Balsam , Ava Gardner , John Carradine , Arthur Kennedy , Burgess Meredith , Sylvia Miles , Deborah Raffin , Eli Wallach , Christopher Walken , Jerry Orbach , Beverly D'Angelo , Hank Garrett , Nana Visitor , Tom Berenger , William Hickey , Jeff Goldblum
18
Pumping Iron
Cinema 5 / White Mountain Films
George Butler (director/screenplay); Charles Gaines (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger , Lou Ferrigno , Franco Columbu , Mike Katz , Ken Waller , Ed Corney , Serge Nubret
21
Scalpel
United International Pictures / PJ Productions
John Grissmer (director/screenplay); Robert Lansing , Judith Chapman , Sandy Martin , Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, Muriel Moore, Stan Wojno, Laura Whyte, Larry Quackenbush, Mimi Honce
25
Providence
Cinema 5 Distributing
Alain Resnais (director); David Mercer (screenplay); Dirk Bogarde , Ellen Burstyn , John Gielgud , David Warner , Elaine Stritch , Cyril Luckham , Denis Lawson , Kathryn Leigh Scott , Milo Sperber , Anna Wing , Peter Arne , Tanya Lopert
28
The Late Show
Warner Bros.
Robert Benton (director/screenplay); Rodolfo Sonego (screenplay); Art Carney , Lily Tomlin , Bill Macy , Eugene Roche , Joanna Cassidy , John Considine , Ruth Nelson , Howard Duff , John Davey
F E B R U A R Y
4
Raw Deal
Greater Union / Homestead Films
Russell Hagg (director); Patrick Edgeworth (screenplay); Gerard Kennedy , Gus Mercurio , Rod Mullinar , Christopher Pate, Hu Pryce, John Cousins, Michael Carman , Norman Yemm , Gary Day , Briony Behets
9
Fun with Dick and Jane
Columbia Pictures
Ted Kotcheff (director); David Giler , Jerry Belson , Mordecai Richler (screenplay); George Segal , Jane Fonda , Ed McMahon , Dick Gautier , Allan Miller , Hank Garcia, John Dehner , Mary Jackson , Walter Brooke , Sean Frye , Fred Willard , Thayer David , Burke Byrnes , Dewayne Jesse , Anne Ramsey , Jon Christian Erickson , Gloria Stroock , Thalmus Rasulala , Jay Leno
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Allied Artists / Lorimar Productions
Robert Aldrich (director); Ronald M. Cohen (screenplay); Burt Lancaster , Richard Widmark , Charles Durning , Paul Winfield , Burt Young , Melvyn Douglas , Joseph Cotten , Richard Jaeckel , Roscoe Lee Browne , William Marshall , Gerald S. O'Loughlin , Leif Erickson , Charles Aidman , Charles McGraw , William Smith , Simon Scott , Morgan Paull , Bill Walker , Ed Bishop , Phil Brown , Don Fellows , Garrick Hagon , David Healy , William Hootkins , Ray Jewers , John Ratzenberger , Lionel Murton , Shane Rimmer , Mark Russell , M. Phil Senini , David Baxt, Glenn Beck, Gary Cockrell, Weston Gavin, Elizabeth Halliday, Thomasine Heiner, Ron Lee, Robert Sherman, Robert MacLeod, Robert O'Neil, Pamela Roland, Rich Steber, Drew W. Wesche, Kent O. Doering, Allan Dean Moore, Rich Demarest, Gary Harper
Wizards
20th Century Fox / Bakshi Productions
Ralph Bakshi (director/screenplay); Bob Holt , Jesse Welles , Richard Romanus , David Proval , Steve Gravers , Mark Hamill , Susan Tyrrell , Ralph Bakshi , James Connell, Angelo Grisanti
11
Fire Sale
20th Century Fox
Alan Arkin (director); Robert Klane (screenplay); Alan Arkin , Rob Reiner , Vincent Gardenia , Anjanette Comer , Kay Medford , Sid Caesar , Byron Stewart , Alex Rocco , Oliver Clark , Barbara Dana
In Search of Noah's Ark
Sunn Classic Pictures
James L. Conway (director/screenplay); Charles E. Sellier Jr. (screenplay); Brad Crandall , Vern Adix
Thieves
Paramount Pictures / Brut Productions
John Berry (director); Herb Gardner (screenplay); Marlo Thomas , Charles Grodin , Irwin Corey , Héctor Elizondo , Mercedes McCambridge , John McMartin , Gary Merrill , Ann Wedgeworth , Larry B. Scott , Bob Fosse , Norman Matlock, Ian Martin, Janet Colazzo, Kenneth Kimmins, Santos Morales, MacIntyre Dixon, Bill Lazarus, Alice Drummond , Zvee Scooler , Craig Barrie, Victor Le Guillow, Lee Wallace, Jess Osuna , Joan Kaye
20
The Spell
Worldvision Enterprises / MGM Television / Charles Fries Productions / Stonehenge Productions
Lee Philips (director); Brian Taggert (screenplay); Lee Grant , Susan Myers, Lelia Goldoni , Helen Hunt , Jack Colvin , James Olson , James Greene, Wright King , Barbara Bostock , Doney Oatman, Richard Carlyle , Kathleen Hughes , Robert Gibbons, Arthur Peterson , Marneen Fields
25
Slap Shot
Universal Pictures / Pan Arts / Kings Road Entertainment
George Roy Hill (director); Nancy Dowd (screenplay); Paul Newman , Strother Martin , Michael Ontkean , Jennifer Warren , Lindsay Crouse , Jerry Houser , Andrew Duncan, Jeff Carlson , Steve Carlson , David Hanson , Yvon Barrette , Allan Nicholls , Brad Sullivan , Stephen Mendillo, Yvan Ponton , Matthew Cowles , Kathryn Walker , Melinda Dillon , M. Emmet Walsh , Swoosie Kurtz , Paul D'Amato, Ronald L. Docken, Guido Tenesi , Jean Rosario Tėtreault , Christopher Murney , Blake Ball , Ned Dowd , Larry Block , Paul Dooley , Bruce Boudreau , Galen Head , Connie Madigan , Joe Nolan , Dick Roberge , Ross Smith , Steve Stirling , Cliff Thompson , Nancy N. Dowd, Barbara L. Shorts, Dan Belisle Jr., Rod Bloomfield, Susan Kendall Newman, Ray Schultz, Carol Shelton
Tentacles
American International Pictures
Ovidio G. Assonitis (director); Steven W. Carabatsos (screenplay); John Huston , Shelley Winters , Bo Hopkins , Henry Fonda , Cesare Danova , Delia Boccardo , Claude Akins , Franco Diogene , Marc Fiorini , Alan Boyd, Sherry Buchanan
M A R C H
3
Mr. Billion
20th Century Fox / Pantheon Pictures
Jonathan Kaplan (director/screenplay); Terence Hill , Valerie Perrine , Jackie Gleason , Slim Pickens , William Redfield , Chill Wills , Dick Miller , R.G. Armstrong
4
Death Weekend
American International Pictures / Cinépix Film Properties
William Fruet (director/screenplay); Brenda Vaccaro , Don Stroud , Chuck Shamata , Richard Ayres , Kyle Edwards , Don Granberry, Ed McNamara, Michael Kirby, and Richard Donat
9
The Farmer
Columbia Pictures / Milway Productions
David Berlatsky (director); John Carmody, Janice Eymann, George Fargo, Patrick Regan (screenplay); Lewell Akins, Gary Conway , Michael Dante , Dave Graig, Stratton Leopold , Ray McIver, George Memmoli , Timothy Scott , Sonny Shroyer , Angel Tompkins , Bill Moses, Judge Parker, Don Payne, Louis C. Pessolano, Johnny Popwell, Ken Renard , Wayne Stewart, Roy Tatum, Jack Waltzer, Eric Weston, Laura Whyte
Islands in the Stream
Paramount Pictures
Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Denne Bart Petitclerc (screenplay); George C. Scott , David Hemmings , Gilbert Roland , Susan Tyrrell , Richard Evans , Claire Bloom , Julius Harris , Hart Bochner , Brad Savage , Michael-James Wixted, Hildy Brooks
11
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
John Lounsbery , Wolfgang Reitherman (directors); Larry Clemmons , Ralph Wright , Vance Gerry, Xavier Atencio , Ken Anderson , Julius Svendsen, Ted Berman , Eric Cleworth (screenplay); Sterling Holloway , John Fiedler , Junius Matthews , Paul Winchell , Howard Morris , Bruce Reitherman , Jon Walmsley , Timothy Turner, Ralph Wright , Clint Howard , Barbara Luddy , Hal Smith , Sebastian Cabot , Dori Whitaker
Black Sunday
Paramount Pictures
John Frankenheimer (director); Ernest Lehman , Kenneth Ross , Ivan Moffat (screenplay); Robert Shaw , Bruce Dern , Marthe Keller , Fritz Weaver , Bekim Fehmiu , Steven Keats , Michael V. Gazzo , William Daniels , Walter Gotell , Victor Campos, Joe Robbie , Robert Wussler , Pat Summerall , Tom Brookshier , Walter Brooke , Clyde Kusatsu , Tom McFadden, Than Wyenn , James Jeter , Robert Patten
Airport '77
Universal Pictures
Jerry Jameson (director); Michael Scheff, David Spector (screenplay); Jack Lemmon , Lee Grant , James Stewart , George Kennedy , Brenda Vaccaro , Christopher Lee , Darren McGavin , Joseph Cotten , Olivia de Havilland , Robert Foxworth , Robert Hooks , Monte Markham , Kathleen Quinlan , Gil Gerard , James Booth , Monica Lewis , Maidie Norman , Pamela Bellwood , Arlene Golonka , Tom Sullivan , M. Emmet Walsh , Michael Pataki , George Furth , Richard Venture , Elizabeth Cheshire , Anthony Battaglia
25
Eraserhead
Warner Bros. Pictures / Libra Films
David Lynch (director/screenplay); Jack Nance , Charlotte Stewart , Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates , Judith Roberts , Jack Fisk , Laurel Near
The American Friend
Paramount Pictures
Wim Wenders (director/screenplay); Dennis Hopper , Bruno Ganz , Lisa Kreuzer , Gérard Blain , Nicholas Ray , Samuel Fuller , Peter Lilienthal , Daniel Schmid , Jean Eustache , Sandy Whitelaw , Lou Castel , David Blue , Andreas Dedecke
The Domino Principle
AVCO Embassy Pictures / ITC Entertainment
Stanley Kramer (director); Adam Kennedy (screenplay); Gene Hackman , Candice Bergen , Mickey Rooney , Richard Widmark , Edward Albert , Eli Wallach , Ken Swofford , Neva Patterson , Jay Novello , Joseph V. Perry , Majel Barrett
April–June
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
A P R I L
1
Breaker! Breaker!
American International Pictures / Paragon Films Inc. / Worldwide Productions
Don Hulette (director); Terry Chambers (screenplay); Chuck Norris , George Murdock , Jack Nance , Terry O'Connor, Michael Augenstein, Don Gentry, John Di Fusco, Ron Cedillos, Dan Vandegrift, Douglas Stevenson, Paul Kawecki, Larry Feder
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
20th Century Fox / The Bobbs-Merrill Company / Richard Williams Productions
Richard Williams (director); Max Wilk (screenplay); Claire Williams, Didi Conn , Mark Baker , Mason Adams , Allen Swift , Sheldon Harnick , George S. Irving , Arnold Stang , Joe Silver , Alan Sues , Marty Brill , Paul Dooley , Joe Raposo , Hetty Galen, Ardyth Kaiser, Margery Gray, Lynne Stuart, Niki Flacks, Fred Stuthman
The Van
Crown International Pictures
Sam Grossman (director); Celia Susan Cotelo, Robert J. Rosenthal (screenplay); Stuart Getz , Deborah White, Danny DeVito , Harry Moses, Marcie Barkin , Bill Adler, Stephen Oliver, Connie Lisa Marie
2
The Eagle Has Landed
Columbia Pictures / 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
6
Audrey Rose
United Artists / Sterobcar Productions
Robert Wise (director); Frank De Felitta (screenplay); Marsha Mason , Anthony Hopkins , John Beck , Susan Swift , Norman Lloyd , John Hillerman , Robert Walden , Stephen Pearlman , Mary Jackson , Richard Lawson , Ivy Jones, Aly Wassil, Elizabeth Farley
8
Demon Seed
Warner Bros. Pictures (United States/Canada) / Cinema International Corporation (international) / Herb Jaffe Productions
Donald Cammell (director); Dean Koontz (screenplay); Julie Christie , Fritz Weaver , Gerrit Graham , Berry Kroeger , Lisa Lu , Larry J. Blake , Alfred Dennis , Patricia Wilson , Barbara O. Jones , Felix Silla , Robert Vaughn , John O'Leary, Davis Roberts, E. Hampton Beagle, Michael Glass, Dana Laurita, Monica MacLean, Harold Oblong, Georgie Paul, Michelle Stacy, Tiffany Potter
Rabid
Cinépix Film Properties / New World Pictures / Cinema Entertainment Enterprises / DAL Productions / The Dibar Syndicate
David Cronenberg (director/screenplay); Marilyn Chambers , Frank Moore , Joe Silver , Howard Ryshpan , Patricia Gage , Susan Roman , Terry Schonblum , Allan Moyle , John Boylan , Vlasta Vrana , Peter MacNeill , Louis Negin , J. Roger Periard, Lynne Deragon, Victor Désy, Julie Anna, Gary McKeehan, Terence G. Ross
15
Jabberwocky
Columbia Pictures (United States/Canada) / Warner Bros. (international) / Python Films / Umbrella Films
Terry Gilliam (director/screenplay); Charles Alverson (screenplay); Michael Palin , Harry H. Corbett , John Le Mesurier , Warren Mitchell , Annette Badland , Max Wall , Deborah Fallender, Jerold Wells , Bernard Bresslaw , Rodney Bewes , John Bird , Neil Innes , Terry Jones , Brian Glover , Graham Crowden , Terry Gilliam , David Prowse
20
Annie Hall
United Artists
Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Marshall Brickman (screenplay); Woody Allen , Diane Keaton , Tony Roberts , Carol Kane , Paul Simon , Janet Margolin , Shelley Duvall , Christopher Walken , Colleen Dewhurst , Donald Symington , Joan Newman, Marshall McLuhan , Mordecai Lawner , Truman Capote , John Glover , Jeff Goldblum , Beverly D'Angelo , Sigourney Weaver
3 Women
20th Century Fox / Lion's Gate Films
Robert Altman (director/screenplay); Shelley Duvall , Sissy Spacek , Janice Rule , Robert Fortier, Ruth Nelson , John Cromwell , Sierra Pecheur, Craig Richard Nelson , Maysie Hoy, Belita Moreno , Leslie Ann Hudson, Patricia Ann Hudson, Beverly Ross
27
Between the Lines
Midwest Films / Vestron Video
Joan Micklin Silver (director); Fred Barron, David M. Helpern Jr. (screenplay); John Heard , Lindsay Crouse , Jeff Goldblum , Gwen Welles , Bruno Kirby , Stephen Collins , Joe Morton , Marilu Henner , Richard Cox , Michael J. Pollard , Lane Smith , Raymond J. Barry , Guy Boyd , Charles Levin , Jill Eikenberry , Susan Haskins
The Man Who Loved Women
United Artists / Les Films du Carrosse
François Truffaut (director/screenplay); Michel Fermaud , Suzanne Schiffman (screenplay); Charles Denner , Brigitte Fossey , Nelly Borgeaud , Geneviève Fontanel , Leslie Caron , Nathalie Baye , Valérie Bonnier , Jean Dasté , Roger Leenhardt , François Truffaut
M A Y
6
Andy Warhol's Bad
New World Pictures / Factory Films
Jed Johnson (director); Pat Hackett , George Abagnalo (screenplay); Carroll Baker , Perry King , Susan Tyrrell , Stefania Casini , Cyrinda Foxe , Susan Blond , Tere Tereba , Lawrence Tierney , Tamara Horrocks , Charles McGregor , Matthew Anton, Cathy Roskam, Mary Boylan, Gordon Oas-Heim, Michael Forella, Kitty Bruce, Renee Paris, John Starke, Ruth Jaroslow
The Picture Show Man
Village Roadshow Pictures / Umbrella Entertainment / Limelight Productions
John Power (director); Joan Long (screenplay); Rod Taylor , John Meillon , John Ewart , Harold Hopkins , Patrick Cargill , Yelena Zigon , Garry McDonald , Sally Conabere, Judy Morris , Gerry Duggan
The White Buffalo
Warner Bros. Pictures
J. Lee Thompson (director); Richard Sale (screenplay); Charles Bronson , Jack Warden , Will Sampson , Kim Novak , Slim Pickens , Clint Walker , Stuart Whitman , John Carradine , Ron Thompson
13
The Car
Universal Pictures
Elliot Silverstein (director); Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack , Lane Slate (screenplay); James Brolin , Kathleen Lloyd , John Marley , Elizabeth Thompson, Ronny Cox , R.G. Armstrong , John Rubinstein , Roy Jenson , Kim Richards , Kyle Richards , Kate Murtagh , Robert Phillips , Doris Dowling , Eddie Little Sky , Lee McLaughlin , Read Morgan , Geraldine Keams , Melody Thomas Scott , Bryan O'Byrne , Don Keefer , Steve Gravers , Henry O'Brien, Margaret Willey, Ernie Orsatti, Joshua Davis, Hank Hamilton, John Moio, Bob Woodlock, James Rawley, Louis Welch, Tony Brande
17
A Special Day
Surf Film / Gold Film / Compagnia Cinematografica / Champion / Canafox Films
Ettore Scola (director/screenplay); Maurizio Costanzo , Ruggero Maccari (screenplay); Sophia Loren , Marcello Mastroianni , John Vernon , Françoise Berd , Vittorio Guerrieri , Alessandra Mussolini , Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio, Maurizio Di Paolantonio, Antonio Garibaldi, Nicole Magny
18
Handle with Care
Paramount Pictures
Jonathan Demme (director); Paul Brickman (screenplay); Paul Le Mat , Candy Clark , Bruce McGill , Roberts Blossom , Richard Bright , Charles Napier , Ann Wedgeworth , Marcia Rodd , Ed Begley Jr. , Harry Northup , Will Seltzer , Alix Elias, Michael Rothman, Michael Mahler, Leila Smith
Joseph Andrews
United Artists / Paramount Pictures / Woodfall Film Productions
Tony Richardson (director); Chris Bryant (screenplay); Ann-Margret , Peter Firth , Michael Hordern , Beryl Reid , Jim Dale , Beryl Reid , Natalie Ogle , John Gielgud , Hugh Griffith , Peter Bull , Karen Dotrice , Peggy Ashcroft , James Villiers , Timothy West , Wendy Craig , Ronald Pickup , Penelope Wilton , Kenneth Cranham , Norman Rossington , Patsy Rowlands
20
Cross of Iron
EMI Films / Constantin Film / AVCO Embassy Pictures / Anglo-EMI Productions / Rapid Film / Terra-Filmkunst / ITC Entertainment
Sam Peckinpah (director/screenplay); James Coburn , Maximilian Schell , James Mason , David Warner , Klaus Löwitsch , Vadim Glowna , Roger Fritz , Dieter Schidor , Burkhard Driest , Fred Stillkrauth , Michael Nowka, Véronique Vendell , Arthur Brauss , Senta Berger , Igor Galo , Slavko Štimac , Demeter Bitenc , Vladan Živković , Bata Kameni , Hermina Pipinić
The Greatest
Columbia Pictures / British Lion Films / EMI Films
Tom Gries , Monte Hellman (directors); Muhammad Ali (screenplay); Muhammad Ali , Ernest Borgnine , James Earl Jones , Robert Duvall , John Marley , Lloyd Haynes , David Huddleston , Ben Johnson , Dina Merrill , Roger E. Mosley , Paul Winfield , Annazette Chase , Mira Waters, Drew Bundini Brown , Malachi Throne , Richard Venture , Arthur Adams, Stack Pierce , Paul Mantee , Skip Homeier , David Clennon , Nai Bonet , Chip McAllister, Rahaman Ali , Howard Bingham , Don Dunphy , Lloyd Wells , Harold Conrad, Pat Patterson, Gene Kilroy
25
Star Wars
20th Century Fox / Lucasfilm
George Lucas (director/screenplay); Mark Hamill , Harrison Ford , Carrie Fisher , Peter Cushing , Alec Guinness , Anthony Daniels , Kenny Baker , Peter Mayhew , James Earl Jones , David Prowse , Phil Brown , Shelagh Fraser , Jack Purvis , Eddie Byrne , Denis Lawson , Garrick Hagon , Don Henderson , Leslie Schofield , Richard LeParmentier , Alex McCrindle , Alfie Curtis , Peter Geddis , Michael Leader , Robert Clarke , Patrick Jordan , Drewe Henley , Jack Klaff , William Hootkins , Angus MacInnes , Jeremy Sinden , Scott Beach , Steve Gawley , Joe Johnston , Grant McCune , Peter Sumner , Malcolm Tierney , Phil Tippett
27
Cinderella
Group 1
Michael Pataki (director); Frank Ray Perilli (screenplay); Cheryl Smith , Yana Nirvana, Marilyn Corwin, Jennifer Stace, Sy Richardson , Brett Smiley , Kirk Scott, Boris Moris, Pamela Stonebrook, Frank Ray Perilli
Desperate Living
New Line Cinema / Dreamland
John Waters (director/screenplay); Liz Renay , Mink Stole , Edith Massey , Susan Lowe , Mary Vivian Pearce , Jean Hill , Cookie Mueller , Channing Wilroy , Ed Peranio , Paul Swift , George Figgs , Sharon Niesp, George Stover, Turkey Joe, Al Strapelli, Brook Blake, Karen Gerwig, Marina Melin
Smokey and the Bandit
Universal Pictures / Rastar
Hal Needham (director); James Lee Barrett , Charles Shyer , Alan Mandel (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Sally Field , Jerry Reed , Jackie Gleason , Mike Henry , Pat McCormick , Paul Williams , Macon McCalman , Michael McManus , Ben Jones , Joe Klecko , Hank Worden , Sonny Shroyer , Susan McIver, George Reynolds, Laura Lizer Sommers, Michael Mann, Lamar Jackson, Ronnie Gay, Quinnon Sheffield, Alfie Wise, Pat Hustis, Ingeborg Kjeldsen, Gene Witham, Susan Sindelar
J U N E
1
The Grateful Dead Movie
Monarch Films
Jerry Garcia , Leon Gast (directors); Jerry Garcia , Bob Weir , Phil Lesh , Bill Kreutzmann , Donna Godchaux , Keith Godchaux , Mickey Hart
3
Fraternity Row
Paramount Pictures
Thomas Pope (director); Charles Gary Allison (screenplay); Peter Fox, Gregory Harrison , Scott Newman , Nancy Morgan , Wendy Phillips , Robert Emhardt , Cliff Robertson , Dean Smith
Crossed Swords
Warner Bros. Pictures / International Film Production / Prince and the Pauper Film Export A.G.
Richard Fleischer (director); George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay); Mark Lester , Ernest Borgnine , Oliver Reed , Raquel Welch , Rex Harrison , Charlton Heston , George C. Scott , David Hemmings , Harry Andrews , Julian Orchard , Murray Melvin , Lalla Ward , Felicity Dean , Sybil Danning , Graham Stark , Preston Lockwood , Arthur Hewlett , Tommy Wright, Harry Fowler , Richard Hurndall , Don Henderson , Dudley Sutton , Ruth Madoc
8
The Other Side of Midnight
20th Century Fox
Charles Jarrott (director); Herman Raucher (screenplay); Marie-France Pisier , John Beck , Susan Sarandon , Raf Vallone , Clu Gulager , Christian Marquand , Michael Lerner , Sorrell Booke , Antony Ponzini , Louis Zorich , Charles Cioffi , Howard Hesseman , Titos Vandis , Dimitra Arliss , Josette Banzet
10
For the Love of Benji
Mulberry Square Releasing
Joe Camp (director/screenplay); Ben Vaughn (screenplay); Benjean, Patsy Garrett , Cynthia Smith, Allen Fiuzat, Ed Nelson , Peter Bowles , Art Vasil, Bridget Armstrong , Tiffany
Grand Theft Auto
New World Pictures
Ron Howard (director/screenplay); Rance Howard (screenplay); Ron Howard , Nancy Morgan , Marion Ross , Peter Isacksen, Don Steele , Clint Howard , Rance Howard , Paul Linke , Elizabeth Rogers , Barry Cahill , Jack Perkins , Paul Bartel , Garry Marshall , Leo Rossi , Allan Arkush , Bill Conklin, Robby Weaver, James Ritz
Rollercoaster
Universal Pictures
James Goldstone (director); Sanford Sheldon, Richard Levinson , William Link , Tommy Cook (screenplay); George Segal , Richard Widmark , Timothy Bottoms , Harry Guardino , Susan Strasberg , Henry Fonda , Helen Hunt , Stephen Pearlman , Wayne Tippit , Michael Bell , Craig Wasson , William Prince , Quinn Redeker , Harry Basch , Arthur Peterson , Robert Quarry , Jean Rasey , Bruce French , Monica Lewis , Dick Wesson , Roger Steffens , Tara Buckman , Steve Guttenberg , Ron Mael , Russell Mael , Simon Prescott , Roger Til
15
A Bridge Too Far
United Artists / Joseph E. Levine Productions
Richard Attenborough (director); William Goldman (screenplay); Dirk Bogarde , James Caan , Michael Caine , Sean Connery , Edward Fox , Elliott Gould , Anthony Hopkins , Gene Hackman , Hardy Krüger , Laurence Olivier , Ryan O'Neal , Robert Redford , Maximilian Schell , Liv Ullmann , Michael Byrne , Denholm Elliott , Peter Faber , Christopher Good , Frank Grimes , Jeremy Kemp , Nicholas Campbell , Paul Copley , Donald Douglas , Keith Drinkel , Richard Kane, Paul Maxwell , Stephen Moore , Donald Pickering , Gerald Sim , John Stride , Alun Armstrong , David Auker , Michael Bangerter, Philip Raymond, Michael Graham Cox , Garrick Hagon , John Ratzenberger , Arthur Hill , Ben Cross , Mark Sheridan, George Innes , Wolfgang Preiss , Walter Kohut , Hartmut Becker , Hans von Borsody , Lex van Delden , Fred Williams , Erik Chitty , Richard Attenborough
17
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Warner Bros. Pictures
John Boorman (director); William Goodhart (screenplay); Linda Blair , Richard Burton , Louise Fletcher , Max von Sydow , Kitty Winn , Paul Henreid , James Earl Jones , Ned Beatty , Richard Paul , Dana Plato , Belinha Beatty, Rose Portillo, Barbara Mason, Joey Green, Tiffany Kinney, Charles Parks, Lorry Goldman, Robert Lussier, George Skaff, Karen Knapp
The Getting of Wisdom
Roadshow / Southern Cross Films
Bruce Beresford (director); Eleanor Witcombe (screenplay); Susannah Fowle , Hilary Ryan, Terence Donovan , Patricia Kennedy , Sheila Helpmann, Candy Raymond , Barry Humphries , John Waters , Julia Blake , Diana Greentree, Monica Maughan , Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Phillip Adams , Kerry Armstrong , Sigrid Thornton , Celia De Burgh, Kim Deacon, Alix Longman, Jo-Anne Moore, Amanda Ring, Janet Shaw, Karen Sutton
21
New York, New York
United Artists / Chartoff-Winkler Productions
Martin Scorsese (director); Mardik Martin , Earl Mac Rauch (screenplay); Liza Minnelli , Robert De Niro , Lionel Stander , Barry Primus , Mary Kay Place , Frank Sivero , Georgie Auld , George Memmoli , Harry Northup , Dick Miller , Clarence Clemons , Casey Kasem , Adam David Winkler, Dimitri Logothetis , Diahnne Abbott , Margo Winkler , Steven Prince, Don Calfa , Selma Archerd , Bill Baldwin , Nicky Blair , Sidney Guilaroff , Shera Danese , DeForest Covan , Mardik Martin , Joey Forman , Jack Haley
24
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Vincent McEveety (director); Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson (screenplay); Dean Jones , Don Knotts , Julie Sommars , Jacques Marin , Roy Kinnear , Bernard Fox , Eric Braeden , Xavier Saint-Macary , Alan Caillou , Laurie Main , Johnny Haymer , Gérard Jugnot , Richard Warlock , Carey Loftin , Katia Tchenko , Josiane Balasko , François Lalande, Mike Kulcsar
The Rescuers
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Wolfgang Reitherman , John Lounsbery , Art Stevens (directors); Larry Clemmons , Vance Gerry, Ken Anderson , Frank Thomas , Burny Mattinson , Fred Lucky, Dick Sebast , David Michener, Ted Berman (screenplay); Bob Newhart , Eva Gabor , Michelle Stacy, Geraldine Page , Joe Flynn , Jim Jordan , John McIntire , Jeanette Nolan , Pat Buttram , Bernard Fox , James McDonald , George Lindsey , Larry Clemmons , Dub Taylor , John Fiedler , Shelby Flint , Bill McMillian
Sorcerer
Universal Pictures (U.S.A & Canada) / Paramount Pictures (International) / Film Properties International N.V.
William Friedkin (director); Walon Green (screenplay); Roy Scheider , Bruno Cremer , Francisco Rabal , Amidou , Ramon Bieri , Karl John , Peter Capell , Anne-Marie Deschodt , Friedrich von Ledebur , Chico Martinez, Joe Spinell , Rosario Almontes, Richard Holley, Jean-Luc Bideau , Jacques François , Gerard Murphy , Randy Jurgensen, Cosmo Allegretti
July–September
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
J U L Y
1
Greased Lightning
Warner Bros. Pictures
Michael Schultz (director); Melvin Van Peebles (screenplay); Richard Pryor , Beau Bridges , Pam Grier , Cleavon Little , Vincent Gardenia , Richie Havens , Julian Bond , Earl Hindman , Lucy Saroyan , Noble Willingham , Bill Cobbs , Georgia Allen , Bruce Atkins, Steve Fifield
8
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
Paramount Pictures
Michael Pressman (director); Paul Bickman (screenplay); William Devane , Jackie Earle Haley , Clifton James , Chris Barnes , Erin Blunt, Jimmy Baio , Alfred W. Lutter , Brett Marx , David Pollock , Jeffrey Louis Starr, David Stambaugh, Jaime Escobedo, George Gonzales, Quinn Smith, Lane Smith , Dolph Sweet , Pat Corley , Douglas Anderson, Jerry Lawson, Fred Stuthman
12
Stroszek
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion / ZDF
Werner Herzog (director/screenplay); Bruno S. , Eva Mattes , Clemens Scheitz
13
The Spy Who Loved Me
United Artists / Eon Productions
Lewis Gilbert (director); Christopher Wood , Richard Maibaum (screenplay); Roger Moore , Barbara Bach , Curd Jürgens , Richard Kiel , Caroline Munro
The Island of Dr. Moreau
American International Pictures
Don Taylor (director); John Herman Shaner (screenplay); Burt Lancaster , Michael York , Nigel Davenport , Barbara Carrera , Richard Basehart , Nick Cravat , Fumio Demura , The Great John L., Bob Ozman, Gary Baxley, John Gillespie, David Cass
14
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
New World Pictures
Anthony Page (director); Roger Corman (screenplay); Kathleen Quinlan , Bibi Andersson , Ben Piazza , Lorraine Gary , Martine Bartlett , Darlene Craviotto, Reni Santoni , Susan Tyrrell
15
The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
Cannon Films
William A. Levey (director); Bob Kaufman (screenplay); Joey Heatherton , George Hamilton , Ray Walston , Jack Carter , Louisa Moritz , Rip Taylor , Phil Foster , David White , Joe E. Ross , Billy Barty , Harold Sakata , Edy Williams , Larry Storch , Will Hutchins , Cisse Cameron
MacArthur
Universal Pictures
Hal Barwood (director); Matthew Robbins (screenplay); Gregory Peck , Ed Flanders , Dan O'Herlihy , Ivan Bonar , Ward Costello , Nicolas Coster , Marj Dusay , Art Fleming , Russell Johnson , Sandy Kenyon , Robert Mandan , Allan Miller , Dick O'Neill , G.D. Spradlin , Addison Powell , Garry Walberg , James Shigeta
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Universal Pictures
Marty Feldman (director/screenplay); Sam Bobrick (screenplay); Marty Feldman , Michael York , Ann-Margret , Peter Ustinov , James Earl Jones , Trevor Howard , Henry Gibson , Roy Kinnear , Spike Milligan , Terry-Thomas , Sinéad Cusack , Burt Kwouk , Avery Schreiber , Irene Handl , Hugh Griffith , Stephen Lewis , Ed McMahon , Michael McConkey
17
The Deep
Columbia Pictures / Casablanca FilmWorks / EMI Films
Peter Yates (director); Peter Benchley (screenplay); Robert Shaw , Jacqueline Bisset , Nick Nolte , Louis Gossett Jr. , Eli Wallach , Dick Anthony Williams , Earl Maynard , Bob Minor , Teddy Tucker, Robert Tessier , Lee McClain, Colin Shaw
22
One on One
Warner Bros.
Lamont Johnson (director); Robby Benson , Jerry Segal (screenplay); Robby Benson , Annette O'Toole , G. D. Spradlin , Lamont Johnson , Melanie Griffith , Hector Morales, Gail Strickland , Cory Faucher, Charles Fleischer
Orca
Paramount Pictures / Famous Films
Michael Anderson (director); Sergio Donati , Robert Towne (screenplay); Richard Harris , Charlotte Rampling , Will Sampson , Bo Derek , Keenan Wynn , Robert Carradine , Scott Walker, Peter Hooten , Don "Red" Barry
The Hills Have Eyes
New World Pictures / Vanguard / Blood Relations Company
Wes Craven (director/screenplay); Susan Lanier , Robert Houston , Martin Speer, Dee Wallace , Russ Grieve, John Steadman , Michael Berryman , Virginia Vincent , Janus Blythe , James Whitworth, Cordy Clark, Lance Gordon, Peter Locke, Brenda Marinoff
29
Empire of the Ants
American International Pictures / Cinema 77
Bert I. Gordon (director/screenplay); Jack Turley (screenplay); Joan Collins , Robert Lansing , John David Carson , Albert Salmi , Jacqueline Scott , Pamela Susan Shoop , Robert Pine , Tom Fadden , Irene Tedrow , Edward Power, Brooke Palance, Harry Holcombe
House
Toho
Nobuhiko Obayashi (director); Chiho Katsura (screenplay); Kimiko Ikegami , Miki Jinbo , Ai Matubara, Kumiko Oba , Mieko Sato, Eriko Tanaka, Masayo Miyako, Yōko Minamida , Kiyohiko Ozaki , Saho Sasazawa, Haruko Wanibuchi
Walking Tall: Final Chapter
American International Pictures
Jack Starrett (director); Howard B. Kreitsek, Samuel A. Peeples (screenplay); Bo Svenson , Lurene Tuttle , Forrest Tucker , Leif Garrett , Dawn Lyn , Simpson Hemphill, Sandy McPeak , Logan Ramsey , Morgan Woodward , Clay Tanner , Maggie Blye , Bruce Glover , Red West , David Adams, Michael Allen Honaker, Vance Davis, Libby Boone
A U G U S T
3
Brothers
Warner Bros. / Edward Lewis Productions / Soho Productions
Arthur Barron (director); Bernie Casey , Vonetta McGee , Ron O'Neal , John Lehne, Stu Gilliam , Renny Roker , Owen Pace, Dwan Smith , Martin St. Judge
5
March or Die
Columbia Pictures / ITC Entertainment
Dick Richards (director); David Zelag Goodman (screenplay); Gene Hackman , Terence Hill , Max von Sydow , Ian Holm , Catherine Deneuve
10
The Kentucky Fried Movie
United Film Distribution Company / Kentucky Fried Theater
John Landis (director); Jim Abrahams , David Zucker , Jerry Zucker (screenplay); Bill Bixby , George Lazenby , Evan C. Kim , Bong Soo Han , Donald Sutherland , Henry Gibson , Barry Dennen , Agneta Eckemyr , Tony Dow
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
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
12
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Columbia Pictures / Andor Films
Sam Wanamaker (director); Ray Harryhausen , Beverley Cross (screenplay); Patrick Wayne , Taryn Power , Margaret Whiting , Jane Seymour , Patrick Troughton
14
Outlaw Blues
Warner Bros.
Richard T. Heffron (director); Bill L. Norton (screenplay); Peter Fonda , Susan Saint James , John Crawford , James T. Callahan , Michael Lerner , Steve Fromholz
Suspiria
20th Century Fox / Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (Italy) / Seda Spettacoli
Dario Argento (director/screenplay); Daria Nicolodi (screenplay); Jessica Harper , Stefania Casini , Flavio Bucci , Miguel Bosé , Barbara Magnolfi
17
That Obscure Object of Desire
Greenwich Film Productions / Les Films Galaxie / InCine / GEF-CCFC
Luis Buñuel (director/screenplay); Jean-Claude Carrière (screenplay); Fernando Rey , Carole Bouquet , Ángela Molina , Julien Bertheau , André Weber, Milena Vukotic
18
Journey Among Women
Greater Union / Ko-An Film Productions
Tom Cowan (director/screenplay); John Weiley, Dorothy Hewett (screenplay); Jeune Pritchard, Nell Campbell , Diana Fuller, Lisa Peers, Jude Kuring, Robyn Moase, Michelle Johnson, Rose Lilley, Lillian Crombie , Therese Jack, Kay Self, Helenka Link, Ralph Cotterill, Martin Phelan, Tim Elliot
24
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
Paramount Pictures / Bill Melendez Productions / Lee Mendelson Film Productions / United Feature Syndicate
Bill Melendez (director); Phil Roman (co-director); Charles M. Schulz (screenplay); Duncan Watson , Stuart Brotman, Gail Davis, Liam Martin, Melanie Kohn , Jimmy Ahrens, Kirk Jue, Jordan Warren, Tom Muller, Greg Felton, Joseph Biter, Bill Melendez
Thunder and Lightning
20th Century Fox
Corey Allen (director); William Hjortsberg (screenplay); David Carradine , Kate Jackson , Sterling Holloway , Patrick Cranshaw , Charles Napier , George Murdock
26
Joyride
American International Pictures
Joseph Ruben (director/screenplay); Peter Rainer (screenplay); Desi Arnaz Jr. , Robert Carradine , Melanie Griffith , Anne Lockhart , Tom Ligon , Cliff Lenz, Robert Loper, Diana Grayf
31
You Light Up My Life
Columbia Pictures
Joseph Brooks (director/screenplay); Didi Conn , Joe Silver , Michael Zaslow , Melanie Mayron , Jerry Keller , Joseph Brooks , Ken Olfson , Stephen Nathan, Lisa Reeves, John Gowans, Simmy Bow, Bernice Nicholson, Ed Morgan, Amy Letterman, Marty Zagon, Martin Gish
S E P T E M B E R
11
The Haunting of Julia
Astral Films / Cinema International Corporation / Canadian Film Development Corporation
Richard Loncraine (director); Dave Humphries (screenplay); Mia Farrow , Keir Dullea , Tom Conti , Jill Bennett , Robin Gammell
21
Shock Waves
Joseph Brenner Associates / Lawrence Friedricks Enterprises / Zopix Company
Ken Wiederhorn (director/screenplay); John Harrison (screenplay); Peter Cushing , John Carradine , Brooke Adams , Fred Buch, Jack Davidson, Luke Halpin , D. J. Sidney, Don Stout
22
Soldier of Orange
Tuschinski Film Distribution / The Rank Organisation / The International Picture Show Company / Excelsior Films / Film Holland / Rob Houwer Productions
Paul Verhoeven (director/screenplay); Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema , Kees Holierhoek , Gerard Soeteman (screenplay); Rutger Hauer , Jeroen Krabbé , Derek de Lint , Edward Fox
28
Another Man, Another Chance
United Artists / Chartoff-Winkler Productions
Claude Lelouch (director/screenplay); James Caan , Geneviève Bujold , Francis Huster , Susan Tyrrell , Jennifer Warren , Ross Harris , Linda Lee Lyons, Jacques Villeret , Fred Stuthman, Diana Douglas , Michael Berryman , William S. Bartman , Dominic Barto, Dick Farnsworth , George Flaherty, Christopher Lloyd
Short Eyes
Film League
Robert M. Young (director); Miguel Piñero (screenplay); Bruce Davison , Jose Perez, Joseph Carberry, Nathan George , Don Blakely, Tito Goya , Shawn Elliott , Bob Maroff, Miguel Piñero , Luis Guzmán , Curtis Mayfield , Freddy Fender
29
Bobby Deerfield
Columbia Pictures (USA/Canada) / Warner Bros. (International) / First Artists
Sydney Pollack (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Al Pacino , Marthe Keller , Anny Duperey , Walter McGinn , Romolo Valli , Stephan Meldegg, Jaime Sánchez
30
A Little Night Music
New World Pictures
Harold Prince (director); Hugh Wheeler (screenplay); Elizabeth Taylor , Diana Rigg , Len Cariou , Lesley-Anne Down , Hermione Gingold , Laurence Guittard , Christopher Guard , Lesley Dunlop , Heinz Marecek, Chloe Franks , Jonathan Tunick
October–December
Opening
Title
Production company
Cast and crew
Ref.
O C T O B E R
1
The Yellow Handkerchief
Shochiku
Yoji Yamada (director/screenplay); Yoshitaka Asama (screenplay); Ken Takakura , Chieko Baisho , Tetsuya Takeda , Kaori Momoi , Hachirō Tako, Hisao Dazai, Mari Okamoto , and Kiyoshi Atsumi
2
Julia
20th Century Fox
Fred Zinnemann (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Jane Fonda , Vanessa Redgrave , Jason Robards , Hal Holbrook , Rosemary Murphy , Maximilian Schell , Meryl Streep , John Glover , Lisa Pelikan , Maurice Denham , Gérard Buhr , Cathleen Nesbitt , Lambert Wilson , Dora Doll , Elisabeth Mortensen, Susan Jones
Roseland
Cinema Shares International Distribution
James Ivory (director); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Teresa Wright , Lou Jacobi , Geraldine Chaplin , Helen Gallagher , Joan Copeland , Christopher Walken , Conrad Janis , Lilia Skala , Don De Natale, Louise Kirkland, Hetty Galen, Carol Culver, Denny Shearer, Jayne Heller, Annette Rivera, Floyd Chisolm, Jeanmarie Evans, David Thomas, Edward Kogan, Madeline Lee, Stan Rubin, Dortha Duckworth
7
Oh, God!
Warner Bros. Pictures
Carl Reiner (director); Larry Gelbart (screenplay); George Burns , John Denver , Teri Garr , Donald Pleasence , Ralph Bellamy , William Daniels , Barnard Hughes , Paul Sorvino , Barry Sullivan , Dinah Shore , Carl Reiner , Jeff Corey , George Furth , David Ogden Stiers , Titos Vandis , Moosie Drier , Jerry Dunphy , Mario Machado , Connie Sawyer , Wonderful Smith , Murphy Dunne , Zane Buzby , Bob McClurg, Rachel Longaker, Jane Lambert
A Piece of the Action
Universal Pictures / First Artists
Sidney Poitier (director); Charles Blackwell (screenplay); Sidney Poitier , Bill Cosby , James Earl Jones , Denise Nicholas , Hope Clarke , Tracy Reed , Titos Vandis , Frances Foster , Jason Evers , Marc Lawrence , Ja'net Dubois , Sheryl Lee Ralph , Ernest Lee Thomas , Estelle Evans
Rolling Thunder
American International Pictures / Lawrence Gordon Productions / TBC Film
John Flynn (director); Paul Schrader , Heywood Gould (screenplay); William Devane , Tommy Lee Jones , Linda Haynes , James Best , Dabney Coleman , Luke Askew , James Victor , Cassie Yates , Paul A. Partain , James N. Harrell , Carol Baass Sowa, Lawrason Driscoll, Lisa Blake Richards, Randy Hermann, Charles Escamilla, Pete Ortega, Jordan Gerler, Jacque Burandt
14
The Chicken Chronicles
AVCO Embassy Pictures
Frank Simon (director); Paul Diamond (screenplay); Phil Silvers , Ed Lauter , Steve Guttenberg , Lisa Reeves, Gino Baffa, Meridith Baer , Branscombe Richmond , Jon Gries , Raven De La Croix
Starship Invasions
Warner Bros. Pictures / Hal Roach Studios
Ed Hunt (director/screenplay); Robert Vaughn , Christopher Lee , Daniel Pilon , Helen Shaver , Sean McCann , Tiiu Leek, Henry Ramer, Victoria Johnson, Doreen Lipson, Kate Parr, Sherri Ross, Linda Rennhofer, Richard Fitzpatrick, Ted Turner, Bob Warner, Kurt Schiegl
16
Alambrista!
First Run Features / Filmhaus
Robert M. Young (director/screenplay); Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva , Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty , and Jerry Hardin
19
Equus
United Artists / Winkast Film Productions
Sidney Lumet (director); Peter Shaffer (screenplay); Richard Burton , Peter Firth , Jenny Agutter , Joan Plowright , Colin Blakely , Harry Andrews , Eileen Atkins , Kate Reid , John Wyman , Frazier Mohawk , Brook Williams , Elva Mai Hoover, Ken James, David Gardner , James Hurdle, Sheldon Rybowski
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Paramount Pictures
Richard Brooks (director/screenplay); Diane Keaton , Tuesday Weld , William Atherton , Richard Kiley , Richard Gere , Alan Feinstein , Tom Berenger , Priscilla Pointer , Laurie Prange, Alexander Courtney, Joel Fabiani , Julius Harris , Richard Bright , LeVar Burton , Brian Dennehy , Richard Venture , Elizabeth Cheshire
21
Damnation Alley
20th Century Fox
Jack Smight (director); Alan Sharp , Lukas Heller (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent , George Peppard , Dominique Sanda , Paul Winfield , Jackie Earle Haley , Kip Niven , Mark L. Taylor , Robert Donner , Murray Hamilton
Ruby
Dimension Pictures
Curtis Harrington (director); George Edwards, Steve Krantz , Barry Schneider (screenplay); Piper Laurie , Stuart Whitman , Roger Davis , Janit Baldwin, Paul Kent , Len Lesser , Fred Kohler Jr. , Michael Alldredge , Sal Vecchio, Crystin Sinclaire, Jack Perkins, Eddy Donno, Rory Stevens, Kip Gillespie, Mary Margaret Robinson
28
Valentino
United Artists
Ken Russell (director/screenplay); Mardik Martin (screenplay); Rudolf Nureyev , Leslie Caron , Michelle Phillips , Carol Kane , Felicity Kendal , Seymour Cassel , Huntz Hall , Alfred Marks , David de Keyser , Linda Thorson , Leland Palmer , Lindsay Kemp , Peter Vaughan , Penelope Milford , Emily Bolton , Anthony Dowell , William Hootkins , Don Fellows , John Justin , Anton Diffring , Jennie Linden , Dudley Sutton
N O V E M B E R
2
Madame Rosa
Warner Bros. Pictures
Moshé Mizrahi (director/screenplay); Simone Signoret , Michal Bat-Adam , Samy Ben-Youb, Gabriel Jabbour , Geneviève Fontanel , Claude Dauphin , Costa-Gavras , Bernard La Jarrige , Elio Bencoli, Stella Annicette, El Kebir, Ibrahim Seck, Mohamed Zinet
3
Pete's Dragon
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Don Chaffey (director); Malcolm Marmorstein (screenplay); Helen Reddy , Jim Dale , Mickey Rooney , Red Buttons , Jeff Conaway , Shelley Winters , Jane Kean , Jim Backus , Sean Marshall , Charlie Callas , Charles Tyner , Gary Morgan , Cal Bartlett, Walter Barnes
4
Heroes
Universal Pictures
Jeremy Kagan (director); James Carabatsos (screenplay); Henry Winkler , Sally Field , Harrison Ford , Val Avery , Olivia Cole , Hector Elias, Dennis Burkley , Tony Burton , Michael Cavanaugh , Stuart Margolin
First Love
Paramount Pictures
Joan Darling (director); Jane Stanton Hitchcock , David Freeman (screenplay); William Katt , Susan Dey , John Heard , Beverly D'Angelo , Robert Loggia , Swoosie Kurtz , Tom Lacy, June Barrett
Which Way Is Up?
Universal Pictures
Michael Schultz (director); Carl Gottlieb , Cecil Brown (screenplay); Richard Pryor , Lonette McKee , Margaret Avery , Morgan Woodward , Marilyn Coleman, BeBe Drake-Hooks, Gloria Edwards, Ernesto Hernandez, Otis Day , Morgan Roberts, Diane Rodriguez, Dolph Sweet , Timothy Thomerson , Danny Valdez , Luis Valdez , Harry Northup
6
Black Joy
ITC Entertainment
Anthony Simmons (director); Jamal Ali (screenplay); Norman Beaton , Trevor Thomas , Floella Benjamin , Dawn Hope, Oscar James , Paul J. Medford , Vivian Stanshall
14
The Turning Point
20th Century Fox
Herbert Ross (director); Arthur Laurents (screenplay); Shirley MacLaine , Anne Bancroft , Tom Skerritt , Mikhail Baryshnikov , Leslie Browne , Martha Scott , James Mitchell , Alexandra Danilova , Lisa Lucas , Philip Saunders, Antoinette Sibley , Marshall Thompson , Starr Danias, Anthony Zerbe , Daniel Levans
16
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Columbia Pictures
Steven Spielberg (director/screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss , Teri Garr , Melinda Dillon , François Truffaut , Bob Balaban , Roberts Blossom , Cary Guffey , Lance Henriksen , George DiCenzo , Gene Dynarski , Josef Sommer , Carl Weathers , J. Patrick McNamara, Warren Kemmerling, Philip Dodds, Merrill Connally
18
The Mouse and His Child
Murakami-Wolf-Swenson / Sanrio
Fred Wolf (director); Russell Hoban (screenplay); Peter Ustinov , Cloris Leachman , Sally Kellerman , John Carradine , Andy Devine , Don Lake , Joan Gerber , Frank Nelson , Cliff Norton , Regis Cordic , Neville Brand , Bob Holt , Robert Ridgely , Iris Rainer , Mel Leven , Cliff Osmond , Maitzi Morgan, Charles Woolf, Alan Barzman, Marcy Swenson
The Pack
Warner Bros. Pictures
Robert Clouse (director/screenplay); Joe Don Baker , Hope Alexander-Willis , Richard B. Shull , R. G. Armstrong , Ned Wertimer , Richard O'Brien , Bibi Besch , Delos V. Smith Jr. , Sherry Miles , and Paul Willson
Planet of Dinosaurs
Cineworld Pictures
James Shea (director); Jim Aupperle, Ralph Lucas (screenplay); James Whitworth, Pamela Bottaro, Louie Lawless , Harvey Shain, Charlotte Speer, Chuck Pennington, Derna Wylde, Max Thayer , Mary Appleseth
Semi-Tough
United Artists
Michael Ritchie (director); Walter Bernstein , Ring Lardner Jr. (screenplay); Burt Reynolds , Kris Kristofferson , Jill Clayburgh , Robert Preston , Lotte Lenya , Bert Convy , Brian Dennehy , Richard Masur , Carl Weathers , Roger E. Mosley , Mary Jo Catlett , Joe Kapp , Ron Silver , Jim McKrell , Peter Bromilow , Norman Alden
23
Kingdom of the Spiders
Dimension Pictures / Arachnid Productions Ltd.
John "Bud" Cardos (director); Alan Caillou , Richard Robinson (screenplay); William Shatner , Tiffany Bolling , Woody Strode , Altovise Davis , Lieux Dressler , David McLean , Roy Engel , Natasha Ryan, Marcy Lafferty, Joe Ross, Adele Malis-Morey
27
The Hobbit
Rankin/Bass / Topcraft / ABC Video Enterprises
Arthur Rankin Jr. , Jules Bass (directors); Romeo Muller (screenplay); Orson Bean , Richard Boone , Hans Conried , John Huston , Otto Preminger , Cyril Ritchard , Brother Theodore , Paul Frees , Jack DeLeon , Don Messick , John Stephenson , Glenn Yarbrough , Thurl Ravenscroft
30
The Goodbye Girl
Warner Bros. Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Rastar
Herbert Ross (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss , Marsha Mason , Quinn Cummings , Paul Benedict , Barbara Rhoades , Theresa Merritt , Michael Shawn, Patricia Pearcy , Nicol Williamson
Scott Joplin
Universal Pictures / Motown Productions / NBC
Jeremy Kagan (director); Christopher Knopf (screenplay); Billy Dee Williams , Clifton Davis , Margaret Avery , Eubie Blake , Godfrey Cambridge , Art Carney , Seymour Cassel , Mabel King , David Healy , Samuel Fuller , Denise Gordy , The Commodores
D E C E M B E R
9
The Disappearance
Hemdale Film Corporation
Stuart Cooper (director); Paul Mayersberg (screenplay); Donald Sutherland , Francine Racette , David Hemmings , John Hurt , David Warner , Peter Bowles , Virginia McKenna , Christopher Plummer , Dan Howard , Robin Sachs , Michael Eric Kramer , Michèle Magny, Christina Greatrex, Robert Korne, Maureen Beck
13
Goodbye Emmanuelle
Parafrance Films/ Warner Bros. Pictures / Columbia Pictures
François Leterrier (director); Monique Lange , François Leterrier , Emmanuelle Arsan (screenplay); Sylvia Kristel , Umberto Orsini , Alexandra Stewart , Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Olga Georges-Picot , and Charlotte Alexandra
The Last Wave
McElroy & McElroy / South Australian Film Corporation / Australian Film Commission
Peter Weir (director/screenplay); Tony Morphett , Petru Popescu (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain , Olivia Hamnett , Gulpilil , Nandjiwarra Amagula, Fred Parslow , Vivean Gray , Peter Carroll , Wallas Eaton , Walter Amagula, Roy Bara, Cedrick Lalara, Morris Lalara, Athol Compton, Hedley Cullen, Michael Duffield
16
Candleshoe
Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Norman Tokar (director); David Swift , Rosemary Anne Sisson (screenplay); Jodie Foster , David Niven , Helen Hayes , Leo McKern , Vivian Pickles , John Alderson , Mildred Shay , Michael Balfour , Sydney Bromley , Veronica Quilligan, Ian Sharrock, Sarah Tamakuni, David Samuels
Saturday Night Fever
Paramount Pictures
John Badham (director); Norman Wexler (screenplay); John Travolta , Karen Lynn Gorney , Barry Miller , Joseph Cali , Paul Pape , Donna Pescow , Bruce Ornstein , Val Bisoglio , Julie Bovasso , Martin Shakar , Lisa Peluso , Sam Coppola , Denny Dillon , Fran Drescher , Monti Rock III , Robert Costanzo , Nina Hansen, Bert Michaels, Robert Weil, Donald Gantry
Telefon
United Artists / Cinema International Corporation
Don Siegel (director); Peter Hyams , Stirling Silliphant (screenplay); Charles Bronson , Lee Remick , Donald Pleasence , Tyne Daly , Alan Badel , Patrick Magee , Sheree North , Frank Marth , Helen Page Camp , Roy Jenson , Jacqueline Scott , Ed Bakey , John Mitchum , Iggie Wolfington , Hank Brandt , John Carter , Burton Gilliam , Regis Cordic , Carmen Zapata , Kathleen O'Malley , Åke Lindman , Ansa Ikonen , George O. Petrie , Cliff Emmich , Ville-Veikko Salminen , Derek Rydall , Michael Byrne
18
The World's Greatest Lover
20th Century Fox
Gene Wilder (director/screenplay); Gene Wilder , Carol Kane , Dom DeLuise , Fritz Feld , Ronny Graham , Danny DeVito , Rolfe Sedan , Peter Elbling , Candice Azzara , Carl Ballantine , Lou Cutell , Richard Dimitri , James Hong , David Huddleston , James Gleason , Lupe Ontiveros , Poncie Ponce , Marya Small , George Memmoli , Pat Ast , Elya Baskin , Nick Dimitri , Carol Arthur , Stanley Brock , Josip Elic , Michael McManus , Sidney Miller , Jack Riley , Billy Sands , Florence Sundstrom , Sal Viscuso
21
The Gauntlet
Warner Bros. Pictures / The Malpaso Company
Clint Eastwood (director); Dennis Shryack (screenplay); Clint Eastwood , Sondra Locke , Pat Hingle , William Prince , Bill McKinney , Michael Cavanaugh , Carole Cook , Mara Corday , Doug McGrath , Jeff Morris , Roy Jenson , Dan Vadis
22
The Choirboys
Universal Pictures / Lorimar Productions
Robert Aldrich (director); Jennifer Miller (screenplay); Charles Durning , Louis Gossett Jr. , Perry King , Clyde Kusatsu , Stephen Macht , Tim McIntire , Randy Quaid , Chuck Sacci, Don Stroud , James Woods , Burt Young , Robert Webber , Jim Davis , Phyllis Davis , Susan Batson , Cheryl Smith , Barbara Rhoades , Charles Haid
Summer City
Intertropic films / Avalon Film Corporation Studio
Christopher Fraser (director); Phil Avalon (screenplay); Mel Gibson , John Jarratt , Phil Avalon, Steve Bisley , James Elliott , Abigail , and Ward "Pally" Austin , Debbie Forman, Carl Rorke, Ross Bailey, Vicki Hekimian, Karen Williams
25
The Duellists
Paramount Pictures / Enigma Productions / National Film Finance Consortium
Ridley Scott (director); Gerald Vaughan-Hughes (screenplay); Keith Carradine , Harvey Keitel , Albert Finney , Tom Conti , Edward Fox , Cristina Raines , Robert Stephens , John McEnery , Arthur Dignam , Diana Quick , Alun Armstrong , Maurice Colbourne , Gay Hamilton , Meg Wynn Owen , Jenny Runacre , Alan Webb , Matthew Guinness , Dave Hill , William Hobbs , W. Morgan Sheppard , Liz Smith , Hugh Fraser , Michael Irving , Tony Matthews , Pete Postlethwaite , Stacy Keach
High Anxiety
20th Century Fox
Mel Brooks (director/screenplay); Ron Clark , Rudy De Luca , Barry Levinson (screenplay); Mel Brooks , Madeline Kahn , Cloris Leachman , Harvey Korman , Ron Carey , Howard Morris , Dick Van Patten , Jack Riley , Charlie Callas , Ron Clark , Rudy De Luca , Barry Levinson , Lee Delano , Richard Stahl , Darrell Zwerling , Murphy Dunne , Albert J. Whitlock , Eddie Ryder , Sandy Helberg , Billy Sands , Ira Miller , Beatrice Colen , Hunter von Leer , Frank Campanella , Arnold Soboloff, Bernie Kuby
Opening Night
Universal Pictures / Faces Distribution
John Cassavetes (director/screenplay); Gena Rowlands , Ben Gazzara , Joan Blondell , Paul Stewart , Zohra Lampert , John Cassavetes , John Tuell, Laura Johnson , Lady Rowlands , John Finnegan , Fred Draper , Katherine Cassavetes , Louise Lewis, Carol Warren, Ray Powers
26
ABBA: The Movie
Warner Bros. Pictures / Polar Music / Reg Grundy Productions
Lasse Hallström (director/screenplay); Robert Caswell (screenplay); Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Benny Andersson , Björn Ulvaeus , Agnetha Fältskog , Robert Hughes , Tom Oliver , Stig Anderson , Richard Norton , Bruce Barry
28
Grayeagle
American International Pictures
Charles B. Pierce (director/screenplay); Brad White, Michael O. Sajbel (screenplay); Ben Johnson , Iron Eyes Cody , Lana Wood , Jack Elam , Alex Cord , Paul Fix , Charles B. Pierce , Jacob Daniels, Jimmy Clem, Cindy Butler
See also
References
External links
American films of the 1970s