1973 in film
The significant events of the year 1973 in film are covered in this page.
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Highest-grossing films
United States and Canada
The top ten 1973 released films by theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Rentals |
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1 | The Exorcist | Warner Bros. | $88,500,000[1] |
2 | The Sting | Universal | $79,000,000[1] |
3 | American Graffiti | $55,900,000[1] | |
4 | Papillon | Allied Artists | $22,500,000[1] |
5 | The Way We Were | Columbia | $22,457,000[2] |
6 | Magnum Force | Warner Bros. | $20,100,000[2] |
7 | Last Tango in Paris | United Artists | $16,711,000[2] |
8 | Paper Moon | Paramount | $16,559,000[2] |
9 | Live and Let Die | United Artists | $15,925,000[2] |
10 | Serpico | Paramount Pictures | $15,400,000[3] |
Outside North America
The highest-grossing 1973 films in countries outside of North America.
Country | Title | Studio | Gross | Ref |
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France | The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | SNC | 7,295,727 admissions | [4] |
Germany | Papillon | Columbia Pictures | 8,500,000 admissions | [5] |
Hong Kong | The House of 72 Tenants | Shaw Brothers Studio | HK$5,600,000 | [6] |
India | Bobby | R. K. Films | ₹110,000,000 (US$14,210,000) | [7][nb 1] |
Italy | Malicious | Paramount Pictures | 11,756,327 admissions | [9] |
Soviet Union | The Headless Horseman | Lenfilm | 64,900,000 admissions | [10] |
Spain | Cabaret | TBD | 125.8 million ₧ | [11] |
United Kingdom | Live and Let Die | Eon Productions | 9,000,000 admissions | [12] |
Worldwide gross revenue
The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1973. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1973. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.
Title | Worldwide gross | Country | Ref |
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The Exorcist | $441,306,145[nb 2] | United States | [13] |
Enter the Dragon | $400,000,000[nb 2] | Worldwide | [14] |
The Sting | $257,000,000 | United States | [15][16] |
Live and Let Die | $161,800,000 | United Kingdom | [17] |
American Graffiti | $140,000,000 | United States | [18] |
Bobby | $39,000,000 | India | [19][20] |
The year's highest-grossing actor worldwide was Hong Kong martial arts film star Bruce Lee, who died the same year.[21]
Events
- March – Five Fingers of Death is released in the United States and is a surprise success starting a kung fu film craze in North America[22]
- April 11 – Kim Jong-il publishes his film treatise On the Art of the Cinema.[23]
- May 1 – The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely; she will marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra in 1976.
- July 20 – Martial arts legend Bruce Lee dies before Enter the Dragon is released on July 26.
- August 17 – The sci-fi movie Westworld is the first feature film to use digital image processing.
- December 25 – The Sting is released and goes on to become one of the top-grossing films of all time.
- December 26 – The Exorcist reawakens the horror film genre and becomes one of the most popular and controversial films ever released.
Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, United Kingdom
- Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, United States
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray, India
Notable films released in 1973
United States unless stated
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- The 14, directed by David Hemmings, starring Jack Wild – (U.K.)
A
- Abhimaan (Pride) – (India)
- Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, starring Cliff Robertson and Pamela Franklin
- The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob) – (France)
- All Nudity Shall Be Punished (Toda Nudez Será Castigada) – (Brazil)
- The Alpha Caper, starring Henry Fonda and Leonard Nimoy
- Alvin Purple – (Australia)
- Amarcord, directed by Federico Fellini – (Italy)
- American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark and Harrison Ford
- Ana and the Wolves (Ana y los lobos), starring Geraldine Chaplin – (Spain)
- And Now the Screaming Starts!, starring Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham and Herbert Lom
- Arnold, starring Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall and Elsa Lanchester
- Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray – Golden Bear winner – (India)
B
- The Baby, starring Anjanette Comer and Ruth Roman
- Badlands, directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek and Warren Oates
- Bang the Drum Slowly, starring Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty
- Bat Pussy, believed to have been made or released in 1973
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes, starring Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy and John Huston
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity (ingi naki tatakai) – (Japan)
- Baxter!, starring Patricia Neal and Britt Ekland – (U.K.)
- Black Caesar, starring Fred Williamson
- Black Holiday (La Villeggiatura), starring Adolfo Celi – (Italy)
- Blood Brothers (Ci Ma), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
- Blood in the Streets, a.k.a. Revolver, starring Oliver Reed – (Italy/France/West Germany)
- Blood of the Dragon (Zhui ming qiang) – (Hong Kong)
- Blue Blood, starring Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis and Derek Jacobi- (U.K.)
- Blume in Love, starring George Segal, Susan Anspach and Kris Kristofferson
- Bobby, starring Rishi Kapoor – (India)
- Book of Numbers, directed, produced by and starring Raymond St. Jacques
- Il Boss, starring Henry Silva and Richard Conte – (Italy)
- Breezy, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring William Holden and Kay Lenz
- A Brief Vacation (Una breve vacanza), directed by Vittorio De Sica – (Italy)
- Brother of the Wind
C
- Cahill U.S. Marshal, starring John Wayne and George Kennedy
- Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?) – (France)
- The Candy Snatchers, starring Tiffany Bolling
- Charley and the Angel, starring Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman and Kurt Russell
- Charley Varrick, directed by Don Siegel, starring Walter Matthau, John Vernon, Joe Don Baker, Andy Robinson, Sheree North and Felicia Farr
- Charlotte's Web, an animated film directed by Charles A. Nichols and Iwao Takamoto, with the voices of Debbie Reynolds and Henry Gibson
- Chino, directed by John Sturges, starring Charles Bronson
- Cinderella Liberty, directed by Mark Rydell, starring James Caan and Marsha Mason
- Class of '44, starring Gary Grimes
- Cleopatra Jones, starring Tamara Dobson and Shelley Winters
- Coffy, starring Pam Grier
- Cops and Robbers, starring Joseph Bologna and Cliff Gorman
- The Crazies, directed by George A. Romero
- The Creeping Flesh, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing – (U.K.)
D
- Dark Places, starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins and Jane Birkin – (U.K.)
- Day for Night, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Jean-Pierre Aumont – Academy Award and Bafta winner – (France)
- The Day of the Dolphin, directed by Mike Nichols, starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere and Paul Sorvino
- The Day of the Jackal, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale and Delphine Seyrig – (U.K./France)
- The Death of a Lumberjack (La Mort d'un bûcheron) – (Canada)
- A Delicate Balance, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid and Betsy Blair
- The Devil in Miss Jones, adult film, directed by Gerard Damiano
- Dillinger, directed by John Milius, starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss and Geoffrey Lewis
- A Doll's House, starring Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins – (U.K.)
- The Don Is Dead, starring Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri and Ina Balin
- Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton
- Don't Look Now, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland – (U.K./Italy)
E
- The Earth Is a Sinful Song (Maa on syntinen laulu) – (Finland)
- Electra Glide in Blue, starring Robert Blake
- Emperor of the North Pole, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine and Charles Tyner
- England Made Me, starring Peter Finch and Michael York – (U.K.)
- Enter the Dragon, starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly – (Hong Kong/United States)
- Executive Action, starring Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan
- The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin, starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller and Max von Sydow—winner of 5 Golden Globes and 2 Oscars
F
- Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage) – (France/Czechoslovakia)
- Fé, Esperanza y Caridad (Faith, Hope and Charity), starring Katy Jurado – (Mexico)
- The Final Programme, starring Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre and Graham Crowden – (U.K.)
- Five on the Black Hand Side, starring Godfrey Cambridge
- Forced Entry, adult film starring Harry Reems
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle, directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Mitchum, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco and Peter Boyle
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (a.k.a. The Hideaways), starring Ingrid Bergman
G
- Godspell, starring Victor Garber
- Godzilla vs. Megalon, directed by Jun Fukuda – (Japan)
- La Grande Bouffe (Blow-Out), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret – (France/Italy)
H
- The Hare Census (Prebroyavane na Divite Zaytsi), directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Nikola Todev and Georgi Rusev – (Bulgaria)
- The Harrad Experiment, starring Don Johnson, Tippi Hedren and James Whitmore
- Heavy Traffic, an animated film by Ralph Bakshi
- Hell Up in Harlem, starring Fred Williamson
- High Plains Drifter, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill and Geoffrey Lewis
- The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, starring Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles – Palme d'Or winner – (U.K.)
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days, starring Alec Guinness – (U.K./Italy)
- The Holy Mountain (La Montaña Sagrada), directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky – (Mexico/U.S.)
- Home Sweet Home (La fête à Jules) – (Belgium)
- The Homecoming, directed by Peter Hall, starring Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm and Vivien Merchant – (U.K.)
- Hot Winds (Garm Hava), directed by M. S. Sathyu – (India)
- The Hourglass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod klepsydrą), directed by Wojciech Has – (Poland)
- The House in Nightmare Park, directed by Peter Skyes, starring Frankie Howerd and Ray Milland – (U.K.)
- The House on Chelouche Street (Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche) – (Israel)
- Hugo the Hippo (Hugó, a víziló) – (Hungary)
I
- The Iceman Cometh, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges
- Idaho Transfer, directed by Peter Fonda
- Indian Summer, directed by Milen Nikolov, starring Georgi Partsalev, Leda Taseva and Tatyana Lolova – (Bulgaria)
- Interval, starring Merle Oberon
- L' Invitation (The Invitation), directed by Claude Goretta – Academy Award for Best Foreign Film – (France/Switzerland)
- Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Ivan Vasilyevich menyayet professiyu) – (U.S.S.R.)
J
- Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Ted Neeley and Yvonne Elliman, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Jeremy, starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull, featuring voices of James Franciscus and Juliet Mills
K
- Kanashimi no Belladonna (Belladonna of Sadness), Anime feature film – (Japan)
- Kid Blue, starring Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates and Peter Boyle
L
- Lady Ice, starring Donald Sutherland and Jennifer O'Neill
- Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime) – (Japan)
- The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges and Valerie Perrine
- The Last Detail, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid and Otis Young
- The Last of Sheila, directed by Herbert Ross, written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, starring Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, James Mason, James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett and Ian McShane
- The Laughing Policeman, starring Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanna Cassidy and Cathy Lee Crosby
- The Legend of Hell House, starring Pamela Franklin and Gayle Hunnicutt
- The Legend of Paul and Paula (Die Legende von Paul und Paula) – (East Germany)
- Le Magnifique, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset – (France)
- Little Tiger of Canton (Guang dong xiao lao hu), starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong)
- Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond), with Jane Seymour and Yaphet Kotto – (U.K.)
- Lolly-Madonna XXX, starring Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges
- The Long Goodbye, directed by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson and Jim Bouton
- Lost Horizon, starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, George Kennedy and Olivia Hussey
- Love and Anarchy (d'amore e d'anarchia), directed by Lina Wertmüller – (Italy)
- Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Timothy Bottoms and Maggie Smith
M
- The Mack , directed by Michael Campus, starring Max Julien, Richard Pryor, and Carol Speed
- The Mackintosh Man, directed by John Huston, starring Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda and James Mason – (UK/US)
- Magnum Force, directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, David Soul, Tim Matheson and Robert Urich
- Malizia (Malicious) – (Italy)
- Manson, a documentary film about Charles Manson
- Massacre in Rome (Rappresaglia), directed by George Pan Cosmatos, starring Richard Burton and Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- Maurie, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Bo Svenson and Bernie Casey
- Mean Streets, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro
- Memory of a Night of Love, starring Salah Zulfikar, Nelly and Nabila Ebeid – (Syria)
- The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain), directed by Jean Eustache, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun – (France)
- My Dear Brother starring Tarık Akan, Halit Akçatepe and Kahraman Kıral – (Turkey)
- My Name Is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno), starring Terence Hill and Henry Fonda – (Italy)
N
- The Neptune Factor, starring Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux and Ernest Borgnine
- Nefertiti and Akhenaten, TV movie starring Geraldine Chaplin and Salah Zulfikar – (Mexico)
- The No Mercy Man, starring Sid Haig and Ron Thompson
- Night Flight from Moscow, starring Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda and Dirk Bogarde – (France/Italy/Germany)
- Night Watch, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey – (U.K.)
- The Night Strangler, TV movie starring Darren McGavin
- The Nutcracker (Schelkunchik) – (U.S.S.R.)
O
- O Lucky Man!, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts and Arthur Lowe – (U.K.)
- The Offence, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Sean Connery, Ian Bannen and Trevor Howard
- Oklahoma Crude, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Faye Dunaway and George C. Scott
- The Olsen Gang Goes Crazy (Olsen-banden går amok) – (Denmark)
P
- The Paper Chase, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner and John Houseman
- Paper Moon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal and Madeline Kahn
- Paperback Hero, starring Keir Dullea and Elizabeth Ashley – (Canada)
- Papillon, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan, with music by Dylan
- The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), directed by Maximilian Schell, starring Peggy Ashcroft – Golden Globe for best foreign film – (West Germany/Switzerland/Israel)
- Property Is No Longer a Theft (La proprietà non è più un furto), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
- The Pyx, starring Christopher Plummer and Karen Black- (Canada)
R
- Resurrection of Eve, starring Marilyn Chambers
- El Retorno de Walpurgis (a.k.a. The Curse of the Devil) – (Spain/Mexico)
- Robin Hood, animated film with voices of Roger Miller, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov and Terry-Thomas
S
- Save the Tiger, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Jack Lemmon
- Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino – Palme d'Or winner
- Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson – (Sweden)
- Scorpio, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield and Gayle Hunnicutt
- Scream Blacula Scream, starring William H. Marshall and Pam Grier
- Serpico, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino
- The Seven Madmen (Los siete locos), directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson – (Argentina)
- The Seven-Ups, starring Roy Scheider and Tony Lo Bianco
- Shaft in Africa, starring Richard Roundtree
- Shamus, starring Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon and John P. Ryan
- Showdown, starring Dean Martin and Rock Hudson
- Sisters, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt
- Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, starring Jim Brown, Brock Peters and Ed McMahon
- Sleeper, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton
- Slither, starring James Caan, Sally Kellerman and Peter Boyle
- The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du Spectacle) – (France)
- Son of Zorro
- Soul Hustler, directed by Bert Topper, starring Fabian Forte, Nai Bonet, Tony Russel and Casey Kasem
- Soylent Green, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson
- The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), directed by Victor Erice – (Spain)
- Stateline Motel, starring Eli Wallach, Ursula Andress, Fabio Testi and Eli Wallach – Canada/Italy
- Steelyard Blues, starring Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda
- Steptoe and Son Ride Again, starred Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett – (U.K.)
- The Sting, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning and Ray Walston – winner of 7 Academy Awards
- The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson
- Super Fly T.N.T., directed by and starring Ron O'Neal
- Superdad, starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush and Kurt Russell
- Sweet Kill, starring Tab Hunter
T
- The Tenderness of Wolves (Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe) – (West Germany)
- That'll Be the Day, starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach and Ringo Starr – (U.K.)
- Theatre of Blood, starring Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry and Robert Morley
- Themroc, starring Michel Piccoli – (France)
- There's No Smoke Without Fire (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu), starring Annie Girardot – (France)
- The Other Man, starring Salah Zulfikar, Shams El Baroudi and Zubaida Tharwat – (Egypt)
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner, starring Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates
- The Three-Day Reign (Samil cheonha) – (South Korea)
- The Three Musketeers, directed by Richard Lester, starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Raquel Welch, Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway and Christopher Lee – (U.K./U.S.)
- Three Wishes for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku) – (Czechoslovakia/East Germany)
- A Touch of Class, starring George Segal and Glenda Jackson – (U.K.)
- Tom Sawyer, starring Johnny Whitaker and Jodie Foster
- Touki Bouki (Journey of the Hyena) – (Senegal)
- The Train Robbers, starring John Wayne and Ann-Margret
- Tsugaru Folk Song (Tsugaru Jongarabushi) – (Japan)
- Turkish Delight (Turks Fruit), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer – (Netherlands)
- Two Men in Town (Deux hommes dans la ville), starring Jean Gabin and Alain Delon – (France)
- Two People, directed by Robert Wise, starring Peter Fonda and Lindsay Wagner
U
- Ultimul cartuş (The Last Bullet) – (Romania)
V
- The Vault of Horror, starring Glynis Johns, Terry-Thomas and Curd Jürgens – (U.K.)
- Voices, starring David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt – (U.K.)
W
- Walking Tall, starring Joe Don Baker
- The Way We Were, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford
- We Want the Colonels (Vogliamo i colonnelli), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
- Wedding in Blood (Les Noces rouges), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli – (France)
- Westworld, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin
- White Lightning, starring Burt Reynolds
- Wicked, Wicked, starring David Bailey, Edd Byrnes and Tiffany Bolling
- The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy, starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento and Britt Ekland– (U.K.)
- Willie Dynamite, directed by Gilbert Moses, starring Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala and Roger Robinson
- The World's Greatest Athlete, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and John Amos
Z
- Zanjeer (Shackles) – (India)
- Ziddi (Action)- (Pakistan)
1973 Wide-release movies
United States unless stated
January–March
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
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J A N U A R Y |
5 | Sweet Kill | New World Pictures / Curtis Lee Hanson Tamaroc Productions | Curtis Hanson (director/screenplay); Tab Hunter, Isabel Jewell, Roberta Collins, John Aprea, Rory Guy, John Pearce, Cherie Latimer, Nadyne Turney, Linda Leider | Horror, Thriller | Live Action |
10 | The No Mercy Man | Cannon Film Distributors | Daniel Vance (director/screenplay); Mike Nolin (screenplay); Steve Sandor, Rockne Tarkington, Sid Haig, Ron Thompson, Mike Lane, Richard X. Slattery, Heidi Vaughn, David Booth, Daniel Oaks, Tom Scott, Michael Prichard, Peg Stewart, Richard Collier, Darlene Feasel, Russell Morrell | Action, Drama | Live Action | |
11 | The Offence | United Artists / Tantallon | Sidney Lumet (director); John Hopkins (screenplay); Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen, Peter Bowles, Derek Newark, Ronald Radd, John Hallam, Richard Moore, Anthony Sagar, Maxine Gordon, Howard Goorney, Hilda Fenemore | Crime, Neo-Noir, Drama | Live Action | |
13 | Battles Without Honor and Humanity | Toei | Kinji Fukasaku (director); Kazuo Kasahara (screenplay); Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko, Tatsuo Umemiya, Kunie Tanaka, Goro Ibuki, Tamio Kawaji, Tsunehiko Watase, Mayumi Nagisa, Takuzo Kawatani, Shinichiro Mikawi, Harumi Sone, Keiji Takamiya, Toshie Kimura, Asao Uchida, Hiroshi Nawa, Eiko Nakamura, Kinji Nakamura | Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
Manson | American International Pictures | Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick (directors) | Documentary | Live Action | ||
19 | Black Mama White Mama | American International Pictures / Four Associates Ltd. | Eddie Romero (director); H.R. Christian (screenplay); Margaret Markov, Pam Grier, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden, Zaldy Zshornack, Eddie Garcia, Alona Alegre, Vic Diaz, Lotis M. Key, Alfonso Carvajal, Ricardo Herrero, Andrés (Andy) Centenera, Laurie Burton, Dondo Fernanco, Wendy Green, Jess Ramos, Carpi Asturias | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Live Action | |
25 | The Death of a Lumberjack | Les Film Mutuels / Canadian Film Development Corporation / Famous Players Limited | Gilles Carle (director/screenplay); Arthur Lamothe (screenplay); Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Daniel Pilon, Pauline Julien, Marcel Sabourin, Roger Lebel, Denise Filiatrault, J. Léo Gagnon, Ernest Guimond, Jacques Gagnon, Gil Laroche, Jacques Bouchard, Yvonne Diabo, Eugene Lahache, Marcel Fournier | Drama | Live Action | |
The Love Ban | British Lion Films / Welbeck Films | Ralph Thomas (director); Kevin Laffan (screenplay); Hywel Bennett, Nanette Newman, Milo O'Shea, Angharad Rees, Nicky Henson, Georgina Hale, Madeline Smith, Peter Barkworth, John Cleese, Marianne Stone, Nina Baden-Semper, Cheryl Hall, Jacki Piper, Tommy Godfrey, Tony Haygarth, David Howey, James Leith | Comedy | Live Action | ||
27 | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall | United Artists / Associated London Films | Norman Cohen (director/screenplay); Spike Milligan, Johnny Byrne (screenplay); Jim Dale, Arthur Lowe, Bill Maynard, Tony Selby, Geoffrey Hughes, Jim Norton, John Forgeham, Windsor Davies, Spike Milligan, Pat Coombs, Bob Todd, Gregory Phillips, Alvar Liddell, Robert Longden | Comedy | Live Action | |
Last Tango in Paris | United Artists / Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA) / Les Productions Artistes Associés | Bernando Bertolucci (director/screenplay); Franco Arcalli, Agnès Varda (screenplay); Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti, Catherine Allégret, Catherine Breillat, Darling Légitimus, Veronica Lazăr, Gitt Magrini, Luce Marquand, Dan Diament, Catherine Sola, Mauro Marchetti, Peter Schommer, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Armand Abplanalp, Rachel Kesterber, Ramón Mendizábal, Mimi Pinson, Gérard Lepennec, Stéphane Koziak | Drama | Live Action | ||
31 | Shamus | Columbia Pictures / Robert M. Weitman Productions | Buzz Kulik (director); Barry Beckerman (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John Ryan, Joe Santos, Giorgio Tozzi, Ron Weyand, Larry Block, Beeson Carroll, Kevin Conway, John Glover, Mickey Freeman, Tommy Lane, Ric Mancini, Frank Sivero, Alex Stevens | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | Live Action | |
Steelyard Blues | Warner Bros. | Alan Myerson (director); David S. Ward (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Peter Boyle, Howard Hesseman, John Savage, Mel Stewart, Roger Bowen, Garry Goodrow, Richard Schaal, Morgan Upton, Jessica Myerson, Dan Morrows, Nancy Fish, Lynette Bernay, Edward Greenberg | Comedy, Crime | Live Action | ||
F E B R U A R Y |
1 | The World's Greatest Athlete | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Robert Scheerer (director); Dee Caruso, Gerald Gardner (screenplay); Tim Conway, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Amos, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dayle Haddon, Billy De Wolfe, Nancy Walker, Danny Goldman, Don Pedro Colley, Vito Scotti, Liam Dunn, Ivor Francis, Leon Askin, Joe Kapp, Clarence Muse, Virginia Capers, Philip Ahn, John Lupton, Sarah Selby, Russ Conway, Al Checco, Dick Wilson, Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, Jim McKay, Bud Palmer, Bill Toomey | Sports, Comedy, Family, Romance | Live Action |
4 | Wattstax | Columbia Pictures / Stax Records / Wolper Productions | Mel Stuart (director); The Staple Singers, Richard Pryor, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Luther Ingram, Kim Weston, Johnnie Taylor, The Bar-Kays, Isaac Hayes, Albert King, Dale Warren, Tommy Jacquette, Jesse Jackson, Melvin Van Peebles, Jimmy Jones, Eric Mercury, Freddie Robinson, Ernie Hines, Little Sonny, The Temprees, Frederick Knight, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Rance Allen, David Porter, Tommy Tate, The Soul Children, Fred Williamson, The Dramatics, The Emotions, Little Milton, Mel and Tim, Raymond Allen, Erik Kilpatrick, Ted Lange, Fred Berry, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Billy Eckstine, Felton Pilate, Jackie Robinson, Deborah Manning, Louise McCord, Lee Sain, The Newcomers | Documentary, Comedy, Music | Live Action | |
7 | Black Caesar | American International Pictures / Largo | Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin, Julius Harris, Minnie Gentry, William Wellman Jr., Val Avery, Don Pedro Colley, Myrna Hansen, Philip Roye, James Dixon, Patrick McAllister, Omer Jeffery, Michael Jeffery | Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
The Train Robbers | Warner Bros. / Batjac Productions | Burt Kennedy (director/screenplay); John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Christopher George, Bobby Vinton, Jerry Gatlin, Ricardo Montalbán | Western, Action, Comedy, Romance | Live Action | ||
8 | The Harder They Come | New World Pictures / International Films Inc. | Perry Henzell (director/screenplay); Trevor D. Rhone (screenplay); Jimmy Cliff, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Heartman, Winston Stona, Leslie Kong, Prince Buster, Clover Lewis, Ed "Bim" Lewis, Aston "Bam" Wynter, Alton Ellis, Janet Bartley, Basil Keane, Elijah Chambers, Bob Charlton, Volier Johnson, Lucia White, Beverly Anderson, Bobby Loban, Joanne Dunn, Adrian Robinson, Don Topping, Karl Leslie, Sandra Redwood, Ulla Fraser, Carol Lawes | Crime, Drama, Music | Live Action | |
9 | The Creeping Flesh | Columbia Pictures / World Film Services | Freddie Francis (director); Peter Spenceley, Jonathan Rumbold (screenplay); Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron, Jenny Runacre, George Benson, Kenneth J. Warren, Duncan Lamont, Harry Locke, Michael Ripper, Robert Swann, David Bailie, Tony Wright, Marianne Stone, Alexandra Dane, Larry Taylor, Sue Bond, Hedger Wallace, Catherine Finn, Maurice Bush, Martin Carroll, Dan Meaden | Horror | Live Action | |
Jory | AVCO Embassy Pictures | Jorge Fons (director); Gerald Herman, Robert Irving (screenplay); John Marley, B.J. Thomas, Robby Benson, Claudio Brook, Brad Dexter, Benny Baker, Anne Lockhart, Ted Markland, Linda Purl, Patricia Aspíllaga, Todd Martin, Quintín Bulnes, Carlos Cortés, John Kelly, Eduardo López Rojas | Western | Live Action | ||
14 | Save the Tiger | Paramount Pictures / Filmways | John G. Avildsen (director); Steve Shagan (screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton, Patricia Smith, Thayer David, William Hansen, Harvey Jason, Lin Von Linden, Lara Parker, Eloise Hardt, Ned Glass, Biff Elliot, Madeline Lee, Janina, Pearl Shear, Ben Freedman | Drama | Live Action | |
20 | Nothing but the Night | Fox-Rank Distributors | Peter Sasdy (director); Brian Hayles (screenplay); Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors, Georgia Brown, Keith Barron, Gwyneth Strong, Fulton Mackay, John Robinson, Morris Perry, Michael Gambon, Duncan Lamont, Shelagh Fraser, Kathleen Byron, Andrew McCulloch, Michael Brennan | Horror | Live Action | |
22 | Payday | Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Fantasy Films / Fantasy Records / Pumice Finance Company | Daryl Duke (director); Don Carpenter (screenplay); Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Michael C. Gwynne, Jeff Morris, Cliff Emmich, Sonny Shroyer, Elayne Heilveil, Henry O. Arnold, Bobby Smith, Dallas Smith, Richard Hoffman, Walter Bamberg, Eleanor Fell, Clara Dunn, Linda Spatz, Earle Trigg, Winston McNair, Frazier Moss, Phillip Wende, Ed Neeley | Drama | Live Action | |
Turkish Delight | Nederland Film / VNF | Paul Verhoeven (director); Gerard Soeteman (screenplay); Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman, Hans Boskamp, Dolf de Vries, Wim van den Brink, Manfred de Graaf, Dick Scheffer, Marjol Flore, Bert Dijkstra | Romance, Drama | Live Action | ||
Walking Tall | Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Bing Crosby Productions | Phil Karlson (director); Mort Briskin (screenplay); Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Lurene Tuttle, Noah Beery Jr., Dawn Lyn, Leif Garrett, Felton Perry, Logan Ramsey, Rosemary Murphy, Gene Evans, Bruce Glover, Kenneth Tobey, Don Keefer, Douglas Fowley, Pepper Martin, Ted Jordan, Red West, Brenda Benet, Arch Johnson, Sidney Clute, Russell Thorson, Gil Perkins, Carey Loftin, Gene LeBell, Del Monroe, Richard X. Slattery, Warner Venetz, Ed Call, Richard Donald | Neo-Noir, Biography, Action, Thriller | Live Action | ||
21 | Lolly-Madonna XXX | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Richard C. Sarafian (director); Rodney Carr-Smith, Sue Grafton (screenplay); Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson, Season Hubley, Katherine Squire, Joan Goodfellow, Tresa Hughes, Gary Busey, Randy Quaid, Timothy Scott, Kiel Martin, Ed Lauter, Paul Koslo | Action, Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
24 | The Blood Brothers | Shaw Brothers Studio | Chang Cheh (director/screenplay); Ni Kuang (screenplay); David Chiang, Ti Lung, Chen Kuan Tai, Ching Li | Martial Arts, Action, Drama | Live Action | |
M A R C H |
1 | Charlotte's Web | Paramount Pictures / Hanna-Barbera Productions / Sagittarius Productions | Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto (directors); E.B. White (screenplay); Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson, Paul Lynde, Agnes Moorehead, Don Messick, Herb Vigran, Pamelyn Ferdin, Martha Scott, Bob Holt, John Stephenson, Danny Bonaduce, William B. White, Dave Madden, Joan Gerber, Candy Candido, Rex Allen | Musical, Adventure, Drama | Animation |
The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Warner Bros. / Bud Yorkin Productions | Bud Yorkin (director); Walter Hill (screenplay); Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi, Ned Beatty, Austin Pendleton, Gregory Sierra, Michael Murphy, John Hillerman, Alan Oppenheimer, Margaret Fairchild, Jack Manning, Richard O'Brien, George Morfogen, Army Archerd, John Henry Faulk, Warren Munson, Noble Willingham | Comedy, Romance | Live Action | ||
4 | Baxter! | National General Pictures / Anglo-EMI Film Distributors / Group W Films / Hanna-Barbera Productions / Performing Arts | Lionel Jeffries (director); Reginald Rose (screenplay); Patricia Neal, Britt Ekland, Lynn Carlin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Scott Jacoby, Sally Thomsett, Paul Eddington, Paul Maxwell, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Dorothy Alison, Marianne Stone, Ian Thompson, Frances Bennett, George Tovey | Drama | Live Action | |
7 | Slither | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Howard Zieff (director): W.D. Richter (screenplay); James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman, Louise Lasser, Allen Garfield, Richard B. Shull, Alex Rocco, Seamon Glass, Diana Darrin, Stuart Nisbet, Virginia Sale, Alex Henteloff, Len Lesser, Garry Goodrow | Comedy, Thriller, Crime | Live Action | |
The Long Goodbye | United Artists / Lion's Gate Films | Robert Altman (director); Leigh Brackett (screenplay); Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, Jim Bouton, Warren Berlinger, Pancho Córdova, Enrique Lucero, Rutanya Alda, Jack Riley, Jerry Jones, John S. Davies, Ken Sansom, David Carradine, Arnold Schwarzenegger | Neo-Noir, Mystery, Crime, Thriller | Live Action | ||
8 | Ludwig | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Mega Film / Cinétel / Divina Film / Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion / RAI | Luchino Visconti (director/screenplay); Enrico Medioli, Suso Cecchi d'Amico (screenplay); Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Trevor Howard, Gert Fröbe, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini, John Moulder-Brown, Sonia Petrovna, Folker Bohnet, Heinz Moog, Adriana Asti, Marc Porel, Nora Ricci, Mark Burns, Alexander Allerson, Kurt Großkurth, Gérard Herter, Karl-Heinz Peters, Clara Colosimo, Friedrich von Ledebur, Izabella Teleżyńska, Bert Bloch, Anne-Marie Hanschke, Jan Linhar, Clara Moustawcesky, Gernot Möhner, Wolfram Schaerf, Gunnar Warner, Raika Juri, Karl-Heinz Windhorst | Epic, Biography, Drama | Live Action | |
10 | Schlock | Jack H. Harris Enterprises | John Landis (director/screenplay); John Landis, Enrica Blankey, Eliza Garrett, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Richard Gillis, Tom Alvich, Walter Levine, Eric Allison, Ralph Baker, Gene Fox, Susan Weiser, Jonathan A. Flint, Amy Schireson, Belinda Folsey, E.G. Harty | Horror, Comedy | Live Action | |
The Vault of Horror | Metromedia Producers Corporation / Amicus Productions | Roy Ward Baker (director); Milton Subotsky (screenplay); Dawn Addams, Tom Baker, Michael Craig, Denholm Elliott, Glynis Johns, Edward Judd, Curt Jürgens, Anna Massey, Daniel Massey, Terry-Thomas, Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Terence Alexander, John Witty, Ishaq Bux, John Forbes-Robertson, Maurice Kaufmann, Arthur Mullard, Mike Pratt, Marianne Stone, Erik Chitty, Tommy Godfrey, Jerold Wells, Jasmina Hilton | Horror | Live Action | ||
12 | The Baby | Scotia International / Quintet Productions | Ted Post (director); Abe Polsky (screenplay); Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Suzanne Zenor, Tod Andrews, Michael Pataki, Virginia Vincent, Beatrice Manley Blau, Erin O'Reilly, Don Mallon, Joseph Bernard, David Manzy | Thriller | Live Action | |
15 | Tom Sawyer | United Artists / Reader's Digest | Don Taylor (director); Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman (screenplay); Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East, Jodie Foster, Lucille Benson, Henry Jones, Noah Keen, Dub Taylor, Richard Eastham, Sandy Kenyon, Joshua Hill Lewis, Susan Joyce, Steve Hogg, Sean Summers, Kevin Jefferson, Kunu Hank | Musical | Live Action | |
16 | The Crazies | Cambist Films / Pittsburgh Films | George A. Romero (director/screenplay); W.G. McMillan, Lynn Lowry, Richard Liberty, Richard France, Ned Schmidtke, Bill Hinzman, Lane Carroll, Harold Wayne Jones, Lloyd Hollar, Harry Spillman, Will Disney, Leland Starnes, Bill Thunhurst, A.C. McDonald, Robert J. McCully, Robert Karlowsky, Tony Scott | Sci-Fi, Horror | Live Action | |
Forced Entry | Variety Films / Boojum Productions | Shaun Costello (director/screenplay); Tim Long, Laura Cannon, Jutta David, Shaun Costello, Ruby Runhouse, Nina Fawcett | Horror | Live Action | ||
17 | Godzilla vs. Megalon (Japan) | Toho | Jun Fukuda (director/screenplay); Katsuhiko Sasaki, Robert Dunham, Kenpachiro Satsuma, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Kotaro Tomita, Wolf Ohtsuki, Gentaro Nakajima, Sakyo Mikami, Shinji Takagi, Hideto Date, Tsugutoshi Komada | Action, Adventure, Family | Live Action | |
Lost Horizon | Columbia Pictures / Ross Hunter Productions | Charles Jarrott (director); Larry Kramer (screenplay); Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, Bobby Van, James Shigeta, Charles Boyer, John Gielgud, Kent Smith, John Van Dreelen, Larry Duran | Musical, Fantasy, Adventure | Live Action | ||
18 | Two People | Universal Pictures | Robert Wise (director/screenplay); Peter Fonda, Lindsay Wagner, Estelle Parsons, Alan Fudge, Frances Sternhagen, Geoffrey Horne, Nathalie Baye | Drama, Romance | Live Action | |
21 | Godspell | Columbia Pictures | David Greene (director/screenplay); John-Michael Tebelak (screenplay); Victor Garber, David Haskell, Merrell Jackson, Gilmer McCormick, Jeffrey Mylett, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, Joanne Jonas, Robin Lamont, Jerry Sroka | Musical | Live Action | |
23 | Charley and the Angel | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Vincent McEveety (director); Roswell Rogers (screenplay); Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Harry Morgan, Kurt Russell, Kathleen Cody, Scott Kolden, Vincent Van Patten, George Lindsey, Edward Andrews, Mills Watson, Richard Bakalyan, Barbara Nichols, Kelly Thordsen, Liam Dunn, Larry D. Mann, George O'Hanlon, Susan Tolsky, Ed Begley Jr., Christina Anderson, Roy Engel, Robert Hastings | Family, Comedy | Live Action | |
27 | Sisters | American International Pictures / Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation | Brian De Palma (director/screenplay); Louisa Rose (screenplay); Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, Bill Finley, Lisle Wilson, Barnard Hughes, Dolph Sweet, Olympia Dukakis, Justine Johnston, Mary Davenport, Catherine Gaffigan | Horror | Live Action | |
28 | Black Snake | Trident Pictures | Russ Meyer (director/screenplay); Leonard Neubauer (screenplay); Anouska Hempel, David Warbeck, Percy Herbert, Thomas Baptiste, David Prowse, Milton McCollin, Bernard Boston, Vikki Richards | Thriller | Live Action | |
The Devil in Miss Jones | VCX Ltd. / MB Productions | Gerard Damiano (director/screenplay); Georgina Spelvin, Harry Reams, Mark Stevens, Albert Cork, John Clemens, Rick Livermore, Claire Lumiere, Sue Flaken | Adult, Drama, Fantasy | Live Action | ||
Kamouraska | New Line Cinema / France Cinéma Productions | Claude Jutra (director/screenplay); Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Philippe Léotard, Huguette Oligny, Camille Bernard, Janine Sutto, Olivette Thibault, Marcel Cuvelier, Marie Fresnières, Suzie Baillargeon, Colette Cortois, Gigi Duckett, Marcel Marineau, Len Watt | Drama, History | Live Action |
April–June
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
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A P R I L |
1 | Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies | 20th Century Fox | John Erman (director); Claudia Salter (screenplay); Cliff Robertson, Eric Shea, Pamela Franklin, Bernadette Peters, Rosemary Murphy, Alice Ghostley, Royal Dano, Don Keefer, Patricia Smith, Arthur Malet, Jim Boles, Kelly Jean Peters, Herb Gatlin, Ariane Munker, Hope Summers, Lew Brown, Robert Hamm, Brent Hurst, Rodger Peck, Jan Simms, Dixie Lee, Claudia Bryar, Felicity Van Runkle, Pat O'Connor, Bill Quinn | Adventure, Comedy | Live Action |
4 | The Mack | Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Harbor Productions | Michael Campus (director); Robert J. Poole (screenplay); Max Julien, Richard Pryor, Juanita Moore, Carol Speed, Roger E. Mosley, Dick Anthony Williams, Don Gordon, William Watson, George Murdock, Paul Harris, Annazette Chase, Lee Duncan, June Wilkinson, Kai Hernandez, Junero Jennings, Sandra Brown, Christopher Brooks, Fritz Ford, Norma McClure, David Mauro | Blaxploitation | Live Action | |
5 | Theatre of Blood | United Artists | Douglas Hickox (director); Anthony Greville-Bell (screenplay); Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Ian Hendry, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins | Horror, Comedy | Live Action | |
7 | Night Flight from Moscow | AVCO Embassy Pictures / Pathfinder Pictures / Les Films de la Boétie / Euro International Film / Rialto Film | Henri Verneuil (director/screenplay); Gilles Perrault (screenplay); Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet, Martin Held, Virna Lisi, Paola Pitagora, Elga Andersen, Marie Dubois, Nathalie Nerval, Farley Granger, Luigi Diberti, Robert Alda | Drama, Spy, Thriller | Live Action | |
10 | Class of '44 | Warner Bros. | Paul Bogart (director); Herman Raucher (screenplay); Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Deborah Winters, William Atherton, Sam Bottoms, Murray Westgate, Michael A. Hoey, Oliver Conant | Coming-of-Age, Comedy, Drama | Live Action | |
11 | Book of Numbers | AVCO Embassy Pictures / Brut Productions | Raymond St. Jacques (director); Larry Spiegel (screenplay); Raymond St. Jacques, Philip Michael Thomas, Freda Payne, Hope Clarke, D'Urville Martin, Irma P. Hall, Willie Washington Jr., Doug Finell, Sterling St. Jacques, C.L. Williams, Jerry Leon, Gilbert Green, Frank De Sal, Temie Mae Williams, Charles F. Elyston, Queen Esther Gent, Chiquita Jackson, Katie Peters, Pat Peterson, Reginald T. Dorsey | Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
Scarecrow | Warner Bros. | Jerry Schatzberg (director); Garry Michael White (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Eileen Brennan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch, Penelope Allen, Rutanya Alda, Dorothy Tristan, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani | Drama | Live Action | ||
12 | The Iron Rose | Les Films ABC | Jean Rollin (director/screenplay); Tristan Corbière, Maurice Lemaître (screenplay); Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester, Nathalie Perrey, Mireille Dargent, Michel Dalessalle | Horror, Drama | Live Action | |
Tiffany Jones | Hemdale / Peter Walker (Heritage) | Pete Walker (director); Alfred Shaughnessy (screenplay); Anouska Hempel, Ray Brooks, Susan Sheers, Damien Thomas, Eric Pohlmann, Richard Marner, Martin Benson, Alan Curtis, John Clive, Geoffrey Hughes, Ivor Salter, Lynda Baron, Nick Zaran, Walter Randall, Martin Wyldeck, Bill Kerr, Tony Sympson | Comedy | Live Action | ||
13 | The Candy Snatchers | General Film Corporation / Marmot Productions | Guerdon Trueblood (director); Bryan Gindoff (screenplay); Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza, Dolores Dorn, Howard Shoup, Susan Sennett, Brad David, Vince Martorano, Bonnie Boland, Jerry Butts, Leon Charles, Phyllis Major, Bill Woodard, Christophe Trueblood | Exploitation, Crime, Thriller | Live Action | |
18 | Bequest to the Nation | Universal Pictures / Hal Wallis Productions | James Cellan Jones (director); Terence Rattigan (screenplay); Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston, Anthony Quayle, Margaret Leighton, Dominic Guard, Nigel Stock, Roland Culver, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Pat Heywood, Clelia Matania, John Nolan | Historical, Drama | Live Action | |
Charley One-Eye | Paramount Pictures / David Paradine Productions | Don Chaffey (director); Keith Leonard (screenplay); Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport, Aldo Sambrell, Alexander Davion, David Lodge, William Mervyn, Patrick Mower, Johnny Sekka, Jill Pearson, Luis Aller, Rafael Albaicín | Western | Live Action | ||
19 | Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing | Columbia Pictures | Alan J. Pakula (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms, Jaime de Mora y Aragón, Charles Baxter, Emiliano Redondo, Margaret Modlin, May Heatherly, Lloyd Brimhall, Elmer Modlin | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Live Action | |
Scorpio | United Artists / The Mirisch Corporation / Scimitar Productions | Michael Winner (director); David W. Rintels, Gerald Wilson (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt, J.D. Cannon, Joanne Linville, Mel Stewart, Vladek Sheybal, Mary Maude, Jack Colvin, James B. Sikking, Burke Byrnes, William Smithers, Shmuel Rodensky, Celeste Yarnall, Sandor Elès, Frederick Jaeger, George Mikell, Robert Emhardt | Spy, Action, Drama, Thriller | Live Action | ||
Soylent Green | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Richard Fleischer (director); Stanley R. Greenberg (screenplay); Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Whit Bissell, Celia Lovsky, Dick Van Patten | Thriller | Live Action | ||
20 | Ganja & Hess | Kelly-Jordan Enterprises | Bill Gunn (director/screenplay); Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Mabel King, Sam Waymon, Candece Tarpley | Horror, Blaxploitation | Live Action | |
23 | Messiah of Evil | International Cine Film Corp. / V/M Productions | Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz (directors/screenplay); Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford, Royal Dano, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Dierkop, Bennie Robinson, Walter Hill | Horror | Live Action | |
27 | And Now the Screaming Starts! | Fox-Rank / Amicus Productions | Roy Ward Baker (director); Roger Marshall (screenplay); Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Geoffrey Whitehead, Guy Rolfe, Rosalie Crutchley, Gillian Lind, Janet Key, Sally Harrison | Horror | Live Action | |
M A Y |
1 | Guns of a Stranger | Universal Pictures / Marty Robbins Enterprises | Robert Hinkle (director); Charles W. Aldridge (screenplay); Marty Robbins, Chill Wills, Dovie Beams, Bill Coontz, Shug Fisher, Fred Graham, Steven Tackett, Tom Hartman, Charles W. Aldridge, Ronny Robbins, Melody Hinkle, Mark Reed, Don Winters, Bobby Sykes, Phil Strassberg, Al Wood, Harold Wells, Jack Swank, Du Shon, Glenn Bond, Jim Mooney, Jenny Needham, Nudie, Ron Nix | Western | Live Action |
9 | Billy Jack (re-release) | Warner Bros. / National Student Film Corporation | T.C. Frank (director); Frank Christina, Theresa Christina (screenplay); Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat, Bert Freed, Kenneth Tobey, Howard Hesseman, Cisse Cameron, Han Bong-soo, David Roya, Victor Izay, Julie Webb, Debbie Schock, Teresa Kelly, Lynn Baker, Stan Rice, John McClure, Susan Foster, Susan Sosa | Action, Drama | Live Action | |
Father, Dear Father | J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors / Sedgemoor Film Productions / M.M. Film Productions | William G. Stewart (director); Brian Cooke, Johnnie Mortimer (screenplay); Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson, Joyce Carey, Richard O'Sullivan, Ursula Howells, Jack Watling, Donald Sinden, Jill Melford, Beryl Reid, Joseph O'Conor, Elizabeth Adare, Clifton Jones | Comedy | Live Action | ||
Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Paramount Pictures / Tomorrow Entertainment / West Film | Ennio De Concini (director/screenplay); Gerhard Boldt, Maria Pia Fusco, Ivan Moffat, Wolfgang Reinhardt (screenplay); Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti, Eric Porter, Doris Kunstmann, Joss Ackland, John Bennett, John Barron, Barbara Jefford, Valerie Gray, Ann Lynn, Sheila Gish, Julian Glover, Michael Goodliffe, Mark Kingston, Timothy West, Andrew Sachs, Philip Stone | Biography, Drama | Live Action | ||
Paper Moon | Paramount Pictures / The Directors Company | Peter Bogdanovich (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, Burton Gilliam, James N. Harrell, Noble Willingham, Randy Quaid, Hugh Gillin, Art Ellison, Jack Benny, Jim Jordan, Marian Jordan, P.J. Johnson, Rose-Mary Rumbley | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Live Action | ||
11 | The Harrad Experiment | Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Ted Post (director); Michael Werner, Ted Cassidy (screenplay); James Whitmore, Tippi Hedren, Don Johnson, Bruno Kirby, Laurie Walters, Robert Middleton, Billy Sands, Eric Server, Ted Cassidy, Gregory Harrison, Melody Patterson, George Memmoli, Bill Saluga, Fred Willard, Melanie Griffith, Victoria Thompson, Elliott Street, Sharon Ullrick, Maggie Wellman, Ron Kolman | Coming-of-Age, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Live Action | |
Little Laura and Big John | Crown International / Louis Wiethe Productions | Luke Moberly, Bob Woodburn (directors/screenplay); Fabian Forte, Karen Black, Ross Kananga, Paul Gleason, Ray Barrett, Ivy Thayer, Ken Miller, Cliff Frates, Jerry Rhodes | Biography, Crime, Drama | Live Action | ||
15 | Jeremy | United Artists / Kenesset Film Productions | Arthur Barron (director/screenplay); Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Leonardo Cimino, Ted Sorel, Eunice Anderson, Dennis Boutsikaris, Len Bari, Ned Wilson, Chris Bohn, Pat Wheel, Bruce Friedman | Romance, Drama | Live Action | |
16 | The Day of the Jackal | Universal Pictures / Warwick Film Productions / Universal Productions France | Fred Zinnemann (director); Kenneth Ross (screenplay); Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Derek Jacobi, Denis Carey, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, Delphine Seyrig, Jacques François, Olga Georges-Picot, Raymond Gérôme, Barrie Ingham, Jean Martin, Ronald Pickup, Vernon Dobtcheff, Eric Porter, Anton Rodgers, Donald Sinden, Jean Sorel, David Swift, Timothy West, Bernard Archard, Philippe Léotard, Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Edward Hardwicke, Howard Vernon, David Kernan, Féodor Atkine, Max Faulkner, Liliane Rovère | Thriller | Live Action | |
20 | The Hireling | Columbia Pictures | Alan Bridges (director); Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay); Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan, Caroline Mortimer, Elizabeth Sellars, Ian Hogg, Christine Hargreaves, Lyndon Brook, Patricia Lawrence, Petra Markham | Drama | Live Action | |
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sam Peckinpah (director); Rudy Wurlitzer (screenplay); James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Jason Robards, Richard Jaeckel, Rita Coolidge, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, R.G. Armstrong, Luke Askew, John Beck, Richard Bright, Matt Clark, Jack Dodson, Jack Elam, Emilio Fernández, Paul Fix, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, Jorge Russek, Charles Martin Smith, Katy Jurado, Harry Dean Stanton, Claudia Bryar, John Davis Chandler, Michael T. Mikler, Aurora Clavel, Rutanya Alda, Walter Kelley, Rudy Wurlitzer, Elisha Cook Jr., Gene Evans, Donnie Fritts, Dub Taylor, Don Levy, Sam Peckinpah, Bruce Dern | Western | Live Action | ||
Terror in the Wax Museum | Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Andrew J. Fenady Productions / Bing Crosby Productions | Georg Fenady (director); Andrew J. Fenady (screenplay); Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans, John Carradine, Broderick Crawford, Louis Hayward, Patric Knowles, Shani Wallis, Mark Edwards, Lisa Lu, Ben Wright, Peggy Stewart, Sandy Helberg, Steven Marlo, Nicole Shelby, Mathilda Calnan, Leslie Thompson, Don Herbert, Judy Wetmore, Jo Williamson, George Farina, Diane Wahrman, Rosa Huerta, Ben Brown, Rickie Weir, Paul Wilson, Ralph Cunningham, Don Williamson, Evelyn Reynolds | Horror, Mystery | Live Action | ||
22 | A Doll's House | Paramount Pictures | Patrick Garland (director); Christopher Hampton (screenplay); Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Edith Evans, Anna Massey, Helen Blatch, Kimberley Hampton, Mark Summerfield, Stefanie Summerfield | Drama | Live Action | |
24 | Day for Night | Warner-Columbia Film / Les Films du Carrosse / PECF / PIC | François Truffaut (director/screenplay); Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman (screenplay); Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Nike Arrighi, Nathalie Baye, David Markham, Bernard Ménez, Zénaïde Rossi, Xavier Saint-Macary, Claude Miller, Gaston Joly, Jean Panisse | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Live Action | |
Emperor of the North Pole | 20th Century Fox / Inter-Hemisphere | Robert Aldrich (director); Christopher Knopf (screenplay); Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner, Malcolm Atterbury, Harry Caesar, Elisha Cook Jr., Liam Dunn, Simon Oakland, Matt Clark, Vic Tayback, Hal Baylor, Robert Foulk, James Goodwin, Raymond Guth, Sid Haig, Karl Lukas, John Steadman, Dave Willock, Lance Henriksen | Action, Adventure | Live Action | ||
J U N E |
6 | The Blockhouse | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Cannon Films | Clive Rees (director/screenplay); John Gould (screenplay); Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Per Oscarsson, Peter Vaughan, Nicholas Jones, Leon Lissek, Alfred Lynch | Drama, War | Live Action |
Little Cigars | American International Pictures | Chris Christenberry (director); Louis Garfinkle, Frank Ray Perilli (screenplay); Angel Tompkins, Billy Curtis, Jerry Maren, Frank Delfino, Felix Silla, Emory Souza, Joe De Santis, Jon Cedar, Philip Kenneally, Barbara Rhoades, Todd Susman, Michael Pataki | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Live Action | ||
8 | Cannibal Girls | American International Pictures | Ivan Reitman (director); Daniel Goldberg (screenplay); Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Alan Gordon, Earl Pomerantz, Fishka Rais, Ronald Ulrich, Randall Carpenter, Bonnie Neilson, Mira Pawluk, Bob McHeady, Allan Price, May Jarvis, Gino Marrocco, Rick Maguire, Bunker, Marion Swadron | Comedy, Horror | Live Action | |
13 | Wicked, Wicked | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Richard L. Bare (director/screenplay); David Bailey, Tiffany Bolling, Randolph Roberts, Scott Brady, Edd Byrnes, Madeleine Sherwood, Arthur O'Connell, Indira Danks | Horror, Thriller | Live Action | |
14 | The Last of Sheila | Warner Bros. / Hera Productions | Herbert Ross (director); Anthony Perkins, Stephen Sondheim (screenplay); Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason, Ian McShane, Raquel Welch, Yvonne Romain | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Live Action | |
15 | Battle for the Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox / APJAC Productions | J. Lee Thompson (director); John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay); Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams, John Huston, Austin Stoker, Noah Keen, Richard Eastham, France Nuyen, Paul Stevens, John Landis, Heather Lowe, Bobby Porter, Michael Stearns, Cal Wilson, Pat Cardi | Action, Sci-Fi | Live Action | |
Idaho Transfer | Cinemation Industries / Pando Company | Peter Fonda (director); Thomas Matthiesen (screenplay); Keith Carradine, Kelley Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Caroline Hildebrand, Ted D'Arms, Judy Motulsky, Dale Hopkins, Fred Seagraves, Joe Newman, Susan Kelly, Meridith Hull, Roy B. Ayers, Kim Casper, Debbie Scott, Devin Burke, Earl Crabb | Sci-Fi | Live Action | ||
Interval | AVCO Embassy Pictures / Euro-American Films | Daniel Mann (director); Gavin Lambert (screenplay); Merle Oberon, Robert Wolders, Claudio Brook, Ross Conway, Britt Leach, Peter von Zerneck | Romance, Drama | Live Action | ||
The Legend of Hell House | 20th Century Fox / Academy Pictures Corporation | John Hough (director); Richard Matheson (screenplay); Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver, Peter Bowles, Michael Gough | Horror | Live Action | ||
16 | Coffy | American International Pictures | Jack Hill (director/screenplay); Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus, Sid Haig, Barry Cahill, Lee de Broux, Carol Locatell, Linda Haynes, Bob Minor, Ruben Moreno, Lisa Farringer, John Perak, Mwako Cumbuka, Morris Buchanan | Blaxploitation, Action, Crime, Thriller | Live Action | |
17 | Blume in Love | Warner Bros. | Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason, Shelley Winters, Paul Mazursky, Annazette Chase, Shelley Morrison, Mary Jackson, Ed Peck, Judyann Elder, Karl Lukas, Rutanya Alda, Jane Jenkins, Sally Kirkland, Albert Popwell, Donald F. Muhich, Erin O'Reilly, Carol Worthington | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Live Action | |
20 | O Lucky Man! | Warner Bros. | Lindsay Anderson (director); David Sherwin (screenplay); Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Graham Crowden, Dandy Nichols, Peter Jeffrey, Mona Washbourne, Philip Stone, Mary MacLeod, Wallas Eaton, Warren Clarke, Bill Owen, Michael Medwin, Vivian Pickles, Geoffrey Palmer, Christine Noonan, Geoffrey Chater, Anthony Nicholls, James Bolam, Brian Glover, Brian Pettifer, Edward Judd, Alan Price, Jeremy Bulloch, Ben Aris, Margot Bennett, Anna Dawson, Lindsay Anderson | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Live Action | |
One Little Indian | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Bernard McEveety (director); Harry Spalding (screenplay); James Garner, Vera Miles, Pat Hingle, John Doucette, Morgan Woodward, Andrew Prine, Robert Pine, Bruce Glover, Ken Swofford, Jay Silverheels, Jodie Foster, Walter Brooke, Hal Baylor, Terry Wilson, Paul Sorensen, Read Morgan, Richard Hale, Jim Davis, Clay O'Brien, Rudy Diaz, John C. Flinn III, Lois Red Elk | Western, Comedy | Live Action | ||
Shaft in Africa | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | John Guillermin (director); Stirling Silliphant (screenplay); Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee, Neda Arnerić, Marne Maitland, Spiros Focás, Jacques Herlin, Frank McRae, Nadim Sawalha, Thomas Baptiste, Glynn Edwards, Cy Grant, Jacques Marin, Aldo Sambrell, James E. Myers, Debebe Eshetu, Jho Jhenkins, Willie Jonah, Adolfo Lastretti, Zenebech Tadesse, A.V. Falana, Jon Chevron, Nik Zaran | Blaxploitation, Action, Adventure, Crime | Live Action | ||
Showdown | Universal Pictures | George Seaton (director); Theodore Taylor (screenplay); Rock Hudson, Dean Martin, Susan Clark, Donald Moffat, John McLiam, Vic Mohica, Ed Begley Jr., Charles Baca, Jackson Kane, Ben Zeller, John Richard Gill, Philip L. Mead, Rita Rogers, Raleigh Gardenhire, Dan Boydston | Western | Live Action | ||
A Touch of Class | AVCO Embassy Pictures / Brut Productions | Melvin Frank (director/screenplay); Jack Rose (screenplay); George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Paul Sorvino, Hildegarde Neil, K Callan, Cec Linder, Lisa Vanderpump, Michael Elwyn, Mary Barclay, Nadim Sawalha, Eve Karpf, David de Keyser, Timothy Carlton, Stuart Damon, David Healy, Donald Hewlett, John Sterland, Ian Thompson, Gaye Brown, Samantha Weysom | Romance, Comedy | Live Action | ||
26 | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Paramount Pictures | Peter Yates (director); Paul Monash (screenplay); Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitchell Ryan, Helena Carroll, Jack Kehoe, Margaret Ladd, James Tolkan, Kevin O'Morrison, Matthew Cowles, Peter MacLean, Marvin Lichterman, Carolyn Pickman | Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
Live and Let Die | United Artists / Eon Productions | Guy Hamilton (director); Tom Mankiewicz (screenplay); Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius W. Harris, Geoffrey Holder, David Hedison, Gloria Hendry, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Earl Jolly Brown, Roy Stewart, Lon Satton, Joie Chitwood, Madeline Smith, Kubi Chaza, B. J. Arnau, Tommy Lane, Arnold Williams, Ruth Kempf, Michael Ebbin | Spy, Action, Adventure, Thriller | Live Action | ||
28 | 40 Carats | Columbia Pictures / Frankovich Productions | Milton Katselas (director); Leonard Gershe (screenplay); Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Binnie Barnes, Deborah Raffin, Billy Green Bush, Nancy Walker, Don Porter, Rosemary Murphy, Natalie Schafer, Claudia Jennings, Sam Chew Jr. | Romance, Comedy | Live Action | |
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Richard C. Sarafian (director); Eleanor Perry (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, George Hamilton, Bo Hopkins, Robert Donner, Jay Silverheels, Jay Varela, James Hampton | Western | Live Action | ||
30 | Belladonna of Sadness | Nippon Herald Films / Mushi Production | Eiichi Yamamoto (director/screenplay); Yoshiyuki Fukuda (screenplay); Tatsuya Nakadai, Masakane Yonekura, Aiko Nagayama, Katsutaka Ito, Masaya Takahashi, Shigako Shimegi, Chinatsu Nakayama | Drama, Fantasy | Adult Animation |
July–September
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
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J U L Y |
2 | Oklahoma Crude | Columbia Pictures / Stanley Kramer Productions | Stanley Kramer (director); Marc Norman (screenplay); George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking, Harvey Jason, Ted Gehring, Cliff Osmond, Rafael Campos, Woodrow Parfrey, Harvey Parry, Hal Smith, James Jeter, Larry D. Mann, John Dierkes, Karl Lukas, Billy Varga, John Hudkins, Bob Herron, Jerry Brown, Jim Burk, Henry Wills, Cody Bearpaw, Wayne Storm | Comedy, Drama, Western | Live Action |
11 | Cahill U.S. Marshal | Warner Bros. / Batjac Productions | Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink (screenplay); John Wayne, George Kennedy, Gary Grimes, Neville Brand, Marie Windsor, Morgan Paull, Dan Vadis, Royal Dano, Denver Pyle, Jackie Coogan, Rayford Barnes, Harry Carey Jr., Walter Barnes, Paul Fix, Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, James Nusser, Hunter von Leer, Clay O'Brien, Scott Walker, Dan Kemp, Murray MacLeod | Western | Live Action | |
12 | Blue Blood | Impact Quadrant Films / Mallard Productions | Andrew Sinclair (director/screenplay); Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis, Derek Jacobi, Anna Gaël, Meg Wynn Owen, Richard Davies, Elaine Ives-Cameron, Tim Wylton, Hubert Rees, Dilys Price, John Rainer, Gwyneth Owen, Patrick Carter, Andrew McCall, Sally Anne Newton, Timon Sinclair | Horror, Drama | Live Action | |
13 | Cleopatra Jones | Warner Bros. | Jack Starrett (director); Max Julien, Sheldon Keller (screenplay); Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters, Antonio Fargas, Brenda Sykes, Bill McKinney, Dan Frazer, Stafford Morgan, Mike Warren, Albert Popwell, Caro Kenyatta, Esther Rolle, Don Cornelius, Frankie Crocker, Eugene W. Jackson III, Lee Weaver | Blaxploitation, Action, Crime, Thriller | Live Action | |
Lady Ice | National General Pictures / Tomorrow Entertainment | Tom Gries (director); Harold Clemens, Alan Trustman (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Jennifer O'Neill, Robert Duvall, Patrick Magee, Jon Cypher, Eric Braeden, Buffy Dee, Perry Lopez, Zvee Scooler, Dana Elcar | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Live Action | ||
16 | Ana and the Wolves | Carlos Saura (director/screenplay); Rafael Azcona (screenplay); Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José María Prada, José Vivó, Rafaela Aparicio, Charo Soriano, Marisa Porcel, Nuria Lage, María José Puerta, Sara Gil | Drama | Live Action | ||
18 | Sssssss | Universal Pictures / The Zanuck/Brown Company | Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Hal Dresner, Daniel C. Striepeke (screenplay); Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Richard B. Shull, Tim O'Connor, Jack Ging, Reb Brown, Charles Seel, Noble Craig, Kathleen King, Ted Grossman, Ray Ballard | Horror | Live Action | |
20 | Dillinger | American International Pictures / F.P. Productions | John Milius (director/screenplay); Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Michelle Phillips, Harry Dean Stanton, John Ryan, Richard Dreyfuss, Geoffrey Lewis, Steve Kanaly, John Martino, Roy Jenson, Read Morgan, Frank McRae | Gangster, Action, Biography, Crime | Live Action | |
25 | Badge 373 | Paramount Pictures | Howard W. Koch (director); Pete Hamill (screenplay); Robert Duvall, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Eddie Egan, Felipe Luciano, Luis Avalos, Rose Ann Scamardella, Pete Hamill, Tracey Walter, Ric Mancini, Johnny Pacheco, Orestes Matacena, Jimmy Walker, Tina Cristiani, Marina Durell, Chico Martinez, Jose Duval, Louis Cosentino, Nubia Olivero, Sam Schacht, Edward F. Carey, "Big" Lee, Duane Morris, John Marriott, Joe Veiga, Mark Tendler, Robert Weil, Larry Appelbaum, Bob Farley, John Scanlon, Jimmy Archer, Mike O'Dowd, Robert Miano, Pompie Pomposello, Hector Troy, Miguel Alejandro, Harry Collazo, Damian Colon | Neo-Noir, Crime, Thriller | Live Action | |
The Mackintosh Man | Warner Bros. / Newman-Foreman Company | John Huston (director); Walter Hill, William Fairchild (screenplay); Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Michael Hordern, Nigel Patrick, Peter Vaughan, Roland Culver, Percy Herbert, Robert Lang, Leo Genn, Jenny Runacre, John Bindon, Hugh Manning, Wolfe Morris, Noel Purcell, Niall MacGinnis, Eddie Byrne, Shane Briant, Eric Mason, Nosher Powell, Donal McCann, Joe Lynch, Tom Irwin, Donald Webster, Keith Bell, Michael Poole, Dinny Powell, Douglas Robinson, Marcelle Castillo | War, Neo-Noir, Spy, Thriller | Live Action | ||
No Sex Please, We're British | Columbia Pictures | Cliff Owen (director); Brian Cooke, Johnnie Mortimer (screenplay); Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe, Michael Bates, Cheryl Hall, David Swift, Deryck Guyler, Valerie Leon, Margaret Nolan, Gerald Sim, John Bindon, Stephen Greif, Michael Robbins, Frank Thornton, Michael Ripper, Lloyd Lamble, Mavis Villiers, Sydney Bromley, Brian Wilde, Eric Longworth, Edward Sinclair, Fred Griffiths, Lucy Griffiths, Robin Askwith | Comedy | Live Action | ||
27 | The Last American Hero | 20th Century Fox | Lamont Johnson (director); William Roberts, William Kerby (screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Art Lund, Ed Lauter, William Smith II, Gregory Walcott, Tom Ligon, Lane Smith, Ernie Orsatti Jr., Erica Hagen, James Murphy | Sports, Drama | Live Action | |
A U G U S T |
1 | The Boy Who Cried Werewolf | Universal Pictures / RKF | Nathan H. Juran (director); Bob Homel (screenplay); Kerwin Mathews, Elaine Devry, Robert J. Wilke, George Gaynes, David S. Cass Sr., Harold Goodwin, Paul Baxley, Scott Sealey, Susan Foster, Jack Lucas, Bob Homel, Loretta Temple | Horror | Live Action |
Maurie | National General Pictures / Ausable Films | Daniel Mann (director); Douglas Morrow (screenplay); Bernie Casey, Bo Svenson, Bill Walker, Maidie Norman, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Janet MacLachlan | Biography, Drama | Live Action | ||
The Naked Ape | Universal Pictures / Playboy Enterprises | Donald Driver (director/screenplay); Johnny Crawford, Victoria Principal, Dennis Olivieri, Diana Darrin, Norman Grabowski, John Hillerman, Helen Horowitz, Robert Ito, Marvin Miller | Comedy | Live Action | ||
3 | Blackenstein | Prestige Pictures / Frisco Productions Limited | William A. Levey (director); Frank R. Saletri (screenplay); John Hart, Andrea King, Liz Renay, Don Brodie, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue, Roosevelt Jackson, Nick Bolin, Karin Lind, Yvonne Robinson | Blaxploitation, Horror | Live Action | |
The Neptune Factor | 20th Century Fox | Daniel Petrie (director); Jack DeWitt (screenplay); Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes, Chris Wiggins, Michael J. Reynolds, Leslie Carlson, Stuart Gillard, David Yorston | Sci-Fi | Live Action | ||
8 | Heavy Traffic | American International Pictures / Steve Krantz Productions | Ralph Bakshi (director/screenplay); Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank de Kova, Terri Haven, Mary Dean Lauria, Charles Gordone, Jim Bates, Jacqueline Mills, Lillian Adams, Peter Hobbs, Candy Candido | Drama | Live Action / Animation | |
The Stone Killer | Columbia Pictures / De Laurentiis International Manufacturing / Company S.p.A. | Michael Winner (director); Gerald Wilson (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, David Sheiner, Norman Fell, Ralph Waite, Paul Koslo, Stuart Margolin, Jack Colvin, John Ritter | Action, Neo-Noir, Thriller | Live Action | ||
White Lightning | United Artists | Joseph Sargent (director); William W. Norton (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd, R.G. Armstrong, Conlan Carter, Dabbs Greer, John Steadman, Laura Dern, Lincoln Demyan, Iris Korn, Stephanie Burchfield, Barbara Muller | Action | Live Action | ||
9 | Gordon's War | 20th Century Fox / Palomar Pictures | Ossie Davis (director); Howard Friedlander, Ed Spielman (screenplay); Paul Winfield, Carl Lee, David Downing, Tony King, Gilbert Lewis, Carl Gordon, Nathan Heard, Grace Jones, Adam Wade, Hansford Rowe, Ralph Wilcox, Jackie Page, Chuck Bergansky, Warren Taurien, David Connell, Rochelle LeNoir, Charles McGregor | Action | Live Action | |
10 | Night Watch | AVCO Embassy Pictures / Brut Productions / Nightwatch Films | Brian G. Hutton (director); Tony Williamson, Evan Jones (screenplay); Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Robert Lang, Tony Britton, Bill Dean, Pauline Jameson, Linda Hayden, Kevin Colson, David Jackson, Michael Danvers-Walker, Rosario Serrano, Laon Maybanke | Mystery, Thriller | Live Action | |
11 | American Graffiti | Universal Pictures / Lucasfilm Ltd. / The Coppola Company | George Lucas (director/screenplay); Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams, Wolfman Jack, Bo Hopkins, Manuel Padilla Jr., Harrison Ford, Lynne Marie Stewart, Terry McGovern, Kathleen Quinlan, Scott Beach, Jana Bellan, Susan Richardson, Kay Ann Kemper, Joe Spano, Debralee Scott, Suzanne Somers | Coming-of-Age, Comedy, Drama | Live Action | |
15 | Cops and Robbers | United Artists | Aram Avakian (director); Donald E. Westlake (screenplay); Cliff Gorman, Joseph Bologna, Delphi Lawrence, Charlene Dallas, John P. Ryan, Dolph Sweet, Joe Spinell, Shepperd Strudwick, Frances Foster, Walt Gorney, Ellen Holly, Randy Jurgensen, Albert Henderson, Gayle Gorman, George Harris II, James Ferguson | Crime, Comedy | Live Action | |
Jesus Christ Superstar | Universal Pictures | Norman Jewison (director/screenplay); Melvyn Bragg (screenplay); Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, Bob Bingham, Larry Marshall, Josh Mostel, Kurt Yaghjian, Philip Toubus | Musical, Drama | Live Action | ||
17 | Happy Mother's Day, Love George | Cinema 5 Distributing | Darren McGavin (director); Robert Clouse (screenplay); Patricia Neal, Cloris Leachman, Bobby Darin, Tessa Dahl, Ron Howard, Kathie Browne, Joe Mascolo, Simon Oakland, Thayer David | Mystery | Live Action | |
Romeo and Juliet (re-release) | Paramount Pictures / BHE Films / Verona Produzione / Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica | Franco Zeffirelli (director/screenplay); Franco Brusati, Masolino D'Amico (screenplay); Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea, Michael York, John McEnery, Natasha Parry, Pat Heywood, Robert Stephens, Antonio Pierfederici, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Bruce Robinson, Keith Skinner, Roberto Antonelli, Paul Hardwick, Dyson Lovell, Richard Warwick, Roy Holder, Roberto Bisacco, Paola Tedesco, Bruno Filippini, Laurence Olivier | Period, Coming-of-Age, Romance, Drama | Live Action | ||
Westworld | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Michael Crichton (director/screenplay); Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw, Dick Van Patten, Linda Gaye Scott, Steve Franken, Michael Mikler, Terry Wilson, Majel Barrett, Anne Randall, Robert Hogan, Kenneth Washington, Nora Marlowe, Charles Seel, Robert Patten | Action, Sci-Fi, Western, Thriller | Live Action | ||
19 | Electra Glide in Blue | United Artists / Guercio-Hitzig | James William Guercio (director); Robert Boris (screenplay); Robert Blake, Billy "Green" Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley, Elisha Cook, Royal Dano, Hawk Wolinski, Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Lee Loughnane, Walter Parazaider, Michael Butler, Nick Nolte, Joe Samsil, Jason Clark, Susan Forristal | Action | Live Action | |
Enter the Dragon | Warner Bros. / Concord Production Inc. | Robert Clouse (director); Michael Allin (screenplay); Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Bob Wall, Shih Kien, Jim Kelly, Angela Mao Ying, Betty Chung, Geoffrey Weeks, Yang Sze, Peter Archer, Jackie Chan | Martial Arts, Action, Crime, Drama | Live Action | ||
22 | High Plains Drifter | Universal Pictures / The Malpaso Company | Clint Eastwood (director); Ernest Tidyman (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Mariana Hill, Billy Curtis, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Ted Hartley, Geoffrey Lewis, Dan Vadis, Anthony James, Walter Barnes, Paul Brinegar, Richard Bull, Robert Donner, John Hillerman, John Quade, Buddy Van Horn, William O'Connell, Russ McCubbin, Reid Cruickshank, James Gosa, Scott Walker | Western | Live Action | |
26 | Bang the Drum Slowly | Paramount Pictures / BTDS Partnership / ANJA Films | John Hancock (director); Mark Harris (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster, Heather MacRae, Ann Wedgeworth, Tom Ligon, Danny Aiello, Selma Diamond, Barbara Babcock, Patrick McVey, Marshall Efron | Sports, Drama | Live Action | |
S E P T E M B E R |
11 | I Escaped from Devil's Island | United Artists / The Corman Company | William Witney (director); Richard DeLong Adams (screenplay); Jim Brown, Christopher George, James Luisi, Paul Richards, Richard Rust, Jan Merlin, Robert Phillips, Stephen Whittaker, Richard Ely, Bob Harris, Eduardo Rosas López, Jonathan Dodge, Quintín Bulnes, Gabriella Rios, Ana De Sade | Exploitation, Action, Adventure | Live Action |
14 | Chino | Intercontinental Releasing Corporation / Produzioni De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company / Coral Producciones Cinematográficas / Universal Productions France | Duilio Coletti, John Sturges (directors); Clair Huffaker (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi, Vincent Van Patten, Fausto Tozzi, Ettore Manni, Corrado Gaipa, Melissa Chimenti | Western | Live Action | |
17 | The Pyx | Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Harvey Hart (director); Robert Schlitt (screenplay); Karen Black, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pilon, Jean-Louis Roux, Jacques Godin, Robin Gammell, Yvette Brind'amour, Lee Broker, Terry Haig, Louise Rinfret | Horror | Live Action | |
Santee | Crown International Pictures / American Video Cinema / Vagabond Productions / Eaves Movie Ranch | Gary Nelson (director); Brand Bell (screenplay); Glenn Ford, Michael Burns, Dana Wynter, Jay Silverheels, Harry Townes, John Larch, Robert Wilke, Robert Donner, John Bailey, X Brands, Chuck Courtney, Lindsay Crosby, John Hart, Russ McCubbin, Boyd Morgan, Taylor Lacher, Caruth C. Byrd, William Ford, Robert Mellard, Brad Merhage, Ben Zeller | Western | Live Action | ||
18 | Hit! | Paramount Pictures | Sidney J. Furie (director); Alan Trustman, David M. Wolf (screenplay); Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles, Sid Melton, Norman Burton, Yves Barsacq, Henri Cogan, Pierre Collet, Tina Andrews, Warren J. Kemmerling, Janet Brandt, Zooey Hall, Todd Martin, Jenny Astruc, Jean-Claude Bercq | Action | Live Action | |
21 | The Spook Who Sat by the Door | United Artists | Ivan Dixon (director); Melvin Clay, Sam Greenlee (screenplay); Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly, J.A. Preston, Joe Mascolo, Janet League, Paul Butler, Don Blakely, David Lemieux, Jack Aaron, Elaine Aiken, Beverly Gill, Bob Hill, Martin Golar | Action, Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
23 | Harry in Your Pocket | United Artists | Bruce Geller (director); James Buchanan, Ronald Austin (screenplay); James Coburn, Michael Sarrazin, Trish Van Devere, Walter Pidgeon | Comedy, Drama | Live Action | |
26 | The Slams | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Penelope Productions | Jonathan Kaplan (director); Richard DeLong Adams (screenplay); Jim Brown, Judy Pace, Paul Harris, Frank DeKova, Ted Cassidy, Quinn Redeker, Roland Bob Harris, Frenchia Guizon, John Dennis, Jac Emel | Action | Live Action | |
27 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Cinema 5 | Fielder Cook (director); Blanche Hanalis (screenplay); Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, Johnny Doran, George Rose, Georgann Johnson, Richard Mulligan, Madeline Kahn, Donald Symington, Bruce Conover, Mike Hammett, Linda Selman | Family, Drama, Comedy | Live Action | |
29 | Kid Blue | 20th Century Fox / Marvin Schwartz Productions | James Frawley (director); Edwin Shrake (screenplay); Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson, Lee Purcell, Janice Rule, Ralph Waite, Clifton James, Mary Jackson, Claude Ennis Starlett Jr., Warren Finnerty, Richard Rust, Howard Hesseman, M. Emmet Walsh, Mel Stewart, Eddy Donno, José Torvay, Jay Varela, Owen Orr, Bobby Hall | Comedy, Western | Live Action |
October–December
Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
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O C T O B E R |
2 | Mean Streets | Warner Bros. / Taplin-Perry-Scorsese Productions | Martin Scorsese (director/screenplay); Mardik Martin (screenplay); Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Victor Argo, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, George Memmoli, Harry Northup, Martin Scorsese, David Carradine, Vincent Price, Catherine Scorsese | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Live Action |
4 | The Final Programme | New World Pictures / Goodtimes Enterprises / Gladiole Films | Robert Fuest (director/screenplay); Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee, Sterling Hayden, Ronald Lacey, Harry Andrews, Graham Crowden, George Coulouris, Basil Henson, Derrick O'Connor, Sarah Douglas, Sandy Ratcliff, Julie Ege, Gilles Millinaire, Sandra Dickinson | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Live Action | |
15 | Badlands | Warner Bros. | Terrence Malick (director/screenplay); Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint, John Carter, Bryan Montgomery, Terrence Malick, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez | Neo-Noir, Period, Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
16 | Don't Look Now | Paramount Pictures | Nicolas Roeg (director); Allan Scott, Chris Bryant (screenplay); Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Leopoldo Trieste, David Tree, Giorgio Trestini, Ann Rye, Nicholas Salter, Sharon Williams, Bruno Cattaneo, Adelina Poerio | Drama, Horror, Mystery | Live Action | |
The Paper Chase | 20th Century Fox | James Bridges (director/screenplay); Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, James Naughton, Edward Herrmann, Craig Richard Nelson, Lenny Baker, David Clennon, Regina Baff, Blair Brown, Bob Lydiard | Comedy, Drama | Live Action | ||
Scalawag | Paramount Pictures / The Bryna Company | Kirk Douglas (director); Sid Fleischman, Albert Maltz (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester, Neville Brand, George Eastman, Don Stroud, Lesley-Anne Down, Danny DeVito, Mel Blanc, Phil Brown, Stole Arandelovic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Davor Antolic, Shaft Douglas | Adventure, Western | Live Action | ||
19 | Charley Varrick | Universal Pictures | Don Siegel (director); Dean Riesner, Howard Rodman (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Andy Robinson, Joe Don Baker, John Vernon, Sheree North, Felicia Farr, Norman Fell, Woodrow Parfrey, William Schallert, Jacqueline Scott, Benson Fong, Marjorie Bennett, Tom Tully, Kathleen O'Malley, Albert Popwell, Bob Steele, Don Siegel, Joe Conforte, James Nolan, Charles Matthau, Hope Summers, Monica Lewis, Christina Hart, Craig R. Baxley | Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Live Action | |
The House in Nightmare Park | Anglo-EMI | Peter Sykes (director); Clive Exton, Terry Nation (screenplay); Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith, John Bennett, Rosalie Crutchley, Ruth Dunning, Elizabeth MacLennan, Aimée Delamain, Peter Munt | Comedy, Horror | Live Action | ||
The Outfit | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | John Flynn (director/screenplay); Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey, Richard Jaeckel, Sheree North, Felice Orlandi, Marie Windsor, Jane Greer, Henry Jones, Joanna Cassidy, Tom Reese, Elisha Cook, Bill McKinney, Anita O'Day, Archie Moore, Tony Young, Roland La Starza, Roy Roberts, Emile Meyer, Roy Jenson, Bern Hoffman, John Steadman, Paul Genge, Francis de Sales, Army Archerd, Tony Trabert, Lee de Broux, Jeannine Riley, George Savalas | Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Live Action | ||
The Way We Were | Columbia Pictures / Rastar | Sydney Pollack (director); Arthur Laurents (screenplay); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors, Allyn Ann McLerie, Murray Hamilton, Herb Edelman, Diana Ewing, Sally Kirkland, Marcia Mae Jones, Don Keefer, George Gaynes, Roy Jenson, James Woods, Constance Forslund, Robert Gerringer, Susan Blakely, Susanne Zenor, Marvin Hamlisch | Romance, Drama | Live Action | ||
21 | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Columbia Pictures / Rastar | Gilbert Cates (director); Stewart Stern (screenplay); Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Tresa Hughes, Dori Brenner, Nancy Andrews, Minerva Pious, Ron Rickards, Win Forman, Peter Marklin, Sol Frieder, Helen Ludlam, Grant Code, Gaetano Lisi, Lee Jackson | Drama | Live Action | |
23 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Paramount Pictures | Hall Bartlett (director/screenplay); James Franciscus, Juliet Mills, Hal Holbrook, Dorothy McGuire, Richard Crenna, Philip Ahn, Kelly Harmon, David Ladd | Drama | Live Action | |
24 | The All-American Boy | Warner Bros. | Charles Eastman (director/screenplay); Jon Voight, Art Metrano, Jeanne Cooper, Bob Hastings, E. J. Peaker, Ned Glass, Anne Archer, Harry Northup, Rosalind Cash, Leigh French, Jaye P. Morgan, Nancie Phillips, Kathy Mahoney, Carole Androsky, Peggy Cowles, Ray Ballard, Ron Burns, Gene Borkan, Jeff Thompson, Mac Chandler, Owen Harian | Drama | Live Action | |
25 | Five on the Black Hand Side | United Artists | Oscar Williams (director); Charlie L. Russell (screenplay); Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Virginia Capers, Glynn Turman, D'Urville Martin, Dick Anthony Williams, Ja'net Dubois, Carl Franklin, Godfrey Cambridge, Sonny Jim Gaines, Bonnie Banfield | Comedy | Live Action | |
29 | The Homecoming | American Film Theatre | Peter Hall (director); Harold Pinter (screenplay); Paul Rogers, Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack, Terence Rigby, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant | Drama | Live Action | |
The Iceman Cometh | American Film Theatre | John Frankenheimer (director); Thomas Quinn Curtiss (screenplay); Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman, Sorrell Booke, Hildy Brooks, Juno Dawson, Evans Evans, Martyn Green, Moses Gunn, Clifton James, John McLiam, Stephen Pearlman, Tom Pedi, George Voskovec | Drama | Live Action | ||
That'll Be the Day | Anglo-EMI Film Distributors | Claude Whatham (director); Ray Connolly (screenplay); David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach, James Booth, Billy Fury, Rosalind Ayres, Keith Moon, Robert Lindsay, Deborah Watling, Brenda Bruce, Beth Morris, Daphne Oxenford, Kim Braden, Johnny Shannon, Karl Howman, Sue Holderness, Érin Geraghty, Sacha Puttnam, Peter Turner | Coming-of-Age, Drama | Live Action | ||
N O V E M B E R |
1 | Ash Wednesday | Paramount Pictures / Sagittarius Productions | Larry Peerce (director); Jean-Claude Tramont (screenplay); Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Maurice Teynac, Margaret Blye, Monique van Vooren, Dina Sassoli, Dino Mele, Kathy Van Lypps, Carlo Puri, Andrea Esterhazy, Jill Pratt, Irina Wassilchikoff, Maximilian Windisch-Graetz, Nadia Stancioff, Rodolfo Lodi, Raymond Vignale, Jose De Vega, Samantha Starr, Elena Tricoli, Sandra Johnson | Drama | Live Action |
A Doll's House | Tomorrow Entertainment | Joseph Losey (director); David Mercer (screenplay); Jane Fonda, David Warner, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig, Edward Fox, Anna Wing, Ingrid Natrud, Pierre Oudry, Morten Floor, Tone Floor, Frode Lien, Dagfinn Hertzberg, Ellen Holm | Drama | Live Action | ||
7 | Executive Action | National General Pictures | David Miller (director); Dalton Trumbo (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, John Anderson, Paul Carr, Ed Lauter, Walter Brooke, John Brascia, Richard Bull, Sidney Clute, Lee Delano, Lloyd Gough, Rick Hurst, Robert Karnes, James MacColl, Joaquín Martínez, Dick Miller, Hunter von Leer, Sandy Ward, Rutanya Alda, George Aiken, Eugene Carson Blake, Leonid Brezhnev, Earle Cabell, John Connally, Nellie Connally, Patrick Dean, Everett Dirksen, William C. Foster, J. William Fulbright, William Greer, Andrei Gromyko, Clint Hill, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Roy Kellerman, Ed Kemmer, John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Malcolm Kilduff, Martin Luther King, Jim Leavelle, John Lewis, Robert McNamara, Lee Harvey Oswald, Ike Pappas, David F. Powers, Joachim Prinz, A. Philip Randolph, Sam Rayburn, Walter Reuther, Jack Ruby, Dean Rusk, Leverett Saltonstall, George A. Smathers, Lewis Strauss, Edward Teller, U Thant, Cyrus Vance, Henry M. Wade, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Gilbert Green, Colby Chester, Oscar Oncidi, Paul Sorenson, William Watson | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | Live Action | |
8 | Carry On Girls | The Rank Organisation | Gerald Thomas (director); Talbot Rothwell (screenplay); Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Bernard Bresslaw, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Jack Douglas, Patsy Rowlands, Jimmy Logan, Margaret Nolan, Valerie Leon, Joan Hickson, David Lodge, Angela Grant, Sally Geeson, Wendy Richard, Arnold Ridley, Robin Askwith, Patricia Franklin, Brian Osborne, Bill Pertwee, Marianne Stone, Brenda Cowling, Pauline Peart, Michael Nightingale, Hugh Futcher, Ron Tarr, Zena Clifton, Laraine Humphrys, Caroline Whitaker, Barbara Wise, Carol Wyler, Mavis Fyson | Comedy | Live Action | |
Robin Hood | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Wolfgang Reitherman (director); Larry Clemmons, Ken Anderson, Vance Gerry, Frank Thomas, Eric Cleworth, Julius Svendsen, David Michener (screenplay); Peter Ustinov, Phil Harris, Brian Bedford, Terry-Thomas, Roger Miller, Pat Buttram, George Lindsey, Andy Devine, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Ken Curtis, John Fiedler, Barbara Luddy, Candy Candido, J. Pat O'Malley, Don Bluth, Stan Freberg, Hal Smith, Billy Whitaker, Dana Laurita, Dori Whitaker, Richie Sanders | Adventure, Musical, Comedy | Animation | ||
12 | A Delicate Balance | American Film Theatre | Tony Richardson (director); Edward Albee (screenplay); Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten, Betsy Blair | Drama | Live Action | |
14 | The Don Is Dead | Universal Pictures | Richard Fleischer (director); Christopher Trumbo, Marvin H. Albert, Michael Butler (screenplay); Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins, Charles Cioffi, Barry Russo, Louis Zorich, Ina Balin, Joe Santos, Frank DeKova, Abe Vigoda, Victor Argo, Val Bisoglio, Robert Carricart, Sid Haig, Vic Tayback, Bobby Bass, Dick Crockett, Lee Delano, Nick Dimitri, Bob Hoy, Roland La Starza, Tanya Lemani, George Robotham, Carlos Romero, Ted White | Action, Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
16 | Arnold | Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Fenady Associates / Bing Crosby Productions | Georg Fenady (director); Jameson Brewer, John Fenton Murray (screenplay); Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Shani Wallis, Farley Granger, Victor Buono, John McGiver, Bernard Fox, Patric Knowles, Jamie Farr, Ben Wright, Murray Matheson, Norman Stuart, Wanda Bailey, Steven Marlo, Leslie Thompson | Horror, Comedy | Live Action | |
18 | Breezy | Universal Pictures / The Malpaso Company | Clint Eastwood (director); Jo Heims (screenplay); William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C. Carmel, Marj Dusay, Joan Hotchkis, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Norman Bartold, Lynn Borden, Shelley Morrison, Dennis Olivieri, Eugene Peterson, Richard Bull, Don Diamond, Sandy Kenyon, Buck Young, Priscilla Morrill, Clint Eastwood | Romance, Drama | Live Action | |
England Made Me | Cine Globe / Atlantic Productions / Centralni Filmski Studio / Two World Film | Peter Duffell (director/screenplay); Desmond Cory (screenplay); Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegarde Neil, Joss Ackland, Michael Hordern, Tessa Wyatt, Michael Sheard, Richard Gibson, Lalla Ward, Demeter Bitenc, Vladan Živković, William Baskiville, Vlado Bacic, Mirjana Nikolic | Drama | Live Action | ||
20 | The Affair | ABC / Sony Pictures Television / Spelling-Goldberg Productions | Gilbert Cates (director); Barbara Turner (screenplay); Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Pat Harrington Jr., Kent Smith, Paul Ryan, Frances Reid, Mark Roberts, Anna Karen, Victoria Carroll, Anna Aries, Steve Riskas, Brett Ericson, Robert Stull, Paul Pepper, Suzanne Taylor, Keith Walker, Marland Proctor | Romance, Drama | Live Action | |
21 | Hex | 20th Century Fox / Max L. Raab Productions | Leo Garen (director/screenplay); Stephen Katz (screenplay); Keith Carradine, Scott Glenn, Hillarie Thompson, Tina Herazo, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, Robert Walker, Iggie Wolfington, Mike Combs, Doria Cook, Tom Jones | Western, Horror | Live Action | |
27 | Fly Me | New World Pictures / Premiere Productions | Cirio Santiago (director); Miller Drake (screenplay); Pat Anderson, Lenore Kasdorf, Richard Young, Naomi Stevens, Richard Miller, Vic Diaz, Lyllah Torena, Ken Metcalfe, Richard Roake | Action, Drama | Live Action | |
The Holy Mountain | ABKCO Films / Producciones Zohar | Alejandro Jodorowsky (director/screenplay); Alejandro Jodorowsky, Juan Ferrara, Blanca Sánchez, Horacio Salinas, Ramona Saunders, Adriana Page, Burt Kleiner, Valerie Jodorowsky, Nicky Nichols, Richard Rutowsky, Luis Lomelí, Ana de Sade, David Silva, Basilio González, Lupita Peruyero, Héctor Ortega, Connie de la Mora, Leticia Robles | Fantasy | Live Action | ||
30 | Flesh for Frankenstein | Bryanston Distributing Company / Compagnia Cinematografica Champion | Paul Morrissey (director/screenplay); Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique van Vooren, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Nicoletta Elmi, Liù Bosisio, Cristina Gaioni, Arno Juerging, Srdjan Zelenovic, Marco Liofredi | Horror | Live Action | |
D E C E M B E R |
5 | Serpico | Paramount Pictures / Artists Entertainments Complex, Inc. / Produzion De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company S.P.A. | Sidney Lumet (director); Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler (screenplay); Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Edward Grover, Tony Roberts, Allan Rich, Albert Henderson, Hank Garrett, Damien Leake, Joseph Bova, Alan North, Woodie King Jr., James Tolkan, Bernard Barrow, Mildred Clinton, Nathan George, Richard Foronjy, Lewis J. Stadlen, M. Emmet Walsh, Ted Beniades, F. Murray Abraham, Val Bisoglio, Sully Boyar, John Brandon, Sam Coppola, Judd Hirsch, Bianca Hunter, Tony Lo Bianco, Kenneth McMillan, Stephen Pearlman, Jaime Sánchez, Tracey Walter, Charles Weldon, Mary Louise Weller, Barbara Eda-Young, Cornelia Sharpe | Biography, Crime, Drama | Live Action |
6 | Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World | Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Walter Shenson Films | Joseph McGrath (director); Charles Isaacs, Michael Pertwee (screenplay); Jim Dale, Angela Douglas, Spike Milligan, John Bluthal, Milo O'Shea, Norman Rossington, Richard Beaumont, Dinsdale Landen, Garfield Morgan, Victor Spinetti, Harry Towb, Kenneth J. Warren, Bob Todd, Molly Urquhart, Frank Thornton, Victor Maddern, Sheila Steafel | Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy | Live Action | |
Fantastic Planet | New World Pictures / Les Films Armorial / Ceskoslovenský Filmexport | René Laloux (director/screenplay); Roland Topor (screenplay); Cynthia Adler, Mark Gruner, Hal Smith, Barry Bostwick, Olan Soule, Marvin Miller, Janet Waldo, Nora Heflin, Monika Ramirez | Sci-Fi | Adult Animation | ||
Marco | Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Tomorrow Entertainment / Videocraft International | Seymour Robbie (director); Romeo Muller (screenplay); Desi Arnaz Jr., Jack Weston, Zero Mostel, Fred Sadoff, Tetsu Nakamura, Van Christie, Masumi Okada, Romeo Muller, Cie Cie Win, Aimee Eccles, Mafumi Sakamoto, Osamu Okawa, Yuka Kamebuchi, Ikio Sawamura | Historical, Musical, Adventure, Family | Live Action | ||
The Wicker Man | Warner Bros. | Robin Hardy (director); Anthony Shaffer (screenplay); Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Annie Ross, Lesley Mackie, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters, Aubrey Morris, Irene Sunters, Donald Eccles, Walter Carr, Roy Boyd, Peter Brewis, Geraldine Cowper, John Young, Barbara Rafferty, John Sharp, John Hallam, Tony Roper, Rachel Verney, Jennifer Martin, Myra Forsyth, Alison Hughes | Horror | Live Action | ||
11 | The Three Musketeers | 20th Century Fox | Richard Lester (director); George MacDonald Fraser (screenplay); Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin, Simon Ward, Faye Dunaway, Charlton Heston, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Spike Milligan, Roy Kinnear, Georges Wilson, Nicole Calfan, Michael Gothard, Sybil Danning, Gitty Djamal, Joss Ackland, Gretchen Franklin, Ángel del Pozo, Francis de Wolff, Richard Briers, Michael Hordern | Action, Adventure | Live Action | |
12 | The Last Detail | Columbia Pictures / Acrobat Productions / Bright-Persky Associates | Hal Ashby (director); Robert Towne (screenplay); Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty, Nancy Allen, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Miller, Luana Anders, Patricia Hamilton, Michael Chapman, Jim Henshaw, Derek McGrath, Hal Ashby, Gerald Ayres | Comedy, Drama | Live Action | |
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? | Gaumont Film Company | Robert Lamoureux (director/screenplay); Pierre Mondy, Jean Lefebvre, Aldo Maccione, Robert Lamoureux, Pierre Tornade, Robert Dalban, Jacques Marin, Robert Rollis, Erik Colin, Alain Doutey | Comedy, War | Live Action | ||
14 | My Name is Nobody | Universal Pictures / Rafran Cinematografica / Les Filmes Jacques Leitienne / La Societe Im. Ex. Ci. / La Societe Alcinter / Rialto Film Preben Philpsen | Tonino Valerii (director); Ernesto Gastaldi (screenplay); Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, R.G. Armstrong, Leo Gordon, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, Piero Lulli, Mario Brega, Benito Stefanelli, Alexander Allerson, Antoine Saint-John, Franco Angrisano, Carla Mancini, Karl Braun, Neil Summers, Marc Mazza, Rainer Peets, Tommy Polgár, Antonio Palombi, Hubert Mittendorf, Emil Feist, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Angelo Novi | Comedy, Western | Live Action | |
Superdad | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Vincent McEveety (director); Joseph L. McEveety, Harlan Ware (screenplay); Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Kathleen Cody, Joby Baker, Dick Van Patten, Bruno Kirby, Judith Lowry, Ivor Francis, Jonathan Daly, Naomi Stevens, Nicholas Hammond, Jack Manning, Larry Gelman, Stephen Dunne, Leon Belasco, Ed Begley Jr., Michael Rupert | Comedy | Live Action | ||
The Seven-Ups | 20th Century Fox | Philip D'Antoni (director); Albert Ruben, Alexander Jacobs (screenplay); Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Larry Haines, Richard Lynch, Bill Hickman, Victor Arnold, Ken Kercheval, Joe Spinell, Rex Everhart, Frances Chaney, Jerry Leon, Lou Polan, Matt Russo, Robert Burr, David Wilson, Ed Jordan, Mary Multari, Benny Marino, Bill Funaro | Mystery, Action, Crime, Drama | Live Action | ||
16 | Hell Up in Harlem | American International Pictures | Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery, D'Urville Martin, Tony King, Esther Sutherland, Gerald Gordon, Bobby Ramsen, James Dixon, Charles MacGuire | Blaxploitation, Neo-Noir, Action, Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
Papillon | Allied Artists / Les Films Corona / General Production Company | Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Dalton Trumbo, Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay); Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, Ratna Assan, William Smithers, Val Avery, Gregory Sierra, Vic Tayback, Mills Watson, Ron Soble, Barbara Morrison, Don Hanmer, E.J. André, Len Lesser, John Quade, Fred Sadoff, Liam Dunn, Peter Brocco, Richard Farnsworth, Harry Monty, Dalton Trumbo | Biography, Epic, Historical, Crime, Drama | Live Action | ||
17 | Sleeper | United Artists | Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Marshall Brickman (screenplay); Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer, John McLiam, Bartlett Robinson, Chris Forbes, Marya Small, Peter Hobbs, Brian Avery, Spencer Milligan, Stanley Ralph Ross, Regis Cordic, Howard Cosell, George Furth, Seamon Glass, Charles H. Gray, Jerry Hardin, Harry Holcombe, Jackie Mason, Read Morgan, Richard Nixon, Albert Popwell, Douglas Rain, Whitney Rydbeck | Sci-Fi, Comedy | Live Action | |
18 | Amarcord | New World Pictures | Federico Fellini (director/screenplay); Tonino Guerra (screenplay); Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Ciccio Ingrassia, Alvaro Vitali, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Giuseppe Ianigro, Nando Orfei, Stefano Proietti, Donatella Gambini, Gianfranco Marrocco, Ferdinando De Felice, Bruno Lenzi, Bruno Scagnetti, Francesco Vona, Josiane Tanzilli | Comedy, Drama | Live Action | |
Cinderella Liberty | 20th Century Fox | Mark Rydell (director); Darryl Ponicsan (screenplay); James Caan, Marsha Mason, Kirk Calloway, Eli Wallach, Burt Young, Dabney Coleman, Bruno Kirby, Allyn Ann McLerie, Allan Arbus, Fred Sadoff, Jon Korkes, Don Calfa, Sally Kirkland, Mark Rydell, David Proval, Christopher Rydell, Jon Locke | Drama | Live Action | ||
19 | The 14 | MGM-EMI | David Hemmings (director); Roland Starke (screenplay); Jack Wild, June Brown, Liz Edmiston, Cheryl Hall, Anna Wing, John Bailey, Alun Armstrong, Keith Buckley, Malcolm Tierney, Diana Beevers, Tony Calvin, Chris Kelly, Frank Gentry, Peter Newby, Paul Daly, Richard Haywood | Drama | Live Action | |
The Day of the Dolphin | AVCO Embassy Pictures | Mike Nichols (director); Buck Henry (screenplay); George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, Jon Korkes, Edward Herrmann, Leslie Charleson, John David Carson, Victoria Racimo, John Dehner, Severn Darden, William Roerick, Elizabeth Wilson, Phyllis Davis, Florence Stanley, Brooke Hayward, Buck Henry | Sci-Fi, Thriller | Live Action | ||
Willie Dynamite | Universal Pictures / The Zanuck/Brown Company | Gilbert Moses (director); Ron Cutler, Joe Keyes Jr. (screenplay); Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Norma Donaldson, Roger Robinson, Albert Hall, George Murdock, Royce Wallace, Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Ted Gehring, Wynn Irwin, Nathaniel Taylor, Ken Lynch, Davis Roberts, Tol Avery, Calvin Brown, Robert DoQui, Slim Gaillard, Olan Soule, Clarice Taylor, Alan Weeks, George Wyner, Joyce Walker, Juanita Brown, Judith Brown, Marilyn Coleman, Marcia McBroom, Ron Henriquez | Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama | Live Action | ||
20 | Alvin Purple | Sands Film Company / Hexagon Productions | Tim Burstall (director); Alan Hopgood (screenplay); Graeme Blundell, George Whaley, Jacki Weaver, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Abigail, Noel Ferrier, Jill Forster, Lynette Curran, Christine Amor, Dina Mann, Fred Parslow, Elke Neidhardt, Kris McQuade, Anne Pendlebury, Jon Finlayson, Brian Moll, Peter Cummins, Carole Skinner, Elli Maclure, Dennis Miller, Valerie Blake, Alan Finney, Gary Down, Peter Aanensen, Jenny Hagen, Stan Monroe, Jan Friedl, Barbara Taylor | Comedy | Live Action | |
The Laughing Policeman | 20th Century Fox | Stuart Rosenberg (director); Thomas Rickman (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Anthony Zerbe, Albert Paulsen, Val Avery, Paul Koslo, Cathy Lee Crosby, Mario Gallo, Joanna Cassidy, William Hansen, Louis Guss, Frances Lee McCain, Clifton James, Gregory Sierra, Warren Finnerty, Matt Clark, Leigh French, Anthony Costello, Sacheen Littlefeather | Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Live Action | ||
21 | The Deadly Trackers | Warner Bros. | Barry Shear (director); Lukas Heller (screenplay); Richard Harris, Rod Taylor, Al Lettieri, Neville Brand, William Smith, Paul Benjamin, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Isela Vega, Kelly Jean Peters, William Bryant, Sean Marshall, Read Morgan, Ray Moyer | Western, Drama | Live Action | |
Jimi Hendrix | Warner Bros. | Joe Boyd, John Head, Gary Weis (directors); Eric Clapton, Billy Cox, Alan Douglas, Germaine Greer, Mick Jagger, Eddie Kramer, Buddy Miles, Mitch Mitchell, Juggy Murray, Little Richard, Lou Reed, Pete Townshend, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Caruso, James A. "Al" Hendrix | Biography, Music | Live Action | ||
25 | The Sting | Universal Pictures / The Zanuck/Brown Company | George Roy Hill (director); David S. Ward (screenplay); Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Robert Earl Jones, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, John Heffernan, Dana Elcar, Jack Kehoe, Dimitra Arliss, James J. Sloyan, Charles Dierkop, Lee Paul, Sally Kirkland, Avon Long, Arch Johnson, Ed Bakey, Brad Sullivan, John Quade, Larry D. Mann, Leonard Barr, Paulene Myers, Joe Tornatore, Jack Collins, Tom Spratley, Kenneth O'Brien, Ken Sansom, Ta-Tanisha, William "Billy" Benedict, Robert Brubaker, Kathleen Freeman, Susan French, Byron Morrow | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Live Action | |
Magnum Force | Warner Bros. / The Malpaso Company | Ted Post (director); John Milius, Michael Cimino (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Kip Niven, Robert Urich, Felton Perry, Margaret Avery, Bob McClurg, John Mitchum, Albert Popwell, Richard Devon, Christine White, Tony Giorgio, Maurice Argent, Paul D'Amato, Will Hutchins, Terence McGovern, Suzanne Somers, Robert Trebor, Carl Weathers, Johnny Weissmuller Jr., Joseph Whipp, Clifford A. Pellow, Jack Kosslyn, Bob March, Adele Yoshioka | Neo-Noir, Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | Live Action | ||
26 | The Exorcist | Warner Bros. | William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (screenplay); Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Linda Blair, Father William O'Malley, Father Thomas Bermingham, Peter Masterson, Robert Symonds, Barton Heyman, Rudolf Schündler, Arthur Storch, Titos Vandis, William Peter Blatty, Mercedes McCambridge, Eileen Dietz, Vasiliki Maliaros, Dick Callinan, Gina Petrushka | Horror | Live Action | |
29 | Tidal Wave (Japan) | Toho | Shiro Moritani (director); Shinobu Hashimoto (screenplay); Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Ayumi Ishida, Hiroshi Fujioka, Yusuke Takita, Shōgo Shimada, Andrew Hughes, Nobuo Nakamura, Haruo Nakajima, Hideaki Nitani, Isao Natsuyagi, Akira Nagoya, Sakyo Komatsu | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi | Live Action |
Births
- January 7 – Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
- January 9 - Angela Bettis, American actress, producer and director
- January 10 – Ryan Drummond, American actor and comedian
- January 14 – Katie Griffin, Canadian actress and singer.
- January 17 - Bob Persichetti, American animator, story artist, storyboard artist, screenwriter and director
- January 18 - Ben Willbond, English actor and screenwriter
- January 23 – Lanei Chapman, American actress
- January 24 – William Gregory Lee, American actor
- January 26 - Jennifer Crystal Foley, American actress
- January 29 – Arben Bajraktaraj, Korovan-born French actor
- January 30 - Jordan Prentice, Canadian actor
- January 31
- Portia de Rossi, Australian-Canadian actress
- Matthew Faber, American actor (d. 2020)
- February 12 – Tara Strong, Canadian-American voice actress
- February 14 - Kristen Dalton, American actress
- February 15 - Sarah Wynter, Australian actress
- February 17 – Lucy Davis, English actress
- February 18 – Tom Wisdom, English actor
- February 25 – Anson Mount, American actor
- February 27 – Li Bingbing, Chinese actress
- March 1 – Jack Davenport, English actor
- March 3 - Matthew Marsden, English-American actor, producer and singer
- March 4 – Len Wiseman, American director, screenwriter and producer
- March 8 - Boris Kodjoe, German actor and producer
- March 10 – Natasha Alam, Uzbekistani–American actress and model
- March 13 – Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Icelandic-American actor, producer and screenwriter
- March 16 - Jerome Flynn, English actor and singer
- March 18 – Luci Christian, American voice actress
- March 19 - Jill Culton, American animator, storyboard artist, director and screenwriter
- March 20
- Jane March, English actress and model
- Cedric Yarbrough, American actor and comedian
- March 21 - Vanessa Branch, English-born American actress
- March 22 - Clay Kaytis, American animator and director
- March 24 – Jim Parsons, American actor and producer
- April 1 - Kris Marshall, English actor
- April 2
- Simon Farnaby, English actor, comedian and writer
- Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, actress, producer and writer
- April 3 – Adam Scott, American actor, comedian and producer
- April 6
- Lori Heuring, American actress
- Cindy Robinson, American voice actress
- April 10 – Guillaume Canet, French actor
- April 11
- Kris Marshall, English actor
- Alec Musser, American actor and fitness model (d. 2024)
- April 12 - Amr Waked, Egyptian actor
- April 14 – Adrien Brody, American actor
- April 19
- Michael Bacall, American screenwriter and actor
- David Soren, Canadian director, writer, voice actor and storyboard artist
- April 22 – Christopher Sabat, American voice actor
- April 30
- Robyn Griggs, American actress (d. 2022)
- Antonino Isordia, Mexican director
- May 5 – Tina Yothers, American actress
- May 8
- Marcus Brigstocke, British comedian and actor
- Jonathon Young, Canadian actor
- May 10 – Tora Sudiro, Indonesian actor
- May 12 - Mackenzie Astin, American actor
- May 17
- Sasha Alexander, American actress and director
- Matthew McGrory, American actor (d. 2005)
- May 21 - Noel Fielding, English comedian, writer, actor, artist, musician and television presenter
- May 25
- Demetri Martin, American comedian, actor, writer, director and musician
- Molly Sims, American model and actress
- May 27 - Jack McBrayer, American actor, singer and comedian
- May 30 - Minae Noji, Japanese-American actress
- June 1 - Adam Garcia, Australian actor
- June 2 - Kevin Feige, American producer
- June 8 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
- June 9 - Orlando Wells, English actor and writer
- June 12 - Mel Rodriguez, American actor
- June 15 – Neil Patrick Harris, American actor
- June 16 – Eddie Cibrian, American actor
- June 17 - Louis Leterrier, French director and producer
- June 18 - Julie Depardieu, French actress
- June 19 - Leticia Spiller, Brazilian actress
- June 21 – Juliette Lewis, American actress
- June 22 - Tracy Melchior, American former actress
- June 24 - Alexander Beyer, German actor
- June 27 - Razaaq Adoti, British actor, producer and screenwriter
- July 2 - Peter Kay, English comedian and actor
- July 3 - Patrick Wilson, American actor, director and singer
- July 6 - William Lee Scott, American actor
- July 8 - Sebastian Maniscalco, American stand-up comedian and actor
- July 9 - Enrique Murciano, American actor
- July 10 - Annie Mumolo, American actress, screenwriter, comedian and producer
- July 11 - Jason Liebrecht, American voice actor
- July 15 - Rachel Pickup, British actress
- July 16 - Robert Jayne, American actor
- July 19 - Saïd Taghmaoui, French-American actor and screenwriter
- July 20 – Omar Epps, American actor, rapper, and producer
- July 22 - Jaime Camil, Mexican actor and singer
- July 23
- Daisy Donovan, English television presenter, actress and writer
- Kathryn Hahn, American actress and comedian
- July 24
- Jamie Denbo, American actress, writer and comedian
- Ana Cristina Oliveira, Portuguese actress
- July 25 - David Denman, American actor
- July 26 – Kate Beckinsale, English actress
- July 29
- Stephen Dorff, American actor
- Dileep Rao, American actor
- August 2 - Simon Kinberg, British-born American filmmaker
- August 3 - Michael Ealy, American actor
- August 5 - Michael Hollick, American actor
- August 6
- Asia Carrera, American former pornographic actress
- David Campbell, Australian singer, actor and television personality
- Vera Farmiga, American actress
- August 8 – Jessica Calvello, American voice actress
- August 9 - Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor and television director
- August 15 - Lubna Azabal, Belgian actress
- August 19 - Ahmed Best, American actor, comedian and musician
- August 22 – Kristen Wiig, American actress and comedian
- August 24
- Dave Chappelle, American actor
- Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor, writer and musician
- Grey Griffin, American actress, comedian and singer songwriter
- Barrett Oliver, American former child actor
- August 25 - Ben Falcone, American filmmaker, comedian and actor
- August 26 - Andy Muschietti, Argentine filmmaker
- August 28 - Kirby Morrow, Canadian actor, comedian and writer (d. 2020)
- September 4
- Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist (d. 2022)
- Lazlow Jones, American writer, producer, director, voice actor and radio personality
- September 5
- Paddy Considine, English actor, director, screenwriter and musician
- Rose McGowan, American actress
- September 7 – Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
- September 9 - Diane Mizota, American actress
- September 12 –
- Maximiliano Hernández, American actor
- Paul Walker, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
- September 13 - Travis Knight, American animator, producer and director
- September 14 – Andrew Lincoln, English actor
- September 18 – James Marsden, American actor
- September 19 - Nicholas Bishop, English-born Australian actor
- September 25 - Bridgette Wilson, former American actress and singer
- September 26 – Julienne Davis, American actress and model
- September 27 - Indira Varma, British actress and narrator
- October 1 – Christian Borle, American actor and singer
- October 2 – Efren Ramirez, American actor
- October 3
- Keiko Agena, American actress
- Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
- Richard Ian Cox, Welsh-Canadian voice actor
- Lena Headey, English actress
- October 6 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
- October 8 - Jan Pavel Filipensky, Czech actor
- October 10
- Mario Lopez, American actor and television host
- S. S. Rajamouli, Indian director
- October 14 - Jason Manuel Olazabal, American actor
- October 21 - Sasha Roiz, Israeli-born Canadian actor
- October 22 – Carmen Ejogo, British actress and singer
- October 23 - Stéphane Debac, French actor
- October 24
- Burgess Jenkins, American actor
- Kurt Kuenne, American filmmaker
- October 26 – Seth MacFarlane, American actor, animator, screenwriter, comedian, director and singer
- October 28 – Kim Seo-hyung, South Korean actress
- October 30
- Adam Copeland, Canadian wrestler and actor
- Kemp Powers, American filmmaker
- November 1 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
- November 2 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
- November 4 - Steven Ogg, Canadian actor
- November 11 - Chris McKay, American filmmaker
- November 12 - Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
- November 14 - Dana Snyder, American actor and voice actor
- November 21 - Brook Kerr, American actress
- November 24
- J. C. Chandor, American filmmaker
- Lucy Liemann, British actress
- Danielle Nicolet, American actress
- November 26 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
- November 27
- Tadanobu Asano, Japanese actor
- Sharlto Copley, South African actor
- December 1 - Lombardo Boyar, American actor
- December 3 - Bruno Campos, Brazilian-American actor and lawyer
- December 4 - Tyra Banks, American television personality, producer, writer and actress
- December 11 - Mos Def, American rapper, singer, songwriter and actor
- December 14
- Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress (d. 2001)
- Jan Uuspõld, Estonian actor
- December 17 - Rian Johnson, American filmmaker
- December 28 - Seth Meyers, American talkshow host, actor, comedian
Deaths
Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
January | 2 | Franciska Gaal | 68 | Hungary | Actress, Singer |
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15 | Coleman Francis | 53 | US | Actor, Director |
| |
19 | Max Adrian | 69 | Northern Ireland | Actor |
| |
24 | J. Carrol Naish | 77 | US | Actor |
| |
26 | Edward G. Robinson | 79 | Romania | Actor | ||
29 | Ludwig Stossel | 89 | Austria | Actor | ||
31 | Jack MacGowran | 54 | Ireland | Actor | ||
February | 13 | David Bauer | 55 | US | Actor | |
15 | Tim Holt | 54 | US | Actor | ||
15 | Wally Cox | 48 | US | Actor | ||
22 | Katina Paxinou | 72 | Greece | Actress | ||
24 | Art Smith | 73 | US | Actor | ||
28 | Cecil Kellaway | 82 | South Africa | Actor | ||
March | 5 | Rupert Crosse | 45 | US | Actor |
|
10 | Robert Siodmak | 72 | Germany | Director | ||
11 | Gregorio Fernandez | 68 | Philippines | Actor, Director |
| |
13 | Melville Cooper | 76 | England | Actor | ||
16 | Carl Benton Reid | 79 | US | Actor |
| |
19 | Lauritz Melchior | 82 | US | Singer |
| |
22 | Kane Richmond | 66 | US | Actor |
| |
23 | Ken Maynard | 77 | US | Actor |
| |
26 | Noël Coward | 73 | England | Actor, Songwriter | ||
April | 11 | Ted de Corsia | 69 | US | Actor |
|
12 | Arthur Freed | 78 | US | Songwriter, Producer | ||
14 | Minna Gombell | 80 | US | Actress |
| |
20 | Robert Armstrong | 82 | US | Actor |
| |
21 | Merian C. Cooper | 79 | US | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| |
21 | Ursula Jeans | 73 | UK | Actress |
| |
26 | Irene Ryan | 70 | US | Actress |
| |
May | 4 | Charles Grayson | 69 | US | Screenwriter |
|
6 | Myrna Fahey | 40 | US | Actress |
| |
7 | Maxine Doyle | 58 | US | Actress |
| |
10 | Jack E. Leonard | 63 | US | Actor, Comedian |
| |
11 | Lex Barker | 54 | US | Actor | ||
12 | Frances Marion | 84 | US | Screenwriter | ||
21 | Vaughn Monroe | 61 | US | Singer, Actor |
| |
29 | P. Ramlee | 44 | Malaysia | Actor, Director |
| |
June | 5 | Max Terhune | 87 | US | Actor |
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10 | William Inge | 60 | US | Screenwriter, Playwright | ||
16 | Louise Latimer | 60 | US | Actress |
| |
18 | Roger Delgado | 55 | England | Actor |
| |
23 | Fay Holden | 79 | England | Actress | ||
25 | Lars Tvinde | 86 | Norway | Actor |
| |
26 | Ernest Truex | 83 | US | Actor |
| |
July | 2 | Betty Grable | 56 | US | Actress |
|
2 | George Macready | 73 | US | Actor | ||
6 | Joe E. Brown | 80 | US | Actor |
| |
7 | Veronica Lake | 50 | US | Actress | ||
11 | Robert Ryan | 63 | US | Actor | ||
12 | Lon Chaney Jr. | 67 | US | Actor | ||
18 | Jack Hawkins | 62 | England | Actor | ||
20 | Bruce Lee | 32 | US | Actor | ||
30 | Guy Middleton | 65 | England | Actor |
| |
August | 2 | Jean-Pierre Melville | 55 | France | Director | |
5 | Warren Duff | 69 | US | Producer, Screenwriter |
| |
10 | Douglas Kennedy | 57 | US | Actor |
| |
11 | Peggie Castle | 45 | US | Actress |
| |
16 | Veda Ann Borg | 58 | US | Actress | ||
17 | Eve Miller | 50 | US | Actress |
| |
22 | Louise Huff | 77 | US | Actress |
| |
30 | Michael Dunn | 38 | US | Actor, Singer | ||
31 | John Ford | 79 | US | Director | ||
September | 13 | Betty Field | 60 | US | Actress | |
20 | Glenn Strange | 74 | US | Actor | ||
21 | Diana Sands | 39 | US | Actress | ||
24 | Ted Adams | 83 | US | Actress |
| |
26 | Anna Magnani | 65 | Italy | Actress | ||
28 | Norma Crane | 44 | US | Actress |
| |
28 | Mantan Moreland | 71 | US | Actor, Comedian |
| |
October | 6 | Sidney Blackmer | 78 | US | Actor | |
6 | Dennis Price | 58 | UK | Actor | ||
16 | Cleo Moore | 48 | US | Actress |
| |
18 | Crane Wilbur | 86 | US | Screenwriter, Director | ||
27 | Allan Lane | 64 | US | Actor |
| |
November | 13 | Lila Lee | 72 | US | Actress |
|
20 | Viola Lawrence | 78 | US | Film Editor | ||
23 | Claire Dodd | 64 | US | Actress |
| |
23 | Robert Ellis | 40 | US | Actor |
| |
23 | Constance Talmadge | 75 | US | Actress |
| |
23 | Sessue Hayakawa | 84 | Japan | Actor | ||
23 | Adele Buffington | 73 | US | Screenwriter |
| |
25 | Laurence Harvey | 45 | Lithuania | Actor | ||
December | 4 | Michael O'Shea | 67 | US | Actor |
|
12 | Ranald MacDougall | 58 | US | Screenwriter, Director | ||
20 | Bobby Darin | 37 | US | Actor, Singer |
| |
26 | Steven Geray | 69 | Ukraine | Actor | ||
26 | William Haines | 73 | US | Actor |
| |
31 | A. Edward Sutherland | 78 | England | Director |
| |
Debuts
- Danny Aiello – Bang the Drum Slowly
- Nancy Allen – The Last Detail
- Daniel Auteuil – The Year 01
- Graham Beckel – The Paper Chase
- Reb Brown – Sssssss
- Dennis Burkley – Bummer!
- Colleen Camp – Battle for the Planet of the Apes
- John Candy – Class of '44
- David Clennon – The Paper Chase
- Laura Dern – White Lightning
- Pino Donnagio – Don't Look Now (film composer)
- George Dzundza – Massage Parlor Murders
- Anthony Edwards – Big Zapper
- Michael Ensign – Assassin
- Emilio Estevez – Badlands
- Dexter Fletcher – Steptoe and Son Ride Again
- Sasson Gabai – Light Out of Nowhere
- Victor Garber – Godspell
- Burton Gilliam – Paper Moon
- John Glover – Shamus
- Irma P. Hall – Book of Numbers
- Rutger Hauer – Turkish Delight
- William Hootkins – Big Zapper
- Gérard Jugnot – The Year 01
- Dimple Kapadia – Bobby
- Sylvia Kristel – Frank en Eva
- Stan Lee – The Year 01
- Kay Lenz – American Graffiti
- Temuera Morrison – Rangi's Catch
- Tatum O'Neal – Paper Moon
- Bernadette Peters – Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
- Joe Pantoliano – Road Movie
- Kathleen Quinlan – American Graffiti
- John Rhys-Davies – Penny Gold
- Allan Rich – Serpico
- Henry G. Sanders – No Place to Hide
- Charlie Sheen – Badlands
- Bo Svenson – Maurie
- Ana Torrent – The Spirit of the Beehive
- Carl Weathers – Magnum Force
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Domestic $156,000,000
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Foreign $101.0m
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