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This is a list of American films released in 1971.
On April 10, 1972, at the 44th Academy Awards, The French Connection won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The other nominees were A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show and Nicholas and Alexandra.
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre/note
|
|
200 Motels |
Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa |
Frank Zappa, Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel |
Musical, Comedy |
United Artists
|
The Anderson Tapes |
Sidney Lumet |
Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Christopher Walken, Martin Balsam, Alan King |
Crime, Drama |
Columbia
|
The Andromeda Strain |
Robert Wise |
Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly |
Sci-Fi, Thriller |
Universal. book by Michael Crichton
|
Bananas |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán, Sylvester Stallone |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
The Barefoot Executive |
Robert Butler |
Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn |
Comedy, Family |
Disney
|
The Battle of Love's Return |
Lloyd Kaufman |
Lloyd Kaufman, Lynn Lowry, Oliver Stone |
Comedy |
Independent
|
Bedknobs and Broomsticks |
Robert Stevenson |
Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Sam Jaffe, Roddy McDowall |
Musical, Fantasy |
Disney
|
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me |
Jeffrey Young (director) |
Barry Primus, David Downing, Susan Tyrrell, Raul Julia |
Drama |
Paramount
|
The Beguiled |
Don Siegel |
Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Darlene Carr, Jo Ann Harris |
Psychological Thriller |
Universal; remade in 2017
|
Believe in Me |
Stuart Hagmann |
Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset |
Romance, Drama |
MGM
|
The Big Doll House |
Jack Hill |
Roberta Collins, Pam Grier |
Sexploitation, Prison |
New World Pictures
|
Big Jake |
George Sherman |
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Boone |
Western |
National General
|
Billy Jack |
Tom Laughlin |
Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Kenneth Tobey, Howard Hesseman |
Action, Drama |
Warner Bros. 2 sequels
|
Black Noon |
Bernard L. Kowalski |
Roy Thinnes, Yvette Mimieux |
Western, Horror |
Made-for-TV
|
Bless the Beasts and Children |
Stanley Kramer |
Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Miles Chapin |
Drama |
Columbia. Based on novel
|
Blood and Lace |
Philip S. Gilbert |
Gloria Grahame, Melody Patterson |
Horror |
A.I.P.
|
Blood Thirst |
Newt Arnold |
Robert Winston, Yvonne Nielson, Judy Dennis |
Horror |
Independent
|
Born to Win |
Ivan Passer |
George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black, Hector Elizondo, Robert De Niro |
Crime, Thriller |
United Artists
|
Boys in the Sand |
Wakefield Poole |
Casey Donovan, Peter Fisk, Danny Di Cioccio |
Adult |
Poolemar.
|
The Boy Friend |
Ken Russell |
Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian |
Musical, Comedy |
MGM. Made in Britain.
|
Brian's Song |
Buzz Kulik |
James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Shelley Fabares, Bernie Casey, Judy Pace, David Huddleston |
Biography, Sports, Drama |
Columbia. TV Movie; remade in 2001 under the same name.
|
The Bridge in the Jungle |
Pancho Kohner |
John Huston, Katy Jurado, Charles Robinson |
Adventure |
United Artists
|
Brother John |
James Goldstone |
Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman |
Drama |
Columbia
|
B.S. I Love You |
Steven Hilliard Stern |
Peter Kastner, Joanna Cameron, Louise Sorel |
Comedy, Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Bunny O'Hare |
Gerd Oswald |
Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy |
Crime, Comedy |
AIP
|
Bury Me an Angel |
Barbara Peeters |
Dixie Peabody, Dan Haggerty |
Biker |
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Cain's Cutthroats |
Kent Osborne |
John Carradine, Scott Brady, Don Epperson |
Western |
Independent
|
Carnal Knowledge |
Mike Nichols |
Jack Nicholson, Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen, Rita Moreno |
Drama |
Embassy. From Jules Feiffer play; Ann-Margret Oscar-nominated
|
Chandler |
Paul Magwood |
Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier |
Neo-Noir, Thriller |
MGM
|
Catlow |
Sam Wanamaker |
Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy |
Western |
MGM. From Louis L'Amour novel
|
The Christian Licorice Store |
James Frawley |
Beau Bridges, Maud Adams, Gilbert Roland |
Drama |
National General
|
Chrome and Hot Leather |
Lee Frost |
William Smith, Kathrine Baumann, Marvin Gaye, Cheryl Ladd, Dan Haggerty, Erik Estrada |
Biker |
AIP
|
City Beneath the Sea |
Irwin Allen |
Stuart Whitman, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Colbert |
Adventure, Sci-Fi |
Warner Bros. Made-for-TV; Remake of 1953 film
|
Clay Pigeon |
Lane Slate, Tom Stern |
Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughn, Burgess Meredith |
Action |
MGM
|
A Clockwork Orange |
Stanley Kubrick |
Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin |
Dystopian, Crime, Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Cold Turkey |
Norman Lear |
Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Pippa Scott |
Black Comedy |
United Artists. Music by Randy Newman
|
Congratulations, It's a Boy! |
William A. Graham |
Bill Bixby, Diane Baker, Ann Sothern, Tom Bosley, Jack Albertson |
Comedy |
Made-for-TV
|
Cry Uncle! |
John G. Avildsen |
Allen Garfield, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Debbi Morgan |
Comedy |
Independent
|
Day of the Wolves |
Ferde Grofe Jr. |
Richard Egan, Martha Hyer, Jan Murray |
Heist, Crime, Drama |
Independent. Hyer's final film
|
The Deserter |
Burt Kennedy |
Bekim Fehmiu, John Huston, Richard Crenna, Ricardo Montalbán, Chuck Connors |
Western |
Paramount Dino De Laurentiis production
|
Desperate Characters |
Frank D. Gilroy |
Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Jack Somack, Sada Thompson, Gerald S. O'Loughlin |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Diamonds Are Forever |
Guy Hamilton |
Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood |
Spy, Action |
United Artists
|
Dirty Harry |
Don Siegel |
Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, John Vernon |
Action, Drama, Thriller |
Warner Bros.; first in 5-film series
|
Doc |
Frank Perry |
Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin |
Western |
United Artists
|
Doctors' Wives |
George Schaefer |
Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Dollars |
Richard Brooks |
Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe |
Heist, Crime, Comedy |
Columbia
|
Dracula vs. Frankenstein |
Al Adamson |
Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish, Regina Carrol |
Sci-Fi, Horror |
Independent. Chaney's final horror film
|
Drive, He Said |
Jack Nicholson |
William Tepper, Karen Black, Bruce Dern |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Duck, You Sucker! |
Sergio Leone |
Rod Steiger, James Coburn |
War, Western |
United Artists
|
Duel |
Steven Spielberg |
Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Carey Loftin |
Thriller |
Universal. Originally Made-for-TV
|
Escape from the Planet of the Apes |
Don Taylor |
Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Sal Mineo |
Sci-Fi |
20th Century Fox. Planet of the Apes sequel
|
Evel Knievel |
Marvin J. Chomsky |
George Hamilton, Sue Lyon, Bert Freed |
Biography |
Independent
|
Fiddler on the Roof |
Norman Jewison |
Topol, Norma Crane, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Leonard Frey, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh |
Musical |
United Artists. Based on Broadway show; won 3 Oscars
|
Fools' Parade |
Andrew V. McLaglen |
James Stewart, Kurt Russell, George Kennedy |
Crime, Drama |
Columbia. From Davis Grubb story
|
Four Rode Out |
John Peyser |
Sue Lyon, Leslie Nielsen, María Martín |
Western, Adventure |
MGM. Co-production with Spain
|
The French Connection |
William Friedkin |
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey |
Neo-Noir, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
20th Century Fox. Won 5 Academy Awards
|
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight |
James Goldstone |
Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Robert De Niro |
Crime, Comedy |
MGM. From Jimmy Breslin novel
|
The Gatling Gun |
Robert Gordon |
Guy Stockwell, BarBara Luna, Woody Strode |
Western |
Independent
|
Going Home |
Herbert B. Leonard |
Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Sally Kirkland, Jan-Michael Vincent |
Drama |
MGM
|
The Grissom Gang |
Robert Aldrich |
Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante |
Neo-Noir, Crime |
Cinerama
|
A Gunfight |
Lamont Johnson |
Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black |
Western |
Paramount
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Hannie Caulder |
Burt Kennedy |
Raquel Welch, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Culp, Strother Martin, Jack Elam, Christopher Lee |
Western |
Paramount
|
Happy Birthday, Wanda June |
Mark Robson |
Rod Steiger, Don Murray, Susannah York |
Comedy, Drama |
Columbia. Based on Kurt Vonnegut play
|
The Hard Ride |
Burt Topper |
Robert Fuller, Sherry Bain, Tony Russel |
Action |
AIP
|
Harold and Maude |
Hal Ashby |
Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles |
Black Comedy, Romance, Drama |
Paramount. 2 Golden Globe nominations
|
The Hellstrom Chronicle |
Walon Green |
Lawrence Pressman |
Mockumentary |
Independent
|
The Hired Hand |
Peter Fonda |
Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom |
Western |
Universal
|
The Horsemen |
John Frankenheimer |
Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance |
Adventure |
Columbia. Based on Joseph Kessel novel
|
The Hospital |
Arthur Hiller |
George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes |
Black Comedy, Drama |
United Artists. Oscar for screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky
|
A Howling in the Woods |
Daniel Petrie |
Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, John Rubinstein, Vera Miles, Tyne Daly, Ruta Lee |
Thriller |
Made-for-TV
|
How to Frame a Figg |
Alan Rifkin |
Don Knotts, Joe Flynn, Yvonne Craig |
Comedy |
Universal
|
The Hunting Party |
Don Medford |
Gene Hackman, Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen |
Western |
United Artists
|
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant |
Anthony M. Lanza |
Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, Casey Kasem |
Sci-Fi, Horror |
AIP
|
Jennifer on My Mind |
Noel Black |
Michael Brandon, Tippy Walker, Steve Vinovich, Robert De Niro |
Comedy, Drama |
United Artists
|
Johnny Got His Gun |
Dalton Trumbo |
Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Donald Sutherland |
War, Drama |
Cinemation. Cannes Grand Prix award
|
Kidnapped |
Delbert Mann |
Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Donald Pleasence |
Adventure, Drama |
AIP
|
Klute |
Alan J. Pakula |
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider |
Neo-Noir, Psychological Thriller, Mystery |
Warner Bros. Oscar for Fonda
|
Kotch |
Jack Lemmon |
Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Ellen Geer |
Comedy, Drama |
Cinerama Only film directed by Lemmon
|
The Last Movie |
Dennis Hopper |
Dennis Hopper, Toni Basil, Julie Adams |
Drama |
Universal
|
The Last Picture Show |
Peter Bogdanovich |
Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Ben Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Randy Quaid |
Drama |
Columbia. Based on novel by Larry McMurtry; Oscars for Leachman, Johnson
|
The Last Rebel |
Larry G. Spangler (as Denys McCoy) |
Joe Namath, Jack Elam, Woody Strode |
Western |
Columbia
|
The Last Run |
Richard Fleischer |
George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere |
Action |
MGM
|
Lawman |
Michael Winner |
Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Sheree North, J.D. Cannon, Albert Salmi, Robert Duvall |
Western |
United Artists
|
Le Mans |
Lee H. Katzin |
Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch |
Sports |
National General
|
Let's Scare Jessica to Death |
John D. Hancock |
Zohra Lampert, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett |
Horror |
Paramount
|
The Light at the Edge of the World |
Kevin Billington |
Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar |
Adventure |
MGM; based on Jules Verne novel
|
Little Murders |
Alan Arkin |
Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Doris Roberts, Elizabeth Wilson, Vincent Gardenia |
Black Comedy |
20th Century Fox; written by Jules Feiffer
|
The Love Machine |
Jack Haley Jr. |
Dyan Cannon, John Phillip Law, Robert Ryan |
Drama |
Columbia. Based on Jacqueline Susann novel
|
Made for Each Other |
Robert B. Bean |
Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, Paul Sorvino |
Romantic Comedy |
20th Century Fox. Written by Taylor and Bologna; Remake of 1939 film
|
Making It |
John Erman |
Kristoffer Tabori, Carol Arthur, Bob Balaban |
Comedy, Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Man and Boy |
E.W. Swackhamer |
Bill Cosby, Leif Erickson, Henry Silva, Yaphet Kotto |
Western |
Columbia
|
Man in the Wilderness |
Richard C. Sarafian |
Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon |
Western |
Warner Bros.
|
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker |
Lawrence Turman |
Richard Benjamin, Joanna Shimkus, Adam West |
Romance, Comedy, Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
McCabe & Mrs. Miller |
Robert Altman |
Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, William Devane, René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine |
Western |
Warner Bros.; Oscar nomination for Christie
|
The Mephisto Waltz |
Paul Wendkos |
Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins |
Horror |
20th Century Fox
|
The Million Dollar Duck |
Vincent McEveety |
Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts, Edward Andrews |
Comedy, Family |
Disney
|
Minnie and Moskowitz |
John Cassavetes |
John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel |
Romance, Comedy, Drama |
Universal
|
Mrs. Pollifax-Spy |
Leslie H. Martinson |
Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, Nehemiah Persoff |
Mystery, Comedy |
United Artists. Russell's final film
|
Murders in the Rue Morgue |
Gordon Hessler |
Jason Robards, Herbert Lom |
Horror, Suspense |
AIP
|
My Old Man's Place |
Edwin Sherin |
Arthur Kennedy, Mitchell Ryan, William Devane |
War, Drama |
Cinerama
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Necromania |
Ed Wood |
Maria Arnold, Ed Wood |
Adult, Horror |
Independent
|
A New Leaf |
Elaine May |
Walter Matthau, Elaine May, James Coco, Jack Weston, Doris Roberts |
Black Comedy |
Paramount. 2 Golden Globe nominations
|
The Night God Screamed |
Lee Madden |
Jeanne Crain, Alex Nicol, Daniel Spelling, Michael Sugich, Barbara Hancock, Dawn Cleary, Gary Morgan |
Psychological, Horror, Thriller |
Cinemation Industries
|
Night of Dark Shadows |
Dan Curtis |
Kate Jackson, David Selby, Lara Parker |
Horror, Mystery |
MGM. House of Dark Shadows sequel
|
Octaman |
Harry Essex |
Pier Angeli, Jeff Morrow |
Monster |
Independent. Angeli's final film
|
The Omega Man |
Boris Sagal |
Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, Anthony Zerbe |
Post-Apocalyptic, Action |
Warner Bros. Based on novel I Am Legend
|
One More Train to Rob |
Victor McLaglen |
George Peppard, Diana Muldaur, John Vernon |
Western, Comedy |
Universal
|
The Organization |
Don Medford |
Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Sheree North |
Crime, Thriller |
United Artists.
|
The Panic in Needle Park |
Jerry Schatzberg |
Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Kiel Martin |
Drama |
20th Century Fox. Pacino's second film
|
Pink Narcissus |
James Bidgood |
Don Brooks, Charles Ludlam |
Arthouse, Drama, Fantasy |
Independent
|
Play Misty for Me |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills |
Psychological Thriller |
Universal. First film directed by Eastwood
|
Plaza Suite |
Arthur Hiller |
Walter Matthau, Lee Grant, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris |
Comedy |
Paramount. Written by Neil Simon
|
Pretty Maids All in a Row |
Roger Vadim |
Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, Keenan Wynn, Roddy McDowall |
Sexploitation |
MGM. Written by Gene Roddenberry
|
Private Duty Nurses |
George Armitage |
Katherine Cannon, Robert F. Simon |
Thriller |
New World Pictures
|
Punishment Park |
Peter Watkins |
Scott Turner |
Mockumentary |
Independent
|
The Pursuit of Happiness |
Robert Mulligan |
Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Robert Klein |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Raid on Rommel |
Henry Hathaway |
Richard Burton, John Colicos, Wolfgang Preiss |
War |
Universal
|
Red Sky at Morning |
James Goldstone |
Desi Arnaz Jr., Catherine Burns, Richard Crenna |
Drama |
Universal. Golden Globe for Arnaz
|
The Reluctant Heroes |
Robert Day |
Ken Berry, Jim Hutton, Trini Lopez, Don Marshall, Ralph Meeker, Cameron Mitchell, Soon-Tek Oh, Warren Oates |
War |
Made-for-TV
|
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler |
Bob Wynn |
Angie Dickinson, Bradford Dillman, Leslie Nielsen |
Sci-Fi |
Independent
|
The Return of Count Yorga |
Bob Kelljan |
Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley |
Vampire, Horror |
AIP. Sequel to 1970 film
|
A Safe Place |
Henry Jaglom |
Jack Nicholson, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles |
Drama |
Columbia
|
The Sandpit Generals |
Hall Bartlett |
Tisha Sterling, Dorival Caymmi, John Rubinstein |
Drama |
AIP
|
Scandalous John |
Robert Butler |
Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey |
Western, Comedy, Drama |
Disney
|
The Seven Minutes |
Russ Meyer |
Edy Williams, Yvonne De Carlo, Tom Selleck |
Drama |
20th Century Fox. Based on Irving Wallace novel
|
Shaft |
Gordon Parks |
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn |
Blaxploitation, Action, Crime, Thriller |
MGM. Oscar for Best Song
|
Shoot Out |
Henry Hathaway |
Gregory Peck, Pat Quinn, Susan Tyrrell |
Western |
Universal. Hathaway's next-to-last film
|
Simon, King of the Witches |
Bruce Kessler |
Andrew Prine, George Paulsin, Brenda Scott |
Horror |
Independent
|
The Ski Bum |
Bruce D. Clark |
Zalman King, Charlotte Rampling, Dimitra Arliss |
Sports, Drama |
Embassy
|
Skin Game |
Paul Bogart |
James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr., Susan Clark |
Western, Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Something Big |
Andrew V. McLaglen |
Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Ben Johnson, Carol White, Honor Blackman |
Western, Comedy |
National General. Music by Burt Bacharach
|
Sometimes a Great Notion |
Paul Newman |
Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel |
Adventure, Drama |
Universal. 2 Oscar nominations; Based on Ken Kesey novel
|
Soul to Soul |
Denis Sanders |
Tina Turner, Ike Turner, Carlos Santana |
Documentary |
Independent
|
The Sporting Club |
Larry Peerce |
Robert Fields, Nicolas Coster, Jack Warden |
Comedy, Drama |
|
Star Spangled Girl |
Jerry Paris |
Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts |
Romance, Comedy |
Paramount. Written by Neil Simon
|
The Steagle |
Paul Sylbert |
Richard Benjamin, Chill Wills, Cloris Leachman |
Comedy |
Embassy
|
Straw Dogs |
Sam Peckinpah |
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, David Warner |
Psychological Thriller |
Cinerama. Remade in 2011
|
Such Good Friends |
Otto Preminger |
Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill |
Black Comedy, Drama |
Paramount Elaine May script
|
Summer of '42 |
Robert Mulligan |
Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser |
Drama |
Warner Bros.; Oscar for Best Musical Score
|
Summertree |
Anthony Newley |
Michael Douglas, Brenda Vaccaro, Barbara Bel Geddes |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Support Your Local Gunfighter! |
Burt Kennedy |
James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Harry Morgan |
Western, Comedy |
United Artists
|
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song |
Melvin Van Peebles |
Melvin Van Peebles, John Amos |
Blaxploitation, Crime Drama |
Cinemation Industries
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
THX 1138 |
George Lucas |
Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Ian Wolfe, Don Pedro Colley |
Sci-Fi |
Warner Bros., Lucas's first film
|
T.R. Baskin |
Herbert Ross |
Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, James Caan |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Taking Off |
Miloš Forman |
Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel |
Comedy |
Universal
|
The Tender Warrior |
Stewart Raffill |
Dan Haggerty |
Adventure |
|
Terror in the Sky |
Bernard L. Kowalski |
Doug McClure, Leif Erickson, Roddy McDowall, Lois Nettleton, Keenan Wynn, Kenneth Tobey, Jack Ging, Sam Melville, Leonard Stone |
Drama, Thriller |
Made-for-TV
|
There's Always Vanilla |
George A. Romero |
Raymond Laine |
Romance, Comedy, Drama |
Independent
|
They Might Be Giants |
Anthony Harvey |
George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward |
Mystery, Comedy |
Universal; from James Goldman play
|
The Todd Killings |
Barry Shear |
Robert F. Lyons, Richard Thomas, Belinda Montgomery |
Psychological Thriller |
National General
|
The Touch |
Ingmar Bergman |
Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow |
Romance, Drama |
Cinerama
|
The Touch of Satan |
Tom Laughlin |
Michael Berry |
Horror |
Independent
|
A Town Called Bastard |
Robert Parrish |
Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas |
Western |
Independent
|
The Trojan Women |
Michael Cacoyannis |
Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas |
Drama |
Cinerama
|
Two-Lane Blacktop |
Monte Hellman |
Warren Oates, James Taylor, Dennis Wilson |
Road, Drama |
Universal
|
Valdez Is Coming |
Edwin Sherin |
Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher |
Western |
United Artists. Elmore Leonard story
|
Vanishing Point |
Richard C. Sarafian |
Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger |
Action |
20th Century Fox. Remade in 1997
|
The Velvet Vampire |
Stephanie Rothman |
Celeste Yarnall, Michael Blodgett |
Vampire, Horror |
New World Pictures
|
Villain |
Michael Tuchner |
Richard Burton, Ian McShane |
Gangster, Crime |
MGM
|
Von Richthofen and Brown |
Roger Corman |
John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Corin Redgrave |
War |
United Artists
|
Wake in Fright |
Ted Kotcheff |
Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty |
Thriller |
United Artists
|
Welcome Home Soldier Boys |
Richard Compton |
Joe Don Baker, Paul Koslo, Billy Green Bush, Alan Vint, Elliott Street, Jennifer Billingsley, Geoffrey Lewis, Lonny Chapman |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Welcome to the Club |
Walter Shenson |
Jack Warden, Kevin O'Connor, Al Mancini |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Werewolves on Wheels |
Michel Levesque |
Billy Gray, Stephen Oliver, Barry McGuire |
Horror, Action |
Independent
|
What's the Matter with Helen? |
Curtis Harrington |
Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver |
Horror, Thriller |
United Artists
|
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? |
Ulu Grosbard |
Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Barbara Harris |
Comedy, Drama |
National General. Oscar nomination for Harris
|
Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? |
Ernest Pintoff |
Red Buttons, Sam Waterston |
Mystery |
Cannon Films
|
Wild Rovers |
Blake Edwards |
William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Victor French, Joe Don Baker, Tom Skerritt |
Western |
MGM; Edwards' only western
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Willard |
Daniel Mann |
Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Ernest Borgnine |
Horror |
Cinerama. Followed by Ben
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
Mel Stuart |
Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum |
Musical, Fantasy |
Paramount; from story by Roald Dahl; remade in 2005
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Women in Cages |
Gerardo de Leon |
Pam Grier, Jennifer Gan, Roberta Collins |
Sexploitation, Prison, Action |
New World Pictures
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You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat |
Peter Locke |
Allen Garfield, Richard Pryor |
Comedy, Drama |
Independent
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The Young Graduates |
Robert Anderson |
Bruno Kirby, Dennis Christopher |
Drama |
Crown International
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Zachariah |
George Englund |
John Rubinstein, Dick Van Patten, Don Johnson |
Acid Western |
Cinerama. From Herman Hesse novel
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The Zodiac Killer |
Tom Hanson |
Hal Reed, Bob Jones, Ray Lynch, Tom Pittman |
Slasher |
Independent
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