List of American films of 1971

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This is a list of American films released in 1971.

Box office

The highest-grossing American films released in 1971, by domestic box office

gross revenue as estimated by The Numbers, are as follows:[1]

Highest-grossing films of 1971
Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross
1 Billy Jack Warner Bros. $98,000,000
2 Fiddler on the Roof United Artists $78,722,370
3 Diamonds Are Forever United Artists $43,800,000
4 The French Connection
20th Century Fox
 $41,158,757
5 Summer of '42 Warner Bros. $32,063,634
6 Dirty Harry Warner Bros. $28,153,434
7 A Clockwork Orange $26,589,355
8 The Last Picture Show Columbia $20,505,085
9 Bedknobs and Broomsticks Walt Disney $17,871,174
10 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Cinemation Industries $15,200,000

January–March

Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.
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Y 		1 Punishment Park Project X Distribution / Chartwell / Francoise Peter Watkins (director/screenplay); Carmen Argenziano, Harold Beaulieu, Jim Bohan, Stan Armsted, Paul Alelyanes, Mark Keats, Gladys Golden, Sanford Golden, George Gregory, Katherine Quittner, Mary Ellen Kleinhall
Something Big National General Pictures
Jose Angel Espinoza, Chuck Hicks, Enrique Lucero, Joe Gray
, Armand Alzamora, Juan Garcia, Robert Gravage
8 The Ski Bum Embassy Pictures Bruce D. Clark (director/screenplay); Marc Siegler (screenplay); Zalman King, Charlotte Rampling, Joseph Mell, Dimitra Arliss, Pierre Jalbert, Anna Karen Morrow, Paul Jabara, Michael Lerner, Noah Keen, Penelope Spheeris, Tedd King, Dwight Marfield, Freddie James, Lori Shelle, Don Campbell, David Chow, Deborah Smaller
21 Zachariah
ABC Pictures
The James Gang, White Lightnin', The New York Rock Ensemble
24 The Music Lovers United Artists / Russ-Arts / Russ Films Ken Russell (director); Melvyn Bragg (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Christopher Gable, Kenneth Colley, Maureen Pryor, Andrew Faulds, Bruce Robinson, Ben Aris, Georgina Parkinson, Graham Armitage, Izabella Telezynska, Sabina Maydelle, Xavier Russell, Dennis Myers, John Myers, Joanne Brown, Alexei Jawdokimov, Alexander Russell, Clive Cazes, Alan Dubreuil, Ernest Bale, Consuela Chapman, James Russell, Victoria Russell, Alex Brewer
28 10 Rillington Place
Filmways Pictures
/ Genesis Productions		 Richard Fleischer (director); Clive Exton (screenplay); Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Chater, André Morell, Sam Kydd, Jimmy Gardner, Gabrielle Daye, Rudolph Walker, Phyllis MacMahon, Ray Barron, Douglas Blackwell, Edward Evans, Tenniel Evans, Basil Dignam, Edward Burnham, Reg Lye
The Last Valley
ABC Pictures Corporation
/ Season Productions		 James Clavell (director/screenplay); Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson, Arthur O'Connell, Madeleine Hinde, Yorgo Voyagis, Vladek Sheybal, Miguel Alejandro, Christian Roberts, Brian Blessed, Ian Hogg, Michael Gothard, George Innes, John Hallam, Leon Lissek
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Doctors' Wives Columbia Pictures / Frankovich Productions George Schaefer (director); Daniel Taradash (screenplay); Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, Carroll O'Connor, Rachel Roberts, Janice Rule, Diana Sands, Cara Williams, Richard Anderson, Ralph Bellamy, George Gaynes, John Colicos, Marian McCargo, Scott Brady, Kristina Holland, Anthony Costello, Mark Jenkins, Vincent Van Lynn, Ernie Barnes, Paul Marin, William Bramley, Jon Lormer
4 King Lear Columbia Pictures / Filmways / Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook (director/screenplay); William Shakespeare (screenplay); Paul Scofield, Cyril Cusack, Susan Engel, Tom Fleming, Anne-Lise Gabold, Ian Hogg, Søren Elung Jensen, Robert Lloyd, Jack MacGowran, Patrick Magee, Barry Stanton, Alan Webb, Irene Worth
9 How to Frame a Figg Universal Pictures Alan Rafkin (director); George Tibbles (screenplay); Don Knotts, Joe Flynn, Elaine Joyce, Edward Andrews, Yvonne Craig, Frank Welker, Parker Fennelly, Bill Zuckert, Bob Hastings, Bruce Kirby, Stuart Nisbet, James Millhollin, Bill Quinn, John Archer, Pitt Herbert, Robert P. Lieb, Fay DeWitt, Savannah Bentley, Athena Lorde
Little Murders
20th Century Fox
/ Brodsky-Gould Productions		 Alan Arkin (director); Jules Feiffer (screenplay); Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Jon Korkes, John Randolph, Doris Roberts, Donald Sutherland, Lou Jacobi, Alan Arkin, Martin Kove
12 Raid on Rommel Universal Pictures
Ben Wright
, Christopher Cary, Michael Sevareid, Chris Anders
14 Countess Dracula Rank Film Distributors / Hammer Film Productions Peter Sasdy (director); Jeremy Paul (screenplay); Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Elès, Maurice Denham, Patience Collier, Lesley-Anne Down, Peter Jeffrey, Leon Lissek, Jessie Evans, Andria Lawrence, Susan Brodrick, Nike Arrighi, Marianne Stone, Charles Farrell, Anne Stallybrass, Ian Trigger
15 Gas-s-s-s American International Pictures / San Jacinto Productions Roger Corman (director); George Armitage (screenplay); Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, Bud Cort, Talia Shire, Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams, George Armitage, Country Joe McDonald, Alex Wilson, Pat Patterson, Gary Caplan
19 Cold Turkey United Artists / Tandem Productions Norman Lear (director/screenplay); William Price Fox Jr. (screenplay); Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Vincent Gardenia, Barnard Hughes, Graham Jarvis
One More Train to Rob Universal Pictures
Timothy Scott, Joan Shawlee, Hal Needham, Harry Carey Jr.
23 The Pursuit of Happiness Columbia Pictures
David Doyle, Gilbert Lewis, Albert Henderson, William Devane
28 Wanda Bardene International Films / Foundation for Filmmakers Barbara Loden (director/screenplay); Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Frank Jourdano, Valerie Manches, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes, Jerome Thier, Marian Thier, Anthony Rotell, M.L. Kennedy
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Svensk Filmindustri
Tom C. Fouts
, Sven-Olof Bern, Aina Alfredsson, Ulla Smidje, Eva-Lena Zetterlund, Gustaf Färingborg, Arnold Alfredsson, Bror Englund, Bruno Sörwing
9 When Eight Bells Toll Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Gershwin-Kastner Productions / Winkast Film Production Étienne Périer (director); Alistair MacLean (screenplay); Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave, Derek Bond, Ferdy Mayne, Maurice Roëves
10 Get Carter
MGM-EMI Distributors / MGM-British Studios
 Mike Hodges (director/screenplay); Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland, Bryan Mosley, George Sewell, Tony Beckley, Glynn Edwards, Alun Armstrong, Bernard Hepton, Petra Markham, Geraldine Moffat, Dorothy White, Rosemarie Dunham, John Bindon, Terence Rigby, Godfrey Quigley, Kevin Brennan, Ben Aris, Alexander Morton, John Quarmby
11 Lawman United Artists
J.D. Cannon, John McGiver, Joseph Wiseman, Richard Jordan, Ralph Waite, John Beck, William C. Watson, Walter Brooke, Robert Emhardt, Charles Tyner, Lou Frizzell, Richard Bull, John Hillerman, Roy Engel, Hugh McDermott, Wilford Brimley, Claudia Bryar, Laila Novak
A New Leaf Paramount Pictures
David Doyle, William Redfield, Graham Jarvis, Jess Osuna, Fred Stewart, Mark Gordon, Rose Arrick, Conrad Bain, Mildred Clinton, William Hickey
THX 1138 Warner Bros. / American Zoetrope
Terence McGovern, David Ogden Stiers
Up Pompeii
Anglo-EMI
/ London Associated Films		 Bob Kellett (director); Sid Colin (screenplay); Frankie Howerd, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Patrick Cargill, Lance Percival, Bill Fraser, Julie Ege, Adrienne Posta, Bernard Bresslaw, Madeline Smith, Roy Hudd, Hugh Paddick
12 The Andromeda Strain Universal Pictures Robert Wise (director); Nelson Gidding (screenplay); Arthur Hill, James Olson, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Mark Jenkins
13 Vanishing Point
20th Century Fox
/ Cupid Productions		 Richard C. Sarafian (director); Guillermo Cain (screenplay); Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin, Karl Swenson, Lee Weaver, John Amos, Tom Reese, Paul Koslo, Robert Donner
17 The Barefoot Executive Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution Robert Butler (director); Joseph L. McEveety (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox, Heather North, Alan Hewitt, Hayden Rorke, John Ritter
21 Making It
20th Century Fox
/ Alfran Productions
David Doyle, John Fiedler, Pamela Hensley, Casey King, Louise Latham, Doro Merande, Sherry Miles, Denny Miller, Lawrence Pressman, Maxine Stuart, Tom Troupe, Dick Van Patten
24 Brother John Columbia Pictures / E&R
Richard Ward, Paul Winfield, Zara Cully, Michael Bell, Lynn Hamilton
, Warren J. Kemmerling, Howard Rice, Darlene Rice, Harry Davis
Friends Paramount British Pictures / Lewis Gilbert Productions Lewis Gilbert (director); Vernon Harris, Jack Russell (screenplay); Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina, Ronald Lewis, Toby Robins, Joan Hickson, Pascale Roberts, Sady Rebbot
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The Deserter
Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
 Burt Kennedy (director); Clair Huffaker (screenplay); Bekim Fehmiu, John Huston, Richard Crenna, Chuck Connors, Ricardo Montalbán, Ian Bannen, Brandon deWilde, Slim Pickens, Woody Strode, Albert Salmi, Patrick Wayne, Fausto Tozzi, Mimmo Palmara, John Alderson, Larry Stewart
28 The Battle of Love's Return Troma Entertainment Lloyd Kaufman (director/screenplay); Lloyd Kaufman, Lynn Lowry, Oliver Stone, Andy Kay, Stanley Kaufman
Taking Off Universal Pictures
Philip Bruns, Allen Garfield, Carly Simon, Bobo Bates, Shellen Lubin, Shelley Ackerman, Jessica Harper
, Tony Harvey, David Gittler, Linnea Heacock, Corinna Cristobal, Frank Berle, Gail Busman, Lois Dengrove, Bonnie Marcus
31 B.S. I Love You
20th Century Fox
 Steven Hilliard Stern (director/screenplay); Peter Kastner, Joanna Cameron, Louise Sorel, Gary Burghoff, Joanna Barnes, Richard B. Shull
Just Before Nightfall (France) Cinegai S.p.A. / Les Films de la Boétie Claude Chabrol (director/screenplay); Stéphane Audran, François Périer, Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet, Henri Attal, Dominique Zardi, Michel Duchaussoy, Celia, Marina Ninchi, Anna Douking

April–June

Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.
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L 		7 Shinbone Alley
Allied Artists / Fine Arts Films
 John David Wilson (director); Joe Darion (screenplay); Carol Channing, Eddie Bracken, Alan Reed, John Carradine, Hal Smith, Joan Gerber, Ken Sansom, Julie Dawn Cole, Sal Delano, Byron Kane
The Zodiac Killer Adventure Productions, Inc. Tom Hanson (director); Ray Cantrell, Manny Cardoza (screenplay); Hal Reed, Bob Jones, Ray Lynch, Tom Pittman, Mary Darrington, Frank Sanabek, Ed Quigley, Bertha Dahl, Dion Marinkovich, Doodles Weaver, Gloria Gunn, Richard Styles, Manny Cardoza, Norma Takaki, Donna Register
9 The Mephisto Waltz
20th Century Fox
 Paul Wendkos (director); Ben Maddow (screenplay); Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom, Kathleen Widdoes, Pamelyn Ferdin, Curd Jürgens
Summer of '42 Warner Bros. / Mulligan-Roth Productions Robert Mulligan (director); Herman Raucher (screenplay); Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell, Maureen Stapleton, Robert Mulligan, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck, Walter Scott
Valdez Is Coming United Artists Edwin Sherin (director); Roland Kibbee, David Rayfiel (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Jon Cypher, Frank Silvera, Héctor Elizondo, Phil Brown, Richard Jordan, Barton Heyman, Ralph Brown, Werner Hasselmann, Lex Monson, Sylvia Poggioli, José García García, María Montez, Juanita Penaloza
16 The Blood on Satan's Claw Tigon Pictures / Tigon British Film Productions / Chilton Film and Television Enterprises Piers Haggard (director/screenplay); Robert Wynne-Simmons (screenplay); Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michele Dotrice, Wendy Padbury, Anthony Ainley, Charlotte Mitchell, Tamara Ustinov, Simon Williams, James Hayter, Howard Goorney, Avice Landone, Robin Davies, Godfrey James, Roberta Tovey
21 Melody British Lion Films / Hemdale Group / Sagittarius Productions / Goodtimes Enterprises Waris Hussein (director); Alan Parker (screenplay); Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Jack Wild, Ashley Knight, William Vanderpuye, Sheila Steafel, Keith Barron, Kate Williams, Roy Kinnear, James Cossins, Ken Jones, June Jago, Tim Wylton, John Gorman, Robin Hunter, Tracy Reed, Neil Hallett, Colin Barrie, Billy Franks, Craig Marriott, Peter Walton, Camille Davies, Dawn Hope, Kay Skinner, Lesley Roach, Hilda Barry, June C. Ellis, Petal Young, Leonard Brockwell, Stephen Mallett
23 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Cinemation Industries / Yeah, Inc. Melvin Van Peebles (director/screenplay); Melvin Van Peebles, John Dullaghan, Rhetta Hughes, John Amos, Mario Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, Simon Chuckster, West Gale, Niva Rochelle, Nick Ferrari, Ed Rue, Lavelle Roby, Ted Hayden
24 The Cat (France) Valoria Films Pierre Granier-Deferre (director/screenplay); Pascal Jardin, Georges Simenon (screenplay); Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal, Harry-Max, André Rouyer, Yves Barsacq, Nicole Desailly, Carlo Nell, Florence Haguenauer, Renate Birgo, Ermanno Casanova, Georges Mansart, Isabel del Río
28 Bananas United Artists
Natividad Abascal, Howard Cosell, Jacobo Morales, Miguel Ángel Suárez, René Enríquez, Roger Grimsby, Don Dunphy, Dan Frazer, Charlotte Rae, Axel Anderson, Arthur Hughes, Eddie Barth, Nicholas Saunders, Conrad Bain, Allen Garfield, Hy Anzell, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Jo Catlett, Tino García
, David Ortiz, Jack Axelrod, Martha Greenhouse, Stanley Ackerman
Pretty Maids All in a Row Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Gretchen Burrell
, Aimee Eccles, Diane Sherry, Mark Malmborg, Warren Seabury, Dawn Roddenberry
30 The Big Doll House New World Pictures Jack Hill (director); Don Spencer (screenplay); Pam Grier, Roberta Collins, Sid Haig, Pat Woodell, Christiane Schmidtmer, Judy Brown, Brooke Mills, Kathryn Loder
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12 Mrs. Pollifax-Spy United Artists Leslie H. Martinson (director); C.A. McKnight (screenplay); Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, Nehemiah Persoff, Harold Gould, Albert Paulsen, John Beck, Dana Elcar, Dennis Cross, Don Diamond, Robert Donner, James Wellman, Nick Katurich, Tom Hallick
Plaza Suite Paramount Pictures Arthur Hiller (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant, Louise Sorel, Jenny Sullivan, Augusta Dabney, Alan North, Frank Albanese, Jordan Charney, Thomas Carey
Red Sky at Morning Universal Pictures / Hal Wallis Productions James Goldstone (director); Marguerite Roberts (screenplay); Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Desi Arnaz Jr., Richard Crenna, Claire Bloom, John Colicos, Harry Guardino, Strother Martin, Nehemiah Persoff, Pepe Serna, Joaquin Garay
13 Wake in Fright United Artists / NLT Productions / Group W Films Ted Kotcheff (director); Evan Jones (screenplay); Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, John Meillon, Slim De Grey, Maggie Dence, Dawn Lake, Bob McDarra, Peter Whittle, Al Thomas, John Armstrong, Norman Erskine, Buster Fiddess, Tex Foote, Nancy Knudsen
14 Johnny Got His Gun Cinemation Industries / World Entertainment
Don 'Red' Barry, Diane Varsi
18 The Abominable Dr. Phibes American International Pictures Robert Fuest (director/screenplay); William Goldstein, James Whiton (screenplay); Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Peter Jeffrey, Virginia North, Hugh Griffith, Terry-Thomas, Derek Godfrey, Norman Jones, John Cater, Aubrey Woods, John Laurie, Maurice Kaufmann, Sean Bury, Susan Travers, David Hutcheson, Edward Burnham, Alex Scott, Peter Gilmore, Caroline Munro
21 Escape from the Planet of the Apes
APJAC Productions
Don Taylor (director); Paul Dehn (screenplay); Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Eric Braeden, Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalbán, William Windom, Albert Salmi, Jason Evers, John Randolph, Harry Lauter, M. Emmet Walsh, Roy Glenn, Peter Forster, Bill Bonds, James Bacon, Charlton Heston
24 Pink Narcissus Sherpix James Bidgood (director/screenplay); Charles Ludlam, Bobby Kendall, Don Brooks
26 Big Jake Cinema Center Films / Batjac Productions
William Walker, George Fenneman, Tom Hennesy, Chuck Roberson
, Jim Burk, Robert Warner, Jeff Wingfield, Everett Creach
Support Your Local Gunfighter United Artists Burt Kennedy (director); James Edward Grant (screenplay); James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, John Dehner, Marie Windsor, Roy Glenn, Dick Curtis, Dub Taylor, Joan Blondell, Ellen Corby, Kathleen Freeman, Virginia Capers, Henry Jones, Willis Bouchey, Walter Burke, Ben Cooper, Grady Sutton, Herb Vigran, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Gene Evans, Terry Wilson, John Wheeler, Dick Haynes, David S. Cass Sr., Chuck Connors, James Nolan, Max Wagner
Villain
Anglo-EMI
T.P. McKenna, Joss Ackland, Cathleen Nesbitt, Colin Welland, Elizabeth Knight, Tony Selby, Del Henney, Ben Howard, James Cossins, John Hallam, Anthony Sagar, Clive Francis, Brook Williams, Michael Robbins, Sheila White, Cheryl Hall, Shirley Cain, Godfrey James, Bonnie Lythgoe, Leslie Schofield, John Comer, Johnny Shannon
28 The Beguiled
The Malpaso Company
 Don Siegel (director); Albert Maltz, Irene Kamp (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Mae Mercer, Pamelyn Ferdin, Melody Thomas Scott, Peggy Drier, Pattye Mattick
The Grissom Gang
ABC Pictures
/ The Associates & Aldrich Company		 Robert Aldrich (director); Leon Griffiths (screenplay); Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, Irene Dailey, Connie Stevens, Wesley Addy, Don Keefer, Joey Faye, Ralph Waite, Hal Baylor, Matt Clark, Dots Johnson, Dave Willock, Raymond Guth, Dick Miller, Michael Baseleon, Alvin Hammer, Mort Marshall, Alex Wilson, John Steadman
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E 		2 The Young Graduates Crown International Pictures / Tempo Enterprises Robert Anderson (director/screenplay); Terry Anderson (screenplay); Bruno Kirby, Dennis Christopher, Patricia Wymer, Steven Stewart, Gary Rist, Jennifer Ritt, Marly Holiday, Anthony Mannino, Robert Almanza, Joe Pepe, Max Manning, Frances Tremaine, Tom Benko, Pat Russell
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Rokko Toura, Eitaro Ozawa
, Kenzo Kawarasaki, Atsuko Kaku, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya, Hosei Komatsu
9 The Deadly Trap National General Pictures René Clément (director/screenplay); Daniel Boulanger, Sidney Buchman (screenplay); Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins, Raymond Gérôme, Gérard Buhr, Maurice Ronet, Jill Larson, Franco Ressel, Dora van der Groen, Karen Blanguernon, Michèle Lourie, Patrick Vincent, Louise Chevalier, Tener Eckelberry, Massimo Farinelli, Robert Lussac
They Might Be Giants Universal Pictures / Newman-Foreman Company Anthony Harvey (director); James Goldman (screenplay); George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford, Lester Rawlins, Al Lewis, Rue McClanahan, Ron Weyand, Oliver Clark, Theresa Merritt, Jenny Egan, Michael McGuire, Eugene Roche, James Tolkan, Kitty Winn, Sudie Bond, Staats Cotsworth, F. Murray Abraham, Paul Benedict, M. Emmet Walsh, Louis Zorich, Ted Beniades, Worthington Miner, Frances Fuller, Candice Azzara, Matthew Cowles
13 Drive, He Said
BBS Productions
/ Drive Productions Inc.		 Jack Nicholson (director/screenplay); Jeremy Larner (screenplay); William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne, Henry Jaglom, Michael Warren, June Fairchild, Don Hanmer, Charles Robinson, David Ogden Stiers, Cindy Williams, Lynne Marie Stewart, Lynette Bernay, Joseph Walsh, Harry Gittes, Bill Sweek, B.J. Merholz, I.J. Jefferson, Kenneth Payne, Cathy Bradford, Eric Johnson
Wuthering Heights American International Pictures Robert Fuest (director); Patrick Tilley (screenplay); Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews, Pamela Brown, Judy Cornwell, James Cossins, Rosalie Crutchley, Hilary Dwyer, Julian Glover, Hugh Griffith, Morag Hood, Ian Ogilvy, Peter Sallis, Aubrey Woods, Wendy Allnutt, John Comer, Dudley Foster, Gordon Gostelow, Keith Buckley, Sandra Bryant, Gertan Klauber
15 Fortune and Men's Eyes Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Harvey Hart (director); John Herbert (screenplay); Wendell Burton, Michael Greer, Danny Freedman, Hugh Webster, Zooey Hall, Larry Perkins, James Barron, Tom Harvey, Jan Granik, Kirk McColl, Vance Davis, Robert Goodier, Lázaro Pérez
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? National General Pictures / Cinema Center Films Ulu Grosbard (director/screenplay); Herb Gardner (screenplay); Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Harris, Jack Warden, David Burns, Dom DeLuise, Gabriel Dell, Betty Walker, Rose Gregorio
17 The Anderson Tapes Columbia Pictures / Robert M. Weitman Productions Sidney Lumet (director); Frank Pierson (screenplay); Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Dick Anthony Williams, Val Avery, Garrett Morris, Stan Gottlieb, Christopher Walken, Conrad Bain, Margaret Hamilton, Anthony Holland, Scott Jacoby, Judith Lowry, Meg Myles, Norman Rose, Max Showalter
18 Willard
Bing Crosby Productions
 Daniel Mann (director); Gilbert Ralston (screenplay); Bruce Davison, Sondra Locke, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Dante, Jody Gilbert, William Hansen, John Myhers, J. Pat O'Malley, Joan Shawlee, Almira Sessions, Alan Baxter, Minta Durfee, Pauline Drake, Helen Spring, Sherry Presnell
The Panic in Needle Park
20th Century Fox
/ Gadd Productions Corp. / Didion-Dunne
Raúl Juliá, Gil Rogers, Joe Santos, Paul Sorvino, Sully Boyar, Ruth Alda
, Anthony Palmer, Michael McClanathan, Angie Ortega, Larry Marshall, Paul Mace, Nancy MacKay, Arnold Williams
22 Scandalous John Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution Robert Butler (director); Bill Walsh (screenplay); Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey, Rick Lenz, Harry Morgan, Simon Oakland, Bill Williams
23 Le Mans National General Pictures / Cinema Center Films
Louise Edlind, Angelo Infanti, Carlo Cecchi
, Fred Haltiner, Christopher Waite, Jean-Claude Bercq, Michele Scalera, Gino Cassani, Alfred Bell
Man and Boy Columbia Pictures / J. Cornelius Crean Films Inc. / Jemmin Inc.
E.W. Swackhamer (director); Harry Essex, Oscar Saul (screenplay); Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster, Leif Erickson, George Spell, Douglas Turner Ward, John Anderson, Henry Silva, Dub Taylor, Yaphet Kotto, Shelley Morrison, Richard Bull, Robert Lawson, Jason Clark, Fred Graham, Jack Owens
Wild Rovers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Geoffrey Productions
Phyllis Douglas, Ed Parker
24 McCabe & Mrs. Miller Warner Bros. Robert Altman (director/screenplay); Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Corey Fischer, Shelley Duvall, Bert Remsen, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Antony Holland, Hugh Millais, Jack Riley
25 Klute Warner Bros. / Gus Productions Alan J. Pakula (director); Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam, Vivian Nathan, Nathan George, Jane White, Shirley Stoler, Robert Milli, Anthony Holland, Richard B. Shull, Mary Louise Wilson, Rosalind Cash, Jean Stapleton, Antonia Rey, Candy Darling, Kevin Dobson, Veronica Hamel, Richard Jordan, Harry Reems, Joe Silver, Lee Wallace, Sylvester Stallone
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A Town Called Hell
 Scotia International Robert Parrish (director); Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau, Fernando Rey, Al Lettieri, Michael Craig, Dudley Sutton, Paloma Cela, Aldo Sambrell, John Clark, Tito García
28 The Hellstrom Chronicle Cinema 5 Distributing Ed Spiegel, Walon Green (directors); David Seltzer (screenplay); Lawrence Pressman
30 Carnal Knowledge
AVCO Embassy Pictures
 Mike Nichols (director); Jules Feiffer (screenplay); Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane, Cynthia O'Neal
The Million Dollar Duck Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts, James Gregory
My Old Man's Place Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Philip A. Waxman Productions Inc. Edwin Sherin (director); Stanford Whitmore (screenplay); Arthur Kennedy, Mitchell Ryan, William Devane, Michael Moriarty, Topo Swope, Lloyd Gough, Ford Rainey, Peter Donat, Sandra Vacey, Paula Kauffman, Eve Marchand, Bud Walls, Harvey Brumfield
What's the Matter with Helen?
Filmways Pictures
/ Raymax Productions
Robbi Morgan, Timothy Carey, Swen Swenson, James Dobson
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Quaker Oats Company
Dodo Denney, Paris Themmen, Ursula Reit, Michael Böllner

July–September

Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.
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Y 		1 Murphy's War Paramount Pictures / Hemdale / Michael Deeley-Peter Yates Films Peter Yates (director); Stirling Silliphant (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Ingo Mogendorf, Harry Fielder, George Roubicek
Walkabout
20th Century Fox
/ Max L. Raab-Si Litvinoff Films		 Nicolas Roeg (director); Edward Bond (screenplay); Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra, Noeline Brown, Pete Carver, John Illingsworth, Hilary Bamberger, Barry Donnelly, Carlo Manchini
Sunday Bloody Sunday United Artists / Vectia John Schlesinger (director); Penelope Gilliatt (screenplay); Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham, Bessie Love, Vivian Pickles, Frank Windsor, Thomas Baptiste, Richard Pearson
2 Shaft Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Shaft Productions
John D.F. Black (screenplay); Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Lawrence Pressman, Victor Arnold, Tony King, Rex Robbins, Camille Yarbrough, Arnold Johnson, Antonio Fargas
, Gwenn Mitchell, Sherri Brewer, Margaret Warncke, Joseph Leon
7 Two-Lane Blacktop Universal Pictures / Michael Laughlin Enterprises
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Harry Dean Stanton, Alan Vint, George Mitchell, Katherine Squire, James Mitchum
, Bill Keller, Don Samuels, Charles Moore, A.J. Solari, Melissa Hellman, Kreag Caffey
15 Vampyros Lesbos
Fénix Films
/ CCC Telecine Film
Paul Müller, Jesús Franco
, Andrea Montchal, Heidrun Kussin, Michael Berling, Beni Cardoso, José Martínez Blanco
16 The Devils Warner Bros. / Russo Productions Ken Russell (director/screenplay); Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Michael Gothard, Georgina Hale, Brian Murphy, John Woodvine, Christopher Logue, Kenneth Colley, Graham Armitage, Andrew Faulds, Judith Paris, Catherine Willmer
The Hunting Party United Artists / Levy-Gardner-Laven
G.D. Spradlin, Rayford Barnes, Bernard Kay, Francesca Tu
, Richard Adams, Dean Selmier, Sarah Atkinson
The Light at the Edge of the World
The Bryna Company
Victor Israel
17 Gamera vs. Zigra (Japan) Dainichi Eihai / Daiei Film Noriaki Yuasa (director); Niisan Takahashi (screenplay); Eiko Yanami, Keiichi Noda, Reiko Kasahara, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Kōji Fujiyama, Isamu Saeki, Yasushi Sakagami, Arlene Zoellner, Gloria Zoellner, Shin Minatsu, Umenosuke Izumi
21 Murders in the Rue Morgue American International Pictures Gordon Hessler (director); Christopher Wicking, Henry Slesar (screenplay); Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi, Maria Perschy, Michael Dunn, Lilli Palmer, Peter Arne, María Martín, Rafael Hernández, Rosalind Elliot, Marshall Jones, Ruth Plattes
23 The Seven Minutes
20th Century Fox
 Russ Meyer (director); Richard Warren Lewis (screenplay); Wayne Maunder, Marianne McAndrew, Philip Carey, Jay C. Flippen, Edy Williams, Lyle Bettger, Yvonne De Carlo, Jackie Gayle, Ron Randell, Charles Drake, John Carradine, Harold J. Stone, James Iglehart, Tom Selleck, Olan Soule, David Brian, Charles Napier, Wolfman Jack, Lynn Hamilton, John Sarno, Jan Shutan
24
Japan
)		 Toho Yoshimitsu Banno (director/screenplay); Takeshi Kimura (screenplay); Haruo Nakajima, Kenpachiro Satsuma, Akira Yamanouchi, Hiroyuki Kawase, Toshie Kimura, Keiko Mari, Toshio Shiba, Yoshio Yoshida
The Horsemen Columbia Pictures John Frankenheimer (director); Dalton Trumbo (screenplay); Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Leigh Taylor-Young, Peter Jeffrey, George Murcell, Eric Pohlmann, Vernon Dobtcheff, Saeed Jaffrey, John Ruddock, Leon Lissek, Ishaq Bux, Carlos Casaravilla, David de Keyser, Despo Diamantidou, Ricardo Palacios, Milton Reid, Jesús Tordesillas, Tom Tryon, Alan Webb, Srinanda De, Mark Colleano, Salmaan Peerzada, Aziz Resham, Vida St. Romaine
28 On Any Sunday Cinema 5 Bruce Brown (director); Bruce Brown, Steve McQueen, Mert Lawwill, Malcolm Smith, Paul Carruthers
Von Richthofen and Brown United Artists / The Corman Company Roger Corman (director); John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay); John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Hurd Hatfield, Stephen McHattie, Robert La Tourneaux, Peter Masterson, Clint Kimbrough, David Weston, Tom Adams, Maureen Cusack, Ferdy Mayne, George Armitage, Shane Briant, Julie Corman, Karen Huston, Brian Foley, Seamus Forde
29 The Go-Between MGM-EMI Film Distributors /
EMI Films
 Joseph Losey (director); Harold Pinter (screenplay); Julie Christie, Edward Fox, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Dominic Guard, Michael Gough, Richard Gibson, Simon Hume-Kendall, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Amaryllis Garnett
30 Bless the Beasts and Children Columbia Pictures Stanley Kramer (director); Mac Benoff (screenplay); Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Miles Chapin, Jesse White, Ken Swofford, Elaine Devry, David Ketchum, Bruce Glover, Vanessa Brown, William Bramley, Darel Glaser, Bob Kramer, Marc Vahanian, Wayne Sutherlin
The Hunting Party United Artists / Levy-Gardner-Laven
G.D. Spradlin, Rayford Barnes, Bernard Kay, Francesca Tu
, Richard Adams, Dean Selmier, Sarah Atkinson
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The Omega Man Warner Bros. / Walter Seltzer Productions Boris Sagal (director); John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay); Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric Laneuville, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Brian Tochi, DeVeren Bookwalter, John Dierkes, Linda Redfearn, Henry Kingi
5 The Love Machine Columbia Pictures / Sujac Productions / Frankovich Productions Jack Haley Jr. (director); Samuel Taylor (screenplay); John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings, Jodi Wexler, William Roerick, Maureen Arthur, Shecky Greene, Clinton Greyn
9 The Mephisto Waltz
20th Century Fox
 Paul Wendkos (director); Ben Maddow (screenplay); Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom, Kathleen Widdoes, Pamelyn Ferdin, Curd Jürgens, Curt Lowens, Lilyan Chauvin, Khigh Dhiegh, Alberto Morin, Berry Kroeger
11 The Hired Hand Universal Pictures / The Pando Company Peter Fonda (director); Alan Sharp (screenplay); Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Severn Darden, Ann Doran, Ted Markland, Michael McClure, Robert Pratt, Rita Rogers, Owen Orr, Al Hopson, Megan Denver, Gray Johnson
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U.K.
)		 Pete Walker Film Productions Pete Walker (director); Murray Smith (screenplay); Susan George, Barry Evans, Chris Sandford, Judy Huxtable, Leo Genn, Kenneth Hendel, Paul Stassino, Alan Curtis, Anthony Sharp, John Laurimore, Martin Wyldeck
17 Cry Uncle! Troma Entertainment John G. Avildsen (director/screenplay); David Odell, Allen Garfield (screenplay); Allen Garfield, Debbi Morgan, Paul Sorvino, Ray Barron, Mel Stewart, Jackson Beck, Lloyd Kaufman, Madeleine Le Roux, Devin Goldenberg, David Kirk, Pamela Gruen, Sean Walsh, Maureen Byrnes, Nancy Salmon, Bruce Pecheur
18 Fools' Parade Columbia Pictures / Stanmore Productions / Penbar Productions, Inc. Andrew V. McLaglen (director); James Lee Barrett (screenplay); James Stewart, George Kennedy, Anne Baxter, Strother Martin, Kurt Russell, William Windom, Mike Kellin, Katherine Cannon, Morgan Paull, Robert Donner, David Huddleston, James Lee Barrett, Dort Clark, Kitty Jefferson Doepken
19 Clay Pigeon Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Tracom Lane Slate, Tom Stern (directors); Ronald Buck, Jack Gross Jr., Buddy Ruskin (screenplay); Tom Stern, Telly Savalas, Robert Vaughn, John Marley, Burgess Meredith, Ivan Dixon, Jeff Corey, Marilyn Akin, Marlene Clark, Belinda Palmer, Mario Alcalde, Peter Lawford
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
20th Century Fox
 Lawrence Turman (director); Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay); Richard Benjamin, Joanna Shimkus, Elizabeth Ashley, Adam West, Patricia Barry, Tiffany Bolling, Ed Prentiss, William Forrest, Alma Beltran, Norman Leavitt, Ron Masak, Bob Hastings, Johnny Scott Lee, Bill McConnell
25 A Gunfight
Joel Productions
/ Harvest Productions / Thoroughbred Productions		 Lamont Johnson (director); Harold Jack Bloom (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black, Keith Carradine, Dana Elcar, Raf Vallone, Eric Douglas, Robert J. Wilke, Paul Lambert
27 Let's Scare Jessica to Death Paramount Pictures / The Jessica Company John Hancock (director/screenplay); Lee Kalcheim (screenplay); Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett, Alan Manson, Mariclare Costello
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2 See No Evil Columbia Pictures / Filmways Richard Fleischer (director); Brian Clemens (screenplay); Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey, Diane Grayson, Brian Rawlinson, Norman Eshley, Paul Nicholas, Michael Elphick
3 Return of Sabata United Artists / Produzioni Europee Associati / Les Productions Artistes Associés / Artemis Filmgesellschaft
Aldo Canti, Gianni Rizzo, Steffen Zacharias, Pia Giancaro, John Bartha, Günther Stoll, Carmelo Reale, Franco Fantasia
15 Red Sun Les Films Corona / Oceana Produzioni Internazionali Cinematografiche / Producciones Balcázar S.A.
Toshirō Mifune, Alain Delon, Capucine, Barta Barri, Lee Burton
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me Paramount Pictures Jeffrey Young (director); Robert Schlitt (screenplay);
Karel Stepanek
, John Collin, Linda De Coff, Nick Hammond, Cynthia Harris, Shi Khanma
17 Kotch
ABC Pictures
 Jack Lemmon (director); John Paxton (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Ellen Geer, Jane Connell, Darrell Larson, Biff Elliot, Paul Picerni, Lucy Saroyan, Kim Hamilton, Amzie Strickland, Larry Linville, Penny Santon, Jack Lemmon, Donald and Dean Kowalski, Arlen Stuart, James E. Brodhead, Jessica Rains
20 Dracula vs. Frankenstein Independent-International Pictures
Forrest J. Ackerman, Greydon Clark
, Zandor Vorkov, Anne Morrell, Maria Lease, Shelley Weiss
22 Desperate Characters Paramount Pictures / ITC Entertainment Frank D. Gilroy (director/screenplay); Paula Fox (screenplay); Shirley MacLaine, Kenneth Mars, Sada Thompson, Jack Somack, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Carol Kane, Michael Higgins, Rose Gregorio, Shauneille Perry, Robert Bauer, Patrick McVey, Chris Gampel, Mary Alan Hokanson, L.J. Davis
23 Unman, Wittering and Zigo Paramount Pictures / Hemmings / Mediaarts
David Jackson, Hubert Rees, David Auker
24 The Last Rebel Columbia Pictures / Glendenning / Orten / Spangler / U.S. Captail Denys McCoy (director); Lorenzo Sabatini, Red Redifer (screenplay); Joe Namath, Jack Elam, Woody Strode, Ty Hardin, Mike Forrest, Jessica Dublin, Larry Laurence, Victoria George, Renato Romano, Marina Coffa, Annamaria Chio, Bruce Eweka, Al Hassan
The Trojan Women Cinerama Releasing Corporation / Josef Shaftel Productions Inc. Michael Cacoyannis (director/screenplay); Euripides, Edith Hamilton (screenplay); Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Brian Blessed, Patrick Magee, Rosalind Shanks, Alberto Sanz
25 Tiki Tiki Potterton Productions Gerald Potterton (director/screenplay); Jerome Chodorov, Donald Brittain (screenplay); Peter Cullen, Jean Shepherd, Ted Zeigler, Barry Baldaro, Gayle Claitman, Patrick Conlon, Joan Stuart
28 And Now for Something Completely Different
Playboy Productions / Kettledrum Films / Lownes Productions / Python (Monty) Pictures
 Ian MacNaughton, Terry Gilliam (directors); Monty Python (screenplay); Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
The Last Movie Universal Pictures / Alta-Light Dennis Hopper (director); Stewart Stern (screenplay); Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Don Gordon, Julie Adams, Peter Fonda, Sylvia Miles, Samuel Fuller, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Tomas Milian, Toni Basil, Severn Darden, Roy Engel, Henry Jaglom
30 The Skin Game Warner Bros.
Edward Asner, Andrew Duggan, Henry Jones, Neva Patterson, Parley Baer, George Tyne, Royal Dano, J. Pat O'Malley, Joel Fluellen, Napoleon Whiting, Juanita Moore, Robert Foulk

October–December

Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.
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9 The French Connection
20th Century Fox
 William Friedkin (director); Ernest Tidyman (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale, Bill Hickman, Eddie Egan, André Ernotte, Sonny Grosso, Randy Jurgensen, Ann Rebbot, Harold Gary, Arlene Farber, Alan Weeks
13 Shoot Out Universal Pictures / Hal Wallis Productions Henry Hathaway (director); Marguerite Roberts (screenplay); Gregory Peck, Pat Quinn, Robert F. Lyons, Susan Tyrrell, Jeff Corey, James Gregory, Rita Gam, Dawn Lyn, Pepe Serna, John Chandler
15 A Safe Place
BBS Productions
 Henry Jaglom (director/screenplay); Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Philip Proctor, Gwen Welles, Roger Garrett, Francesca Hilton, Richard Finocchio
18 Bunny O'Hare American International Pictures Gerd Oswald (director); Stanley Z. Cherry, Coslough Johnson (screenplay); Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy, Jay Robinson, Joan Delaney, John Astin, Reva Rose, Robert Foulk, Bruno VeSota, Larry Linville, Tony Genaro, Buck Kartalian
20 Catlow Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Tito Garcia, Walter Coy
The Organization
The Mirisch Corporation
Raúl Juliá, James A. Watson Jr., Ron O'Neal, Bernie Hamilton, Charles H. Gray
Play Misty for Me Universal Pictures / The Malpaso Company Clint Eastwood (director); Jo Heims, Dean Riesner (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Irene Hervey, James McEachin, Clarice Taylor, Donald Siegel, Johnny Otis, Joe Zawinul, Cannonball Adderley, Duke Everts, Britt Lind, Jack Kosslyn
The Todd Killings National General Pictures Barry Shear (director); Dennis Murphy, Joel Oliansky (screenplay); Robert F. Lyons, Richard Thomas, Belinda Montgomery, Barbara Bel Geddes, James Broderick, Gloria Grahame, Harry Lauter, Holly Near, Ed Asner, Fay Spain, Michael Conrad
T.R. Baskin Paramount Pictures Herbert Ross (director); Peter Hyams (screenplay); Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, James Caan, Marcia Rodd, Howard Platt, Mike Nussbaum
22 The Last Picture Show
BBS Productions
Frank Marshall
, Sharon Taggart, Barc Doyle, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Glenn, Joe Heathcock
23 The Big Boss (Hong Kong) Golden Harvest Lo Wei, Wu Chia Hsiang (directors); Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien, Nora Miao, Lee Quinn, Rhoma Irama, Han Ying-chieh, Lau Wing, Billy Chan Wui-ngai, Lam Ching-ying, Kam San, Ricky Chik, Li Hua Sze, Marilyn Bautista, Chan Chue, Chom, Tu Chia-Cheng, Peter Chan Lung
24 Joe Hill Paramount Pictures Bo Widerberg (director/screenplay); Thommy Berggren, Liska March, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Evert Anderson, Cathy Smith, Hasse Persson, David Moritz, Richard Weber, Joel Miller, Franco Molinari, Robert Faeder, Wendy Geier, Michael Logan
25 Bleak Moments Contemporary Films Mike Leigh (director/screenplay); Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman, Mike Bradwell, Donald Sumpter, Liz Smith
27 Captain Apache Scotia International
Robert Rietty, Jess Hahn
, Charly Bravo, Charles Stal Maker, Faith Clift, Elsa Zabala
29 200 Motels
Murakami-Wolf-Swenson
/ Bizarre Productions
Lucy Offerall, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
, Martin Lickert, Janet Neville-Ferguson, Dick Barber, Judy Gridley
Duck, You Sucker! United Artists Sergio Leone (director/screenplay); Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Donati (screenplay); Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti, Rik Battaglia, Franco Graziosi, Antoine Saint-John, Vivienne Chandler, David Warbeck, Giulio Battiferri, Furio Meniconi, Benito Stefanelli, Antonio Casale, Riccardo Pizzuti, Aldo Sambrell
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3 Fiddler on the Roof United Artists / The Mirisch Company / Cartier Productions Norman Jewison (director); Joseph Stein (screenplay); Topol, Norma Crane, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh
5 Black Noon
Screen Gems Television
 Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Andrew J. Fenady (screenplay); Roy Thinnes, Yvette Mimieux, Ray Milland, Gloria Grahame, Lynn Loring, Henry Silva, Hank Worden, William Bryant, Stan Barrett, Joshua Bryant, Leif Garrett, Buddy Foster
8 Hannie Caulder Paramount Pictures / Tigon British Film Productions / Curtwel Productions Burt Kennedy (director); Z.X. Jones (screenplay); Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, Strother Martin, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors, Brian Lightburn, Luis Barboo, Stephen Boyd, Paco de Lucía, Aldo Sambrell
10 Jennifer on My Mind United Artists / Bernard Schwartz Productions / Joseph M. Schenck Productions Noel Black (director); Erich Segal (screenplay); Michael Brandon, Tippy Walker, Steve Vinovich, Chuck McCann, Peter Bonerz, Renée Taylor, Robert De Niro, Allan F. Nicholls, Barry Bostwick, Jeff Conaway, Lou Gilbert, Bruce Kornbluth
12 Mon oncle Antoine Janus Films / National Film Board of Canada Claude Jutra (director/screenplay); Clément Perron (screenplay); Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne, Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra, Lionel Villeneuve, Hélène Loiselle, Mario Dubuc, Lise Brunelle, Alain Legendre, Robin Marcoux, Serge Evers, Monique Mercure, Georges Alexander, Rene Salvatore Catta
Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?
Cannon Film Distributors
David Doyle, Gilbert Lewis, Earl Hindman, Ron Carey, Norman Rose, Antonia Rey, Jake LaMotta
13 Duel ABC / Universal Television
Sweet Dick Whittington, Dale Van Sickel
18 The Christian Licorice Store National General Pictures / Cinema Center Films
Walter Barnes, McLean Stevenson, Howard Storm, Greg Mullavey, Larry Gelman, Barbara Leigh, James Jeter, Lawrence Gordon, Mike Medavoy, James B. Harris, Howard Hesseman, Gwen Welles, Indus Arthur, Talia Shire
24 Black Beauty Paramount Pictures / Tigon British Film Productions James Hill (director/screenplay); Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay); Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Uschi Glas, Peter Lee Lawrence, Patrick Mower, John Nettleton, Maria Rohm, Margaret Lacey, Eddie Golden, Clive Geraghty, John Hoey, Patrick Gardiner, Brian McGrath
Man in the Wilderness Warner Bros. / Limbridge Wilderness Films
Robert Russell, Bruce M. Fischer, Sheila Raynor, Judith Furse
30 Bleak Moments Contemporary Films Mike Leigh (director/screenplay); Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman, Mike Bradwell, Donald Sumpter, Liz Smith
Brian's Song ABC / Screen Gems Buzz Kulik (director); William Blinn (screenplay); James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Shelley Fabares, Judy Pace, Bernie Casey, David Huddleston, Ron Feinberg, Jack Concannon, Abe Gibron, Ed O'Bradovich, Dick Butkus, Chicago Bears, Harold Hairston, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Stu Nahan, Mario Machado, Mike Ditka
The Day of the Wolves Gold Key Entertainment Ferde Grofe Jr. (director/screenplay);
Floyd Hamilton
, Andre Marquis, Henry Capps, Smokey Roberds, John Braatz, Mel Scarborough, Elizabeth Thomas, Steve Manone, John Dennis, John Gunn, Len Travis, Wendy Alvord, Danny Rees
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Chandler Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Paul Magwood (director); John Sacret Young (screenplay); Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier, Marianne McAndrew, Mitchell Ryan, Gordon Pinsent, Charles McGraw, Walter Burke, Richard Loo, Gloria Grahame, Scatman Crothers, John Mitchum, Ray Kellogg
2 Family Life Cinema 5 Distributing Ken Loach (director); David Mercer (screenplay); Sandy Ratcliff, Malcolm Tierney, Bill Dean, Alan MacNaughton, Johnny Gee, Grace Cave, Hilary Martin, Michael Riddall
8 Believe in Me Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stuart Hagmann (director); Israel Horovitz (screenplay); Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Jon Cypher, Allen Garfield, Kurt Dodenhoff, Kevin Conway, Roger Robinson, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Antonio Fargas, Ultra Violet, Katherine Helmond
9 Gumshoe Columbia-Warner Distributors Stephen Frears (director); Neville Smith (screenplay); Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay, Billy Dean, George Silver, George Innes, Neville Smith, Bert King, Ken Jones, Maureen Lipman, Wendy Richard, Oscar James, Tom Kempinski, Fred Wood
Happy Birthday, Wanda June Columbia Pictures / Red Lion / Sourdough / The Filmakers Group
Pamela Saunders, Louis Turenne
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The Decameron
Produzioni Europee Associate
/ Les Productions Artistes Associés / Artemis Films		 Pier Paolo Pasolini (director/screenplay); Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Angela Luce, Giuseppe Zigaina, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giacomo Rizzo, Guido Alberti, Silvana Mangano, Gianni Rizzo, Monique van Vooren, Giani Esposito, Guido Mannari, Vincenzo Amato, Maria Gabriella Maione, Elisabetta Genovese, Giorgio Iovine, Lino Crispo, Vittorio Vittori, Vincenzo Ferrigno
Made for Each Other
20th Century Fox
/ Wylde Films		 Robert B. Bean (director); Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna (screenplay); Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, Paul Sorvino, Olympia Dukakis, Louis Zorich, Candice Azzara, Peggy Pope, Helen Verbit, Norman Shelly
13 Bedknobs and Broomsticks Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Robert Stevenson, Ward Kimball (directors); Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi (screenplay); Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Ian Weighill, Cindy O'Callaghan, Roy Snart, Roddy McDowall
Nicholas and Alexandra Columbia-Warner Distributors Franklin J. Schaffner (director); James Goldman (screenplay); Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Laurence Olivier, Tom Baker, Harry Andrews, Irene Worth, Jack Hawkins, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson, Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning
14 The Hospital United Artists
Donald Harron, Nancy Marchand, Jordan Charney, Roberts Blossom, Lenny Baker, Richard Hamilton
There's Always Vanilla Cambist Films / The Latent Image
Bill Hinzman, George Kosana, George A. Romero, John A. Russo, Russell Streiner
, Raymond Laine, Judith Streiner, Johanna Lawrence, Richard Ricci, Roger McGovern, Ron Jaye, Louise Sahene, Christopher Priore, Bryson Randolph, Eleanor Schirra, Dorrit Chase, Elsie Doughty
16 The Boy Friend
MGM-EMI Film Distributors
 Ken Russell (director/screenplay); Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin, Moyra Fraser, Georgina Hale, Vladek Sheybal, Tommy Tune, Brian Murphy, Graham Armitage, Barbara Windsor, Glenda Jackson, Sally Bryant, Antonia Ellis, Caryl Little, Anne Jameson, Catherine Willmer
17 $
Frankovich Productions Inc.
 Richard Brooks (director/screenplay); Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber, Scott Brady, Arthur Brauss, Wolfgang Kieling, Christiane Maybach, Robert Stiles, Robert Herron, Hans Hutter, Monica Stender, Horst Hesslein, Wolfgang Kuhlman, Klaus Schichan
Lady and the Tramp (re-release) Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (directors); Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi, Joe Grant (screenplay); Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson, Dallas McKennon, Bill Baucom, Verna Felton, George Givot, Lee Millar, Peggy Lee, Stan Freberg, Alan Reed, Thurl Ravenscroft, The Mellomen, Pinto Colvig, Taylor Holmes, Clarence Nash, Donald Novis
Mary, Queen of Scots Universal Pictures Charles Jarrott (director); John Hale (screenplay); Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Trevor Howard, Daniel Massey, Ian Holm, Andrew Keir, Tom Fleming, Robert James, Katherine Kath, Frances White, Vernon Dobtcheff, Raf De La Torre, Richard Warner, Bruce Purchase, Brian Coburn, Richard Denning, Maria Aitken, Jeremy Bulloch
Sometimes A Great Notion Universal Pictures / Newman-Foreman Company
J.N. Roberts, Charles Horvath, Melissa Newman
19 A Clockwork Orange Warner Bros. / Polaris Productions / Hawk Films Stanley Kubrick (director/screenplay); Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, Michael Tarn, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin
20 Harold and Maude Paramount Pictures Hal Ashby (director); Colin Higgins (screenplay); Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Eric Christmas, George Wood, Ellen Geer, M. Borman, Hal Ashby, Marjorie Eaton, William Lucking, Cat Stevens, Judy Engles, Shari Summers
Macbeth Columbia Pictures / Playboy Productions / Caliban Films Roman Polanski (director/screenplay); Kenneth Tynan (screenplay); Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, John Stride, Nicholas Selby, Stephan Chase, Paul Shelley
21 Such Good Friends Paramount Pictures / Otto Preminger Films Otto Preminger (director); Esther Dale (screenplay); Dyan Cannon, Ken Howard, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Laurence Luckinbill
22 The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer James Goldstone (director); Waldo Salt (screenplay); Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jo Van Fleet, Lionel Stander, Robert De Niro, Hervé Villechaize
Kidnapped British Lion Films / Omnibus Productions Ltd. Delbert Mann (director); Jack Pulman (screenplay); Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas\
Minnie and Moskowitz Universal Pictures
Zoe R. Cassavetes, Lady Rowlands, Holly Near, Judith Roberts, Kathleen O'Malley
Star Spangled Girl Paramount Pictures Jerry Paris (director); Arnold Margolin, Jim Parker (screenplay); Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts, Todd Susman, Elizabeth Allen, Allen Jung, Helen Kleeb, Harry Northup, Peter Hobbs, Artie Lewis, Gordon Bosserman, Jim Conners
23 Bad Man's River Scotia International Eugenio Martín (director/screenplay); Philip Yordan (screenplay); Lee Van Cleef, Gina Lollobrigida, James Mason, Simón Andreu, Gianni Garko, Diana Lorys, Sergio Fantoni
Dirty Harry
The Malpaso Company
R.M. Fink, Dean Riesner (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Andy Robinson, John Larch, John Mitchum, Mae Mercer, Ruth Kobart, Woodrow Parfrey, Josef Sommer
29 Straw Dogs Cinerama Releasing Corporation / ABC Pictures / Talent Associates / Amerbroco Films
T.P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton
30 Diamonds Are Forever United Artists / Eon Productions
Joseph Furst, Bernard Lee

See also

References

  1. ^ "North America (US and Canada) Domestic Movie Chart for 1971". The Numbers. Retrieved January 12, 2024.

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