1974 in film
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The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.
- August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J. Geils Band, marries actress Faye Dunaway.
- November 1 - Technicolor ceases its legendary dye-transfer printing process.
- Kevin Costner made his film debut in Sizzle Beach, USA, although the film was not released until 1986.
[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)
[edit] Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Conversation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, United States
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, directed by Ted Kotcheff, Canada
[edit] Films released in 1974
U.S.A. unless stated
- The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army - (Japan/Thailand)
- 36 Ghante, starring Raaj Kumar and Sunil Dutt - (India)
- 99 and 44/100% Dead, starring Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors
- A
- Abby
- Aina - (Pakistan)
- Airport 1975, starring Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Helen Reddy, Myrna Loy, Gloria Swanson
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Ellen Burstyn and Kris Kristofferson
- Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten), directed by Wim Wenders - (West Germany)
- Alvin Rides Again (aka Alvin Purple Rides Again) - (Australia)
- Animals Are Beautiful People - (South Africa)
- Angkur (The Seedling) - (India)
- Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Richard Dreyfuss - Golden Bear winner - (Canada)
- Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle mille e una notte), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy)
- At Home Among Strangers - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (made for TV), starring Cicely Tyson
- B
- Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own - (Australia)
- The Bears and I
- The Beast Must Die - (U.K.)
- Benji
- Big Bad Mama, starring Angie Dickinson
- Black Belt Jones
- Black Christmas (aka Silent Night, Evil Night), starring Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Keir Dullea - (Canada)
- The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine - (U.K.)
- Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Robert Webber
- C
- Caged Heat, directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
- California Split, directed by Robert Altman, starring George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss
- Callan, starring Edward Woodward - (U.K.)
- Carry On Dick - (U.K.)
- The Cars That Ate Paris, directorial debut of Peter Weir - (Australia)
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau), directed by Jacques Rivette - (France)
- Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway - Golden Globe Awards for best picture, director and actor
- Claudine, starring Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones
- The Clockmaker (L' Horloger de Saint-Paul), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort - (France)
- Cockfighter, starring Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton
- Conrack, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Jon Voight
- The Conversation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale - Palme d'Or winner
- Conversation Piece (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster - (Italy)
- The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
- D
- Daisy Miller - directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Cybill Shepherd
- Dark Star, directed by John Carpenter
- Death Wish, directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson
- The Deluge (Potop) - (Poland)
- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, starring Peter Fonda and Susan George
- Dost (Friend), starring Dharmendra - (India)
- Down and Dirty Duck
- E
- Earthquake, directed by Mark Robson, starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Richard Roundtree, Geneviève Bujold
- Effi Briest, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Hanna Schygulla - (West Germany)
- Emmanuelle, starring Sylvia Kristel - (France)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (aka Every Man For Himself and God Against All), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
- F
- F for Fake (originally Vérités et Mensonges), directed by and starring Orson Welles - (France/West Germany/Iran)
- Female Trouble, directed by John Waters, starring Divine
- For Pete's Sake, starring Barbra Streisand
- The Four Musketeers (aka The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge) - (U.K.)
- Freebie and the Bean, starring James Caan and Alan Arkin
- The Front Page, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Carol Burnett
- G
- The Gambler, directed by Karel Reisz, starring James Caan
- Ginger in the Morning, starring Sissy Spacek
- The Godfather Part II, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Diane Keaton, Lee Strasberg
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla - (Japan)
- Going Places (Les Valseuses), directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau - (France)
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, starring John Phillip Law and Tom Baker with special effects by Ray Harryhausen - (U.K.)
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Great Expectations, starring Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason - (U.S./U.K.)
- The Great Gatsby, directed by Jack Clayton, starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern
- H
- Harry and Tonto, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Art Carney, Herbert Berghof, Larry Hagman, Ellen Burstyn
- Herbie Rides Again
- Heroes Two, directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)
- The Homeless - (Japan)
- Hotel Angel - Thailand)
- I
- J
- Jock Petersen - (Australia)
- Journey Back to Oz
- Juggernaut, starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, Anthony Hopkins - (U.K.)
- K
- The Klansman, directed by Terence Young, starring Lee Marvin and Richard Burton
- Kunwara Baap, directed by and starring Mehmood - (India)
- L
- La Gueule ouverte, directed by Maurice Pialat - (France)
- Lacombe Lucien, directed by Louis Malle, starring Pierre Blaise and Aurore Clement - (France)
- Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, a concert film
- Lenny, a biopic of Lenny Bruce, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Dustin Hoffman and Valerie Perrine
- The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
- The Longest Yard (aka The Mean Machine), directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter
- The Lords of Flatbush, starring Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler
- Lovin' Molly, starring Blythe Danner, Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges
- M
- Macon County Line
- Mahler, a biopic of Gustav Mahler directed by Ken Russell - (U.K.)
- Majboor - (India)
- Mame, directed by Gene Saks, starring Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, Robert Preston
- The Man with the Golden Gun, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Roger Moore as James Bond, with Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland - (U.K.)
- McQ, directed by John Sturges, starring John Wayne, Al Lettieri, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
- The Missiles of October, made for TV, directed by Anthony Page, Starring William Devane, Martin Sheen, Ralph Bellamy, Howard Da Silva, James Hong.
- Mr. Majestyk, starring Charles Bronson and Al Lettieri
- Murder on the Orient Express, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave, Ingrid Bergman - (U.K.)
- N
- The Night Porter (Il Portiere di notte), directed by Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling - (Italy)
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
- O
- The Odessa File, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell - (U.K./West Germany)
- One or the Other of Us, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Jürgen Prochnow - (West Germany)
- P
- Parade, directed by and starring Jacques Tati - (France/Sweden)
- The Parallax View, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Paula Prentiss
- A Peasant on a Bicycle, directed by Lyudmil Kirkov, starring Georgi Georgiev-Getz and Georgi Rusev - (Bulgaria)
- The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté), directed by Luis Buñuel - (France)
- Phantom of the Paradise, directed by Brian De Palma
- Phase IV, directed by Saul Bass, starring Michael Murphy and Nigel Davenport
- La prima Angélica, directed by Carlos Saura - (Spain)
- Q
- QB VII, mini-series for TV, starring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, Leslie Caron
- R
- Report to the Commissioner, starring Michael Moriarty and Yaphet Kotto
- Return of The Street Fighter - (Japan)
- S
- Sandakan No.8 - (Japan)
- Sister Street Fighter - (Japan)
- Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread - (Japan)
- Son of Dracula, starring Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr - (U.K.)
- Stardust, directed by Michael Apted, starring David Essex - (U.K.)
- Stavisky..., directed by Alain Renais, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France/Italy)
- Still Life - (Iran)
- Stone, a cult Australian film
- The Street Fighter, starring Sonny Chiba - (Japan)
- The Street Fighter's Last Revenge - (Japan)
- The Sugarland Express, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Goldie Hawn and Ben Johnson
- Sweet Movie - (Canada/France/West Germany)
- Swept Away (Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto) - (Italy)
- Symptoms - (U.K.)
- T
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, directed by Joseph Sargent, starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
- The Tamarind Seed - (U.K./U.S.)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, directed by Tobe Hooper, starring Marilyn Burns
- That Female Scent (Profumo di donna), directed by Dino Risi, starring Vittorio Gassman - (Italy)
- That's Entertainment!
- Thieves Like Us, directed by Robert Altman, starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges
- The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire
- The Trial of Billy Jack
- V
- V
- W
- Way of the Dragon (U.S. release), directed by and starring Bruce Lee with Nora Miao and Chuck Norris - (Hong Kong)
- We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Stefania Sandrelli and Vittorio Gassman - (Italy)
- Where the Lilies Bloom
- The White Dawn - (Canada)
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (animated short)
- A Woman Under the Influence, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands (Golden Globe Award) and Peter Falk
- Y
- Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle
- Z
- Zardoz, starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling - (U.K.)
[edit] Births
- January 5 - Daisy Bates, actress
- January 30 - Christian Bale, English actor
- March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, actress
- April 28 - Penélope Cruz, actress
- May 21 - Fairuza Balk, actress
- June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- July 8 - Tami Erin, American actress
- July 30 - Hillary Swank, actress
- August 7 - Michael Shannon, actor
- August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
- August 20 - Amy Adams, American actress
- August 23 - Ray Park, English actor
- September 10 - Ryan Philippe, American actor
- September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and model
- October 17 - Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
- October 28 - Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican-born actor
- November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
- November 16 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
- December 7 - Habieb Naseer, Bollywood director
[edit] Deaths
- January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
- February 7 - Arline Judge, actress
- February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson, actress
- February 23 - Florence Rice, actress
- February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
- March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actor
- March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
- March 19 - Edward Platt, actor
- April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor
- April 10 - Patricia Collinge, actress
- April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
- April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
- May 25 - Donald Crisp, actor
- June 28 - Frank Sutton, actor
- August 20 - Ilona Massey, actress
- September 6 - Olga Baclanova, actress
- September 18 - Edna Best, actress
- September 21 - Walter Brennan, actor
- September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley of the Dolls
- October 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
- November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
- November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor
- December 15 - Anatole Litvak, director
- December 21 - Richard Long, actor
- December 26 - Jack Benny, actor
[edit] Film debuts
- Armand Assante
- Daniel Auteuil
- Chevy Chase
- Richard Gere
- Jeff Goldblum
- John Rhys-Davies
- Denzel Washington
[edit] References
- ^ "Box Office Information for The Towering Inferno". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1974/0TWRN.php. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Blazing Saddles". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=blazingsaddles.htm. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Young Frankenstein". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=youngfrankenstein.htm. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Earthquake". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=earthquake.htm. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
- ^ "Box Office Information for The Godfather: Part II". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1974/0GDF2.php. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Airport 1975". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1974/0AIR2.php. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
- ^ "Box Office Information for The Longest Yard". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=longestyard.htm. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Benji". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=benji.htm. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Herbie Rides Again". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=herbieridesagain.htm. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
- ^ "Murder on the Orient Express, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1974/0MOOE.php. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
- ^ "Box Office Information for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=texaschainsaw.htm. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
- ^ "Box Office Information for Chinatown". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=chinatown.htm. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
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