1973

Film Decades: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• The 14, directed by David Hemmings, starring Jack Wild – (U.K.)
• Abhimaan (Pride) – (India)
• Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, starring Cliff Robertson and Pamela Franklin
• The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob – France
• All Nudity Shall Be Punished – Brazil
• The Alpha Caper – starring Henry Fonda & 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, Harrison Ford
• Ana and the Wolves – starring Geraldine Chaplin – Spain
• And Now the Screaming Starts!, starring Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Herbert Lom
• Arnold, starring Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester
• Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray – India
• The Baby, starring Anjanette Comer and Ruth Roman
• Badlands – directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, & Ramon Bieri
• Bang the Drum Slowly – starring Robert De Niro & Michael Moriarty
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes – starring Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, John Huston
• Battles Without Honor and Humanity (ingi naki tatakai) – (Japan)
• Baxter!, starring Patricia Neal and Britt Ekland – (U.K.)

• Belladonna of Sadness – Japan

• 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 – starring Oliver Reed – Italy/France/West Germany
• Blood of the Dragon – Hong Kong
• Blue Blood, starring Oliver Reed, Fiona Lewis and Derek Jacobi- (U.K.)
• Blume in Love, starring George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson
• Bobby, starring Rishi Kapoor – (India)
• Book of Numbers, directed, produced by and starring Raymond St. Jacques
• Il Boss 1 starring Henry Silva & Richard Conte – Italy
• Breezy – directed by Clint Eastwood, starring William Holden and Kay Lenz
• A Brief Vacation – directed by Vittorio De Sica – Italy
• Brother of the Wind
• Cahill U.S. Marshal – starring John Wayne & George Kennedy
• Can Dialectics Break Bricks? – France
• The Candy Snatchers, starring Tiffany Bolling
• Charley and the Angel – starring Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Kurt Russell
• Charley Varrick – directed by Don Siegel, starring Walter Matthau, John Vernon, Joe Don Baker, Andy Robinson, Sheree North, Felicia Farr
• Charlotte’s Web – directed by Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto, starring the voices of Debbie Reynolds & 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 – UK
• Dark Places – starring Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Jane Birkin – UK
• Day for Night – directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont – France
• The Day of the Dolphin, directed by Mike Nichols, starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino
• The Day of the Jackal – directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig – UK/France
• The Death of a Lumberjack – Canada
• A Delicate Balance – starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, 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, Geoffrey Lewis
• A Doll’s House, starring Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins – UK

• A Doll’s House – directed by Joseph Losey, directed by Jane Fonda, David Warner, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seying, & Edward Fox

• The Don Is Dead, starring Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Ina Balin
• Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, starring Kim Darby and Jim Hutton – TV movie
• Don’t Look Now, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland – (U.K./Italy)
• 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
• England Made Me – starring Peter Finch & Michael York – UK
• Enter the Dragon** – directed by Robert Clouse, 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, Max von Sydow
• 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 – UK
• Five on the Black Hand Side, starring Godfrey Cambridge
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle – directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Mitchum, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Peter Boyle
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – starring Ingrid Bergman
• The Girls of Huntington House – directed by Alf Kjellin, starring Shirley Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Pamela Sue Martin, William Windom, & Sissy Spacek – TV movie
• Godspell, starring Victor Garber
• Godzilla vs. Megalon, directed by Jun Fukuda – (Japan)
• La Grande Bouffe (Blow-Out), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret – France/Italy
• The Hare Census – directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Nikola Todev, Georgi Rusev – Bulgaria
• The Harrad Experiment, starring Don Johnson, Tippi Hedren, James Whitmore
• Heavy Traffic – directed by Ralph Bakshi
• Hell Up in Harlem, starring Fred Williamson
• High Plains Drifter – directed by & starring Clint Eastwood, with Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Geoffrey Lewis
• The Hireling – directed by Alan Bridges, starring Robert Shaw & Sarah Miles – UK
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days – starring Alec Guinness – UK/Italy
• The Holy Mountain – directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky – Mexico/US
• Home Sweet Home – Belgium
• The Homecoming – directed by Peter Hall, starring Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Vivien Merchant – UK
• Hot Winds – directed by M.S. Sathyu – India
• The Hourglass Sanatorium – 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)
• The Iceman Cometh – directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges
• Idaho Transfer – directed by Peter Fonda
• Indian Summer, directed by Milen Nikolov, starring Georgi Partsalev, Leda Taseva, Tatyana Lolova – (Bulgaria)
• Interval, starring Merle Oberon
• The Invitation – directed by Claude Goretta – France/Switzerland
• Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future – USSR
• Jesus Christ Superstar – directed by Norman Jewison, starring Ted Neeley & Yvonne Elliman
• Jeremy, starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O’Connor
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull, featuring voices of James Franciscus and Juliet Mills
• Kid Blue – starring Dennis Hopper and Warren Oates
• Lady Ice, starring Donald Sutherland and Jennifer O’Neill
• Lady Snowblood – Japan
• The Last American Hero – starring Jeff Bridges
• The Last Detail, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young
• The Last of Sheila – directed by Herbert Ross, starring Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason, Ian McShane, & Raquel Welch
• The Laughing Policeman, starring Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanna Cassidy, Cathy Lee Crosby
• The Legend of Hell House, starring Pamela Franklin and Gayle Hunnicutt
• The Legend of Paul and Paula – East Germany
• Le Magnifique, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset – (France)
• Little Tiger of Canton – starring Jackie Chan – Hong Kong
• Live and Let Die – starring Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, & Yaphet Kotto – UK
• Lolly-Madonna XXX – starring Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges
• The Long Goodbye – directed by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, Jim Bouton
• Lost Horizon, starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey
• Love and Anarchy – directed by Lina Wertmüller – Italy
• Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing – directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Timothy Bottoms and Maggie Smith
• The Mackintosh Man – starring Paul Newman – UK/US
• Magnum Force – directed by Ted Post, starring Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
• Malizia (Malicious) – (Italy)
• Manson, a documentary film about Charles Manson
• Marco – starring Desi Arnaz Jr., Jack Weston & Zero Mostel
• Massacre in Rome – directed by George Pan Cosmatos, starring Richard Burton & Marcello Mastroianni – aka Rappresaglia – Italy
• Maurie – directed by Daniel Mann, starring Bo Svenson & Bernie Casey
• Mean Streets – directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Harvey Keitel & Robert De Niro
• The Mother and the Whore – France
• My Dear Brother – starring Tarık Akan, Halit Akçatepe and Kahraman Kıral – Turkey
• My Name is Nobody – starring Terence Hill & Henry Fonda – Italy
• The Neptune Factor, starring Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine
• The No Mercy Man, starring Sid Haig and Ron Thompson
• Night Flight from Moscow – starring Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde – France/Italy/Germany
• Night Watch – starring Elizabeth Taylor & Laurence Harvey – UK
• The Night Strangler – starring Darren McGavin – TV movie
• The Ninja Warlord – directed by by See-Yuen Ng, starring Sing Chen, Yasuaki Kurata, Irene Ryder, Yuan-Shen Huang, Chiang Chou, Lan Sun, Kwok-Choi Hon, Yukio Someno, & Li-Jen Ho
• The Nutcracker – USSR
• Oklahoma Crude – directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Faye Dunaway & George C. Scott
• O Lucky Man! – directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts – UK
• The Olsen Gang Goes Crazy (Olsen-banden går amok) – (Denmark)
• The Paper Chase, starring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman
• Paper Moon – directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal, Madeline Kahn
• Paperback Hero – starring Keir Dullea & Elizabeth Ashley – Canada
• Papillon – directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Steve McQueen & Dustin Hoffman
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid – directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, with music by Dylan
• The Pedestrian – directed by Maximilian Schell, starring Peggy Ashcroft – West Germany/Switzerland/Israel
• Property Is No Longer a Theft – starring Ugo Tognazzi – Italy
• The Pyx – starring Christopher Plummer and Karen Black – Canada
  Resurrection of Eve, starring Marilyn Chambers
• El Retorno de Walpurgis (a.k.a. The Curse of the Devil) – (Spain/Mexico)
• Robin Hood – starring the voices of Roger Miller, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas
• Save the Tiger – directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Jack Lemmon
• Scarecrow – directed by Jerry Schatzberg, starring Gene Hackman & Al Pacino
• Scenes from a Marriage – directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson – Sweden
• Scorpio, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, Gayle Hunnicutt
• Scream Blacula Scream – starring William H. Marshall & 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
• Shamus – starring Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John P. Ryan
• Showdown, starring Dean Martin and Rock Hudson
• Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad
• Sisters – directed by Brian De Palma
• Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off, starring Jim Brown, Brock Peters, Ed McMahon
• Sleeper – directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton
• A Slightly Pregnant Man – directed by Jacques Demy – starring Marcello Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve – aka L’Événement le plus important depuis que l’homme a marché sur la Lune – France/Italy
• Slither, starring James Caan, Sally Kellerman, 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, Casey Kasem
• Soylent Green – directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson, Chuck Connors, & Joseph Cotten
• The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) – (Spain)
• Stateline Motel – starring Eli Wallach, Ursula Andress, Fabio Testi – Canada/Italy
• Steelyard Blues – directed by Alan Myerson, starring Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, & Peter Boyle
• Steptoe and Son Ride Again – starred Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett – UK
• The Sting – directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Ray Walston
• The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson
• Super Fly T.N.T., directed by and starring Ron O’Neal
• Superdad – starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell
• Sweet Kill, starring Tab Hunter
• The Tenderness of Wolves – West Germany
• That’ll Be the Day, starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr – UK
• Theatre of Blood – starring Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, 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 Thief Who Came to Dinner – directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Ryan O’Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates
• The Three-Day Reign (Samil cheonha) – (South Korea)
• The Three Musketeers – directed by Richard Lester, starring Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch – UK/US
• Three Nuts 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 & 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 & Lindsay Wagner
• Ultimul cartuş (The Last Bullet) – (Romania)
• The Vault of Horror, starring Glynis Johns, Terry-Thomas, Curd Jürgens – (U.K.)
• Voices, starring David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt – (U.K.)
• 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, James Brolin
• White Lightning – starring Burt Reynolds
• Wicked, Wicked, starring David Bailey, Edd Byrnes, Tiffany Bolling
• The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy, starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento – (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
• Zanjeer (Shackles) – (India)
• Ziddi (Action)- (Pakistan)