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Nickelodeon (1976 film)
Nickelodeon is Peter Bogdanovich's 1976 Columbia-British Lion/EMI comedy, starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, and Tatum O'Neal, about 1910 independent filmmakers fighting the Patents Company, based on Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh stories.
O Lucky Man!
O Lucky Man! (1973) is Lindsay Anderson's picaresque black comedy starring Malcolm McDowell as coffee salesman Mick Travis, middle film of the Mick Travis trilogy, with songs by Alan Price and BAFTAs for music and Arthur Lowe.
Paper Moon (film)
Paper Moon (1973) is Peter Bogdanovich's black-and-white comedy-drama starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal as Depression-era Kansas con artists, adapted from Joe David Brown's novel Addie Pray; Tatum O'Neal won the Oscar at age 10.
Play It Again, Sam
Play It Again, Sam (1972) is a Herbert Ross romantic comedy written by and starring Woody Allen, adapted from his 1969 Broadway play, with Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts; Allan Felix gets dating advice from a hallucinated Humphrey Bogart in a Casablanca parody.
Pulp (1972 film)
Pulp (1972) is a British satirical thriller by Mike Hodges, originally titled Memoirs of a Ghost Writer, starring Michael Caine as ghostwriter Mickey King and Mickey Rooney in Malta; a Get Carter follow-up shot in Malta to avoid Mafia interference.
Shampoo (film)
Shampoo (1975) is a Hal Ashby sex farce, written by Warren Beatty and Robert Towne, starring Beatty as Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy on election eve 1968, with Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant (Oscar winner), Jack Warden, and Carrie Fisher.
Silent Movie
Silent Movie is a 1976 American slapstick comedy directed by Mel Brooks, who stars as a director pitching the first major silent film in forty years.
Small Change
Small Change (L'Argent de poche, "Pocket Money") is François Truffaut's 1976 French comedy-drama about children in Thiers; also a 1976 Tom Waits album on Asylum and a Peter Gill play.
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 Disney Western comedy starring Bill Bixby, Don Knotts, and Tim Conway, about a gambler who inherits three orphans.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (L'Apprentissage de Duddy Kravitz) is Ted Kotcheff's 1974 Canadian film adapted from Mordecai Richler's 1959 novel, starring Richard Dreyfuss; it won the 1974 Berlin Golden Bear and an Oscar nomination for adapted screenplay.
The Fortune (1975 film)
The Fortune (1975) is a Mike Nichols comedy starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Stockard Channing about 1920s con men scheming for an heiress's fortune via the Mann Act; a box-office failure.
The Front
The Front (1976) is Martin Ritt's comedy-drama, written by blacklisted Walter Bernstein, in which Woody Allen's cashier fronts for blacklisted TV writers; Zero Mostel co-stars, and Bernstein's script earned an Oscar nomination.
The House of 72 Tenants (七十二家房客)
The House of 72 Tenants (七十二家房客) is a 1973 Shaw Brothers Cantonese satirical comedy directed by Chor Yuen, remaking Wang Wei-yi's 1963 film; it topped the 1973 Hong Kong box office with HK$5.62 million and revived Cantonese cinema.
The Landlord
The Landlord (1970) is Hal Ashby's directorial debut, a comedy-drama starring Beau Bridges as a rich young man who buys a Brooklyn tenement, with Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, and Oscar-nominated Lee Grant.
The Last Detail
The Last Detail is a 1973 Hal Ashby comedy-drama, written by Robert Towne from Darryl Ponicsan's novel, starring Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, and Randy Quaid as Navy sailors on a prisoner escort; Nicholson won Best Actor at Cannes 1974 and the film earned three Oscar nominations.
The Legend of Paul and Paula
Die Legende von Paul und Paula (The Legend of Paul and Paula) is a 1972/73 DEFA romantic drama by Heiner Carow and Ulrich Plenzdorf, starring Angelica Domröse and Winfried Glatzeder with music by Die Puhdys; the most popular East German film ever, a cult classic.
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy anthology film directed and produced by Graham Stark for Tigon British, with seven sketches on the deadly sins written by Galton and Simpson, Milligan, Chapman, and Cryer; a box office failure noted for Milligan's Sloth and Corbett's Lust.
The Opening of Misty Beethoven
The Opening of Misty Beethoven is a 1976 hardcore adult film by Radley Metzger (as Henry Paris), a Pygmalion adaptation starring Constance Money and Jamie Gillis, widely ranked the greatest adult film of its era.
The Out of Towners
The Out of Towners, also styled The Out-of-Towners, is Neil Simon's 1970 Paramount comedy directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as the Kellermans, an Ohio couple whose New York job-interview trip becomes a disaster.
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussycat is a 1970 Columbia romantic comedy directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal, adapted from Bill Manhoff's Broadway play, Streisand's first non-singing film role.
The Seduction of Mimi
The Seduction of Mimi (Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore) is Lina Wertmüller's 1972 Italian political sex-farce starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato; a Sicilian laborer who defies the Mafia, loses his job, and rebuilds his life in Turin.
The Strongest Man in the World
The Strongest Man in the World (1975) is a Walt Disney comedy, the third Medfield College film, starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, whose cereal gains superhuman strength from a lab accident.
The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys is Neil Simon's 1972 Broadway comedy about feuding vaudeville duo Lewis and Clark reunited for a CBS special; it became a 1975 MGM film.
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire) is a 1972 French spy farce by Yves Robert starring Pierre Richard, with Vladimir Cosma's pan-flute score, a 1973 Berlin festival award, a 1974 sequel, and a Tom Hanks remake.
The Way We Were
The Way We Were (1973), Sydney Pollack's romantic drama starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford as Katie Morosky and Hubbell Gardiner, written by Arthur Laurents, Oscar-winning music by Marvin Hamlisch, set against the Hollywood blacklist.
Trafic
Trafic (Traffic) is Jacques Tati's 1971 French-Italian comedy, the fourth and final Monsieur Hulot film, following Hulot's gadget-laden camper car from Paris to the Amsterdam auto show through a road movie of breakdowns and traffic jams.
W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings
W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings is a 1975 American comedy film starring Burt Reynolds as W.W. Bright, a crook robbing gas stations in the 1950s South.
We All Loved Each Other So Much
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Italian: C'eravamo tanto amati) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama by Ettore Scola following three former Resistance friends through thirty years of postwar Italian history.
What's Up, Doc? (1972 film)
What's Up, Doc? is a 1972 American screwball comedy directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, and Madeline Kahn. A homage to Bringing Up Baby set in San Francisco, it was the third highest-grossing film of 1972 and the first Warner Communications release.
Xica
Xica (Xica da Silva) is a 1976 Brazilian comedy-drama by Carlos Diegues, starring Zezé Motta as the enslaved woman who became Queen of Diamonds in colonial Minas Gerais; based on João Felício dos Santos's novel, it won at Festival de Brasília and drew over three million viewers.