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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.
Office Romance (Служебный роман) (1977 film)
Office Romance (Служебный роман) is a 1977 Mosfilm two-part comedy by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky, based on their play Co-Workers, starring Alisa Freindlikh and Andrey Myagkov; it drew 58.4 million Soviet viewers and won the 1979 RSFSR State Prize.
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.
Real Life (1979 film)
Real Life (1979) is Albert Brooks's mockumentary feature debut, a Paramount comedy satirizing An American Family; Brooks films a Phoenix family and interferes, grossing $364,642.
Same Time, Next Year (film)
Same Time, Next Year (1978) is Robert Mulligan's romantic comedy, adapted by Bernard Slade from his Broadway play, starring Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda as annual trysting spouses; four Oscar nominations, 1,453-performance stage run.
Semi-Tough
Semi-Tough is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, based on Dan Jenkins' novel and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh.
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.
Starting Over
Starting Over is a 1979 American romantic comedy directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, and Candice Bergen. James L. Brooks's first feature screenplay, adapted from Dan Wakefield's novel, earned Clayburgh and Bergen Oscar nominations and grossed $26.5 million in 52 days.
That Obscure Object of Desire
That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) is Luis Buñuel's 1977 final film, adapted from Pierre Louÿs, starring Fernando Rey with Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina alternating as Conchita.
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 Cat from Outer Space
The Cat from Outer Space is a 1978 Walt Disney live-action sci-fi comedy directed by Norman Tokar, written by Ted Key, starring Ken Berry and the alien cat Zunar J-5/9 Doric-4-7, nicknamed Jake, who needs $120,000 in gold to repair his ship.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American comedy-mystery written by Neil Simon, starring Peter Falk as a San Francisco private eye parodying Humphrey Bogart films.
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 Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 Neil Simon romantic comedy directed by Herbert Ross, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, and Quinn Cummings as unwilling Manhattan roommates; Dreyfuss won the 1978 Best Actor Oscar.
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 In-Laws (1979 film)
The In-Laws (1979) is an Arthur Hiller comedy written by Andrew Bergman, starring Alan Arkin as a dentist and Peter Falk as a CIA agent, prospective fathers-in-law caught in a counterfeiting plot; cult classic, Criterion edition, remade 2003.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy directed by Carl Reiner, starring Steve Martin in his feature film debut as Navin R. Johnson, a naive man raised by a sharecropper family.
The Kentucky Fried Movie
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) is an American sketch comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, parodying TV, commercials, and Enter the Dragon in A Fistful of Yen; first release of United Film Distribution Company.
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 Man Who Loved Women
The Man Who Loved Women (L'homme qui aimait les femmes) is François Truffaut's 1977 French comedy-drama starring Charles Denner as womanizing engineer Bertrand Morane, told in flashback from his funeral; remade by Blake Edwards in 1983 with Burt Reynolds and Julie Andrews.