1970’s Movies

1. 1970’s Movies

2. 1970 Patton • Won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (George C. Scott) (7 Oscars) • About General in WWII Tora! Tora! Tora! Love Story • Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal

3. Love Story • “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”- famous quote from movie Wife dies young in Movie, tearjerker film

4. 1971 • The French Connection • Won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Gene Hackman) • A Clockwork Orange • Shaft • Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood)

5. The French Connection • Cops, drug smuggling • Ring with a French • Connection

6. 1972 • The Godfather • Won Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando) • Deliverance (Burt Reynolds) • Cabaret • Won Best Director and Best Actress (Liza Minnelli)

7. The Godfather • Leader of Organized crime Family transfers Control to his son

8. 1973 • The Sting (Paul Newman, Robert Redford) Best Picture, Best Director (7 Oscars) • American Graffiti (George Lucas) • The Exorcist • The Way We Were (Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford)

9. 1930’s Chicago • Con man seeks Revenge for Murdered partner • Takes on criminal banker

10. The Exorcist • Landmark of Horror films • Girl possessed • Cleric called in As last hope

11. 1974 • The Godfather, Part II (Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton) Won Best Picture, Best Director • Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder) • Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder)

12. 1975 • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress Louis Fletcher, Best Actor Jack Nicholson) • Jaws (Steven Spielberg) • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

13. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest • Randle P. McMurphy • Playing crazy to Avoid prison work • Sent to state mental hospital for eval

14. Jaws • Great White starts to Menace the people of Beach community “You'll never go in the water again!”

15. 1976 • Rocky (Best Picture, Best Director) Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith • All the President’s Men (Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford) • Taxi Driver (Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd)

16. Rocky • A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. “His whole life was a million-to-one shot.”

17. Taxi Driver • A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver & has urge to violently lash out. “You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?”

18. 1977 • Annie Hall (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton) Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress • The Goodbye Girl (Best Actor, Richard Dreyfuss) • Star Wars (George Lucas) Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

19. Star Wars • Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader.

20. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg) • Saturday Night Fever (John Travolta)

21. 1978 • The Deer Hunter (Best Picture, Best Director) Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken • Coming Home (Best Actress Jane Fonda, Best Actor Jon Voight) • Grease (John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John

22. Superman (Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman) • National Lampoon’s Animal House (John Belushi, Donald Sutherland, Tim Matheson)

23. Superman • An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest super-hero.

24. 1979 • Kramer vs Kramer (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor Dustin Hoffman) • Apocalypse Now (Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen) • Norma Rae (Sally Field- Best Actress)

25. Kramer vs Kramer • A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him

26. Norma Rae • A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved