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Director: Mike Nichols    More Info
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann - Margret, Candice Bergen, Rita Moreno, Cynthia O'Neal, Carol Kane

 College roommates in the 1940s, Jonathan and Sandy (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel) are stuck in their emotional developments and do not seem able to move beyond physical relationships with women. They both compete for Susan (Candice Bergen), and Sandy marries her in what turns out to be an unsuccessful marriage. Ten years later, Jonathan is unhappily married to Bobbie (Ann-Margret). Now it is the 1960s, and Sandy is with hippie girlfriend Jennifer (Carol Kane), while Jonathan is again single. Sandy's question: "If you had the choice...would you rather love a girl or have her love you?" is still a puzzlement for both. The film made a name for Ann-Margret who won an Oscar nomination for her role as Bobbie.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini    More Info
Starring: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Giuseppe Zigaina, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Angela Luce, Silvana Mangano, Vincenzo Amato, Vincenzo Cristo, Gabriella Frankel, Vincenzo Ferrigno

 Boccaccio's story is the first of a series of three, 14th century tales brought to the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini. "Canterbury Tales" (1972) and "Arabian Nights" (1974) follow. The stories in this film involve lovers, merchants, priests, and scoundrels handling life in their own unique ways in a world filled with sexual repression during a much earlier era.

Director: Jack Nicholson    More Info
Starring: William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne, Henry Jaglom, Cindy Williams, David Ogden Stiers, Douglas Ryan, Michael Warren

 The story is about the problems encountered by college basketball players as they travel to and from games in other cities. Hector (William Tepper) is the star player at his Ohio college and is having an affair with Olive (Karen Black) who is the wife of one of the professors. Hector's roommate Gabriel (Michael Margotta) is also on the team and is about to drop out of school. Gabriel is rebelling and involved in radical political causes in an effort to avoid being drafted and going to Viet Nam. This film is Jack Nicholson's directorial debut.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen    More Info
Starring: James Stewart, George Kennedy, Anne Baxter, Strother Martin, Kurt Russell, William Windom, Katherine Cannon, Mike Kellin, Morgan Paull, Robert Donner

 Mattie Appleyard (James Stewart) is an ex-convict who, upon release from prison wants to open a general store with his friends who are also ex-convicts. But, problems rise to the fore when a prison guard, Doc Council (Arthur Kennedy), is hired to kill him and his friends.

Director: James Goldstone    More Info
Starring: Jerry Orbach, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jo Van Fleet, Lionel Stander, Robert De Niro, Herve Villechaize, Michael V. Gazzo

 Adapted from Jimmy Breslin's novel, this comedy tells the tale of a group of not-so-successful crooks operating in New York.

Director: Stephen Frears    More Info
Starring: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay, George Innes, George Silver, Bill Dean, Wendy Richard

 Comedian and nightclub bingo caller Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) dreams of becoming a detective. Despite warnings from his brother and sister-in-law William and Ellen (Frank Finlay and Billie Whitelaw), Eddie uses a newspaper to advertise his services as a private-eye. He is hired by Jacob De Fries (George Silver) and soon finds himself involved in drug and gun smuggling as well as dealing with members of the South African liberation movement.

Director: Mark Robson    More Info
Starring: Rod Steiger, Susannah York, George Grizzard, Don Murray, William Hickey, Steven Paul, Pamelyn Ferdin

 Based on a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. story, this plot revolves around big-game hunter Harold Ryan (Rod Steiger) who returns home after several years and is greeted by his wife Penelope who–unlike her namesake–has not waited patiently for his return.

Director: Hal Ashby    More Info
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Ellen Geer, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Eric Christmas, G. Wood, William Lucking, Judy Engles

 This cult classic is a dark comedy in which 19-year-old Harold (Bud Cort), who is obsessed with death, demonstrates creative ways to fake his own death to scare his dominating mother (Vivian Pickles). His mother wants him to start dating, but Harold is busy attending funerals and has no time for women in his life. While attending a funeral, Harold meets and then falls in love with swinging, life-loving 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon)–much to the disgust of his mother. But, as Harold passes into manhood, Maude teaches him lessons about how best to spend his time on Earth. Good soundtrack by Cat Stevens.

Director: Boris Sagal    More Info
Starring: Tim Matheson, Sally Field, Neville Brand, Kathleen Freeman, Slim Pickens, Denver Pyle, Don Knight, John Fiedler, John McLiam, Bo Svenson

 Newlyweds Roselle and Clare Bridgeman (Sally Field and Tim Matheson) head West in search of a better life, but end up having to deal with crooks. To make matters worse, they become separated, and their adventures continue This Comedy/Western is a sequel to "Lock, Stock and Barrel."

Director: Arthur Hiller    More Info
Starring: George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Richard Dysart, Stephen Elliott, Andrew Duncan, Nancy Marchand, Roberts Blossom, Robert Walden, Frances Sternhagen

 Incompetence in a major teaching hospital results in deaths of patients in this film, which won the Academy Award for "Best Script." Scott received an Oscar nomination for his acting.

Director: Alan Rafkin    More Info
Starring: Don Knotts, Joe Flynn, Edward Andrews, Elaine Joyce, Yvonne Craig, Frank Welker, Parker Fennelly, Bill Zuckert, Pitt Herbert, Robert P. Lieb

 Hollis Alexander Figg (Don Knotts), a shaky assistant bookkeeper at City Hall, is framed by corrupt city officials of stealing money from the city's funds. With the help of wholesome Ema (Elaine Joyce) and a computer, Hollis is cleared after the usual hilarity.

Director: Noel Black    More Info
Starring: Michael Brandon, Tippy Walker, Lou Gilbert, Steve Vinovich, Peter Bonerz, Renee Taylor, Robert De Niro, Chuck McCann

 This entry into the drug films genre hits an all-time low. The story is about a bored couple who travel the world doing themselves in through drug use. Can you believe De Niro has a bit part?

Director: Jack Lemmon    More Info
Starring: Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Ellen Geer, Darrell Larson, Paul Picerni, Biff Elliot, Dee Carroll, Lucy Saroyan

 This is Jack Lemmon's directorial debut, and he directs pal Walter Matthau as well as his own wife, Felicia Farr. Joseph P. Kotcher (Matthau) is an older man who fights off his son Gerald (Charles Aidman) and daughter-in-law Wilma's (Felicia Farr) attempt to put him in a retirement home. Meanwhile, he becomes friend and advisor to a young, pregnant woman, Erica Herzenstiel (Deborah Winters). Matthau received an Oscar nomination.

Director: Alan Arkin    More Info
Starring: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Jon Korkes, John Randolph, Doris Roberts, Donald Sutherland, Lou Jacobi, Alan Arkin

 This Jules Feiffer comedy, set in a depressing atmosphere of urban blight, features Elliott Gould as Alfred Chamberlain whose wife is murdered on their wedding night, which leads to Alfred falling into a "new" world as an assassin.

Director: Jerry Thorpe    More Info
Starring: Tim Matheson, Belinda Montgomery, Claude Akins, Jack Albertson, Neville Brand, Burgess Meredith, Robert Emhardt, John Beck, Charles Dierkop, Joe Di Reda

 During the 1880s, Clarence and Roselle (Tim Matheson and Belinda Montgomery) elope and head West. As they travel through the untamed land, they hook up with escaped convict Punck Logan (Claude Akins) and charlatan preacher Reverend Willie Pursle (Burgess Meredith) and experience many adventures in this comedy/western that spawned a sequel, "Hitched."

Director: Robert B. Bean    More Info
Starring: Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna, Paul Sorvino, Olympia Dukakis, Helen Verbit, Louis Zorich, Norman Shelley, Adam Arkin, Ron Carey, Peggy Pope

 Two dysfunctional people (Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna) meet at their encounter session that begins an offbeat relationship that leads to marriage. Very funny.

Director: Vincent McEveety    More Info
Starring: Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts, James Gregory, Lee Montgomery, Jack Kruschen, Virginia Vincent, Jack Bender, Frank Wilcox

 Research scientist Albert Dooley (Dean Jones) takes home a duck from the lab and gives it to his son, Jimmy (Lee Montgomery). The duck had wandered into the lab and was accidentally irradiated. Now, wonder of wonders, the duck lays golden eggs, which solves the Dooley family's financial problems. But other troubles come to the fore when the neighbors start snooping around.

Director: John Cassavetes    More Info
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery, Timothy Carey, Katherine Cassavetes, Elizabeth Deering, Elsie Ames, Lady Rowlands, Holly Near, Judith Roberts

 Divorced, proper, well-educated Minnie (Gena Rowlands) is having an affair with an abusive married man. After he stops the relationship with her when his wife threatens suicide, Minnie tries the blind-date route that turns out badly. She then meets Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel), a parking lot attendant who rescues her from an angry date. A love affair between opposites follows in this enjoyable film.

Director: Elaine May    More Info
Starring: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose, William Redfield, James Coco, Graham Jarvis, Doris Roberts, Rose Arrick, Renee Taylor

 Once-wealthy Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) plans to regain financial status by marrying heiress Henrietta Lowell (Elaine May) and then killing her. Plans change when he turns over a new leaf and becomes a loving spouse.

Director: Ralph Thomas    More Info
Starring: Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer, Britt Ekland, Cyd Hayman, Janet Key, Tracey Crisp, Antonia Ellis, Tracy Reed, Patrick Mower

 Following the first penis transplant, the recipient, Edwin Anthony (Hywel Bennett), names it "Percy." Edwin goes through an identity crisis, and, to solve his problem, he determines to gain knowledge about the donor. The donor was killed in an accident, and Edwin investigates his life and many loves–including Helga (Elke Sommer) and Dorothy (Britt Ekland). There is a sequel: "Percy's Progress."

Director: Arthur Hill    More Info
Starring: Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant, Jose Ocasio, Dan Ferrone, Louise Sorel, Jenny Sullivan, Tom Carey

 This Neil Simon comedy is actually three comic vignettes of people who stay in one particular suite of the Plaza Hotel.

Director: Fred(2) Wolf    More Info
Starring: Ringo Starr, Paul Frees, Lennie Weinrib, Bill Martin, Buddy Foster, Joan Gerber, Mike Lookinland

 Narrated by Ringo Starr, this is an entertaining animated film about a little boy named Oblio (voice of Mike Lookinland) who is banished from his homeland because he has a round head, and all the people and objects around him have points on their tops.

Director: Harry Hurwitz    More Info
Starring: Chuck McCann, Ina Balin, Rodney Dangerfield, Jara Kahout, Harry Hurwitz, Robert King, Stephen Phillips

 A movie projectionist (Chuck McCann) finds relief from his tyrannical boss (Rodney Dangerfield–in his film debut) by using his imagination to reverse their roles and projects this into the movies he shows.

Director: Robert Enrico    More Info
Starring: Lino Ventura, Brigitte Bardot, Bill Travers, Clive Revill, Jess Hahn, Antonio Casas, Andreas Voutsinas, Guy Marchand, Jack Betts, Roger Jacquet

 During the United States' prohibition era, rum-runner Captain Cornelius von Zeelinga (Lino Ventura) sails the Caribbean Sea with his smuggled rum. While on one of his runs, he meets and falls in love with his favorite actress Linda Larue (Brigitte Bardot), and a doomed romance ensues.

Director: John D. Wilson    More Info
Starring: Carol Channing, Eddie Bracken, Alan Reed, John Carradine, Hal Smith, Ken Sansom, Joan Gerber, Sal Delano, Byron Kane

 This animated musical was adapted by Mel Brooks from Don Marquis' stories about a very literate writer, Archy (voice of Eddie Bracken), who happens to be a cockroach and Mehitabel (voice of Carol Channing) the not-so-good cat who is prone to trouble and claims to have been Cleopatra in an earlier life.