1970’s Movies
1970
Patton
Won Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Actor (George C. Scott) (7 Oscars)
 About General in WWII
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Love Story
 Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal
Love Story
“Love means never having to say
you’re sorry.”- famous quote from
movie
Wife dies young in
Movie, tearjerker film
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1971
The French Connection
 Won Best Picture, Best Director,
Best Actor (Gene Hackman)
 A Clockwork Orange
 Shaft
 Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood)
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The French Connection
Cops, drug smuggling
 Ring with a French
 Connection
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1972
The Godfather
 Won Best Picture, Best Actor
(Marlon Brando)
 Deliverance (Burt Reynolds)
 Cabaret
 Won Best Director and Best Actress
(Liza Minnelli)
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The Godfather
Leader of
Organized crime
Family transfers
Control to his son
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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)
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1930’s Chicago
 Con man seeks
Revenge for
Murdered partner
 Takes on criminal
banker
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The Exorcist
Landmark of
Horror films
 Girl possessed
 Cleric called in
As last hope
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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)
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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
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Randle P. McMurphy
 Playing crazy to
Avoid prison work
 Sent to state mental
hospital for eval
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Jaws
Great White starts to
Menace the people of
Beach community
“You'll never go in the
water again!”
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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)
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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.”
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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?”
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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
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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.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(Steven Spielberg)
 Saturday Night Fever (John Travolta)
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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
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Superman (Christopher Reeve,
Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman)
 National Lampoon’s Animal House
(John Belushi, Donald Sutherland,
Tim Matheson)
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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.
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1979
Kramer vs Kramer (Best Picture,
Best Director, Best Actor Dustin
Hoffman)
 Apocalypse Now (Marlon Brando,
Martin Sheen)
 Norma Rae (Sally Field- Best
Actress)
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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
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Norma Rae
A young single mother
and textile worker
agrees to help unionize
her mill despite the
problems and dangers
involved
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