1972 Movies

The Godfather

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Country: United States of America

Outline: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Cabaret

Directed by: Bob Fosse

Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey

Country: United States of America

Outline: A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

What's Up, Doc?

Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich

Starring: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars

Country: United States of America

Outline: The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Deliverance

Directed by: John Boorman

Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Country: United States of America

Outline: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Jeremiah Johnson

Directed by: Sydney Pollack

Starring: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee

Country: United States of America

Outline: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians, and proves to be a match for their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.

Frenzy

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey

Country: United States of America

Outline: A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

The Getaway

Directed by: Sam Peckinpah

Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers

Country: United States of America

Outline: A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.

The Poseidon Adventure

Directed by: Ronald Neame

Starring: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons

Country: United States of America

Outline: A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

Lady Sings the Blues

Directed by: Sidney J. Furie

Starring: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan

Outline: The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Directed by: George Roy Hill

Starring: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man named Billy Pilgrim tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.

The Mechanic

Directed by: Michael Winner

Starring: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland

Country: United States of America

Outline: An aging hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Directed by: John Huston

Starring: Paul Newman, Ava Gardner, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs

Country: United States of America

Outline: In Vinegaroon, Texas, former outlaw Roy Bean appoints himself the judge for the region and dispenses his brand of justice as he sees fit.

Silent Running

Directed by: Douglas Trumbull

Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

Country: United States of America

Outline: In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

Man of La Mancha

Directed by: Arthur Hiller

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews

Country: United States of America

Outline: The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.

Joe Kidd

Directed by: John Sturges

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud

Country: United States of America

Outline: An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.

Asylum

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Starring: Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Peter Cushing

Outline: In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

They Only Kill Their Masters

Directed by: James Goldstone

Starring: James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook, Harry Guardino

Outline: California small town police chief investigates a suspicious death involving the victim's own dog that presumably killed its owner.

The Wrath of God

Directed by: Ralph Nelson

Starring: Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth, John Colicos

Outline: Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.

Boxcar Bertha

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey

Country: United States of America

Outline: During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

The Groundstar Conspiracy

Directed by: Lamont Johnson

Starring: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts

Outline: A government investigator tries to find out the truth behind the break-in at a top secret research facility.

Hammersmith Is Out

Directed by: Peter Ustinov

Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Beau Bridges

Outline: The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (...

Skyjacked

Directed by: John Guillermin

Starring: Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins

Outline: A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.

Kansas City Bomber

Directed by: Jerrold Freedman

Starring: Raquel Welch, Kevin McCarthy, Helena Kallianiotes, Norman Alden

Outline: Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Night of the Lepus

Directed by: William F. Claxton

Starring: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley

Outline: Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.