Avanti (1972) - A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father’s body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing. Director: Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard) Writer: Billy Wilder...
The Getaway (1972) - A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong. Director: Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs) Writer: Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs.) Release Date: December 13, 1972 Domestic Box Office: $36...
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) - When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape. Director: Ronald Neame (The Poseidon Adventure, The Guns of Navarone) Writer: Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night, The Towering Inferno)...
The Mechanic (1972) - Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets’ deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It’s made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he’s so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of...
Last Tango in Paris (1972) - A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, 1900, The Last...
Lady Sings the Blues (1972) is an American biographical musical drama film about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on her 1956 autobiography which, in turn, took its title from Holiday's song. It was directed by Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File) and produced...
Sounder (1972) - The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food. Director: Martin Ritt (Hud, The Great Gatsby, Norma Rae) Writer: Lonne Elder III (The River...
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) - A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier. Director: Sydney Pollack (They...
Hammersmith Is Out (1972) - 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 offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he’ll help him escape. Director: Peter Ustinov...