List of Universal Pictures films (1970–1979)
This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1970–1979, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast.
Release date | Title | Notes |
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January 21, 1970 | Change of Habit | co-production with NBC Productions |
February 13, 1970 | Story of a Woman | |
March 6, 1970 | Skullduggery | |
April 8, 1970 | Colossus: The Forbin Project | |
April 1970 | Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | |
May 28, 1970 | Two Mules for Sister Sara | |
May 29, 1970 | Airport | Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Picture Followed by Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde ... Airport '79 |
June 3, 1970 | Pufnstuf | co-production with Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures |
August 10, 1970 | Diary of a Mad Housewife | |
August 16, 1970 | Dreams of Glass | |
August 27, 1970 | A Time in the Sun | |
A Nun at the Crossroads | ||
November 25, 1970 | The Act of the Heart | |
December 16, 1970 | Puzzle of a Downfall Child | |
December 21, 1970 | I Love My Wife | |
December 30, 1970 | A Very Curious Girl | |
February 12, 1971 | Raid on Rommel | |
February 1971 | How to Frame a Figg | |
March 12, 1971 | The Andromeda Strain | |
March 28, 1971 | Taking Off | |
March 31, 1971 | The Beguiled | |
May 12, 1971 | Red Sky at Morning | |
June 1, 1971 | One More Train to Rob | |
June 9, 1971 | They Might Be Giants | |
July 7, 1971 | Two-Lane Blacktop | |
August 11, 1971 | The Hired Hand | |
September 29, 1971 | The Last Movie | distribution only; produced by Alta-Light |
October 13, 1971 | Shoot Out | |
October 28, 1971 | The Railway Children | distribution only; produced by EMI Films |
November 12, 1971 | Play Misty for Me | co-production with The Malpaso Company and Jennings Lang |
December 22, 1971 | Minnie and Moskowitz | co-production with Faces Music |
February 2, 1972 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. |
March 2, 1972 | Sometimes a Great Notion | co-production with Newman-Foreman Company |
March 10, 1972 | Silent Running | co-production with Trumbull/Gruskoff Productions |
March 15, 1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | |
March 23, 1972 | The Ra Expeditions | |
June 14, 1972 | The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | co-production with Robertson and Associates |
June 21, 1972 | The Groundstar Conspiracy | distribution only; co-production with Hal Roach Studios |
Frenzy | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. | |
June 1972 | Twins of Evil | U.S. distribution only; co-production with Hammer Film Productions and The Rank Organisation |
July 13, 1972 | Hands of the Ripper | U.S. distribution only; co-production with Hammer Film Productions and The Rank Organisation |
July 18, 1972 | Follow Me! | |
July 19, 1972 | Joe Kidd | |
October 13, 1972 | You'll Like My Mother | distribution only; produced by Bing Crosby Productions |
October 19, 1972 | Play It as It Lays | |
October 27, 1972 | Ulzana's Raid | co-production with De Haven Productions and The Associates & Aldrich Company |
November 1972 | Limbo | |
December 17, 1972 | Pete 'n' Tillie | |
December 22, 1972 | Trick Baby | |
March 18, 1973 | Two People | |
April 18, 1973 | Bequest to the Nation | |
May 1, 1973 | Guns of a Stranger | |
June 20, 1973 | Showdown | |
July 30, 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. |
July 1973 | SSSSSSS | co-production with The Zanuck/Brown Company |
August 1, 1973 | The Naked Ape | co-production with Playboy Enterprises |
August 11, 1973 | American Graffiti | distribution only; produced by Lucasfilm, American Zoetrope and The Coppola Company Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Followed by sequel in 1979 |
August 15, 1973 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. |
August 22, 1973 | High Plains Drifter | |
October 19, 1973 | Charley Varrick | |
November 14, 1973 | The Don Is Dead | |
November 18, 1973 | Breezy | |
November 23, 1973 | The Boy Who Cried Werewolf | co-production with Pacific Bay Entertainment and RKF |
December 25, 1973 | The Sting | Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Followed by sequel in 1983 |
December 1973 | That Man Bolt | |
January 23, 1974 | Willie Dynamite | |
April 5, 1974 | The Sugarland Express | |
May 17, 1974 | The Black Windmill | |
June 14, 1974 | The Midnight Man | |
June 1974 | My Name is Nobody | |
August 21, 1974 | Newman's Law | |
August 22, 1974 | The Girl from Petrovka | |
October 18, 1974 | Airport 1975 | |
Janis | ||
November 15, 1974 | Earthquake | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. |
December 17, 1974 | The Front Page | Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. |
March 13, 1975 | The Great Waldo Pepper | |
March 28, 1975 | Homo Eroticus | |
May 21, 1975 | The Eiger Sanction | |
June 20, 1975 | Jaws | Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. Followed by sequels in 1978, 1983, and 1987 co-production with The Zanuck/Brown Company |
October 8, 1975 | Sidecar Racers | |
November 1975 | Rooster Cogburn | |
November 14, 1975 | The Other Side of the Mountain | |
December 7, 1975 | Special Section | |
December 25, 1975 | The Hindenburg | |
January 1976 | Jim the World's Greatest | |
February 11, 1976 | Gable and Lombard | |
March 31, 1976 | W.C. Fields and Me | |
March 1976 | Mustang Country | |
April 9, 1976 | Family Plot | |
June 18, 1976 | Midway | co-production with Mirisch Company |
July 16, 1976 | The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | co-production with Motown Productions |
July 29, 1976 | Swashbuckler | |
August 1976 | The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones | |
October 22, 1976 | Car Wash | |
October 24, 1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | |
November 4, 1976 | The Slipper and the Rose | U.S. theatrical distribution only; produced by David Paradine Productions |
November 12, 1976 | Two-Minute Warning | |
1977 | Checkered Flag or Crash | U.S. theatrical distribution only; released overseas by Warner Bros. |
January 7, 1977 | The Sentinel | |
February 11, 1977 | Fellini's Casanova | U.S. theatrical distribution only |
February 25, 1977 | Slap Shot | |
March 11, 1977 | Airport '77 | |
May 13, 1977 | The Car | |
May 27, 1977 | Smokey and the Bandit | plus sequels in 1980 and 1983 |
May 1977 | Forever Young, Forever Free | |
June 17, 1977 | Rollercoaster | |
June 24, 1977 | Sorcerer | distribution only; co-production with Paramount Pictures |
July 15, 1977 | MacArthur | |
The Last Remake of Beau Geste | ||
November 4, 1977 | Which Way Is Up? | |
November 17, 1977 | Heroes | |
December 23, 1977 | The Choirboys | distribution only; produced by Lorimar Productions |
December 30, 1977 | Scott Joplin | co-productions with Motown Productions |
January 6, 1978 | September 30, 1955 | |
February 10, 1978 | The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 | |
Blue Collar | co-production with TAT Communications Company | |
February 1978 | Skateboard | co-production with Blum Group |
March 10, 1978 | Gray Lady Down | co-production with Mirisch Company |
March 15, 1978 | House Calls | |
April 21, 1978 | I Wanna Hold Your Hand | |
April 28, 1978 | FM | |
May 10, 1978 | Nunzio | |
May 12, 1978 | The Greek Tycoon | produced by ABKCO |
June 16, 1978 | Jaws 2 | |
July 21, 1978 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | co-production with Robert Stigwood Organisation |
July 28, 1978 | Animal House | |
Five Days from Home | co-production with Long Rifle and Winchester | |
September 22, 1978 | Almost Summer | co-production with Motown Productions |
Paradise Alley | ||
October 6, 1978 | The Big Fix | |
October 24, 1978 | The Wiz | co-production with Motown Productions |
November 2, 1978 | Caravans | |
November 22, 1978 | Same Time, Next Year | co-production with Mirisch Company |
December 8, 1978 | The Brink's Job | |
December 22, 1978 | Moment by Moment | co-production with Robert Stigwood Organisation |
1979 | ||
February 23, 1979 | The Deer Hunter | Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. distribution only; produced by EMI Films |
March 8, 1979 | The Promise | |
March 30, 1979 | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | |
May 1, 1979 | Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider | |
May 18, 1979 | Battlestar Galactica | modified version released theatrically of pilot film for 1978 ABC-TV series |
June 15, 1979 | Walk Proud | |
July 20, 1979 | Dracula | co-production with Mirisch Company |
August 3, 1979 | More American Graffiti | distribution only; produced by Lucasfilm |
August 17, 1979 | The Concorde ... Airport '79 | |
The Prisoner of Zenda | co-production with The Mirisch Corporation | |
The Seduction of Joe Tynan | ||
September 14, 1979 | The Legacy | distribution only; co-production with David Foster Productions, Pethurst Ltd. and Turman-Foster Company |
September 19, 1979 | Yanks | U.S. distribution only; United Artists released the film overseas |
November 16, 1979 | Running | |
December 14, 1979 | 1941 | International distribution only; produced by Columbia Pictures and A-Team |
The Jerk | co-production with Aspen Film Society | |
December 21, 1979 | The Electric Horseman | co-production with Columbia Pictures, Rastar Productions and Wildwood Productions |
See also[]
- List of Focus Features films
- List of Universal Pictures theatrical animated feature films
- Universal Pictures
- Category:Lists of films by studio
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