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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. 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 See also * List of Focus Features films * List of Universal Pictures theatrical animated feature films * Universal Pictures * :Lists of films by studio Notes References External links Universal Pictures {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Universal Pictures films (1970-1979) Lists of 1970s films 1970s in American cinema Universal Universal is the adjective for universe. Universal may also refer to: Companies * NBCUniversal, a media and entertainment company that is a subsidiary of Comcast ** Universal Animation Studios, an American Animation studio, and a subsidiary of N ... 1970–1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Pictures
Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal City Plaza, Universal Studios complex in Universal City, California, and is the flagship studio of Universal Studios, Inc., Universal Studios, the film studio arm of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers (producer), Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour, Universal is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States and the fifth oldest globally after Gaumont Film Company, Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus and Nordisk Film, and is one of the Major film studios, "Big Five" film studios. Universal's most commercially successful film franchises include ''Fast & Furious, Jurassic Park'', and ''Despicable Me''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreams Of Glass
''Dreams of Glass'' is a 1970 American drama film directed by Robert Clouse. It marked Danny DeVito's film debut. Plot Ann is the owner of a famous nursery and greenhouse from the Japanese family. Tom is from a blue-collar family of self-employed fishermen. They make a relationship, despite obstacles their families get in their way. Cast *John Denos as Tomm Parsegian *Caroline Barrett as Ann Murakoshi *Joe Lo Presti as Sam Parsegian * Donald Elson as Timothy *Danny DeVito as Thug * Smokestack Lightnin' as the bandRoy Liebman ''Musical Groups in the Movies, 1929-1970'' - 2009 Page 167 0786434848 "Smokestack Lightnin' Kelly Green, Ric Eiserling, Art Guy (drummer), Ron Darling A rock band of the mid-1960s, Smokestack Lightnin' frequently played at the famed Sunset Strip club Whiskey-A-Go-Go, the "in"...Their album "Off the Wall" has gained respect over the years since the group disbanded in 1970." See also * List of American films of 1970 This is a list of American films releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Sky At Morning (1971 Film)
''Red Sky at Morning'' is a 1971 American drama film based on the 1968 Richard Bradford novel of the same name. Directed by James Goldstone, it stars Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, and Desi Arnaz, Jr. Plot The film follows Josh Arnold, who moves to Corazon Sagrado, New Mexico with his mom while his dad serves in the military during World War II. The title of the book/film comes from a line in an ancient mariner's rhyme " Red sky at morning, sailor take warning". Cast * Richard Thomas as Joshua Arnold * Catherine Burns as Marcia Davidson * Desi Arnaz Jr. as William 'Steenie' Stenopolous * Richard Crenna as Frank Arnold * Claire Bloom as Ann Arnold * John Colicos as Jimbob Buel * Harry Guardino as Romeo Bonino * Strother Martin as John Cloyd * Nehemiah Persoff as Amadeo Montoya * Pepe Serna as Chango Lopez * Joaquin Garay as Ratoncito * Joy Bang as Corky * Alma Beltran as Excilda Montoya * Gregory Sierra as Chamaco Reception In ''The New York Times'', Roger Greenspu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taking Off (film)
''Taking Off'' is a 1971 American comedy film, directed by Miloš Forman. It tells a story of an average couple in the suburbs of New York City, who, when their teenage daughter runs away from home, connect with other parents of vanished children and learn something of youth culture. Plot Larry Tyne and his wife Lynn return home one evening to find that their teenage daughter Jeannie is not there. (Viewers know she is attending an audition, clips from which, with future star performers like Carly Simon and Kathy Bates, recur throughout the film). The Tynes ring the Divitos, with whose daughter Jeannie is supposed to be, but the Divitos' daughter claims she doesn't know where Jeannie is. Enlisting their friends Tony and Margot, the two men search the neighbourhood bars while the women stay by the phone and gossip about sex. When the men return home drunk, Jeannie reappears, only to vanish again. Next day, Larry goes into the city to search for her. In the street, he meets Ann Locks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Andromeda Strain (film)
''The Andromeda Strain'' is a 1971 American science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Robert Wise. Based on Michael Crichton's 1969 novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding, the film stars Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin. With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely. The special effects were designed by Douglas Trumbull. The film is notable for its use of split screen in certain scenes. Plot Dr. Jeremy Stone recounts the events before the United States Senate Committee on Space Sciences in 1971: After a U.S. government satellite crashes near the small rural town of Piedmont, New Mexico, on February 5, nearly all the residents are dead. A military recovery team from Vandenberg Air Force Base attempts to recover the satellite but dies while trying to do so. Suspecting that the satellite has brought back an alien organism, the mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Frame A Figg
''How to Frame a Figg'' is a 1971 comedy film about a bookkeeper's bungling assistant, Hollis Alexander Figg (played by Don Knotts), in the Dalton city hall, who finds himself framed for embezzlement. Plot Hollis Figg is an earnest if not too bright man whose devoted friend is a local sanitation worker, and whose girlfriend is the equally earnest Ema Letha, a pretty waitress at the diner across the street from City Hall, where Figg works as an accountant. When the Mayor, his staff, and Mr. Spaulding, the richest man in town, decide they need more cover for their shameless skimming from the city's coffers, they fire three of the four accountants in the basement and replace them with a giant computer named LEO (Large-Capacity Enumerating Officiator), keeping Figg whom they deem the dimmest of the four to run the computer that he barely comprehends. When Figg unexpectedly (and quite accidentally) stumbles upon discrepancies in a road works budget, they promote him to the "third floo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On Rommel
''Raid on Rommel'' is a 1971 American war film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Danielle De Metz and Wolfgang Preiss. The film centers on a British commando attempting to destroy German gun emplacements in Tobruk. Originally intended as a made-for-television film, ''Raid on Rommel'' extensively reuses action footage from 1967's ''Tobruk (1967 film), Tobruk'', and the storyline is also largely the same. The film was released by Universal Pictures on February 12, 1971, and was both a critical and commercial failure. Plot In Libya in 1942, Captain Alex Foster, an intelligence officer with the British Army, allows himself to be captured by a German Afrika Korps convoy transporting British prisoners, pretending to be injured. Once integrated with the prisoners, consisting of a medical unit and remnants of a commando force, Foster outlines his plans to take over the convoy, with the help of the prisoners, and redirect it towards the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Very Curious Girl
''A Very Curious Girl'' () is a 1969 French comedy-drama film directed, edited and co-written by Nelly Kaplan. Other English titles are ''Dirty Mary'' and ''Pirate's Fiancée''. Plot Marie is a young woman who lives in sheer poverty in the fictional village and '' commune'' of Tellier (an allusion to '' La Maison Tellier'') with her mother, a woman of obscure origins suspected to be a Romanichel sorcerer, and her pet buck. Marie and her mother are despised by the locals although Marie is also a sexual object for them, including her lesbian boss Irène. When her mother dies after a hit-and-run accident, Marie refuses to allow the local priest to giver her a Christian burial, citing the mistreatment to which the church and people of Tellier had subjected them both. Instead, she convinces several of the townspeople to bury her mother outside the small shack they share on Irène's farm and decides to take revenge on those people who take advantage of her. She begins sleeping w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David L
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as "Davidic line, House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', ''Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, Historicity of the Bible, the historicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love My Wife (film)
''I Love My Wife'', stylized as ''I Love My...Wife'', is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Mel Stuart. It stars Elliott Gould and Brenda Vaccaro. Plot Richard Burrows is a medical student with a pregnant wife, Jody, who becomes unappealing to him before and after childbirth; she abstains from sex and gains weight. When her mother moves in with them, Richard's home life frustrates him even more. Flirtations with nurses and patients begin, with Jody catching him being unfaithful. But after he becomes a surgeon at a Los Angeles hospital, the infidelity continues. Richard meets a married model, Helene Donnelly, and begins meeting her secretly in motels. They contemplate getting divorces. Richard decides to make one last attempt to save his marriage. He evicts his mother-in-law from the premises and persuades Jody to go to a weight-loss center. When his wife returns, she is slim and beautiful again and Richard is pleased, until learning that now she wants a divorce. Cast *Ell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puzzle Of A Downfall Child
A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together ( or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to find the solution of the puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles. The academic study of puzzles is called enigmatology. Puzzles are often created to be a form of entertainment but they can also arise from serious mathematical or logical problems. In such cases, their solution may be a significant contribution to mathematical research. Etymology The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' dates the word ''puzzle'' (as a verb) to the 16th century. Its earliest use documented in the ''OED'' was in a book titled ''The Voyage of Robert Dudley...to the West Indies, 1594–95, narrated by Capt. Wyatt, by himself, and by Abram Kendall, master'' (published circa 1595). The word later came to be us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Act Of The Heart
''The Act of the Heart'' is a 1970 Canadian drama film written, directed and produced by Paul Almond, and starring Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac and Sharon Acker. Plot Martha Hayes (Geneviève Bujold) is a devoutly religious young woman from Québec's Côte-Nord who fancies herself as some kind of a saint. She has come to Montreal to serve as a nanny to Russell (Bill Mitchell), the son of a widowed business woman (Monique Leyrac). Martha joins a church choir and becomes attracted to Father Michael Ferrier (Donald Sutherland), an Augustinian friar who has selected her to sing solo in an interfaith concert. Russell accidentally dies. Martha suffers a crisis in faith and to Ferrier declares her love for him. Ferrier reciprocates and leaves the order so they can live together with Martha singing to support them. She is tormented by guilt for betraying her profound religious principles she immolates herself on a hill (Mount Royal) overlooking Montreal. Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
