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Treasure Island, starring Orson Welles – (France/Germany/Spain/US) Trick Baby, starring Kiel Martin and Mel Stewart. The Triple Echo, directed by Michael Apted, starring Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed – ( U.K.) Trouble Man, directed by Ivan Dixon, starring Robert Hooks and Paul Winfield.
1972 1h 27m R 5.9 ( 5.4K ) Rate When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
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December 20, 1972. Man of La Mancha. $365,996. [50] 52. December 27, 1972. The Poseidon Adventure. $777,700. The Poseidon Adventure reached number one in its second week of release.
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John Adams, representing Massachusetts in the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, laments the body's refusal to debate his motion to declare the colonies' independence from Great Britain and instead to discuss more trivial matters. Disliked by most of his fellow Congressmen, he frequently seeks advice and comfort from his wife, Abigail. Be...
An original motion picture soundtrack album was released in 1972 by Columbia Records on vinyl LP records. It contains all the musical numbers, with the exception of "Cool, Cool Considerate Men" and "Compliments". The soundtrack also contains the edited versions of some of the musical numbers that were presented in full on the laserdisc and DVD rele...
Jack L. Warnerbought the film rights to the musical for $1.25 million. Many members of the original Broadway cast, including William Daniels, Ken Howard, John Cullum, and Howard da Silva, reprised their roles for the film. Ralston Hill, Ron Holgate, David Ford, Charles Rule and others repeated their roles from the Broadway production, marking their...
According to The Columbia Companion to American History on Film, historical "[i]naccuracies pervade 1776, though few are very troubling."Because Congress was held in secrecy and there are no contemporary records on the debate over the Declaration of Independence, the authors of the play created the narrative based on later accounts and educated gue...
Critical reception
Vincent Canby of The New York Times observed, "The music is resolutely unmemorable. The lyrics sound as if they'd been written by someone high on root beer, and the book is familiar history—compressed here, stretched there—that has been gagged up and paced to Broadway's not inspiring standards. Yet Peter H. Hunt's screen version of 1776... insists on being so entertaining and, at times, even moving, that you might as well stop resisting it. This reaction, I suspect, represents a clear triumph...
Box office
The film was the Christmas attraction at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and performed very well, grossing $1,743,978 in its first six weeks. It did not perform as well in its other opening engagements in Philadelphia, Boston and Washington. It returned to the Music Hall for two weeks starting June 3, 1976 in honor of the United States Bicentennial.
Accolades
The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy but lost to Cabaret. Harry Stradling Jr. was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography but lost to Geoffrey Unsworth for Cabaret. The film is recognized by American Film Institutein these lists: 1. 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals– Nominated
1776 at IMDb1776 at the TCM Movie Database1776 at AllMovie1776 at the American Film Institute CatalogFeb 13, 1972 · Cabaret: Directed by Bob Fosse. With Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey. A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
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5. The Poseidon Adventure. 1972 1h 57m PG. 7.1 (49K) Rate. 70 Metascore. A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea. Director Ronald Neame Stars Gene Hackman Ernest Borgnine Shelley Winters. 6.
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