20th Century Fox Films of 1972
This list contains the films produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox in 1972. List in order of when films were released in the United States.
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- DirectorJack CoufferStarsNicholas ClaySusan MacreadyIan RichardsonVictorian naturalist Charles Darwin sails on the HMS Beagle and returns with a shocking theory of evolution.
- DirectorFerdinando BaldiStarsTony AnthonyRingo StarrLloyd BattistaAfter fifty mail-order brides are kidnapped by bandits, the blind gunfighter hired to escort them heads into Mexico in pursuit.Released in U.S. January 12, 1972
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsRobert RedfordGeorge SegalRon LeibmanDortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...Budget: $4,895,000; Gross: $3.5 million (US /Canada rentals)
- DirectorPhilippe LabroStarsJean-Louis TrintignantDominique SandaSacha DistelA strange series of murders are being committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissionaire Carella is in charge and tries desperately to find a missing link between all of these murders.Released in U.S. February 19, 1972
- DirectorSaul SwimmerStarsGeorge HarrisonBob DylanRavi ShankarThe first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise humanitarian relief funds for the refugees of Bangladesh of 1971 war.
- DirectorDick RichardsStarsGary GrimesBilly Green BushLuke AskewYoung farmboy who always wanted to be a cowhand talks a tough trail boss into hiring him on a cattle drive.Budget: $1 million; Rentals: $1.25 million (US/ Canada)
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsUta HagenDiana MuldaurChris UdvarnokyA series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.Budget: $2,250,000; Rentals: $3.5 million (US / Canada)
- DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsBill GrahamMarty BalinElvin BishopA dozen rock groups are shown playing in the final five nights of shows leading up the closing of Fillmore West on July 4, 1971.
- DirectorBill BainStarsVanessa HowardMona WashbournePaul NicholasIn order to collect inheritance money, a slacker tries to induce a heart attack in his invalid grandmother by convincing her that she's become the target of youth supremacists who want to enact a genocide on the elderly.
- DirectorJack StarrettStarsBonnie BedeliaKen HowardAnthony ZerbeA traveling salesman gives a pretty female hitchhiker a ride to her home, a run-down shack in the desert. She then injures his leg in order to hold him captive.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRoddy McDowallDon MurrayRicardo MontalbanIn a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.Budget: $1.7 million; Box office: $9.7 million
- DirectorGeorge BloomfieldStarsAlan AldaBlythe DannerHeath LambertsA young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath (Alan Alda) with two dogs more vicious than his temper.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsBarry NewmanAnna KarinaKlaus Maria BrandauerA list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.Budget: $1,955,000
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsJoe Don BakerPaul KosloAlan VintA group of Green Berets return from Viet Nam and go on a cross country road trip which will result in a shocking conclusion.Released in U.S. September 8, 1972
- DirectorMartin RittStarsCicely TysonPaul WinfieldKevin HooksThe 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.Budget: $900,000; Box office: $16,889,761
- DirectorRobert YoungStarsAdrienne CorriThorley WaltersAnthony HigginsAs the plague sweeps the countryside, a quarantined village is visited by a mysterious traveling circus. Soon, young children begin to disappear, and the locals suspect the circus troupe might be hiding a horrifying secret.
- DirectorStuart MillarStarsRichard WidmarkFrederic ForrestLuana AndersA young, rebellious Ute Indian joins the rodeo circuit and falls in with a drunken mentor who teaches him the ways of the ring and the world.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando ReyDelphine SeyrigPaul FrankeurA surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.Budget: $800,000
- DirectorIvan DixonStarsRobert HooksPaul WinfieldRalph WaiteA neighborhood "problem solver" is framed for murder by a couple of local crime bosses trying to get him out of the way.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean-Louis TrintignantRobert RyanLea MassariA crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsLaurence OlivierMichael CaineAlec CawthorneA man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.Budget: $5 million; Gross: $5.75 million (rentals)
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsGene HackmanErnest BorgnineShelley WintersA group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.Budget: $4.7 million; Box office: $93.3 million
- DirectorElaine MayStarsCharles GrodinCybill ShepherdJeannie BerlinA newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman.Gross: $5.6 million (US / Canada rentals)
- DirectorPaul NewmanStarsJoanne WoodwardNell PottsRoberta WallachA middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student.Directed by Paul Newman