United Artists Films of 1970
This list contains the films produced and distributed by United Artists in 1970. List in order of when films were released in the United States.
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- DirectorAllen FuntStarsJoie AddisonLaura HustonMartin MeyersFrom Candid Cameraman Allen Funt comes a hysterical feature films that tells and shows all. Witness America's response to one of the most titillating stunts of all time in this hilarious expose of sex and society.Box office: $5 million (US / Canada rentals)
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroTony MusanteFranco GiacobiniA greedy Polish mercenary helps a mine worker and a peasant girl lead a revolution against the Mexican Government, all while being pursued by an American rival.Released in U.S. March 6, 1970; Directed by Sergio Corbucci; Music by Bruno Nicolai
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMartin PotterHiram KellerMax BornA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.Released in U.S. March 11, 1970; Budget: $3 million; Gross: $1.4 million (US / Canada rentals); $8 million (outside Italy)
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnnie GirardotMaria Pia ConteFilming in the USA, Henri and Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.Released in U.S. March 16, 1970
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames FranciscusElizabeth ShepherdRonald AllenAn American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.
- DirectorRod AmateauStarsIan McShaneAnna Calder-MarshallJohn GavinAn American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsAlan BatesOliver ReedGlenda JacksonTwo best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.Released in U.S. March 25, 1970; Budget: $1.6 million; Gross: $1.2 million (US /Canada); $4.5 million (Worldwide)
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsCatherine DeneuveJean-Paul BelmondoNelly BorgeaudA wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.Released in U.S. April 10, 1970; Budget: $1.6 million; Box office: $1.3 million (world)
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsCalvin LockhartJanet MacLachlanJeff BridgesAn all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.Starring Jeff Bridges; Budget: $1.6 million
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsStuart WhitmanJohn CollinMartin JarvisDuring the final days of WW2, an Allied commando team races toward a German rocket base to abduct a Nazi scientist before the fast advancing Soviet troops could reach him.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsMarcello MastroianniBillie WhitelawCalvin LockhartA social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.Budget: over £400,000
- DirectorMichael Lindsay-HoggStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonThe filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back-to-basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsBeau BridgesLee GrantDiana SandsAt the age of 29, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind. He's grown fond of the black tenants and particularly of Fanny (Diana Sands), the wife of a black radical; he's maybe fallen in love with Lanie (Marki Bey), a mixed race girl; he's lost interest in redecorating his home. Joyce (Lee Grant), his mother has not relinquished this interest and in one of the film's most hilarious sequences gives her MasterCharge card to Marge (Pearl Bailey), a black tenant and appoints her decorator.
- DirectorOssie DavisStarsGodfrey CambridgeRaymond St. JacquesCalvin LockhartTwo Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser.Gross: $5.2 million (US / Canada rentals)
- DirectorBarry BrownStarsNicholas PryorJoanna MilesLois SmithA mid-life crisis propels a disaffected advertising executive out of his marriage and into a series of disastrous love affairs with a series of women. He will eventually return to his wife, chastened.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannBibi AnderssonMax von SydowA recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.Released in U.S. May 28, 1970
- DirectorJerry LewisStarsSammy Davis Jr.Peter LawfordJohn WoodTwo night club owners find themselves in trouble with the law. One of them goes to his English Lord brother for help, and the Lord is later murdered. He swaps places with his dead brother to solve the murder.
- DirectorTom GriesStarsCharlton HestonTina ChenGeraldine ChaplinCaptain Whip returns to Hawaii. He's inherited "worthless" land. He starts a plantation, staffed with a Chinese couple from his ship. Drilling thru lava for water and stealing/smuggling pineapple from French Guyana, things look brighter.Gross: $2.3 million (US / Canada rentals)
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsJohn HansenJoan TompkinsQuinn K. RedekerA sex-change operation that changed "George" into "Christine" in 1950s Denmark.Budget: $1 million; Gross: $1.5 million (US / Canada rentals)
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsDavid McCallumSuzanne NeveCharles GrayIn World War II, an RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret German V-2 rocket testing facility in France.Released in U.S. July 1, 1970
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsSidney PoitierMartin LandauBarbara McNairIn San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.Gross: $2.35 million (US / Canada rentals)
- DirectorPaul WilliamsStarsJon VoightSeymour CasselRobert DuvallA radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.Starring Jon Voight
- DirectorJán KadárStarsZero MostelHarry BelafonteIda KaminskaMorris Mishkin is an elderly Jewish tailor plagued by hard times who prays to God for help and receives it in the person of a most unusual angel named Levine, a young, black, Jewish hustler from somewhere between Harlem and Heaven.
- DirectorRobert Downey Sr.StarsJoe MaddenJames GreenMariclare CostelloIn a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
- DirectorElio PetriStarsFranco NeroVanessa RedgraveGeorges GéretAfter moving into a dilapidated rural villa to reinvigorate his creative energies, a neurotic artist becomes obsessed with a beautiful countess who died there many years prior.Released in U.S. August 28, 1970
- DirectorGianfranco ParoliniStarsLee Van CleefWilliam BergerIgnazio SpallaA master gunfighter sides with a banjo-playing drifter and a Mexican tramp to foil the dignitaries of Daugherty, who want to use stolen army money to buy land that the railroad will cross.Released in U.S. September 2, 1970
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsLee Van CleefWarren OatesForrest TuckerAt a river crossing, a stand-off between a gang of outlaws and local townsfolk ensues when the ferry barge operator refuses to ferry the gang across the river.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonFranco CirinoStarsRock HudsonSylva KoscinaSergio FantoniIn 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing up a vital enemy dam.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsFrançois TruffautJean-Pierre CargolFrançoise SeignerIn a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.Box office: $800,000
- DirectorKen LoachStarsDavid BradleyBrian GloverFreddie FletcherA working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel.Released in U.S. September 13, 1970; Budget: £157,000
- DirectorDaniel HallerStarsRobert ForsterLauren HuttonWill GeerYoung priest Greg begins having philosophical differences with the church. He meets a divorced social worker and, despite their differences, begin a sexual relationship. Greg has to decide where the church and Pamela fit into his future.
- DirectorPhilippe de BrocaStarsPhilippe NoiretBert ConvyValentina CorteseMarie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She did agree to follow him if he moves her village to New York.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsMick JaggerClarissa Kaye-MasonMark McManusThe impoverished son of Irish immigrants is pushed by wrongful police persecution into becoming Australia's most notorious bushranger.Budget: A$2,500,000; Box office: $808,000 (Australia)
- DirectorArthur H. NadelStarsRobert GouletDanièle GaubertLawrence DobkinOccupied France during WWII. The American Dawson parachutes over France and gets in contact with the French resistance. He has a plan to kidnap the German general Stryker.
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsMarlon BrandoEvaristo MárquezRenato SalvatoriIn 1844, a British mercenary helps the revolting slaves of an Antilles island colony gain independence from Portugal, but later returns to hunt down a local rebel leader and former protégé.Released in U.S. October 21, 1970
- DirectorLamont JohnsonStarsBrian KeithHelmut GriemIan HendryDuring WW2, German POWs in Britain plot to escape from their prison camp in Scotland.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsRobert StephensChristopher LeeColin BlakelyWhen a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.Budget: $10 million
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsGeorge PeppardGiovanna RalliRaf ValloneIn 1916, when a Mexican rebel steals cannons from the American army, General Pershing sends out a group of misfits to retrieve the stolen weapons.
- DirectorJim JacobsStarsRichard KileyMuhammad AliCus D'AmatoThe documentary story of Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) -- the heavyweight boxing champion whose style and courage captured the imagination of the world.
- DirectorCarl ReinerStarsGeorge SegalRuth GordonRon LeibmanWhen an attorney meets the girl of his dreams, he fears that his batty mother will scare her off, so he schemes to eliminate the senile old woman.
- DirectorSerge DanotEric ThompsonStarsChristian RiehlPaul BiscigliaNadine LegrandLife at the Magic Roundabout is disrupted when a blue cat called Buxton finds his way into town. Everyone loves Buxton except for Dougal, who discovers the cat's mad plan to become the king of blue army and destroy all who are not blue.