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 World War II, an Allied commando team races toward a German rocket base to abduct a German scientist before the quickly advancing Soviet troops can 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 SandsNaïve 29-year-old Elgar Enders buys a building in a black Brooklyn ghetto to evict the tenants and upgrade it. But instead, he grows fond of the tenants and falls in love with a mixed-race girl while his wealthy parents disapprove.
- 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