By Patrick Mondout
Love Story was number one at the box office while The French Connection won Best Picture at the Oscars. Violence in the movies was a big story in the media with the near simultaneous release of A Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, and Straw Dogs. Notable movies from '71 include:
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Andromeda Strain
Bananas
Barefoot Executive
Bed & Board (Domicile Conjugal)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
The Beguiled
Big Doll House
Billy Jack
Carnal Knowledge
Clockwork Orange
Death In Venice
The Decameron
The Devils
Diamonds are Forever
Dirty Harry
Fiddler on the Roof
Fistful of Dynamite
French Connection
Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Get Carter
Go-Between
Harold and Maude
The Hospital
Johnny Got His Gun
Klute
Kotch
Lawman
Last Picture Show
The Last Valley
Le Mans
Little Murders
MacBeth
Mary, Queen of Scots
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Murphy's War
The Music Lovers
A New Leaf
Nicholas and Alexandra
The Omega Man
The Organization
Play Misty For Me
Plaza Suite
Railway Children
Shaft
Sometimes a Great Notion
Straw Dogs
Summer of '42
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
They Call Me Trinity
They Might Be Giants
THX 1138
Two-Lane Blacktop
Valdez Is Coming
Vanishing Point
Walkabout
Waterloo
Willard
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
5: The Owl & the Pussycat ($11.5M)
4: Ryan's Daughter ($13.4M)
3: Summer of '42 ($14M)
2: Little Big Man ($15M)
1: Love Story ($50M)