By Patrick Mondout
The Poseidon Adventure was the runaway winner at the box office while The Sting won Best Picture at the Oscars. Other notable movies of 1973 include:
American Graffiti
Badlands
Bang The Drum Slowly
Black Caesar
Cahill - US Marshal
Charlotte's Web
Cleopatra Jones
Coffy
Crazies
Day for Night
Day of the Jackal
Detroit 9000
Dillinger
Don't Look Now
Enter The Dragon
The Exorcist
The Getaway
Godspell
Harder The Come
Heavy Traffic
Hell Up In Harlem
High Plains Drifter
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Last Detail
The Last of Sheila
Legend Hell House
Live and Let Die
The Long Goodbye
The Mack
Mean Streets
O Lucky Man
Paper Chase
Paper Moon
Papillon
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Return of the Dragon
Robin Hood
Save The Tiger
Scarecrow
Serpico
Seven Ups
Shaft in Africa
Sisters
Slaughter's Big Ripoff
Sleeper
Soylent Green
The Sting
Switchblade Sisters
Theatre of Blood
A Touch of Class
Walking Tall
The Way We Were
Westworld
White Lightning
Wicker Man
5: Paper Moon ($13M)
4: Live and Let Die ($15.5M)
3: The Getaway ($17.5M)
2: Deliverance ($18M)
1: The Poseidon Adventure ($40M)