By Patrick Mondout
Jaws was not only the biggest box office success of the year, but it was also the first movie to surpass $100M One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won Best Picture at the Oscars Here are some of the other notable pictures of 1975:
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Apple Dumpling Gang
Barry Lyndon
Benji
Bite the Bullet
A Boy and his Dog
Brannigan
Breakheart Pass
Breakout
Bucktown
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Cooley High
Cornbread, Earl and Me
The Day of the Locust
Death Race 2000
Dersu Uzala
Devil's Rain
Dog Day Afternoon
Dolemite
Drowning Pool
The Eiger Sanction
Escape to Witch Mountain
Farewell, My Lovely
The Fortune
Four Musketeers
Fox and His Friends
French Connection II
Friday Foster
Funny Lady
Great Waldo Pepper
Hard Times
Hester Street
The Hindenburg
Jaws
Katie Tippel
Killer Elite
The Land That Time Forgot
Let's Do It Again
Lisztomania
Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Love and Death
The Magic Flute
Mahler
Mahogany
The Man Who Would Be King
Mandingo
Mitchell
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nashville
Night Moves
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Prisoner of Second Avenue
Race with the Devil
Rancho Deluxe
Return of the Pink Panther
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rollerball
Rooster Cogburn
Salo, Or the 120 Days of Sodom
Shampoo
Sheba, Baby
Shivers
Smile
Stepford Wives
Story of Adele H.
Story of O
Strongest Man in the World
Sunshine Boys
Swept Away
Switchblade Sisters
Three Days of the Condor
T.N.T. Jackson
Tommy
Trilogy of Terror
Wind and the Lion
Yakuza
Young Frankenstein
5: The Godfather, Part II ($28.9M)
4: Young Frankenstein ($30M)
3: Benji ($30.8M)
2: The Towering Inferno ($55M)
1: Jaws ($102.7M)