By Patrick Mondout
The year was a great one for the film industry with at least three truly great films in release. Star Wars was a phenomenon setting an all-time box office record with $127M. Annie Hall won big at the Oscars including the Best Picture award and Close Encounters of the Third Kind missed out on some Oscars because it had the misfortune of being released the same year as Star Wars. Here are some of the other notable pictures of 1977:
1900
A Bridge Too Far
Aguirre-The Wrath of God
Ai No Corrida
Airport '77
Allegro Non Troppo
The American Friend
Annie Hall
Are You Being Served? The Movie
Audrey Rose
Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
Black Sunday
Bobby Deerfield
Candleshoe
The Car
The Cassandra Crossing
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cross Of Iron
The Deep
Desperate Living
The Eagle Has Landed
Equus
Eraserhead
The Exorcist II
Fun With Dick and Jane
The Gauntlet
The Goodbye Girl
Hardware Wars
Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo
The Hills Have Eyes
The Hobbit
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Islands in the Stream
Jabberwocky
Julia
Kentucky Fried Movie
King Kong
The Last Wave
The Late Show
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
MacArthur
The Man Who Loved Women
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
New York, New York
Oh, God!
One on One
Opening Night
Orca
The Other Side of Midnight
Padre Padrone
Pete's Dragon
Pumping Iron
Rabid
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
Rescuers
Rollercoaster
Rolling Thunder
Saturday Night Fever
Semi-Tough
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Slap Shot
Slipper and the Rose
Smokey and the Bandit
Sorcerer
The Spy Who Loved Me
A Star is Born
Star Wars
Stroszek
Suspiria
That Obscure Object of Desire
Turning Point
Wizards
5: King Kong ($35.8M)
4: A Star is Born ($37.1M)
3: Smokey & the Bandit ($39.7M)
2: Rocky ($54M)
1: Star Wars ($127M)