Can you name the 5 biggest money-making movies from each year of the 1970s?

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Source: The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits
Ranking are based only on theatrical releases & re-releases through 1996, not videos or DVDs. Stars are as listed in the original credits.
Also try: Box Office Top 50 (2000s)

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1970
1. Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal
2. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin
3. Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland
4. George C. Scott, Karl Malden
5. Phil Harris, Eva Gabor

1975
1. Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw
2. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher
3. Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon
4. Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
5. Al Pacino, John Cazale

1971
1. Topol, Norma Crane
2. Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor
3. Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey
4. Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes
5. Sean Connery, Jill St. John

1976
1. Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire
2. Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson
3. Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin
4. Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh
5. Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman

1972
1. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino
2. Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine
3. Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal
4. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds
5. Robert Redford, Will Geer

1977
1. Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford
2. Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut
3. John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gormey
4. Burt Reynolds, Sally Field
5. Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason

1973
1. Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair
2. Paul Newman, Robert Redford
3. Richard Dreyfuss, Ronny Howard
4. Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman
5. Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford

1978
1. John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
2. Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman
3. John Belushi, Tim Matheson
4. Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke
5. Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary

1974
1. Steve McQueen, Paul Newman
2. Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder
3. Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle
4. Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner
5. Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor

1979
1. Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep
2. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy
3. Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters
4. Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire
5. Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver

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	Jaspers:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 04:34 GMT		16 points
	Why is typing in all caps an accepted form of written communication for you?

	strags11:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 04:41 GMT		16 points
	For anyone who complains that today's moviegoers lack the sophistication, aesthetic judgment and good taste of previous generations, I give you "The Trial Of Billy Jack" on a Top 5 list. Any further questions?

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	mellybmel:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 05:50 GMT		11 points
	'Young Frankenstein' and 'Blazing Saddles' in the same year? I didn't remember. Pretty impressive concentration of hilarity.

	lichenboy:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 06:20 GMT		13 points
	Eva Gabor threw me. I found myself thinking for a moment, "they didn't make Green Acres into a movie!..."

	adamnvillani:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 07:15 GMT		8 points
	Shouldn't Clint Eastwood's co-star for Every Which Way But Loose be the orangutan?

	WCRoentgen:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 08:37 GMT		4 points
	@mizark: I missed KK. Pretty sure I would have guessed it if Jessica Lange had been included (only listed 3rd in credits). Also missed #2 in 1978 but no doubt would have gotten it if #3 in credits (Christopher Reeve) had been listed. I mean, Brando top billed in "Superman"? Really?

	Mollse:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 08:44 GMT		13 points
	People didin't wanna see godfather part 2?

	Yojimbo:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 08:50 GMT		2 points
	the actor's called Roy Scheider

	hamstrung:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 10:19 GMT		1 point
	What's not to love about 134 minutes of a film starring Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, and a colossal gorilla?...the remaining 133 minutes that don't feature Dwan in a wet jungle dress.

	rockgolf:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 11:07 GMT		37 points
	Anyone interested in a sequel for the 1980s?

	halophex:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 11:17 GMT		7 points
	Definitely would've got Superman if Christopher Reeves were named. Couldn't place Brando in it. For some reason, the image of him as fat, pasty 'Dr Moreau' is permanently burned into my mind.

	dldove77:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 11:49 GMT		6 points
	Mark me down as interested in the 80s quiz.

	ivyagogo:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 12:07 GMT		2 points
	A lot of really great movies.

	joshmassey:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 12:34 GMT		2 points
	Great idea - very fun quiz. How are these numbers explained in the book? Box office receipts, theater rentals? Obviously, Rocky Horror has benefitted from 30+ years of midnight shows, because it originally wasn't that big of a hit. And I find it hard to believe The Godfather Part II wasn't one of its years five biggest.

	joe_in_indy:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 12:59 GMT		1 point
	Forgot all about the disaster movie craze back then: Poseidon, Inferno, Earthquake. And I couldn't figure out which Eastwood/Locke movie would make the list, since she was a barnacle on his career for about fifteen years.

	rockgolf:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 13:09 GMT		0 points
	By the way, if you haven't seen yesterday's front page quiz, The Best 2000 Films of the 20th Century head there now! It is EPIC! http://www.sporcle.com/games/MrChewypoo/_OMG_

	jtrichey:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 13:31 GMT		2 points
	Very interesting. No sequels were #1. Only one cartoon on the entire list. Actual artistic movies doing very well. A movie like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest now would be lucky to win its opening weekend and would only make a little money when the Oscar noms came out.

	pator:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 13:34 GMT		5 points
	Surprised Godfather 2 didn't make it.

	angels:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 13:54 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz. Enjoyed it.

1974
1. Steve McQueen, Paul Newman
2. Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder
3. Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle
4. Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner
5. Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor

	MrCaliChicago:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 14:19 GMT		1 point
	Network didn't make it? That really surprised me...

	basilutter:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 14:47 GMT		6 points
	Oh MAN do more people need to see "What's Up Doc?"! The very definition of hillllllarity!

	MMayes:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 15:22 GMT		2 points
	I remember the Billy Jack movies being popular, but it was the whole hippie thing. I didn't really like them then and thinking back, they were really pretty bad. I have to admit that Billy Jack was pretty much a bada$,however, especially with his, "I'm going to take my right foot and kick you on the left side of your face" bit.....

	moviegoer74:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 15:23 GMT		2 points
	You misspelled Roy SchEIder's name.

	chikka2:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 15:31 GMT		1 point
	In terms of this list could at least go toe to toe with current best box office hits

	BiloxiSean:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 16:56 GMT		4 points
	@abard124 What's a matter with Blazing Saddles, it's only the most UnPC movie ever made (BTW which makes it great). Even though it couldn't get made today, IMO it's Me Brooks best movie.

	expat:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 17:02 GMT		1 point
	I still get ill thinking about the popularity of Billy Jack. Even with that, and the disaster movies the 70's were far superior to todays "entertainment" (of course the same would be true for the 60's'and 80's)

	moonrvr61:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 17:56 GMT		1 point
	Great Quiz. Just watched the original trailer for Alien online this week -- how could you NOT want to see the movie after that? They really do need to have an Oscar for best movie trailer.

	pete32782:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 19:44 GMT		2 points
	Papillon...waaaaay too low.

	zamboni:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 20:14 GMT		1 point
	Don't hate on Billy Jack. He was just the west's answer to Buford Pusser. Sort of walking tall in moccasins.

	rudi:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 20:32 GMT		-1 points
	I swear I typed in "Fiddle on the Roof" and "any which way but loose" and neither was accepted!

	yellowdart5:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 21:15 GMT		3 points
	The top movies of the 70's are definitely very different from the top movies of the 2000's.

	rockgolf:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 21:49 GMT		4 points
	@rudi: I think "Fiddle on the Roof" was an X-rated parody of Fiddler on the Roof.