Events
Top grossing films
- North America
- The Sting
- The Exorcist
- Papillon
- Magnum Force
- Herbie Rides Again
- Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korman
- The Trial of Billy Jack
- The Great Gatsby
- Serpico
- Death Wish
Births
Deaths
- January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
- February 7 - Arline Judge, actress
- February 11 - Anna Q Nilsson, actress
- February 23 - Florence Rice, actress
- February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
- March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actress
- March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
- March 19 - Edward Platt, actor
- April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor
- April 10 - Patricia Collinge, actress
- April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
- April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
- May 25 - Donald Crisp, actor
- August 20 - Ilona Massey, actress
- September 6 - Olga Baclanova, actress
- September 18 - Edna Best, actress
- September 21 - Walter Brennan, actor
- September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley Of The Dolls
- October 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
- November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
- November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor
- December 15 - Anatole Litvak, director
- December 21 - Richard Long, actor
- December 26 - Jack Benny, actor
Other movies released
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
- Chinatown
- The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winner
- Death Wish
- The Apprenticeship of Dudley Kravitz, Golden Bear winner
- Son of Dracula
- Dreams and Nightmares - (Abe Osheroff)
- The Klansman
- Lovin' Molly
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too (short subject)
- The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Fred Astaire
- Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Madeline Kahn.
- Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
- Earthquake
- The Godfather: Part II
- Black Christmas
- Benji
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- Airport 1975
- The Longest Yard
- That's Entertainment
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- Amarcord
- Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman
- The Last Detail
- Thieves Like Us
- Sugarland Express
- Where the Lilies Bloom
- Lacombe, Lucien
- Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
- Alvin Purple Rides Again
- Petersen
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Lords of Flatbushde:Filmjahr 1974
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