http://movies.amctv.com/movie-guide/favorite-movies-1970s.php The Godfather, Jaws, and Star Wars all made history during the seventies. Which flick ruled the decade? en Copyright 2012 Mon, 04 May 2009 14:57:30 -0500 http://services.rainbow-media.com http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification movie-name 20076 Part one of Francis Ford Coppola's epic stars Marlon Brando as a don who must discipline his unruly youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20076/Godfather/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20076/Godfather/overview 20090113204103 46636 At the start of George Lucas's epic, a farm boy (Mark Hamill) disovers a message from a princess (Carrie Fisher) that leads him into a battle over the fate of the universe. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/46636/Star-Wars/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/46636/Star-Wars/overview 20090113204156 20078 Coppola's riveting sequel flashes back to the rise of Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) and forward to the fall of his son Michael (Al Pacino). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20078/Godfather-Part-II/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/20078/Godfather-Part-II/overview 20090113203953 25912 Police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) teams up with scientist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) to kill a man-eater in the popular thriller from Steven Spielberg. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/25912/Jaws/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/25912/Jaws/overview 20090113204118 36363 Milos Forman's adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel has Jack Nicholson leading a rebellion at an insane asylum against martinet Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36363/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoo-s-Nest/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/36363/One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoo-s-Nest/overview 20090113204219 41846 A down-and-almost-out Philadelphia boxer (Sylvester Stallone) is given the chance to rise again during a bout against heavyweight champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/41846/Rocky/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/41846/Rocky/overview 20090113204107 1503 In Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror, a spaceship crew member (John Hurt) gives birth to a vicious parasite that wreaks havoc and then meets the indomitable Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1503/Alien/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/1503/Alien/overview 20090113204132 2675 Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam fable (via Joseph Conrad) has a callow captain (Martin Sheen) sent into the jungle to extract mad Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2675/Apocalypse-Now/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/2675/Apocalypse-Now/overview 20090113204452 48731 Martin Scorsese's gritty New York fable features an isolated, angry cabbie (Robert De Niro) who tries to right the life of a teen hooker named Iris (Jodie Foster). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/48731/Taxi-Driver/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/48731/Taxi-Driver/overview 20090113204436 46920 Robert Redford and Paul Newman pair up again for a Depression-era comedy about an unscrupulous duo's attempt to scam a rival (Robert Shaw). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/46920/Sting/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/46920/Sting/overview 20090113204004 16331 When 14-year-old Regan (Linda Blair) proves uncontrollable by her mother (Ellen Burstyn), drastic measure for the safety of her soul are taken by exorcist Father Merrin (Max von Sydow). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/16331/Exorcist/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/16331/Exorcist/overview 20090113204425 60324 John Landis's low-budget comedy tracks the zany goings-on at the Delta frat house, led by merry prankster Bluto Blutarsky (John Belushi). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/60324/National-Lampoon-s-Animal-House/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/60324/National-Lampoon-s-Animal-House/overview 20090113204209 37460 George C. Scott's immortal depiction (via Franklin J. Schaffner) of the American general won him an Oscar. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/37460/Patton/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/37460/Patton/overview 20090113204530 6029 Mel Brooks injects the Western genre with borscht-belt humor when a town facing extinction of saved by a black cowboy (Cleavon Little). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/6029/Blazing-Saddles/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/6029/Blazing-Saddles/overview 20090113204239 18617 New York detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) is tailing a French dope dealer (Fernando Rey) in this violent actioner from William Friedkin. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/18617/French-Connection/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/18617/French-Connection/overview 20090113204543 64361 In Robert Altman's Korean War comedy, military surgeons Hawkeye (Donald Sutherland) and McIntyre (Elliott Gould) lighten the mood of the nurses and doctors at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/64361/M-A-S-H/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/64361/M-A-S-H/overview 20090113204518 14193 Sidney Lumet's depiction of a bank robbery during the summer of 1972 in New York has Al Pacino and John Cazale taking hostages and Charles Durning negotiating. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/14193/Dog-Day-Afternoon/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/14193/Dog-Day-Afternoon/overview 20090113204645 9362 Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is drawn into a world more corrupt than he knows when Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) hires him supposedly to tail her baron husband (John Huston). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/9362/Chinatown/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/9362/Chinatown/overview 20090113204554 42923 Tony Manero (John Travolta) finds a way out of his dull job at a paint store when he takes to disco dancing with a rich woman (Karen Lynn Gorney). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/42923/Saturday-Night-Fever/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/42923/Saturday-Night-Fever/overview 20090113204617 50621 A group of partyers (including Faye Dunaway and Fred Astaire) are celebrating the construction of the world's tallest building by architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) when the electricity catches fire. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/50621/Towering-Inferno/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/50621/Towering-Inferno/overview 20090113204628 27688 Bitterly divorced couple Joanna (Meryl Streep) and Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) fight over their son (Justin Henry) in this drama about shifting gender roles from Robert Benton. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/27688/Kramer-vs-Kramer/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/27688/Kramer-vs-Kramer/overview 20090113204711 9338 A TV anchor (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) are reporting a story on energy when they witness a meltdown at a nuclear plant averted by an engineer (Jack Lemmon). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/9338/China-Syndrome/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/9338/China-Syndrome/overview 20090113204755 18295 Divorcée Gloria Mundy (Goldie Hawn) is swept up into a plot to kill the Pope but is foiled by goofy federal agent Tony Carlson (Chevy Chase). http://movies.amctv.com/movie/18295/Foul-Play/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/18295/Foul-Play/overview 20090113204323 30317 A rebelious, well-off Harvard man (Ryan O'Neal) falls for a blue-collar Radcliffe gal (Ali MacGraw) in this tearjerker from Arthur Hiller. http://movies.amctv.com/movie/30317/Love-Story/overview http://movies.amctv.com/movie/30317/Love-Story/overview 20090113204723