The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), another smash hit — revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

The actor followed with Bernardo Bertolucci's 1973 film Last Tango in Paris, but the performance was overshadowed by an uproar over the sexual content of the film.

" Similarly, Roger Ebert, writing of his iconic performance in Last Tango in Paris, said: " This was the greatest movie actor of his time, the author of performances that do honor to the cinema.

In the late 1960s to mid-1980s, several mainstream films were released with an X rating such as Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, Fritz the Cat, Last Tango in Paris and The Evil Dead.

Bernardo Bertolucci (; born 16 March 1941 ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and The Dreamers.

Bertolucci became infamous in 1972, with the controversial film Last Tango in Paris, with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Massimo Girotti, when a scene featuring the anal rape of character Jeane by character Paul using butter as a lubricant, among other depictions of the young Schneider that were thought to be exploitative, caused serious concern due to its representation of women.

Last Tango in Paris presents Brando's character Paul as he uses an anonymous affair to cope with the violent death of his wife by emotionally and physically dominating a young woman.

During the making of Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci toyed with the idea of adapting Dashiell Hammett's book Red Harvest into a feature film.

In the novel Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce, Ben Guggenheim's concern for others before himself as the Titanic was sinking was used as a moral compass.

However, Transamerica was not pleased with UA's frequent releases of films rated X by the Motion Picture Association of America, such as Midnight Cowboy and Last Tango in Paris ; in these instances, Transamerica demanded the byline " A Transamerica Company " be removed from the UA logo on the prints and in all advertising.

** Gato Barbieri ( composer ) for " Last Tango in Paris " performed by various artists

* Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider

Belle of Snodland Town and Last Tango in Snodland are two examples.

1973 was perhaps the peak of his professional career when he had three critically acclaimed films released: Truffaut's La Nuit américaine, Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris and Eustache's The Mother and the Whore.

He appeared with a hero of his, Marlon Brando in the Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris, although the two never met, since all of Léaud's scenes were shot on Saturdays and Brando refused to work on Saturdays.

* Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 )

** Gato Barbieri for " Last Tango in Paris Theme " performed by various artists

The director described the film as " Last Tango in Texas.

In the film Last Tango in Paris, Maria Schneider's character has an argument which leads to a physical altercation with her boyfriend in the Bir-Hakeim station.

Some examples of romantic drama films are The Bridges of Madison County, Falling in Love, Casablanca and Last Tango in Paris.

* Last Tango in Paris

In a controversial scene in the movie Last Tango in Paris, the character Paul, played by Marlon Brando, uses butter during anal sex with the character Jeanne played by Maria Schneider.

* Last Tango in Moscow ( 1984, Picasso )

A few concert recordings followed, and The Last Time We Saw Paris ( 1967 ) was the " Classic " Quartet's swan-song.

* 1972 – Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

Two editions of The Last Man were published by Henry Colburn in London in 1826, and one edition in Paris in 1826 by Galignani.

File: Notre Dame Paris front facade lower. jpg | Facade, showing the Portal of the Virgin, Portal of the Last Judgment and Portal of St-Anne

* 1964: The Complete Last Recordings In Hilversum & Paris 1964

In 2000, Lauper contributed a song called " I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever " for the children's movie Rugrats in Paris.

Among his other collaborations were two albums written with Jimmy Buffett and Michael Utley, Riddles in the Sand and The Last Mango in Paris.

* With Jimmy Buffett: Riddles in the Sand, The Last Mango In Paris

* The Last Time I Saw Paris ( 1954 )

* Video of a Missa Cantata, or sung Low Mass, offered on the Last Sunday after Pentecost at the Roman Catholic Parish of St. Nicholas of Chardonnet in Paris, France.

During the 1950s, she appeared in several " A "- movies including The Last Time I Saw Paris, starring Elizabeth Taylor, and Artists and Models, which featured Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Stanton's career has spanned over fifty years, which has seen him star in such films as Paris, Texas, Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, Alien, Repo Man, Pretty In Pink, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart, The Green Mile and The Pledge.

Last home of Chateaubriand, 120 Rue du Bac, Paris.

* 1985: Last Mango in Paris Tour

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

* Last Sessions ( 1972 )

* Milligna ( or Your Favourite Spike ) ( 1972 ) The title is based on Milligan's introduction in The Last Goon Show of All as " Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error ".

In 1972, the student riots of 1968 provided the inspiration for an album titled Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit ( Make Your Dream Last Longer Than the Night ), comprising musical passages mixed with news snippets and protest songs ; some lyrics were based on graffiti daubed on walls during the riots.

Bridges is one of the youngest actors ever to be nominated for an Academy Award ( 1972, age 22, Best Supporting Actor, The Last Picture Show ), and one of the oldest ever to win ( 2010, age 60, Best Actor, Crazy Heart ).

The line had been used earlier in Spike Milligan's script for The Last Goon Show of All, performed on 5 October 1972.

* Governor General's Awards for: The Last Spike, 1972 ; Klondike, 1958 ; The Mysterious North, 1956.

* 1972 The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885

It included a high-definition digital transfer of Peter Bogdanovich ’ s director ’ s cut, two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall ; the other from 2009, featuring Bogdanovich “ The Last Picture Show ”: A Look Back, ( 1999 ) and Picture This ( 1990 ), documentaries about the making of the film, A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, a 2009 Q & A, screen tests and location footage, and excerpts from a 1972 television interview with director François Truffaut about the New Hollywood.

* Apollo 17 – 7 December 1972 – Last manned lunar landing

After a number of years performing with local California bands and folk trios like Good Shepherd, Judge Rainbow and the Prophetic Trumpets, The Cardboard Scheme, and The Scarlet Staircase, Taylor formed Jubal's Last Band with Steve Baxter, Kenny Paxton, and Chuck Starnes in 1972.

* The Last House on the Left ( 1972 )

Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.

* The Last Target ( 1972 )

Perkins was then hired hired to play in the new incarnation of the Flying Burrito Brothers and recorded the live album The Last of the Red Hot Burritos in 1972.

Arguably the most controversial of all exploitation films was Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ).

The cover of 1972 album Last Days and Time

* Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965 – 1968 ( includes " I Had Too Much To Dream ( Last Night )") 1972 Elektra, reissued 1976 Sire

She appeared in many British television drama productions in the 1960s and early 1970s, including Saint Joan ( 1968 ), Three Sisters ( 1969 ), Macbeth ( 1970 ), Hedda Gabler ( 1972 ), Twelfth Night ( 1973 ), as Lady Mountbatten in Lord Mountbatten-The Last Viceroy ( 1985 ) and Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective ( 1986 ).