Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

In 1974 returned to his personal work and made a film outside of ISKRA.

* 1974 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian screenwriter and film producer ( b. 1902 )

* Dark Star ( film ), a 1974 science fiction movie directed by John Carpenter

* Dark Star, a novelization of the 1974 film, by Alan Dean Foster

He next played the psychotic wife-beating husband of Twiggy in her American film debut, W. Benedict starred in the television series Chopper One which aired for one season in 1974.

Devo returned to perform in the Student Governance Center ( featured prominently in the film ) at the 1974 Creative Arts Festival with a line-up including the Casale brothers, Bob Lewis, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Jim Mothersbaugh on drums.

" Secret Agent Man " had been recorded first in 1974 for Devo's first film and performed live as early as 1976.

* Enemies, a 1974 film adaptation by Ellis Rabb

:: For the 1974 film, see Edvard Munch ( film ).

* Edvard Munch, a 1974 biographical film

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

* 1895 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director ( d. 1974 )

The 1974 film Macon County Line claims to be true, but it is in fact fiction.

He followed this with leading roles in the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for several Oscars.

The film was believed lost until the mid-1970s and was screened for the first time in the US at a Hawks retrospective in 1974.

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 ).

* 1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive ( b. 1882 )

Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973's The All American Boy, then appeared in the 1974 film, Conrack, directed by Martin Ritt.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

One of the first applications of key frame animation was the award-wining 1974 animated short film, Hunger.

Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Brando was slated to reprise his role as Vito Corleone for the final scene of The Godfather Part II in 1974.

The Directors Company subsequently produced only two more pictures, Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for Best Picture in 1974 alongside The Godfather, Part II, and Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller, which had a lackluster critical reception.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

Ebert stood by his opinions with one notable exception — when Stern pointed out that Ebert had given The Godfather Part II a three-star rating in 1974, but had subsequently given The Godfather Part III three and a half stars.

Puzo's novel The Godfather resulted in wins in 1972 and 1974.

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime epic that Francis Ford Coppola produced, directed, and co-wrote with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro.

The Godfather Part II was shot between October 1, 1973 and June 19, 1974, and was the last major American motion picture to be printed with Technicolor's dye imbibition process until the late 1990s and was the last major American motion picture filmed in Technicolor.

Between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Coppola directed The Conversation, released in 1974 and also nominated for Best Picture.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

* The character Hyman Roth, portrayed by Lee Strasberg, and certain aspects of the main character Michael Corleone from the film The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), are based on Lansky.

This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in films which were also commercial successes: The Godfather ( 1972 ), The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), Network ( 1976 ), The Great Santini ( 1979 ), Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), and True Confessions ( 1981 ).

His first major critical success came portraying Tom Hagen in The Godfather ( 1972 ) and The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

Carney beat Dustin Hoffman, Albert Finney, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, for their performances in Lenny, Murder on the Orient Express, Chinatown and The Godfather Part II, for the 1974 Academy Award for Best Actor, while the film was nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

** The Godfather Part II, the Academy Award-winning 1974 sequel to the first film

* The Godfather Part II ( 1974 )

* The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ) ( directed by Francis Ford Coppola )

Subsequently, he worked on George Lucas's THX 1138 and American Graffiti and Coppola's The Godfather before editing picture and mixing sound on Coppola's The Conversation, for which he received an Academy Award nomination in sound in 1974.