41. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Cassavetes
Actors: Timothy Carey, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips, Morgan Woodward, Val Avery
Plot: A lovably sleazy nightclub owner must perform a dangerous favor to local mobsters in order to erase his debt.
42. Norman... is That You?
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Schlatter
Actors: Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey, Dennis Dugan, Michael Warren, Tamara Dobson, Vernee Watson-Johnson
43. Mako: The Jaws of Death
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Grefé
Actors: Richard Jaeckel, Jennifer Bishop, Buffy Dee, Harold Sakata, John Davis Chandler, Ben Kronen
44. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson, Laurence Olivier, Samantha Eggar
45. Voyage of the Damned
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick, Jonathan Pryce
46. The Return of a Man Called Horse
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Richard Harris, Geoffrey Lewis, Gale Sondergaard, William Lucking, Jorge Luke, Pedro Damián
47. Ode to Billy Joe
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Max Baer Jr.
Actors: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Sandy McPeak, James Best, Terence Goodman
Plot: Billy Joe confesses his love to Bobbi Lee - but it's more of a response to cover his growing fear that he is homosexual. A barn dance finds him in the arms of an unnamed man rather than the many women and, realizing his guilt, rushes to tell Bobbi Lee. But she refuses to give up their relationship - even if it's not for real - and Billy Joe feels the only way out is to plunge off the Tallahachee bridge.
48. Alice in Wonderland
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Bud Townsend
Actors: Kristine DeBell, Bucky Searles, Gila Havana, Ron Nelson, Alan Novak, J.P. Paradine
Plot: Billed as the first "adult musical" - a prude of a librarian, whose rebuffs suitor William for being too forward, falls asleep and finds herself in the Wonderland where she loses her inhibitions and learns about pleasure but in the end must find a way to return to William.
49. Killing Machine ( Shôrinji kenpô )
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Makoto Satô, Naoya Makoto, Sanae Kitabayashi, Akiko Mori
50. Creature from the Black Lake
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joy N. Houck Jr.
Actors: Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson, Bill Thurman, Jim McCullough Jr.
