41. The Gauntlet
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, Michael Cavanaugh
42. Jacob the Liar ( Jakob, der Lügner )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Beyer
Actors: Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell, Manuela Simon, Dezsö Garas
43. Cria! ( Cría cuervos )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carlos Saura
Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall, Florinda Chico, Ana Torrent, Héctor Alterio, Germán Cobos
44. Airport '77
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jerry Jameson
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Brenda Vaccaro, Olivia de Havilland, James Stewart
45. Rolling Thunder
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Flynn
Actors: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best, Dabney Coleman, Lisa Blake Richards
Plot: William Devane plays a recently released P.O.W. who comes home to a small Texas town. His wife tells him she's leaving him for his best friend, his son is afraid of him, and he couldn't feel more alone. Until, that is, a gang of thugs kill his wife and son and leave him to die. Now, with the help of his former co-P.O.W. (Tommy Lee Jones) he blazes a path of revenge that goes all the way though to Mexico.
46. The Turning Point
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt, Leslie Browne, Martha Scott
Plot: Two women, Shirley McClain, a mother and former ballerina, and Anne Bancroft, a current ballerina who is becoming too old to dance, fight for the love of a young ballerina (daughter to one, muse and student to the other) to transform her into their own images.
47. Killer of Sheep
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Burnett
Actors: Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Jack Drummond
Plot: Set in the Watts area of L.A., a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his
emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then finds
he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
48. Alice in the Cities ( Alice in den Städten )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Ernest Boehm, Didi Petrikat
Plot: A German journalist with writer's block decides to leave the U.S. and return to Germany. At the airport her meets a fellow German and her nine-year-old daughter Alice. They strike up a friendship out of necessity and he thinks nothing of it when she asks to look after her daughter for a time. But he soon realizes Alice will be in his care for much longer and the two soon strike off on an adventure in Europe as he seeks out the girl's grandmother.
49. Go Tell the Spartans
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Post
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer, Joe Unger, Dennis Howard
50. Freaky Friday
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Gary Nelson
Actors: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Dick Van Patten, Vicki Schreck
Plot: A teenager and her mother switch bodies for a day.
