Video: 'The French Connection' trailer
(Thursday, October 7, 1971) — The French Connection, a crime film directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, opened tonight in New York City and Los Angeles.
The film tells the story of New York Police Department detectives named “Popeye” Doyle and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo.
Video: 'The Last Picture Show' trailer
(Sunday, October 3, 1971) — The Last Picture Show, a drama about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford and his friend Duane Jackson, opened tonight in New York.
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, the film stars Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman and Randy Quaid.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uEN1fEL4jg
Cremation Escape
(Friday, August 13, 1971) — Actor Sean Connery today filmed his final scenes for Diamonds Are Forever, the seventh “official” James Bond film. Ironically, the last shots were of Connery being placed in a coffin (he would not return to the role of 007 until the “unofficial” Never Say Never Again in 1983).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2BSHp9oYD0
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Trailer
(Thursday, June 24, 1971) — McCabe & Mrs. Miller, an American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman, was released today in the U.S.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HaFwQtYwI0
(Thursday, April 15, 1971) — Patton, a biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II, wins Best Picture at the 43rd Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The film’s lead, George C. Scott, became the first actor to reject an Oscar, claiming that the Academy Awards were “a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=455lV52H7v4
George C. Scott winning Best Actor for "Patton"
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrW32e8Iih0
Ingmar Bergman receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A9WPx1qNkY
Quincy Jones accepting an Oscar on behalf of The Beatles
