Movie Listory
Each week we search through the archives to unearth top picks from the past, this is movie listory.
This week we cast our eyes back 50 years to the 47th Aacademy Awards hosted in 1975. It was a significant moment in movie history with "The Godfather Part II" becoming the first sequal to win Best Picture. For our first "Movie Listory" we're re-presenting the winner and nominees for the Best Picture award.
The rise and fall of the Corleone empire.
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
- Genre: Drama, Crime
- Release Year: 1974
- Runtime: 202 mins
- Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale
You get tough. You get tender. You get close to each other. Maybe you even get close to the truth.
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Release Year: 1974
- Runtime: 130 mins
- Directors: Roman Polanski
- Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Harry Caul is an invader of privacy. The best in the business.
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Release Year: 1974
- Runtime: 114 mins
- Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
Lenny Said It. "Hot Honey" Did It. Together They Shocked America.
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.
- Genre: Drama
- Release Year: 1974
- Runtime: 111 mins
- Directors: Bob Fosse
- Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Frankie Man
One tiny spark becomes a night of blazing suspense.
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
- Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
- Release Year: 1974
- Runtime: 165 mins
- Directors: John Guillermin
- Cast: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire