41. Charley Varrick
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, Sheree North, Jacqueline Scott
Plot: An unlucky crop-dusting pilot robs a bank, only to find that the bank is used by the Mafia to launder money.
42. Live and Let Die
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto, Clifton James, David Hedison, Gloria Hendry
Plot: When several British agents are found dead, James Bond must travel to New York to unravel the mystery. It all leads to Mr. Big, a drug dealer with plans for heroin and his beautiful assistant Solitaire.
43. Farewell, Friend aka Honor Among Thieves ( Adieu l'ami )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Herman
Actors: Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Olga Georges-Picot, Brigitte Fossey, Bernard Fresson, Marianna Falk
Plot: After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways only to be reunited by an extraordinary coincidence in bank vault.
44. Jesus Christ Superstar
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, Bob Bingham, Larry Marshall
Plot: A rock opera based on the last six days in the life of Jesus Christ as told through the eyes of Judas Iscariot.
45. The Way We Were
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors
Plot: A love story that focuses on two people who are basically polar opposites. They meet in college in the '30s, and their relationship spans a twenty-year period.
46. Coffy
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jack Hill
Actors: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Sid Haig, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus
47. The Magnificent Rebel
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ed Apfel, Lawrence Tetenbaum
Actors: Fred Foy, Beau Billingslea, Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Henri Charrière, Fred J. Koenekamp
48. The Offence
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant, Ian Bannen, Peter Bowles, Derek Newark
Plot: A seasoned police officer violently interrogates a suspected child
molester.
49. Heavy Traffic
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Actors: Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova, Terri Haven, Mary Dean Lauria, Jacqueline Mills
Plot: Animation combines with live-action in Ralph Bakshi's adult cartoon in
which we follow and underground cartoonist as he interacts, and finds
inspiration, in the various unsavory characters in the gritty city around
him.
50. The Paper Chase
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James Bridges
Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann, Craig Richard Nelson
Plot: A first year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
