This is a list of American films released in 1977.
Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1977, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows:
+ Highest-grossing films of 1977 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Star Wars 20th Century Fox $221,280,994 2 Smokey and the Bandit Universal $126,737,428 3Close Encounters of the Third Kind Columbia $116,395,460 4 Saturday Night Fever Paramount $94,213,184 5 The Goodbye Girl MGM / Warner Bros. $83,700,000 6A Bridge Too Far United Artists $50,750,000 7 The Deep Columbia $47,346,365 8 The Spy Who Loved Me United Artists $46,838,673 9Oh, God! Warner Bros. $41,687,243 10Annie Hall United Artists $38,251,425
January–March Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.JANUARY 7 The Sentinel Universal Pictures James B. Harris (director); Jeffrey Konvitz (screenplay); Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner, John Carradine, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Eli Wallach, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D'Angelo, Hank Garrett, Nana Visitor, Tom Berenger, William Hickey, Jeff Goldblum 18 Pumping Iron Cinema 5 / White Mountain Films George Butler (director/screenplay); Charles Gaines (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Franco Columbu, Mike Katz, Ken Waller, Ed Corney, Serge Nubret 21 Scalpel United International Pictures / PJ Productions John Grissmer (director/screenplay); Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Sandy Martin, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, Muriel Moore, Stan Wojno, Laura Whyte, Larry Quackenbush, Mimi Honce 25 Providence Cinema 5 Distributing Alain Resnais (director); David Mercer (screenplay); Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner, Elaine Stritch, Cyril Luckham, Denis Lawson, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Milo Sperber, Anna Wing, Peter Arne, Tanya Lopert 28 The Late Show Warner Bros. Robert Benton (director/screenplay); Rodolfo Sonego (screenplay); Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy, John Considine, Ruth Nelson, Howard Duff, John Davey FEBRUARY 4 Raw Deal Greater Union / Homestead Films Russell Hagg (director); Patrick Edgeworth (screenplay); Gerard Kennedy, Gus Mercurio, Rod Mullinar, Christopher Pate, Hu Pryce, John Cousins, Michael Carman, Norman Yemm, Gary Day, Briony Behets 9 Fun with Dick and Jane Columbia Pictures Ted Kotcheff (director); David Giler, Jerry Belson, Mordecai Richler (screenplay); George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier, Allan Miller, Hank Garcia, John Dehner, Mary Jackson, Walter Brooke, Sean Frye, Fred Willard, Thayer David, Burke Byrnes, Dewayne Jesse, Anne Ramsey, Jon Christian Erickson, Gloria Stroock, Thalmus Rasulala, Jay Leno Twilight's Last Gleaming Allied Artists / Lorimar Productions Robert Aldrich (director); Ronald M. Cohen (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Cotten, Richard Jaeckel, Roscoe Lee Browne, William Marshall, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Leif Erickson, Charles Aidman, Charles McGraw, William Smith, Simon Scott, Morgan Paull, Bill Walker, Ed Bishop, Phil Brown, Don Fellows, Garrick Hagon, David Healy, William Hootkins, Ray Jewers, John Ratzenberger, Lionel Murton, Shane Rimmer, Mark Russell, M. Phil Senini, David Baxt, Glenn Beck, Gary Cockrell, Weston Gavin, Elizabeth Halliday, Thomasine Heiner, Ron Lee, Robert Sherman, Robert MacLeod, Robert O'Neil, Pamela Roland, Rich Steber, Drew W. Wesche, Kent O. Doering, Allan Dean Moore, Rich Demarest, Gary Harper Wizards 20th Century Fox / Bakshi Productions Ralph Bakshi (director/screenplay); Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval, Steve Gravers, Mark Hamill, Susan Tyrrell, Ralph Bakshi, James Connell, Angelo Grisanti 11 Fire Sale 20th Century Fox Alan Arkin (director); Robert Klane (screenplay); Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Vincent Gardenia, Anjanette Comer, Kay Medford, Sid Caesar, Byron Stewart, Alex Rocco, Oliver Clark, Barbara Dana In Search of Noah's Ark Sunn Classic Pictures James L. Conway (director/screenplay); Charles E. Sellier Jr. (screenplay); Brad Crandall, Vern Adix Thieves Paramount Pictures / Brut Productions John Berry (director); Herb Gardner (screenplay); Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Héctor Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge, John McMartin, Gary Merrill, Ann Wedgeworth, Larry B. Scott, Bob Fosse, Norman Matlock, Ian Martin, Janet Colazzo, Kenneth Kimmins, Santos Morales, MacIntyre Dixon, Bill Lazarus, Alice Drummond, Zvee Scooler, Craig Barrie, Victor Le Guillow, Lee Wallace, Jess Osuna, Joan Kaye 20 The Spell Worldvision Enterprises / MGM Television / Charles Fries Productions / Stonehenge Productions Lee Philips (director); Brian Taggert (screenplay); Lee Grant, Susan Myers, Lelia Goldoni, Helen Hunt, Jack Colvin, James Olson, James Greene, Wright King, Barbara Bostock, Doney Oatman, Richard Carlyle, Kathleen Hughes, Robert Gibbons, Arthur Peterson, Marneen Fields 25 Slap Shot Universal Pictures / Pan Arts / Kings Road Entertainment George Roy Hill (director); Nancy Dowd (screenplay); Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser, Andrew Duncan, Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson, David Hanson, Yvon Barrette, Allan Nicholls, Brad Sullivan, Stephen Mendillo, Yvan Ponton, Matthew Cowles, Kathryn Walker, Melinda Dillon, M. Emmet Walsh, Swoosie Kurtz, Paul D'Amato, Ronald L. Docken, Guido Tenesi, Jean Rosario Tėtreault, Christopher Murney, Blake Ball, Ned Dowd, Larry Block, Paul Dooley, Bruce Boudreau, Galen Head, Connie Madigan, Joe Nolan, Dick Roberge, Ross Smith, Steve Stirling, Cliff Thompson, Nancy N. Dowd, Barbara L. Shorts, Dan Belisle Jr., Rod Bloomfield, Susan Kendall Newman, Ray Schultz, Carol Shelton Tentacles American International Pictures Ovidio G. Assonitis (director); Steven W. Carabatsos (screenplay); John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Delia Boccardo, Claude Akins, Franco Diogene, Marc Fiorini, Alan Boyd, Sherry Buchanan MARCH 3 Mr. Billion 20th Century Fox / Pantheon Pictures Jonathan Kaplan (director/screenplay); Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason, Slim Pickens, William Redfield, Chill Wills, Dick Miller, R.G. Armstrong 4 Death Weekend American International Pictures / Cinépix Film Properties William Fruet (director/screenplay); Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres, Kyle Edwards, Don Granberry, Ed McNamara, Michael Kirby, and Richard Donat 9 The Farmer Columbia Pictures / Milway Productions David Berlatsky (director); John Carmody, Janice Eymann, George Fargo, Patrick Regan (screenplay); Lewell Akins, Gary Conway, Michael Dante, Dave Graig, Stratton Leopold, Ray McIver, George Memmoli, Timothy Scott, Sonny Shroyer, Angel Tompkins, Bill Moses, Judge Parker, Don Payne, Louis C. Pessolano, Johnny Popwell, Ken Renard, Wayne Stewart, Roy Tatum, Jack Waltzer, Eric Weston, Laura Whyte Islands in the Stream Paramount Pictures Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Denne Bart Petitclerc (screenplay); George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Richard Evans, Claire Bloom, Julius Harris, Hart Bochner, Brad Savage, Michael-James Wixted, Hildy Brooks 11 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman (directors); Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Vance Gerry, Xavier Atencio, Ken Anderson, Julius Svendsen, Ted Berman, Eric Cleworth (screenplay); Sterling Holloway, John Fiedler, Junius Matthews, Paul Winchell, Howard Morris, Bruce Reitherman, Jon Walmsley, Timothy Turner, Ralph Wright, Clint Howard, Barbara Luddy, Hal Smith, Sebastian Cabot, Dori Whitaker Black Sunday Paramount Pictures John Frankenheimer (director); Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross, Ivan Moffat (screenplay); Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Bekim Fehmiu, Steven Keats, Michael V. Gazzo, William Daniels, Walter Gotell, Victor Campos, Joe Robbie, Robert Wussler, Pat Summerall, Tom Brookshier, Walter Brooke, Clyde Kusatsu, Tom McFadden, Than Wyenn, James Jeter, Robert Patten Airport '77 Universal Pictures Jerry Jameson (director); Michael Scheff, David Spector (screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart, George Kennedy, Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Foxworth, Robert Hooks, Monte Markham, Kathleen Quinlan, Gil Gerard, James Booth, Monica Lewis, Maidie Norman, Pamela Bellwood, Arlene Golonka, Tom Sullivan, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Pataki, George Furth, Richard Venture, Elizabeth Cheshire, Anthony Battaglia 25 Eraserhead Warner Bros. Pictures / Libra Films David Lynch (director/screenplay); Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Roberts, Jack Fisk, Laurel Near The American Friend Paramount Pictures Wim Wenders (director/screenplay); Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Jean Eustache, Sandy Whitelaw, Lou Castel, David Blue, Andreas Dedecke The Domino Principle AVCO Embassy Pictures / ITC Entertainment Stanley Kramer (director); Adam Kennedy (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Richard Widmark, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach, Ken Swofford, Neva Patterson, Jay Novello, Joseph V. Perry, Majel Barrett
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