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ABBA: The Movie Warner Bros. / Polar Music / Reg Grundy Productions Lasse Hallström (director/screenplay); Robert Caswell (screenplay); Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Benny Andersson , Björn Ulvaeus , Agnetha Fältskog , Robert Hughes , Tom Oliver , Stig Anderson , Richard Norton , Bruce Barry
June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. June 27 – 20th Century Fox Pictures president Alan Ladd Jr. and vice-presidents Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan agree to leave Fox.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1979 per Variety.The data was based on grosses from 20 to 22 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
B. Babek (film) Baby Snakes; Babylon XX; Backstairs at the White House; Bag of the Collector; Bagula Bhagat; Balam Pardesia; A Balinese Trance Seance; Ball Lightning (film)
Release date Title Studio January 21, 1960 Toby Tyler: Walt Disney Productions: February 24, 1960 Kidnapped; May 19, 1960 Pollyanna; June 11, 1960 The Sign of Zorro (Compilation film)
The film was a box-office success. Produced on a modest budget of $4 million, it grossed more than $33.3 million in North America, making it the 24th highest-grossing film of 1979. [1] Robert Osborne of The Hollywood Reporter raved, "The film is loaded with virtues...it has all the makings of an enormously popular movie." [15]
Murder by Decree is a 1979 mystery thriller film directed by Bob Clark. It features the Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who are embroiled in the investigation surrounding the real-life 1888 Whitechapel murders committed by "Jack the Ripper". Christopher Plummer plays Holmes and James Mason plays ...
Title Director(s) Cast Country Notes Ref. Alien: Ridley Scott: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright: United Kingdom United States [1]The Amityville Horror: Stuart Rosenberg