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The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. United Artists will celebrated their 50th anniversary.
The chart for the week ending May 28 listed 100 Rifles as the number one film for the last week (week ending May 21) with a gross of $340,500. The last week grosses for the other films were not in line with that published previously and the grosses for this last week were added to the totals for the week ending May 28 indicating that there had ...
The Big Bounce is a 1969 American drama film directed by Alex March, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard and starring Ryan O'Neal in his film debut, Van Heflin, and Leigh Taylor-Young in what was the first of several films based on Leonard's crime novels.
The Big Bounce: Warner Bros. Alex March (director); Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin: 11 2000 Years Later: Sing Productions: Bert Tenzer (director); Terry-Thomas, Edward Everett Horton, Pat Harrington Jr. 12 Where Eagles Dare: Winkast Film Productions: Brian G. Hutton (director); Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure: 13 Charro ...
Total financial losses from the events was $8.35 million. October 2 – A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for ...
Reviewer Howard Thompson of The New York Times in 1969 praised the performances of Clint Walker and Anne Francis, but did not care for the movie, saying "More Dead Than Alive is a dogged but dinky little Western with the perfect title." He described Paul Hampton in the role of Billy as an "incredibly poor young actor" and concluded that "the ...
1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
Filming began 10 March 1969 on location in Stuart, Florida, in and around Martin County, and at Moberly Film Studios in Fort Lauderdale. [ 2 ] Moberley recalls "Most of the people working with me wondered where I got that kookie little hippie girl, but by the end of the first day's shooting, I was convinced she would be my film and outshine ...