The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered one of the most ground-breaking years in American cinema, with "revolutionary" films highlighting the shift towards forward thinking European standards at the time, including: Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Cool Hand Luke, The Dirty Dozen, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, The Jungle Book and You Only Live Twice.[1]
Highest-grossing films
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North America
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See also: List of 1967 box office number-one films in the United States
The top ten 1967 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
April 28 — The prototype for the IMAX large-format-film acquisition and screening system is exhibited at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
July 8 — Vivien Leigh, best known for starring in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, dies from tuberculosis in London.
July 15 — Seven Arts Productions acquire substantially all the assets and business of Warner Bros. creating Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
August 13 — Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Gene Hackman, premieres. It breaks many taboos of its time, such as the visual depiction of violence. It will be considered a landmark film in Hollywood filmmaking, with its groundbreaking and ingenious visual styles. The success of Bonnie and Clyde helps bring forth the New Hollywood era, a period of artistic and commercial renewal.
October 18 — Walt Disney's production of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book premieres. It is the last animated feature film to be personally supervised by Disney before his death the previous year. It is also one of the last Disney films to be personally approved by him, along with The Happiest Millionaire and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. The story's moral message of friendship, love and trust will be embraced by critics and audiences worldwide. The Jungle Book is notable for its realistic character animation and voice casting. The film's soundtrack (scored by George Bruns), which includes the Academy Award-nominated[clarification needed] "The Bare Necessities", '"I Wan'na Be Like You", "Trust in Me" and "My Own Home", also contributes to the film's enormous success. It will be the most successful animated film to be made by Disney until The Rescuers, ten years later.
December 21 — The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman (in his acting film debut), Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross, premieres. It tells a story of an aimless young man, seduced and betrayed by an older woman, while falling in love with her daughter. The theme of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, misdirected, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by a corrupt, decadent and discredited older generation (that finds its stability in the film's keyword "plastics") is well understood by film audiences and captures the spirit of the times, in light of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the increasing turbulence in American society in the mid-to-late 1960s. Like Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate breaks many well-established taboos in American cinema and represents a new era in groundbreaking achievements in filmmaking.
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Awards
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Category/Organization
25th Golden Globe Awards February 12, 1968
40th Academy Awards April 10, 1968
Drama
Musical or Comedy
Best Film
In the Heat of the Night
The Graduate
In the Heat of the Night
Best Director
Mike Nichols The Graduate
Best Actor
Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night
Richard Harris Camelot
Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress
Edith Evans The Whisperers
Anne Bancroft The Graduate
Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Supporting Actor
Richard Attenborough Doctor Dolittle
George Kennedy Cool Hand Luke
Best Supporting Actress
Carol Channing Thoroughly Modern Millie
Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde
Best Screenplay, Adapted
Stirling Silliphant In the Heat of the Night
Stirling Silliphant In the Heat of the Night
Best Screenplay, Original
William Rose Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Original Score
Frederick Loewe Camelot
Alfred Newman and Ken Darby Camelot Elmer Bernstein Thoroughly Modern Millie
Best Original Song
"If Ever I Would Leave You" Camelot
"Talk to the Animals" Doctor Dolittle
Best Foreign Language Film
Live for Life
Closely Watched Trains
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Belle de jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, France / Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Le départ, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium
1967 film releases
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US unless stated
January–March
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January 1967
5 January
A Countess from Hong Kong (U.K.)
18 January
The Born Losers
Come Spy with Me
The Venetian Affair
Warning Shot
19 January
Hotel
25 January
First to Fight
26 January
The Deadly Affair (U.K.)
27 January
Hot Rods to Hell
February 1967
1 February
The Ballad of Josie
3 February
The Corrupt Ones (West Germany)/(Italy)/ (France)
7 February
Tobruk
8 February
Monkeys, Go Home!
9 February
Accident (U.K.)
Hurry Sundown
10 February
The Night of the Generals (U.K.)/ (France)
12 February
Deadlier Than the Male (U.K.)
15 February
A Covenant with Death
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
18 February
Good Morning and... Goodbye!
22 February
Marat/Sade (U.K.)
25 February
Enter Laughing
28 February
Privilege (U.K.)
March 1967
1 March
The Happening
8 March
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Mad Monster Party?
The Taming of the Shrew (Italy/U.S.)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (France)
9 March
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
12 March
The Busy Body
13 March
The House of 1,000 Dolls
14 March
Ulysses
15 March
Frankenstein Created Woman (U.K.)
In Like Flint
Gamera vs. Gyaos (Japan)
18 March
Riot on Sunset Strip
21 March
Hombre
Thoroughly Modern Millie
22 March
Easy Come, Easy Go
Thunder Alley
25 March
The X from Outer Space (Japan)
26 March
The Desperate Ones
31 March
The Champagne Murders
April–June
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April 1967
1 April
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (U.S.S.R)
12 April
The Cool Ones
13 April
Casino Royale (U.K./U.S.)
14 April
It's a Bikini World
18 April
Caprice
22 April
Gappa: The Triphibian Monster (Japan)
24 April
A Stranger in Town (Italy/U.S.)
28 April
Devil's Angels
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
29 April
Eight on the Lam
May 1967
1 May
40 Guns to Apache Pass
They Came from Beyond Space (U.K.)
Welcome to Hard Times
3 May
Bikini Paradise
The Vulture (U.K.)
12 May
Good Times
15 May
The Jokers (U.K.)
17 May
Don't Look Back
The Million Eyes of Sumuru (U.K.)
22 May
The Honey Pot
24 May
Belle de Jour (France)
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Double Trouble
Three Bites of the Apple
The Way West
25 May
Barefoot in the Park
A Guide for the Married Man
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (U.K.)
26 May
Catalina Caper
27 May
Samurai Rebellion (Japan)
The War Wagon
June 1967
9 June
Don't Make Waves
11 June
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-release)
13 June
You Only Live Twice (U.K./U.S.)
14 June
To Sir, with Love
15 June
Branded to Kill (Japan)
The Dirty Dozen
16 June
The Reluctant Astronaut
18 June
The Mummy's Shroud
21 June
Divorce American Style
23 June
The Happiest Millionaire
27 June
The Shuttered Room (U.K.)
Woman Times Seven
28 June
Gunn
30 June
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
July–September
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July 1967
6 July
The Sorcerers
12 July
The Big Mouth
Common Law Cabin
The Gnome-Mobile
13 July
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (U.K.)
19 July
The Naked Runner
Up the Down Staircase
21 July
War and Peace Part III (U.S.S.R)
22 July
King Kong Escapes (Japan)
23 July
Chuka
26 July
The Love-Ins
Luv
27 July
The Long Duel
August 1967
1 August
Rough Night in Jericho
2 August
In the Heat of the Night
The Perils of Pauline
3 August
Beach Red
12 August
Japan's Longest Day (Japan)
13 August
Bonnie and Clyde
Yongary, Monster from the Deep (South Korea)
18 August
The Tiger Makes Out
22 August
The Flim-Flam Man
23 August
The Thief of Paris (France)
The Whisperers (U.K.)
30 August
Point Blank
31 August
The Trip
September 1967
1 September
The Fastest Guitar Alive
Tarzan and the Great River
8 September
Fort Utah
14 September
Our Mother's House (U.K.)
17 September
Games
20 September
Two for the Road
22 September
Robbery
26 September
Who's Minding the Mint?
28 September
The Bobo
October–December
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October 1967
1 October
Fathom (U.K.)
3 October
Titicut Follies
9 October
I Am Curious (Sweden)
13 October
Reflections in a Golden Eye
16 October
Far from the Madding Crowd (U.K.)
Hamraaz (India)
18 October
Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar
Clambake
The Jungle Book
19 October
Doctor Faustus
23 October
How I Won the War (U.K.)
25 October
Camelot
26 October
Wait Until Dark
31 October
The Comedians
November 1967
1 November
Cool Hand Luke
Hour of the Gun
A Time for Killing
4 November
War and Peace Part IV (U.S.S.R)
5 November
The Incident
9 November
Custer of the West
Quatermass and the Pit (U.K.)
10 November
Berserk!
Jack of Diamonds
Tony Rome
13 November
The Fearless Vampire Killers
15 November
Gentle Giant
Who's That Knocking at My Door
22 November
The Producers
Rosie!
December 1967
1 December
Hells Angels on Wheels
5 December
Festival
Poor Cow (U.K.)
6 December
Kill a Dragon
10 December
Bedazzled (U.K.)
12 December
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
13 December
The Fox
14 December
Follow That Camel
In Cold Blood
15 December
Carry On Doctor (U.K.)
Valley of the Dolls
16 December
Playtime (France/Italy)
Son of Godzilla (Japan)
17 December
Banning
18 December
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (U.K.)
19 December
Doctor Dolittle
20 December
Billion Dollar Brain (U.K.)/(U.S)
Fitzwilly
21 December
The Graduate
The President's Analyst
22 December
The Ambusheers
26 December
Magical Mystery Tour (U.K.)
27 December
The Last Challenge
Smashing Time (U.K.)
29 December
Weekend (France)
Notable films released in 1967
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40 Guns to Apache Pass, starring Audie Murphy
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle), directed by Jean-Luc Godard – (France)
The 25th Hour, starring Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi – (France/Italy/Romania)
A
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Accident, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker – (U.K.)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, starring Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, and Karl Malden
The Ambushers, starring Dean Martin (as Matt Helm)
The Andromeda Nebula – (USSR)
Anna Karenina – (USSR)
B
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The Ballad of Josie, starring Doris Day
Banning, starring Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Susan Clark, Gene Hackman
Barefoot in the Park, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda
Battle Beneath the Earth, starring Kerwin Mathews and Peter Arne – (U.K.)
Beach Red, starring Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn
Bedazzled, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch – (U.K.)
Belle de jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve – winner of Golden Lion – (France)
Berserk!, starring Joan Crawford – (U.K.)
Bewitched Love (El amor brujo) – (Spain)
The Big Mouth, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis
Billion Dollar Brain, directed by Ken Russell, starring Michael Caine – (U.K.)
The Birch Tree (Breza), directed by Ante Babaja – (Yugoslavia)
The Blood Demon (Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel, a.k.a. The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism), directed by Harald Reinl – (West Germany)
The Bobo, starring Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Adolfo Celi, Rossano Brazzi, Al Lettieri – (U.K.)
Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard
Born Losers, directed by and starring Tom Laughlin
Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
The Busy Body, starring Sid Caesar, Robert Ryan, Jan Murray, Arlene Golonka, Richard Pryor
C
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Camelot, a musical directed by Joshua Logan, starring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, with songs by Lerner and Loewe
The Cape Town Affair, starring James Brolin and Jacqueline Bisset
Caprice, starring Doris Day and Richard Harris
Carry On Doctor, starring Frankie Howerd and Sid James – (U.K.)
Case of the Naves Brothers (O Caso dos Irmãos Naves) – (Brazil)
Casino Royale, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, Daliah Lavi, Barbara Bouchet – (U.K.)
Catalina Caper, starring Tommy Kirk
Cervantes, starring Horst Buchholz and Gina Lollobrigida – (Spain/France/Italy)
The Champagne Murders (Le scandale), directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Anthony Perkins – (France)
Charlie Bubbles, directed by and starring Albert Finney with Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli – (U.K.)
China Is Near (La Cina è vicina) – (Italy)
La Chinoise, directed by Jean-Luc Godard – (France)
Chuka, starring Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills
Clambake, starring Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares
The Collector (La collectionneuse), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France)
The College Girl Murders (Der Mönch mit der Peitsche, a.k.a. The Monk with the Whip), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany)
A Colt Is My Passport (Koruto wa ore no pasupoto), starring Joe Shishido – (Japan)
Come Spy with Me, starring Troy Donahue
The Comedians, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness
Commissar – (USSR)
Cool Hand Luke, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy
Counterpoint, starring Charlton Heston
A Countess from Hong Kong, directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren – (U.K.)
Custer of the West, starring Robert Shaw, Mary Ure and Robert Ryan
D
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Day of Anger (I giorni dell'ira), starring Lee Van Cleef – (Italy)
A Degree of Murder (Mord und Totschlag), directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Anita Pallenberg – (West Germany)
The Departure (Le départ), directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud – (Belgium)
Deadlier Than the Male, starring Richard Johnson and Elke Sommer – (U.K.)
The Deadly Affair, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring James Mason and Simone Signoret – (U.K.)
Death Rides a Horse (Da uomo a uomo), starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law – (Italy)