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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1971 (see 1971 in film):

## 1971

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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1971
10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer | Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson | Crime |
The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Robert Fuest | Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten | Horror/comedy |
All the Right Noises | Gerry O'Hara | Tom Bell, Olivia Hussey | Drama |
And Now for Something Completely Different | Ian MacNaughton | Graham Chapman, John Cleese | Comedy | Remakes of sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus (series 1 and 2)
Assault | Sidney Hayers | Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay | Thriller |
Black Beauty | James Hill | Walter Slezak, Mark Lester | Drama |
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb | Seth Holt | Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir | Horror |
The Blood on Satan's Claw | Piers Haggard | Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden | Horror |
Bloomfield | Richard Harris, Uri Zohar | Richard Harris, Romy Schneider | Drama | Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival
The Boy Friend | Ken Russell | Twiggy, Christopher Gable | Musical/comedy |
Bread | Stanley Long | Anthony Nigel, Peter Marinker | Musical | [1]
Bronco Bullfrog | Barney Platts-Mills | Del Walker, Anne Gooding | Drama |
Burke & Hare | Vernon Sewell | Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews | Horror |
Carry On at Your Convenience | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims | Comedy |
Carry On Henry | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims | Comedy |
The Chairman's Wife | Gerry O'Hara | David de Keyser, Fiona Lewis, John Osborne | Drama | Short film
Clinic Exclusive | Don Chaffey | Georgina Ward, Alexander Davion | Comedy |
A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke | Drama | Number 81 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
Countess Dracula | Peter Sasdy | Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green | Horror |
Creatures the World Forgot | Don Chaffey | Julie Ege, Brian O'Shaughnessy | Adventure |
Crucible of Terror | Ted Hooker | Mike Raven, Mary Maude, James Bolam | Horror |
Dad's Army | Norman Cohen | Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier | Comedy | Spin-off of Dad's Army
The Devils | Ken Russell | Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave | Drama |
Diamonds Are Forever | Guy Hamilton | Sean Connery, Charles Gray, Jill St. John | Spy/action |
Die Screaming, Marianne | Pete Walker | Susan George, Barry Evans | Horror thriller |
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde | Roy Ward Baker | Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick | Horror |
Dulcima | Frank Nesbitt | Carol White, John Mills | Drama | Entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival
An Elephant Called Slowly | James Hill | Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers | Adventure |
Family Life | Ken Loach | Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean | Drama |
Flight of the Doves | Ralph Nelson | Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Stanley Holloway | Drama |
Freelance | Francis Megahy | Ian McShane, Gayle Hunnicutt | Thriller |
Friends | Lewis Gilbert | Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina | Romance |
Fright | Peter Collinson | Ian Bannen, Susan George, Honor Blackman | Thriller |
Get Carter | Mike Hodges | Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland | Crime | Number 16 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; Remake of this  in 2000
Girl Stroke Boy | Bob Kellett | Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern | Comedy/drama |
The Go-Between | Joseph Losey | Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox | Drama | Number 57 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; Palme d'Or winner
Gumshoe | Stephen Frears | Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw | Mystery |
Hands of the Ripper | Peter Sasdy | Eric Porter, Angharad Rees | Horror |
Hannie Caulder | Burt Kennedy | Raquel Welch, Robert Culp | Western |
I, Monster | Stephen Weeks | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | Horror |
Incense for the Damned | Robert Hartford-Davis | Patrick Macnee, Peter Cushing | Horror |
Kidnapped | Delbert Mann | Michael Caine, Lawrence Douglas | Adventure |
King Lear | Peter Brook | Paul Scofield, Irene Worth | Drama |
The Last Valley | James Clavell | Michael Caine, Omar Sharif | Drama |
Lust for a Vampire | Jimmy Sangster | Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford | Horror |
Macbeth | Roman Polanski | Jon Finch, Francesca Annis | Drama |
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins | Graham Stark | Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman | Comedy |
Mary, Queen of Scots | Charles Jarrott | Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson | Historical |
Melody | Waris Hussein | Jack Wild, Mark Lester | Romance |
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Arne Sucksdorff | John Hurt, Hayley Mills | Adventure |
Murphy's War | Peter Yates | Peter O'Toole | World War II |
The Music Lovers | Ken Russell | Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music |
Nicholas and Alexandra | Franklin J. Schaffner | Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman | Historical biopic |
The Night Digger | Alastair Reid | Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown | Thriller |
Night Hair Child | James Kelly (Andrea Bianchi) | Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger | Black comedy |
The Nightcomers | Michael Winner | Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham | Horror |
On the Buses | Harry Booth | Reg Varney, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis | Comedy |

TV spin-off

Percy | Ralph Thomas | Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer | Comedy |
Please Sir! | Mark Stuart | John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson | Comedy |

TV spin-off

Private Road | Barney Platts-Mills | Susan Penhaligon, Bruce Robinson | Drama |
Psychomania | Don Sharp | Nicky Henson, Lee Ann Michelle, Roy Holder | Horror |
Quest for Love | Ralph Thomas | Joan Collins, Tom Bell | Sci-fi/drama |
The Raging Moon | Bryan Forbes | Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman | Romance |
Revenge | Sidney Hayers | Joan Collins, James Booth | Drama |
Secrets | Philip Saville | Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Powell | Drama | [2]
See No Evil | Richard Fleischer | Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison | Thriller |
She'll Follow You Anywhere | David C. Rea | Kenneth Cope, Keith Barron, Hilary Pritchard | Sex comedy |
Sitting Target | Douglas Hickox | Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, Ian McShane | Crime drama |
The Statue | Rod Amateau | David Niven, Virna Lisi | Comedy |
Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | Dustin Hoffman, Susan George | Drama/thriller |
Suburban Wives | Derek Ford | Eva Whishaw, Peter May | Sex comedy |
Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft | Drama | Number 65 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
The Tales of Beatrix Potter | Reginald Mills | Royal Ballet dancers | Dance |
A Time for Loving | Christopher Miles | Britt Ekland, Mel Ferrer | Drama |
To Catch a Spy | Dick Clement | Kirk Douglas, Trevor Howard | Spy/comedy |
A Town Called Hell | Robert Parrish | Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw | Western | Co-production with Spain
The Trojan Women | Michael Cacoyannis | Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave | Historical drama | Co-production with Greece
Universal Soldier | Cy Endfield | George Lazenby, Ben Carruthers | Drama |
Unman, Wittering and Zigo | John Mackenzie | David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer | Thriller |
Up Pompeii | Bob Kellett | Frankie Howerd, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray | Comedy | Based on the TV series
Up the Chastity Belt | Bob Kellett | Frankie Howerd, Graham Crowden, Bill Fraser | Comedy |
Villain | Michael Tuchner | Richard Burton, Ian McShane, T. P. McKenna | Crime |
Virgin Witch | Ray Austin | Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle | Horror |
Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil | Coming-of-age drama |
When Eight Bells Toll | Étienne Périer | Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins | Spy/action |
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Curtis Harrington | Shelley Winters, Mark Lester | Horror |
The Yes Girls | Lindsay Shonteff | Sue Bond, Sally Muggeridge | Sex comedy | [3]
Zeppelin | Étienne Périer | Michael York, Elke Sommer | World War I |

## Most Popular Films of the Year at British Box Office

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Source: Motion Picture Herald[4]

### General Release

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1. The Aristocats
2. On the Buses*
3. Soldier Blue
4. Carry on Loving*
5. Dad's Army*
6. Get Carter*
7. There's a Girl in My Soup*
8. Percy*
9. The Railway Children*
10. Up Pompeii*
11. When Eight Bells Toll*

(* British film)

### Reserved Ticket Attraction

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1. Song of Norway
2. Love Story
3. Ryan's Daughter
4. Paint Your Wagon
5. Waterloo

According to another account[5] the list was:

* The Aristocats
* On the Buses
* Soldier Blue
* There's a Girl in My Soup
* Percy
* The Railway Children
* Too Late the Hero
* Tales of Beatrix Potter
* Up Pompeii
* The Last Valley
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* When Eight Bells Toll
* Tora! Tora! Tora!
* Dad's Army
* Little Big Man

## Most Popular Stars

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Source: Motion Picture Herald[4]

1. Richard Burton
2. Steve McQueen
3. Dustin Hoffman
4. Michael Caine
5. Oliver Reed
6. Glenda Jackson
7. Candice Bergen
8. Clint Eastwood
9. Frankie Howerd
10. Jack Nicholson

## See also

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* 1971 in British music
* 1971 in British radio
* 1971 in British television
* 1971 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Bread". Archived from the original on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
2. ^ "Secrets". Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
3. ^ "The Yes Girls (1971)". Archived from the original on July 17, 2018.
4. ^ a b Waymark, Peter (December 30, 1971). "Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas". The Times. p. 2.
5. ^ Harper, Sue; Smith, Justin (2013). British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure. Edinburgh Press. p. 269.

## External links

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* British films of 1971 at IMDb

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* Aardman Animations
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* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
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* Amicus Productions
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* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
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* Denham Film Studios
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