List of British films of 1972

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1972 (see 1972 in film):

## 1972

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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1972
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall | Norman Cohen | Jim Dale, Arthur Lowe, Spike Milligan | Comedy |
Adult Fun | James Scott | Peter Marinker, Deborah Norton | Comedy/thriller | [1]
The Alf Garnett Saga | Bob Kellett | Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols | Comedy |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | William Sterling | Fiona Fullerton, Michael Crawford, Peter Sellers | Musical |
All Coppers Are... | Sidney Hayers | Martin Potter, Julia Foster | Drama |
The Amazing Mr Blunden | Lionel Jeffries | Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick | Family |
And Now For Something Completely Different | Ian MacNaughton, Terry Gilliam (animated sequences) | Monty Python, Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth | Comedy
Antony and Cleopatra | Charlton Heston | Charlton Heston, Eric Porter, John Castle | Historical drama |
The Asphyx | Peter Newbrook | Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire | Horror |
The Assassination of Trotsky | Joseph Losey | Richard Burton, Romy Schneider, Alain Delon | Historical drama |
Asylum | Roy Ward Baker | Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom | Portmanteau horror |
Au Pair Girls | Val Guest | Astrid Frank, Johnny Briggs | Sex comedy |
Bless This House | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Terry Scott | Comedy |

Spin-off of Bless This House

The Boy Who Turned Yellow | Michael Powell | Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison | Family drama |
Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Franco Zeffirelli | Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker | Biopic |
The Call of the Wild | Ken Annakin | Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier | Adventure |
Carry On Abroad | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey | Comedy |
Carry On Matron | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Sid James | Comedy |
Cry Wolf | John Davis | Anthony Kemp, Mary Burleigh | Drama |
Danny Jones | Jules Bricken | Frank Finlay, Jane Carr | Drama |
The Darwin Adventure | Jack Couffer | Nicholas Clay, Susan Macready | Biopic |
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Peter Medak | Alan Bates, Janet Suzman | Black comedy |
Death Line | Gary Sherman | Donald Pleasence, David Ladd | Horror |
Demons of the Mind | Peter Sykes | Gillian Hills, Shane Briant, Robert Hardy | Horror |
Doomwatch | Peter Sasdy | Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson | Sci-fi mystery |

TV series spin-off

Dracula AD 1972 | Alan Gibson | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | Horror |
Embassy | Gordon Hessler | Richard Roundtree, Chuck Connors, Ray Milland | Thriller |
Endless Night | Sidney Gilliat | Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland | Mystery |
The Fast Kill | Lindsay Shonteff | Tom Adams, Graham Ashley, Chris Carbis | Crime |
Fear in the Night | Jimmy Sangster | Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing | Thriller |
The Fiend | Robert Hartford-Davis | Ann Todd, Tony Beckley, Patrick Magee | Horror |
The Flesh and Blood Show | Pete Walker | Ray Brooks, Jenny Hanley | Horror | With 3-D sequence
Follow Me! | Carol Reed | Mia Farrow, Michael Jayston | Comedy |
For the Love of Ada | Ronnie Baxter | Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles | Comedy | Spin-off of For the Love of Ada
Four Dimensions of Greta | Pete Walker | Tristan Rogers, Karen Boyes | Sex comedy | With 3-D sequences
Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen | Thriller |
Fright | Peter Collinson | Susan George, Ian Bannen | Horror |
Glastonbury Fayre | Nicolas Roeg | Family, Arthur Brown, Fairport Convention | Documentary | A film of Glastonbury Festival
Go for a Take | Harry Booth | Dennis Price, Bob Todd | Comedy |
Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Waris Hussein | Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence | Drama |

Based on a BBC TV series

Hide and Seek | David Eady | Peter Newby, Gary Kemp | Family/adventure |
I Want What I Want | John Dexter | Anne Heywood, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett | Drama |
Images | Robert Altman | Susannah York, René Auberjonois | Drama |
Innocent Bystanders | Peter Collinson | Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin | Spy film |
Lady Caroline Lamb | Robert Bolt | Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain | Historical |
Madame Sin | David Greene | Bette Davis, Robert Wagner | Thriller |
Made | John Mackenzie | Carol White, Roy Harper | Drama |
Mutiny on the Buses | Harry Booth | Reg Varney, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis | Comedy | TV sitcom spin-off sequel
My Childhood | Bill Douglas |  | Biopic, Drama |
Nearest and Dearest | John Robins | Hylda Baker, Jimmy Jewel | Comedy | TV sitcom spin-off
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand | Fred Burnley | Susan Hampshire, Frank Finlay | Thriller | Also known as The Exorcism of Hugh [2]
Nobody Ordered Love | Robert Hartford-Davis | Ingrid Pitt, Judy Huxtable | Horror |
The Offence | Sidney Lumet | Sean Connery, Trevor Howard | Crime |
Ooh… You Are Awful | Cliff Owen | Dick Emery | Comedy |
The Other Side of the Underneath | Jane Arden | Sheila Allen | Drama |
Our Miss Fred | Bob Kellett | Danny La Rue | War Comedy |
The Pied Piper | Jacques Demy | Jack Wild, Donald Pleasence | Fantasy |
Pope Joan | Michael Anderson | Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Kemp, Olivia de Havilland | Drama |
Pulp | Mike Hodges | Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander | Crime/thriller |
Rentadick | Jim Clark | James Booth, Richard Briers | Comedy |
The Ruling Class | Peter Medak | Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe | Black comedy |
Running Scared | David Hemmings | Robert Powell, Gayle Hunnicutt | Drama |
Savage Messiah | Ken Russell | Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren | Biopic | Biopic of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Sitting Target | Douglas Hickox | Oliver Reed, Jill St. John | Action |
Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine | Mystery/thriller |
Something to Hide | Alastair Reid | Peter Finch, Shelley Winters | Thriller |
Steptoe and Son | Cliff Owen | Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett | Comedy |

TV sitcom spin-off

Straight on Till Morning | Peter Collinson | Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant | Thriller |
Tales from the Crypt | Freddie Francis | Ralph Richardson, Joan Collins | Horror |
That's Your Funeral | John Robins | Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley | Comedy |

Based on the TV series of the same name

Tower of Evil | Jim O'Connolly | Bryant Haliday, Jill Haworth | Horror |
The Triple Echo | Michael Apted | Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed | Drama | Entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival
Twins of Evil | John Hough | Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Mary Collinson | Horror |
Under Milk Wood | Andrew Sinclair | Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor | Comedy/drama |
Up the Front | Bob Kellett | Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser | Comedy |
Vampire Circus | Robert Young | Anthony Higgins, Adrienne Corri, Lalla Ward | Horror |
What Became of Jack and Jill? | Bill Bain | Vanessa Howard, Mona Washbourne | Thriller |
Young Winston | Richard Attenborough | Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft | Biography |
Z.P.G. | Michael Campus | Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin | Sci-fi |
Zee and Co. | Brian G. Hutton | Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York | Drama |

## Most Popular Films at the British Box Office in 1972

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* Diamonds Are Forever
* The Godfather
* Fiddler on the Roof
* Bedknobs and Broomsticks
* The Devils
* Steptoe and Son
* The French Connection
* Nicholas and Alexandra
* Ryan's Daughter
* Dirty Harry
* Mary, Queen of Scots
* A Clockwork Orange
* What's Up, Doc?
* Straw Dogs
* Shaft
* Klute
* Young Winston
* The Go-Between
* Mutiny on the Buses
* Sleeping Beauty
* Please Sir!
* Up the Chastity Belt

## See also

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* 1972 in British music
* 1972 in British radio
* 1972 in British television
* 1972 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Adult Fun (1972)". Archived from the original on February 22, 2019.
2. ^ "Neither the Sea nor the Sand | 1972".
3. ^ Harper, Sue; Smith, Justin (2013). British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure. Edinburgh Press. pp. 269–270.

## External links

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* British films of 1972 at IMDb

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* Aardman Animations
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* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
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* Thin Man Films
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* Wimbledon Studios
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* Amicus Productions
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* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
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* G. B. Samuelson Productions
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* Hemdale Film Corporation
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* Ideal Film Company
* Jellyfish Pictures
* Kensington Studios
* London Film Company
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* MGM-British Studios
* Merton Park Studios
* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
* Stoll Pictures
* Surbiton Studios
* Tempean Films
* Tigon British Film Productions
* Warwick Films
* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

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* British New Wave
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