List of British films of 1974

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1974 (see 1974 in film):

## 1974

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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11 Harrowhouse | Aram Avakian | Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason | Thriller |
The Abdication | Anthony Harvey | Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann | Historical |
Akenfield | Peter Hall | Stanley Baxter, Ronald Blythe, Ethel Branton | Drama |
The Beast Must Die | Paul Annett | Peter Cushing, Anton Diffring, Calvin Lockhart | Horror |
The Best of Benny Hill | John Robins | Benny Hill | Comedy | Skits from his television show
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business | Christopher Hodson | Reg Varney, Diana Coupland | Comedy/drama |
The Black Windmill | Don Siegel | Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence | Spy/thriller |
Brief Encounter | Alan Bridges | Richard Burton, Sophia Loren | Romance/drama/remake |
Butley | Harold Pinter | Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy | Drama | Film of play by Simon Gray
Callan | Don Sharp | Edward Woodward, Eric Porter | Thriller | TV spin-off
Can You Keep It Up for a Week? | Jim Atkinson | Jeremy Bulloch, Neil Hallett | Sex comedy | [1]
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter | Brian Clemens | Horst Janson, John Carson, Caroline Munro | Horror |
Carry On Dick | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Barbara Windsor | Comedy |
The Cherry Picker | Peter Curran (director) | Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Drama |
Confessions of a Window Cleaner | Val Guest | Robin Askwith, Antony Booth | Sex comedy |
Craze | Freddie Francis | Jack Palance, Diana Dors | Comedy/horror |
Dead Cert | Tony Richardson | Scott Antony, Judi Dench | Crime Thriller |
Deadly Strangers | Sidney Hayers | Hayley Mills, Simon Ward | Thriller |
Diamonds on Wheels | Jerome Courtland | Patrick Allen, George Sewell, Barry Jackson | Comedy |
Feelings | Gerry O'Hara | Kate O'Mara, Paul Freeman, Edward Judd | Drama |
The Four Musketeers | Richard Lester | Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York | Adventure |
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, David Prowse | Horror |
Frightmare | Pete Walker | Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith | Horror |
From Beyond the Grave | Kevin Connor | Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen | Portmanteau horror |
Ghost Story | Stephen Weeks | Marianne Faithfull, Leigh Lawson | Mystery |
The God King | Lester James Peries | Leigh Lawson, Oliver Tobias | Historical | Co-production with Sri Lanka
Gold | Peter R. Hunt | Roger Moore, Susannah York | Adventure |
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Gordon Hessler | John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker | Fantasy |
Got It Made | James Kenelm Clarke | Lalla Ward, Michael Latimer | Drama | [2]
Great Expectations | Joseph Hardy | Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason |  | Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival
House of Whipcord | Pete Walker | Patrick Barr, Ray Brooks, Ann Michelle | Horror |
The Internecine Project | Ken Hughes | James Coburn, Lee Grant | Spy/thriller |
Juggernaut | Richard Lester | Richard Harris, Omar Sharif | Drama |
Just One More Time | Maurice Hamblin | John Hamill, Sue Longhurst | Sex comedy |
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | Roy Ward Baker | Peter Cushing, Julie Ege | Horror/action | Co-production with Hong Kong
Little Malcolm | Stuart Cooper | Rosalind Ayres, John Hurt | Comedy/drama | Won the Silver Bear at Berlin
The Little Prince | Stanley Donen | Steven Warner, Richard Kiley | Musical |
Madhouse | Jim Clark | Vincent Price, Natasha Pyne | Horror |
Mahler | Ken Russell | Robert Powell, Georgina Hale | Biopic |
The Maids | Christopher Miles | Glenda Jackson, Susannah York | Drama | Adaptation of the Jean Genet play
Man About the House | John Robins | Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett | Comedy |
The Man with the Golden Gun | Guy Hamilton | Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, Britt Ekland, Richard Loo | Spy/action |
The Marseille Contract | Robert Parrish | Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, James Mason | Thriller |
Mistress Pamela | Jim O'Connolly | Ann Michelle, Julian Barnes | Drama |
Moments | Peter Crane | Keith Michell, Angharad Rees, Bill Fraser | Drama |
Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet | Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman | Mystery | Based on Agatha Christie's novel. Ingrid Bergman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The Mutations | Jack Cardiff | Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Donald Pleasence | Horror |
The ODESSA File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Mary Tamm | Spy/thriller |
Open Season | Peter Collinson | Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe | Action |
The Optimists of Nine Elms | Anthony Simmons | Peter Sellers, John Chaffey | Comedy |
Paul and Michelle | Lewis Gilbert | Anicée Alvina, Sean Bury | Drama | Co-production with France
Penda's Fen | Alan Clarke | Spencer Banks | Comedy drama | Made for television
Percy's Progress | Ralph Thomas | Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer | Comedy |
Persecution | Don Chaffey | Lana Turner, Trevor Howard | Horror thriller |
Phase IV | Saul Bass | Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport | Sci-fi |
The Rehearsal | Jules Dassin | Jules Dassin, Olympia Dukakis, Melina Mercouri, Laurence Olivier | Drama | British/Greek co-production
The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Alan Gibson | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley | Horror |
Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Roy Boulting | Peter Sellers | World War II comedy |
Stardust | Michael Apted | David Essex, Adam Faith | Drama |
Swallows and Amazons | Claude Whatham | Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser | Family |
The Swordsman | Lindsay Shonteff | Linda Marlowe | Action |
Symptoms | José Ramón Larraz | Angela Pleasence, Raymond Huntley | Horror thriller | Entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival
The Tamarind Seed | Blake Edwards | Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle | Romance/spy/drama |
The Tempter | Damiano Damiani | Glenda Jackson, Claudio Cassinelli | Drama | Co-production with Italy
Vampira | Clive Donner | David Niven, Teresa Graves | Horror comedy |
Vampyres | José Ramón Larraz | Anulka, Murray Brown | Horror |
What Changed Charley Farthing? | Sidney Hayers | Hayley Mills, Lionel Jeffries | Comedy |
Zardoz | John Boorman | Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling | Sci-fi |

## Top Films at the British Box Office in 1974

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Source:[3]

* The Sting
* The Exorcist
* Enter the Dragon
* The Three Musketeers
* Papillon
* Herbie Rides Again
* Robin Hood
* The Great Gatsby
* Mary Poppins
* The Way We Were
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Blazing Saddles
* Confessions of a Window Cleaner
* Stardust
* Gold
* Last Tango in Paris
* American Graffiti

## See also

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* 1974 in British music
* 1974 in British radio
* 1974 in British television
* 1974 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Can You Keep It up for a Week?". Archived from the original on 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
2. ^ "Got It Made". filmweb.pl. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
3. ^ Harper, Sue; Smith, Justin (2013). British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure. Edinburgh Press. pp. 270–271.

## External links

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* British films of 1974 at IMDb

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