Movies Viewed at the White House: the Clinton's

For the next few Saturdays—as I do a few odd reviews for the usual "odd" Saturday spot—I'll publish a list of the movies watched by various U.S. Presidents in the White House movie theater, a reconverted cloak room re-purposed during the Roosevelt (Franklin) Administration in which to watch films, host guests, have parties, a family den for the White House. A Man-Cave without any sort of nuclear ramifications.

At the risk of inspiring all the conspiracy theorists (read: "nuts") who specialize in all things Clinton (I wouldn't be surprised if I see a book about this at Costco next month!), one can't help notice that the list of movies watched during the administration of Bill Clinton has some irregularities to it. It's probably Hillary's fault, but the Clinton's watched fewer movies during eight years in The White House than Jimmy Carter watched in four. One can see that in the years 1996 and 1997, there are only ten movies listed.  The compiler of the list, Matt Novak—who not only inspired this bunch of posts, but also did all the research on these things—speculates that the Clinton list might be redacted (all the lists for all the Presidents are redacted as far as attendees at the screenings, but even Nixon was forthcoming on what was viewed). Given the number of movies screened in the other years, it is doubtful they only watched 3 in 1996. So....what's going on? The theater wasn't being remodeled. Maybe there was too much good stuff on television in those years. The far simplest answer is that Clinton was running for re-election in 1996. But, c'mon, he was running against Bob Dole! It's mysterious enough that some bonehead will surely be shooting up a D.C. pizza restaurant in a fit of psuedo-detective work.

Another curious thing—all the films listed are contemporary. There's not an old movie in the bunch, not even anything from the '60's. Good Lord, Clinton is the first President to have not screened the Sean Connery Bond movies in The White House (they were out on video since 1980-something, so maybe there wasn't a demand). Nope, the list is made up of all new releases, not an oldie in the bunch.

Hmm. Probably Hillary.

Here are the films screen at The White House during the administration of William Jefferson Clinton:

1993
Lorenzo’s Oil - January 27, 1993
Leap of Faith - February 5, 1993
Falling Down - February 12, 1993
The Bodyguard - February 14, 1993
Howard’s End - February 20, 1993
Groundhog Day - February 27, 1993
Benny and Joon - March 4, 1993
Mad Dog and Glory - March 13, 1993
Married To It - March 20, 1993
Made in America - April 15, 1993
Born Yesterday (1993) - April 16, 1993
Dave - April 23, 1993
Point of No Return - May 1, 1993
Lost in Yonkers - May 14, 1993
Undercover Blues - May 21, 1993
Sleepless in Seattle - June 11, 1993
The Man Without a Face - September 3, 1993
Age of Innocence - September 11, 1993
Searching For Bobby Fischer - September 17, 1993
The Joy Luck Club - October 1, 1993
A Bronx Tale - October 10, 1993
Rudy - October 15, 1993
Striking Distance - October 22, 1993
Demolition Man - October 29, 1993
Philadelphia - November 13, 1993
The Three Musketeers (1993) - November 24, 1993
Cool Runnings - November 25, 1993
The Piano - November 26, 1993
The Pelican Brief - December 10, 1993
A Perfect World - December 26, 1993

1994
Tombstone - January 18, 1994
Shadowlands - January 20, 1994
Mrs. Doubtfire - January 21, 1994
The Air Up There - January 27, 1994
Grumpy Old Men - January 28, 1994
Six Degrees of Separation - February 11, 1994
Romeo is Bleeding - February 21, 1994
Guarding Tess - March 5, 1994
Abraham - March 11, 1994
Naked Gun 33 ⅓ - March 12, 1994
The Hudsucker Proxy - March 18, 1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral - April 15, 1994
Clifford - April 29, 1994
Little Women - December 25, 1994
Forrest Gump - December 26, 1994

1995
Nobody’s Fool - January 5, 1995
Legends of the Fall - January 13, 1995
Higher Learning - February 4, 1995
Boys on the Side - February 17, 1995
Miami Rhapsody - February 18, 1995
A Man of No Importance - February 19, 1995
The Quick and the Dead - February 20, 1995
Rob Roy - April 15, 1995
The Madness of King George - April 21, 1995
Jefferson in Paris - April 22, 1995
French Kiss - May 13, 1995
Braveheart - May 26, 1995
Kiss of Death - May 27, 1995
Braveheart - May 28, 1995
The Bridges of Madison County - May 28, 1995
Crimson Tide - June 2, 1995
Apollo 13 - June 8, 1995

1996
The Birdcage - April 3, 1996
Chicano! - May 2, 1996
Independence Day - June 22, 1996

1997
Jerry Maguire - January 10, 1997
One Fine Day - January 15, 1997
Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown - August 2, 1997
Shall We Dance - August 3, 1997
Cop Land - August 15, 1997
G.I. Jane - September 12, 1997
The Peacemaker - October 3, 1997

1998
Kundun - January 10, 1998
Good Will Hunting - January 11, 1998
The Apostle - January 24, 1998
Titanic - January 23, 1998
Fallen - January 30, 1998
Hard Rain - January 31, 1998
Temptress Moon - February 7, 1998
Zero Effect - February 15, 1998
HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon (parts 1-2 of 12) - March 5, 1998
The Boxer - March 14, 1998
Twilight (1998)- April 4, 1998
The Big Lebowski - April 10, 1998
Dangerous Beauty - April 24, 1998
Bulworth - May 30, 1998
Deep Impact - June 1, 1998
The Truman Show - June 6, 1998
About Sarah - June 20, 1998
Out of Sight - July 4, 1998
Smoke Screen - July 8, 1998
Armageddon - July 10, 1998
A Perfect Murder - July 13, 1998
Saving Private Ryan - July 14, 1998
The Mask of Zorro - July 22, 1998
Snake Eyes - August 8, 1998
The Avengers (1998) - September 6, 1998
Wrongfully Accused - October 4, 1998
Rush Hour - October 23, 1998
Holy Man - October 30, 1998
Beloved - November 3, 1998
A Bug’s Life - November 8, 1998
Soldier - November 16, 199
The Siege - November 17, 1998
Enemy of the State - December 12, 1998
Waking Ned Devine and A Civil Action- December 25, 1998
Life is Beautiful and The Prince of Egypt - December 26, 1998

1999
You’ve Got Mail - January 2, 1999
Affliction - January 23, 1999
Forever Fever (aka That’s the Way I Like It) - February 13, 1999
Little Voice - February 16, 1999
Message in a Bottle - February 20, 1999a
HBO’s Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports - March 4, 1999
October Sky - March 5, 1999
Analyze This - March 6, 1999
The Other Sister - March 14, 1999
8MM - March 26, 1999
True Crime - April 3, 1999
The Winslow Boy - May 2, 1999
Entrapment - May 12, 1999
The Castle - May 17, 1999
Cookie’s Fortune - May 21, 1999
The Harmonists - May 23, 1999
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace - June 6, 1999
Shadrach - June 10, 1999
The Mummy - June 26, 1999
The 13th Floor - June 27, 1999
An Ideal Husband - July 2, 1999
Limbo - July 3, 1999
The General’s Daughter - July 12, 1999
Wild Wild West - July 17, 1999
Lake Placid - August 5, 1999
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) - August 13, 1999
Fifty Violins (aka Music of the Heart) - August 15, 1999
Mystery Men - September 4, 1999
Runaway Bride - September 5, 1999
American Beauty - October 10, 1999
My Life So Far - October 11, 1999
Three Kings - October 14, 1999
Double Jeopardy - October 16, 1999
Music of the Heart - October 23, 1999
Fight Club - November 6, 1999
The Bachelor - November 7, 1999
Crazy in Alabama - November 12, 1999
Liberty Heights - November 24, 1999
The World is Not Enough - November 25, 1999
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc - November 26, 1999
End of Days - November 27, 1999
The Hurricane - December 3, 1999
Galaxy Quest - December 25, 1999
The Talented Mr. Ripley - December 30, 1999

2000
Any Given Sunday - January 14, 2000
Eye of the Beholder - February 12, 2000
The Height of the Sky - February 17, 2000
Gun Shy - February 21, 2000
Hanging Up - February 25, 2000
PBS’ The American President (president unspecified)- April 7, 2000
Erin Brockovich - April 21, 2000
Frequency - May 13, 2000
I Dreamed of Africa - May 27, 2000
Small Time Crooks - June 9, 2000
Shanghai Noon - June 17, 2000
The Patriot - June 18, 2000
The Patriot - July 7, 2000
Shaft (2000) - July 8, 2000
High Fidelity - August 21, 2000
Space Cowboys - September 3, 2000
Coyote Ugly - September 10, 2000
Men of Honor - September 22, 2000
Almost Famous - October 10, 2000
Pay it Forward - October 27, 2000

2001
Chocolat - January 6, 2001

Ron Howard at the screening of Apollo 13 for the Clintons

Movies Viewed at the White House: the Nixon's

For the next few Saturdays—as I do a few odd reviews for the usual "odd" Saturday spot—I'll publish a list of the movies watched by various U.S. Presidents in the White House movie theater, a reconverted cloak room re-purposed during the Roosevelt (Franklin) Administration in which to watch films, host guests, have parties, a family den for the White House. A Man-Cave without any sort of nuclear ramifications.

What to make of the films watched by Richard Milhouse Nixon? A lot has been made of his love of the film Patton, which, supposedly, inspired his bombing of Cambodia to destroy the supply lines of the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. Fact is, he saw it three times in 1970; he saw Lawrence of Arabia, The Brothers Karamazov, and Around the World in 80 Days twice during his truncated-by-resignation tenure, as well, but we don't know if that had any ramifications. When I was becoming aware of these lists, it seemed people were concentrating on some of the (shall we say) "perverse" films screened at the various Nixon White Houses, like Twisted Nerve, What the Peeper Saw, The Night Visitor, and Frenzy. But, nobody mentions that he also watched Ken Russell's The Music Lovers, the very anti-war The Americanization of Emily, and—this must have been a weird night—he also watched the Day of the Dolphin, which involved a plot to use intelligent dolphins to carry bombs to kill...him.

He also liked movies about lawyers—his first profession. But, the one that amuses me is that very early in his administration he watched a movie called Play Dirty.

Of course, he did.

And he DID watch The Last Picture Show, which reminded me of an essay in the Peter Bogdanovich book "Pieces of Time" where he wrote about when he and his girlfriend at the time, Cybill Shepherd, were invited to a White House party that was heavy with Hollywood stars and types. Nixon asked if he'd seen any of Bogdanovich's films and the director prompted The Last Picture Show, and Nixon became quite effusive in his praise for the film, which he called a marvelous "production" and had high praise for the cast, especially Ben Johnson. Bogdanovich piped up, "Cybill was in it, too." And Nixon couldn't recall her, when she was standing right in front of him. "She's the one who stripped on the diving board," Bogdanovich mentioned helpfully, and Nixon became flustered, but continued his praise of the movie, and as he was moving off, he looked at Shepherd and said "And, of course, I remember YOU, my dear."  Eeew.

Have I mentioned that there have been more movies depicting Nixon than any other president besides Lincoln?

The list comes primarily from Mark Feeney's book "Nixon at the Movies" (which necessitates the copyright notice at the bottom), which, again, benefited from the notes made by White House projectionist Paul Fisher, who, as Nixon's administration was being unraveled by Watergate, seemed to be taking less precise notes.

1969
  The Shoes of the Fisherman 1/22
  The Sound of Music 2/14
  The Sand Pebbles 2/15 - 3/29
  Play Dirty 4/12
  Doctor Zhivago 4/19
  Where Eagles Dare 4/25
  Camelot 5/17
  A Man for All Seasons 5/23
  Mayerling 5/29
  Twisted Nerve 5/30
  Bullitt 5/31
  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 6/4
  Shalako 6/5
  Support Your Local Sheriff 6/20
  True Grit 6/28
  The Bridge on the River Kwai 7/2
  My Side of the Mountain 7/5
  Sound of Anger 7/11
  My Little Chickadee 7/17
  West Side Story 7/18
  The Odd Couple 7/26
  Gigi 8/? SC
  The Happiest Millionaire 8/?
  Dead Run 8/?
  The Guns of Navarone 8/?
  The Longest Day 8/?
  The Dirty Dozen 8/13
  Their Finest Hour 8/14
  Born Free 9/19
  How to Commit Marriage 10/11
  Hard Contract 10/17
  Roman Holiday 10/18
  The Scalphunters 10/24
  Oliver! 11/1
  The Bridge at Remagen 11/6
  The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming 11/15
  If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium 11/22
  Cat Ballou 11/27
  The Great Bank Robbery 11/28
  The Undefeated 11/29
  The Pink Jungle 12/13
  P.J. 12/14
  Marooned 12/20
  Hello, Dolly 12/26
  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 12/31

1970
  The Sea Gull 1/1
  Sweet Charity 1/3
  The Robe 1/4
  Around the World in 80 Days 1/5
  Those Were the Happy Times (Star!) 1/6
  The Sterile Cuckoo 1/7
  Civilisation 1/?
  Paint Your Wagon 1/24
  Cactus Flower 1/31
  The Secret of Santa Vittoria 2/7
  No Time for Sergeants 2/12
  Hawaii 2/13
  Anne of the Thousand Days 2/?
  Quo Vadis 3/6
  To Catch a Thief 3/13
  Paper Lion 3/26
  Funny Girl 3/28
  The Stalking Moon 3/29
  Hamlet 4/3
  Patton 4/4
  The Caine Mutiny 4/6
  My Fair Lady 4/14
  The Cincinnati Kid 4/24
  Patton 4/25
  The Last Hurrah 5/1
  The Blue Max 5/2
  Sunrise at Campobello 5/6
  Topkapi 5/12
  A Big Hand for the Little Lady 5/13
  Oklahoma! 5/14
  Before Winter Comes 5/15
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 5/17
  Ice Station Zebra 5/22
  The Cardinal 5/23
  The Train 5/29
  How the West Was Won 5/30
  Smith 6/6
  Patton 6/12
  The Battle of Britain 6/13
  War and Peace 6/19
  The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 6/21
  The Egg and I 6/25
  Flower Drum Song 6/26
  Auntie Mame 7/1
  Father Goose 7/3
  The Professionals 7/5
  Our Man in Havana 7/?
  The Out-of-Towners 7/25
  Bell, Book and Candle 7/26
  Chisum 7/31
  Swiss Family Robinson 8/2
  Cromwell 8/7
  The Cross and the Switchblade 8/8
  The Sicilian Clan 8/15
  Dial M for Murder 8/22
  Born Yesterday 8/23
  Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 8/24
  Mister Roberts 8/25
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 8/28
  Wilson 8/30
  Chisum 8/31
  The Roaring Twenties 9/4
  The Big Country 9/5
  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 9/11
  McCloud 9/12
  Operation Cross Eagles 9/?
  The Chairman 9/?
  A Place in History 9/?
  The Unsinkable Molly Brown 9/?
  Giant 10/8
  The Country Girl 10/9
  Mildred Pierce 10/10
  The Americanization of Emily 11/2
  Khartoum 11/6
  The African Queen 11/7
  Walk, Don't Run 11/9
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips 11/13
  How Do I Love Thee? 11/14
  Richard III 11/20
  Tora! Tora! Tora! 11/26
  It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 11/27
  The Greatest Show on Earth 11/28
  Good Sam 12/5
  Stagecoach 12/19
  Love Story 12/24
  You Can't Take It with You 12/25
  Pursuit of the Graf Spee 12/26

1971
  Anatomy of a Murder 1/1
  Barabbas 1/2
  Citizen Kane 1/5
  All About Eve 1/7
  Mississippi 1/8
  Gigi 1/9
  Torn Curtain 1/11
  Doctor Zhivago 1/15
  Sitting Pretty 1/16
  Song of Norway 1/25
  Spartacus 1/29
  High Society 1/30
  The Iron Petticoat 1/31
  Dr. Day Revisited and A Man Named Lombardi 2/6
  Four W. C. Fields shorts 2/11
  The Great Chase 2/12
  Gone with the Wind 2/13–14
  Friendly Persuasion 2/20
  Around the World in 80 Days 2/27
  Lawrence of Arabia 3/3
  Lawrence of Arabia, part 2 3/6
  In Harm's Way 3/12
  The Sundowners 3/13
  The Flight of the Phoenix 3/14
  Arabesque 3/27
  A Man Could Get Killed 3/29
  Sahara 4/2
  The List of Adrian Messenger 4/3
  Rio Lobo 4/4
  Ryan's Daughter 4/10
  A New Leaf 4/71
  O'Hara, U.S. Treasury 4/71
  Captain Horatio Hornblower 4/30
  Houseboat 5/1
  The High Commissioner 5/2
  The Egyptian 5/14
  Ship of Fools 5/16
  The Lady from Shanghai 5/21
  Take the Money and Run 5/22
  Red Sky at Morning 5/23
  Red Ball Express 5/24
  Waterloo 5/29
  Plaza Suite 5/30
  Rose Marie 6/5
  The Cheyenne Social Club 6/6
  Broken Lance 6/18
  Donovan's Reef 6/19
  Zeppelin 6/25
  Shane 6/26
  Proudly They Came and Valdez Is Coming 7/4
  All the Brothers Were Valiant 7/7
  Breakfast at Tiffany's 7/8
  The Apartment 7/9
  The Quiet Man 7/11
  Diamond Head 7/13
  They Might Be Giants 7/14
  Raid on Rommel 7/16
  Damn Yankees 7/17
  The Last Valley 7/24
  That Touch of Mink 7/25
  The Barbarian and the Geisha 7/31
  A Fistful of Dollars 8/6
  The Conqueror 8/7
  Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison 8/9
  The Virginian 8/17
  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 8/21
  The Bridges at Toko-Ri 8/22
  El Cid 8/23
  The Fortune Cookie 8/24
  The Ipcress File 8/27
  Shanghai Express 8/29
  Send Me No Flowers 8/30
  The Alamo 9/5
  Big Jake 9/11
  Hud 9/17
  Cleopatra 9/18–19
  The Sheepman 9/20
  Wild Rovers 9/24
  The Grass Is Greener 10/1
  To Kill a Mockingbird 10/3
  The Red Tent 10/9
  The Bravados 10/10
  Beau James 10/15
  Klute 10/24
  Under the Yum-Yum Tree 11/5
  Wait Until Dark 11/7
  San Francisco 11/12
  The Bad and the Beautiful 11/13
  Suspicion 11/20
  Gaslight 11/25
  Cannon for Cordoba 12/3
  The Badlanders 12/16
  The Last Run 12/17
  The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 12/19
  The Night Visitor 12/22
  Brian's Song 12/23
  Nicholas and Alexandra 12/25
  Love in the Afternoon 12/29
  The Lonely Profession 12/30

1972
  The Brothers Karamazov 1/7
  Hotel 1/13
  Papa's Delicate Condition 1/14
  Lawman 1/15
  The Brothers Karamazov 1/29
  Romance of a Horsethief 2/4
  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2/11–12
  Kotch 3/1
  Nine Hours to Rama 3/2
  Dr. No 3/3
  Dirty Harry 3/10
  The Last Picture Show 3/11
  The Music Lovers 3/17
  Paris When It Sizzles 3/18
  The Grapes of Wrath 3/24
  The French Connection 3/25
  Lord Jim 4/1
  Duel in the Sun 4/2
  Bachelor in Paradise 4/6
  Boomerang 4/7
  The Godfather 4/21
  There Was a Crooked Man 4/22
  Diamonds Are Forever 4/27
  Pendulum 4/29
  Critic's Choice 5/5
  Kidnapped 5/6
  Funeral in Berlin 5/7
  Goldfinger 5/11
  The Carpetbaggers 5/12
  Good Neighbor Sam 5/13
  From Russia with Love 5/18
  Move Over, Darling 5/19
  The Prince and the Showgirl 6/2
  Elmer Gantry 6/3
  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 6/4
  Take Her, She's Mine 6/8
  The Skin Game 6/16
  The Notorious Landlady 6/17
  When Eight Bells Toll 6/18
  The Cardinal 6/21
  Hang 'Em High 6/23
  The Hot Rock 6/24
  Harlow 7/1
  The V.I.P.s 7/3
  Reap the Wild Wind 7/4
  Coogan's Bluff 7/5
  Irma La Douce 7/9
  Gambit 7/11
  Two documentaries (on Pat's visit to Africa and the Washington Redskins) 7/12
  Skyjacked 7/19
  She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 7/22
  Fort Apache 7/24
  Lady Liberty 7/29
  The Mouse that Roared 7/30
  Frenzy 8/4
  The War between Men and Women 8/5
  Bend of the River 8/11
  Joe Kidd 8/12
  Kelly's Heroes 9/3
  Crusade in Europe 9/6
  Cabaret 9/8
  The Groundstar Conspiracy 9/9
  The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid 9/16
  The Man 9/19
  Yankee Doodle Dandy 9/23
  Their Finest Hour 9/24
  Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 9/26
  War and Peace 9/30
  Fiddler on the Roof 10/1
  Major Dundee 10/5
  The King and I 10/7
  South Pacific 10/14
  Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 10/20
  The Sons of Katie Elder 10/24
  Midnight Lace 10/?
  Cancel My Reservation 10/29
  Crusade in Europe 10/31
  Civilisation 11/5
  Victory at Sea 11/8
  The Great Escape 11/9
  Boys' Night Out 11/10
  Fuzz 11/12
  John Paul Jones 11/16
  Man with a Million 11/19
  Young Winston 11/22
  The Emigrants 11/23
  The Carey Treatment 11/26
  Pancho Villa 11/27
  Rio Bravo 11/28
  The Heroes of Telemark 12/3
  What the Peeper Saw 12/7
  The Candidate 12/8
  Sounder 12/9
  The Poseidon Adventure 12/12
  The Hanging Tree 12/17
  Charade 12/20
  The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 12/21
  The Lady Eve 12/22
  Butterfield 8 12/24
  The Big Clock 12/28
  The General Died at Dawn 12/29

1973
  Three Coins in the Fountain 1/6
  Ride the High Country 1/7
  The Maltese Falcon 1/9
  Mary, Queen of Scots 1/12
  The More the Merrier 1/26
  Tom Jones 1/27
  This Gun for Hire 1/28
  The Accused 2/3
  So Big 2/4
  A Double Life 2/8
  On the Waterfront 2/9
  The Last Voyage 2/10
  Undercurrent 2/11
  The Man Who Knew Too Much 2/13
  Some Like It Hot 2/16
  Keeper of the Flame 2/17
  Boom Town 2/18
  Vertigo 2/23
  The Doctor Takes a Wife 2/24
  Viva Zapata! 3/4
  Picnic 3/9
  Owen Marshall 3/10
  To the Ends of the Earth 3/11
  Texas 3/15
  Sleuth 3/18
  Frenchman's Creek 3/24
  Anne of the Thousand Days 3/25
  The Shepherd of the Hills 3/26
  Three Little Words 3/30
  Two Rode Together 4/1
  Gideon of Scotland Yard 4/3
  Meet Me in St. Louis 4/4
  Kind Hearts and Coronets 4/5
  Forever and a Day 4/7
  Some Came Running 4/20
  The Seven Year Itch 4/21
  The Quiet Man 4/23
  Ocean's 11 5/3
  What Price Glory 5/4
  Inherit the Wind 5/6
  Notorious 5/10
  The Long Voyage Home 5/11
  Hammersmith Is Out 5/12
  The War Wagon 5/13
  The Searchers 5/17
  A Hole in the Head 5/19
  High Plains Drifter 5/20
  The Wreck of the Mary Deare 5/22
  Tea and Sympathy 5/23
  Indiscreet 5/25
  Proud Rebel 5/26
  Twelve O'Clock High 5/27
  Night People 6/2
  Separate Tables 6/8
  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 6/9
  Stage Fright 6/15
  The Lady Killers 6/16
  A Letter to Three Wives 6/25
  Love Me or Leave Me 6/26
  Never Let Me Go 6/27
  Pat and Mike 6/28
  The Gazebo 6/29
  The Citadel 6/30
  Daisy Kenyon 7/1
  The Railway Children 7/2
  North to Alaska 7/4
  Alexander the Great 7/5
  Tom Sawyer 7/6
  His Majesty O'Keefe 7/7
  The Far Country 7/8
  Rebel without a Cause 7/?
  Detective Story 7/?
  The Iron Duke 7/21
  Life with Father 7/22
  The Day of the Jackal 7/23
  Centennial Summer 7/28
  Vera Cruz 7/29
  A Touch of Class 8/3
  The Sky Above, the Mud Below 8/4
  Man on a String 8/5
  Run for Cover 8/8
  The Nelson Affair 8/9
  The Light that Failed 8/17
  You Gotta Stay Happy 8/18
  Lawrence of Arabia 8/23–24
  Please Don't Eat the Daisies 8/25
  Ivanhoe 8/26
  Kentucky 8/27
  On the Town 8/28
  Dark Victory 8/29
  All This and Heaven Too 8/30
  The Postman Always Rings Twice 9/1
  The Blue Dahlia 9/2
  David and Bathsheba 9/8
  I'd Climb the Highest Mountain 9/9
  Lady Ice 9/14
  Paper Moon 9/15
  A King's Story 9/16
  Scorpio 9/22
  Key Largo 9/23
  Bang the Drum Slowly 9/29
  Lonely Are the Brave 9/30
  Play Misty for Me 10/4
  Khartoum 10/6
  Zulu 10/13
  Suez 10/16
  The Sting 10/19
  The Searching Wind 10/20
  The World in His Arms 10/23
  Fail-Safe 10/27
  Hitler: The Last Ten Days 10/29
  Live and Let Die 10/31
  The Master Touch 11/3
  Heaven Can Wait 11/?
  The Way We Were 11/9
  The Long Gray Line 11/10
  The Snows of Kilimanjaro 11/22
  My Darling Clementine 11/23
  A Foreign Affair 11/24
  The Last of Sheila 12/1
  A Man for All Seasons 12/2
  Western Union 12/7
  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 12/8
  The Flim-Flam Man 12/?
  Travels with My Aunt 12/?
  Drums Along the Mohawk 12/?
  Anastasia 12/?
  The House of Rothschild 12/?
  Jane Eyre 12/?

1974
 Jan.
Garden of Evil
  Buffalo Bill
  Cahill: United States Marshal
  Passage to Marseilles
  Henry VIII and His Six Wives
  They Came to Cordura
  The Whole Town's Talking
  An Affair to Remember
  American Graffiti
  Executive Action
  The Long Goodbye
  The Hospital
Feb.
  Charley Varrick
  The New Land
  Serpico CD
  The Clouded Yellow  
  A Kiss Before Dying
  Harry in Your Pocket
  The Sting
  The Collector
  England Made Me
  Mame
  The Day of the Dolphin
  Pony Express
  Destination Gobi
  The Omega Man
  Butterflies Are Free
  Cheyenne Autumn
Mar.
  Von Ryan's Express
  Friendly Persuasion
  A Place in History  
  The Way We Were  
  Sunset Boulevard  
  Magnum Force
Apr.  
  Becket
  The Great Gatsby
  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  Call of the Wild  
  What's Up, Doc?  
  The Solid Gold Cadillac  
  The Sugarland Express
May
  The Long, Hot Summer
  The Paper Chase
  Rio Conchos
  The Seven-Ups
  On the Beach  
  Shenandoah  
  The Wrong Box
June 
  Zandy's Bride
  Holiday
  Divorce Italian Style
  Kitty  
  The Big Sleep
Jul
  The Big Heat
  Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
  McQ  
  By the Light of the Silvery Moon  
  Chad Hanna  
  Come Next Spring  
  Man on a Swing  
  Man without a Star  
  Double Indemnity
  Two for the Seesaw
  The Train Robbers
  It's a Wonderful Life
  Around the World in 80 Days

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