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The History of American Cinema: 1967

July - December

4/7 -

Roger Corman and Burt Topper’s Devil’s Angels is released. The film is directed by Daniel Haller and stars John Cassavetes as the leader of a gang of Hells Angels. [ADD]

15/7 -

Jack Warner, last of the old-style movie moguls, sells his stake in Warner Bros to Seven-Arts for $32 million. The company name changes to Warner Bros-Seven Arts. [ADD]

19/7 -

Robert Mulligan’s Up the Down Staircase, an adaptation of Bel Kaufman’s novel by Tad Mosel, is released. Sandy Dennis stars, with support from Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White, Jean Stapleton and Sorrell Booke. [ADD]

2/8 -

Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night, a blistering tale of small-town bigotry in America’s deep south, is released. Sidney Poitier stars as the Philadelphia homicide detective who reluctantly joins forces with Rod Steiger’s bigoted sheriff to solve a local murder case. [ADD]

13/8 -

Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde is released. Starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as a suspiciously good-looking couple of bank robbers, the film changes forever the depiction of violence on the big screen when the pair are gunned down in a slow-motion hail of bullets. Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard and Estelle Parsons play their partners in crime. [ADD]

25/10 -

Joshua Logan’s $15 million budget Camelot is released. The Lerner and Loewe's musical based on T. H. White’s The Once and Future King stars Richard Harris as King Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere and Franco Nero as Lancelot. David Hemmings, Laurence Naismith and Lionel Jeffries also appear. [ADD]

1/11 -

Stuart Rosenberg’s Cool Hand Luke is released. Paul Newman stars as Luke, imprisoned for lopping the heads off parking meters. George Kennedy and Strother Martin also star as fellow inmate and prison guard respectively. [ADD]

11/12 -

Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner marks the final pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn before Tracy’s death earlier this year. Katharine Naughton, Hepburn’s real-life niece, plays their daughter, who causes temporary domestic strife when she reveals her intended to be a black man (Sidney Poitier). [ADD]

21/12 -

Mike Nichols' The Graduate is released and makes a star out of Dustin Hoffman who plays 21-year-old Ben Braddock, a young man who embarks on a relationship with the much older Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) to the folk-rock tunes of Simon and Garfunkel. Katharine Ross plays Bancroft’s daughter. [ADD]

Dec -

The last issue of Universal News, America’s last newsreel, is released. [ADD]

– ABC enters into an agreement with MGM for the production of 90-minute made-for-TV films. [ADD]

– 20^th Century-Fox abandons CinemaScope for Panavision for 35mm production, and Todd-AO for widescreen. Their first release in Panavision is In Like Flint. [ADD]

Other Key American Films of 1967

The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich) [ADD]

Don’t Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker) [ADD]

I Call First (aka Who’s That Knocking at my Door?) (Martin Scorsese) [ADD]

In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks) [ADD]

The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman) [ADD]

Point Blank (John Boorman) [ADD]

Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston) [ADD]

Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (Stan Brakhage) [ADD]

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Roger Corman) [ADD]

Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill) [ADD]

Valley of the Dolls (Mark Robson) [ADD]

Wavelength (Michael Snow) [ADD]

What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1967