The Top 25 Movies of the 1970′s
Movies made a big comeback in the 70s, reversing the declining trend in theater audiences that had accompanied the rise of television.
Movies like Star Wars and Close Encounters showed off the new whiz bang special effects for the first time in the 70s.
And the "Not Ready for Prime time Players, including Chevy Chase, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd brought comedic genius back to the movies.
1970's movies like Saturday Night Fever and Grease rocked the big screen bringing the musical back to the movies.
Here are the most-watched films of the 1970s based on box-office receipts:
1. Airport
2. American Graffiti
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. Every Which Way But Loose
6. The Exorcist
7. The Godfather
8. Grease
9. Jaws
10. Jaws 2
11. Kramer vs. Kramer
12. Love Story
13. M*A*S*H
14. National Lampoon's Animal House
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
16. Patton
17. The Poseidon Adventure
18. Rocky
19. Smokey and the Bandit
20. Star Wars
21. The Sting
22. Summer of '42
23. Superman
24. The Towering Inferno
25. Young Frankenstein
