Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Films of 1972
This list contains the films produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1972. List in order of when films were released in the United States.
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- DirectorJohn FlynnStarsBruce DavisonNicol WilliamsonDaria HalprinAn American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
- DirectorBarry PollackStarsThalmus RasulalaJudy PaceJulian ChristopherThalmus is the leader for a group of criminals who gather in L.A. to rob a bank. Their goal is to find a new bank.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsJames CoburnJennifer O'NeillPat HingleAt a Boston hospital, a new surgeon, Dr. Carey, becomes an amateur sleuth to help clear a colleague's name who's been accused of botching an illegal abortion that killed a 15 year old girl; the daughter of the chief surgeon.
- DirectorLeonard J. HornStarsRobert BlakeCharlotte RamplingPatrick O'NealA country boy wants to make it big as a stockcar racer.
- DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsBryant HalidayJill HaworthMark EdwardsA group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...Budget: $400,000
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsCharlton HestonJames BrolinYvette MimieuxA crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.Budget: $2.7 million
- DirectorPaolo CavaraStarsGiancarlo GianniniClaudine AugerBarbara BouchetA series of victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black wasp. The victims all seem to have a connection with a spa.
- DirectorMichele LupoStarsAnna MoffoIda GalliGastone MoschinA family goes to a British estate to hear the reading of a will and while there they are murdered one by one.
- DirectorCy HowardStarsLynn RedgraveVictor MaturePaul SandItalian-American mafioso Carmine Ganucci evicts Miss Poole and her school of etiquette from the commercial building he has just purchased, the space which he wants for one of his own illicit businesses, and despite Miss Poole having a long term lease. An incensed Miss Poole senses an opportunity when, going to confront Ganucci about the situation, he mistakes her as an applicant for nanny, he requiring such a caregiver for his son Lewis as he and his wife head to Italy for an extended trip, leaving Lewis at home with said caregiver. In her new position as nanny, Miss Poole plans to exact revenge and get what she feels is appropriate monetary compensation - $50,000 - by masterminding a plot to kidnap Lewis, her accompanist Luther who she will co-opt as that actual kidnapper without telling him that it is Ganucci's son they are kidnapping. Complications and misunderstandings ensue when nanny deals with one of Ganucci's low level flunkies, Benny Napkins, to have the $50,000 ransom paid without letting Ganucci find out about the situation, as Ganucci himself works on another $50,000 deal, and as Luther's wife Ida starts to fall in love with the idea of a Lewis in her life.
- DirectorGordon ParksStarsRichard RoundtreeMoses GunnDrew Bundini BrownShaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.Budget: $1,978,000; Box office: $10,000,000
- DirectorDouglas HickoxStarsOliver ReedJill St. JohnIan McShaneImprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
- DirectorMel StuartStarsTrish Van DevereMonte MarkhamJanet LeighA young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with, and for a time, lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her. After uncovering disturbing new information about her husband's infidelity, she finally comes to realize her marriage is truly over. And it is only then that she discovers what is truly important in life.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsRobert MitchumFrank LangellaRita HayworthSet in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsRaquel WelchKevin McCarthyHelena KallianiotesRoller derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.
- DirectorHugh A. RobertsonStarsCalvin LockhartRosalind CashVonetta McGeeFrankie Parker, a womanizing DJ in LA, meets new girl in town, Melinda, falling hard for her. When she's murdered in his apartment, he is framed for it - an ex-girlfriend and a karate class to help find her killer and clear his name.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsDorothy TutinScott AntonyHelen MirrenBiographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
- DirectorPaul BartelStarsAyn RuymenLucille BensonJohn VentantonioYoung Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsStuart WhitmanJanet LeighRory CalhounGiant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
- DirectorRobert AbelPierre AdidgeStarsElvis PresleyBill BaizeEstell BrownConcert footage and offstage documentary of singer Elvis Presley.
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsHorst BuchholzMary CostaNigel PatrickComposer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsJames GarnerKatharine RossHal HolbrookCalifornia small town police chief investigates a suspicious death involving the victim's own dog that presumably killed its owner.Box office: $1,005,000 (US / Canada rentals)
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMaggie SmithAlec McCowenLouis Gossett Jr.At his mother's funeral, banker Henry meets his Aunt Augusta, an eccentric old woman who takes him on a wild adventure to rescue an old lover.Box office: $1,075,000 (US / Canada rentals)
- DirectorGeorge ArmitageStarsBernie CaseyPam GrierLisa MooreAn ex-cop discovers that his brother's recent death is intertwined with both the Los Angeles underworld and the city's porno movie scene.Box office: $1,190,000 (US / Canada rentals)