Domestic Release Schedule for 1972

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1972.

See also: Top 1972 Worldwide - Most Popular 1972

Current Release Schedule 1973 →
Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date		Trailer
January, 1972
January 1 Joe Kidd (Wide) Universal $6,330,000  
 
During 1972 Across 110th Street (Wide) United Artists $10,000,000  
 
January 13 The Cowboys (Wide) Warner Bros. $7,500,000  
February, 1972
February 12 Cabaret (Wide) Allied Artists $41,326,446  
 
February 15 The Nightcomers (Limited) Embassy    
March, 1972
March 2 Sometimes a Great Notion (Limited) Universal    
 
March 10 What's Up, Doc? (Wide) Warner Bros. $57,142,740  
Silent Running (Limited) Universal    
 
March 15 The Godfather (Wide) Paramount Pictures $136,479,994  
Slaughterhouse-Five (Limited) Universal    
 
March 25 The Sorrow and the Pity (Limited) $13,082  
April, 1972
April 12 Five Summer Stories (Limited)    
 
April 28 Buck And The Preacher (Wide) Columbia    
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Wide) Universal    
 
 
April TBD Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (Limited) American International Pictures    
May, 1972
May 12 Jeremiah Johnson (Wide) Warner Bros. $44,693,786  
Hammersmith Is Out (Limited) Cinerama    
 
May 17 Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb (Limited) American International Pictures    
 
May 30 Fright (Limited) Allied Artists    
 
 
May TBD Season of the Witch (Limited) Self Distributed    
June, 1972
June 1 The War Between Men and Women (Limited) National General Pictures    
 
June 5 Bronco Bullfrog (Limited) New Yorker    
 
June 8 Shaft’s Big Score (Wide) MGM $10,000,000  
 
June 18 The Basilisks (Limited)    
 
June 21 Frenzy (Wide) Universal $12,600,000  
Beware! The Blob (Limited)    
The Groundstar Conspiracy (Limited) Universal    
 
June 23 Ben (Limited) Cinerama    
 
June 28 Duck, You Sucker (Limited) United Artists    
 
June 30 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (Wide) 20th Century Fox $9,700,000  
Deep Throat (Wide) $45,000,000  
Toys Are Not for Children (Limited) Pathfinder    
July, 1972
July 12 Le Samouraï (Wide) $66,391  
 
July 14 Love Me Deadly (Limited) Cinema National    
 
July 21 Deliverance (Wide) Warner Bros. $46,122,355  
F.T.A. (Limited) American International Pictures    
August, 1972
August 2 Junior Bonner (Limited) Cinerama    
 
August 4 Super Fly (Wide) Warner Bros.    
 
August 11 Everything You Always Wanted to Know (Wide) MGM $18,016,290  
 
August 18 Sounder (Wide) 20th Century Fox $16,889,761  
 
August 23 Grave of the Vampire (Limited)    
 
August 25 Four Patches of Grey Velvet (Limited)    
 
August 30 The Last House on the Left (Wide) $3,100,000  
September, 1972
September 15 And Hope to Die (Limited) 20th Century Fox    
 
September 22 The Gore Gore Girls (Limited) New American Films    
October, 1972
October 4 Hickey & Boggs (Limited) United Artists    
Night of the Lepus (Limited) MGM    
 
October 13 You'll Like My Mother (Limited) Universal    
 
October 14 Last Tango in Paris (Wide) MGM $36,144,824  
 
October 15 Fellini's Roma (Limited) United Artists    
 
October 20 Lady Sings the Blues (Wide) Paramount Pictures $19,726,490  
 
October 25 The Deadly Trap (Limited) National General Pictures    
 
October 27 The Valachi Papers (Wide) Sony Pictures $17,106,087  
Baron Blood (Limited) American International Pictures    
November, 1972
November 1 Daughters of Satan (Limited) United Artists    
Elvis on Tour (Limited) $587,818  
Superbeast (Limited) United Artists    
 
November 9 1776 (Wide) Sony Pictures    
 
November 17 Dracula A.D. 1972 (Limited) Warner Bros.    
 
November 22 Prison Girls (Limited)    
December, 1972
December 5 The Asphyx (Limited) Paragon Pictures    
 
December 11 Man of La Mancha (Limited) United Artists    
 
December 13 The Poseidon Adventure (Wide) 20th Century Fox $93,300,000  
 
December 15 The Getaway (Wide) Universal $36,734,619  
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (Wide) National General Pictures $16,530,578  
Pete 'n' Tillie (Wide) Universal $14,999,969  
 
December 17 Avanti! (Limited) United Artists    
 
December 18 Images (Limited) Columbia    
 
December 20 Black Gunn (Limited) Columbia    
 
December 22 Trick Baby (Limited) Universal    
 
December 30 Hit Man (Limited) MGM    
 
December 31 Four Times That Night (Limited) Self Distributed    
 
During 1972 Black Cream (Limited)