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Star Wars

Director: George Lucas (Dir) Release Date: Jun 1977 Premiere Information: New York and Los Angeles openings: 25 May 1977 Duration (in mins): 119, 121 or 123			Print this page Display Movie Summary

Production Company:	Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Distribution Company:	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Director:	George Lucas	(Dir)
Producer:	Gary Kurtz	(Prod)
Writer:	George Lucas	(Wrt)
Photography:	Gilbert Taylor	(Dir of photog)
Art Direction:	John Barry	(Prod des)
Film Editor:	Paul Hirsch	(Film ed)
	Marcia Lucas	(Film ed)
	Richard Chew	(Film ed)
Music:	John Williams	(Mus)
Sound:	Ben Burtt	(Spec dial and sd eff)
MPAA Rating:	PG
Country:	Great Britain and United States
Language:	English
Series:	Star Wars

Copyright Claimant	Copyright Date	Copyright Number
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.	5/6/1978 dd/mm/yyyy	LP47760

Note:	Star Wars was ranked 13th on AFI's 2007 100 Years…100 Movies--10th Anniversary Edition list of the greatest American films, moving up from the 15th position it held on AFI's 1997 list.

Bibliographic Sources:	Date	Page
American Film	8 Jun 1977	pp. 1-2.
Daily Variety	20 May 1977	p. 3, 7.
Filmfacts	1977	pp. 97-101.
Films & Filming	30 Dec 1977	pp. 29-30.
Hollywood Reporter	25 May 1977	p. 3, 27.
Los Angeles Times	22 May 1977	Calendar, p. 1.
Motion Picture Herald Product Digest	8 Jun 1977	p. 1.
New York	20 Jun 1977	pp. 71-73.
New York Times	26 May 1977	Section III, p. 18.
New York Times	5 Jun 1977	Section II, p. 15.
New Yorker	13 Jun 1977	pp. 69-70.
Newsweek	30 May 1977	pp. 60-61.
Newsweek	13 Jun 1977	p. 81.
People	18 Jul 1977.
Rolling Stone	25 Aug 1977	pp. 40-48.
Saturday Review	9 Jul 1977	p. 40.
Time	30 May 1977	pp. 54-56.
Time	27 Jun 1977	pp. 54-56.
Variety	25 May 1977	p. 20.
Village Voice	13 Jun 1977	pp. 40-41.

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