Awareness of reggae began to change in 1972 with the release of the seminal film The Harder They Come (1972), which became a cult hit that year in the UK, with its soundtrack featuring two numbers by the Maytals.
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He is credited with producing some of the most famous films in film history including For a Few Dollars More in 1965, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966, Last Tango in Paris in 1972 and Gangs of New York in 2002.
Davies' novels The Artificial Man (1965) and Psychogeist (1966) were adapted into the 1968 film Project X and The Alien (1968) was very freely adapted into the 1972 film The Groundstar Conspiracy, starring George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin.
Left Hand of Gemini is a 1972 American science fiction film starring Ian McShane, Ursula Thiess and Richard Egan.
Storm Rider (Il Grande duello, 1972), aka The Grand Duel and The Big Showdown is a Spaghetti Western directed by Giancarlo Santi, who had previously worked as Sergio Leone's assistant director on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West.