# List of American films of 1968

This is a list of American films released in 1968.

## Box office

The highest-grossing American films released in 1968, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by The Numbers, are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1968 :
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross |
| 1 | Funny Girl | Columbia Pictures | $58,500,000 |
| 2 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | MGM | $56,715,371 |
| 3 | The Odd Couple | Paramount | $44,527,234 |
| 4 | Bullitt | Warner Bros. | $42,300,873 |
| 5 | Rosemary's Baby | Paramount | $33,395,426 |
| 6 | Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | $32,589,624 |
| 7 | Yours, Mine and Ours | MGM | $25,912,624 |
| 8 | The Lion in Winter | Embassy Pictures | $22,276,975 |
| 9 | The Green Berets | Warner Bros. | $21,707,027 |
| 10 | Blackbeard's Ghost | Walt Disney | $21,540,050 |

## January–March

| Opening | Opening | Title | Production company | Cast and crew |
| J A N U A R Y | 3 | The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz | Hall Bartlett Productions | George Marshall (director); Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer |
| J A N U A R Y | 8 | Wild 90 | Supreme Mix Productions | Norman Mailer (director); Norman Mailer, Buzz Farber, Mickey Knox |
| J A N U A R Y | 12 | Nobody's Perfect | NPD Films | Alan Rafkin (director); Doug McClure, Nancy Kwan, James Whitmore |
| J A N U A R Y | 17 | The Biggest Bundle of Them All | Filmways | Ken Annakin (director); Robert Wagner, Raquel Welch, Edward G. Robinson |
| J A N U A R Y | 18 | Spider Baby | Lasky-Monka Productions | Jack Hill (director); Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker |
| J A N U A R Y | 24 | Firecreek | Warner Bros. | Vincent McEveety (director); James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens |
| J A N U A R Y | 24 | Maryjane | American International Pictures | Maury Dexter (director); Fabian Forte, Diane McBain, Kevin Coughlin |
| J A N U A R Y | 29 | How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life | Columbia Pictures | Fielder Cook (director); Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Eli Wallach |
| F E B R U A R Y | 7 | Sol Madrid | MGM | Brian G. Hutton (director); David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas |
| F E B R U A R Y | 8 | Blackbeard's Ghost | Walt Disney Productions | Robert Stevenson (director); Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette |
| F E B R U A R Y | 8 | Sweet November | Warner Bros. | Robert Ellis Miller (director); Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel |
| F E B R U A R Y | 18 | The Money Jungle | Universal Pictures | Francis D. Lyon (director); John Ericson, Lola Albright, Leslie Parrish |
| F E B R U A R Y | 21 | Bye Bye Braverman | Warner Bros. | Sidney Lumet (director); George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman |
| F E B R U A R Y | 21 | The Power | George Pal Productions | Byron Haskin (director); George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Richard Carlson |
| F E B R U A R Y | 29 | The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Universal Pictures | Jack Smight (director); Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan |
| M A R C H | 1 | Day of the Evil Gun | MGM | Jerry Thorpe (director); Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger |
| M A R C H | 6 | P.J. | Universal Pictures | John Guillermin (director); George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt |
| M A R C H | 6 | Psych-Out | Dick Clark Productions | Richard Rush (director); Susan Strasberg, Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell |
| M A R C H | 8 | A Man Called Gannon | Universal Pictures | James Goldstone (director); Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Judi West |
| M A R C H | 8 | Stay Away, Joe | MGM | Peter Tewksbury (director); Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell |
| M A R C H | 13 | Counterpoint | Universal Pictures | Ralph Nelson (director); Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays |
| M A R C H | 18 | The Producers | Embassy Pictures | Mel Brooks (director); Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars |
| M A R C H | 20 | No Way to Treat a Lady | Paramount Pictures | Jack Smight (director); Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal |
| M A R C H | 21 | The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band | Walt Disney Productions | Michael O'Herlihy (director); Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren |
| M A R C H | 27 | Arizona Bushwhackers | Paramount Pictures | Lesley Selander (director); Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland |
| M A R C H | 29 | Madigan | Universal Pictures | Don Siegel (director); Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens |

## April–June

| Opening | Opening | Title | Production company | Cast and crew |
| A P R I L | 2 | The Scalphunters | Norlan Productions | Sydney Pollack (director); Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas |
| A P R I L | 3 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick Productions | Stanley Kubrick (director); Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester |
| A P R I L | 3 | Planet of the Apes | APJAC Productions | Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter |
| A P R I L | 4 | The Party | The Mirisch Company | Blake Edwards (director); Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion |
| A P R I L | 10 | Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows | Columbia Pictures | James Neilson (director); Stella Stevens, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes |
| A P R I L | 10 | Will Penny | Paramount Pictures | Tom Gries (director); Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence |
| A P R I L | 17 | The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell | Gibraltar Productions | Frank Tashlin (director); Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter |
| A P R I L | 24 | Blue | Paramount Pictures | Silvio Narizzano (director); Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet, Karl Malden |
| A P R I L | 24 | Yours, Mine and Ours | Desilu Productions | Melville Shavelson (director); Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson |
| M A Y | 1 | Don't Just Stand There! | Universal Pictures | Ron Winston (director); Robert Wagner, Mary Tyler Moore, Glynis Johns |
| M A Y | 1 | The Mini-Skirt Mob | American International Pictures | Maury Dexter (director); Jeremy Slate, Diane McBain, Ross Hagen |
| M A Y | 1 | Tarzan and the Jungle Boy | Banner Productions | Robert Gordon (director); Mike Henry, Rafer Johnson, Aliza Gur |
| M A Y | 2 | The Odd Couple | Paramount Pictures | Gene Saks (director); Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler |
| M A Y | 10 | Project X | Maron Films | William Castle (director); Christopher George, Greta Baldwin, Henry Jones |
| M A Y | 15 | The Devil's Brigade | United Artists | Andrew V. McLaglen (director); William Holden, Cliff Robertson, Vince Edwards |
| M A Y | 15 | The Swimmer | Horizon Pictures | Frank Perry (director); Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule |
| M A Y | 17 | Journey to Shiloh | Universal Pictures | William Hale (director); James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Brenda Scott |
| M A Y | 23 | Kona Coast | Allied Artists | Lamont Johnson (director); Richard Boone, Vera Miles, Joan Blondell |
| M A Y | 24 | The Savage Seven | American International Pictures | Richard Rush (director); Robert Walker Jr., Joanna Frank, Larry Bishop |
| M A Y | 24 | What's So Bad About Feeling Good? | Universal Pictures | George Seaton (director); George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud |
| M A Y | 28 | The Detective | Cinemobile System | Gordon Douglas (director); Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker |
| M A Y | 28 | Madigan's Millions | Primex Pictures | Stanley Prager (director); Dustin Hoffman, Elsa Martinelli, Cesar Romero |
| M A Y | 28 | Villa Rides | Paramount Pictures | Buzz Kulik (director); Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Maria Grazia Buccella |
| J U N E | 5 | Bandolero! | 20th Century Fox | Andrew V. McLaglen (director); James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch |
| J U N E | 5 | Angels from Hell | Fanfare Films | Bruce Kessler (director); Tom Stern, Arlene Martel, Ted Markland |
| J U N E | 5 | Chubasco | Warner Bros. | Allen H. Miner (director); Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg |
| J U N E | 5 | For Singles Only | Columbia Pictures | Arthur Dreifuss (director); John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Charlie Brill |
| J U N E | 5 | Jigsaw | Cherokee Productions | James Goldstone (director); Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange |
| J U N E | 10 | Petulia | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts | Richard Lester (director); Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain |
| J U N E | 12 | Rosemary's Baby | William Castle Productions | Roman Polanski (director); Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon |
| J U N E | 12 | Speedway | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Norman Taurog (director); Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby |
| J U N E | 12 | The Sweet Ride | 20th Century Fox | Harvey Hart (director); Tony Franciosa, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael Sarrazin |
| J U N E | 19 | The Green Berets | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts | Ray Kellogg (director); John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton |
| J U N E | 19 | The Thomas Crown Affair | The Mirisch Company | Norman Jewison (director); Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke |
| J U N E | 19 | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Filmways | Hy Averback (director); Doris Day, Robert Morse, Terry-Thomas |
| J U N E | 25 | The Secret Life of an American Wife | Burt Brinckerhoff Productions | George Axelrod (director); Walter Matthau, Anne Jackson, Patrick O'Neal |
| J U N E | 26 | Never a Dull Moment | Walt Disney Productions | Jerry Paris (director); Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine |

## July–September

| Opening | Opening | Title | Production company | Cast and crew |
| J U L Y | 3 | Eve | Marinos Productions | Jeremy Summers (director); Robert Walker Jr., Fred Clark, Herbert Lom |
| J U L Y | 12 | A Lovely Way to Die | Universal Pictures | David Lowell Rich (director); Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach |
| J U L Y | 14 | Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? | Universal Pictures | Don Weis (director); Phyllis Diller, Bob Denver, Joe Flynn |
| J U L Y | 17 | For Love of Ivy | ABC Pictures | Daniel Mann (director); Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges |
| J U L Y | 24 | Anzio | Columbia Pictures | Edward Dmytryk (director); Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy |
| J U L Y | 29 | In Enemy Country | Universal Pictures | Harry Keller (director); Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell |
| J U L Y | 31 | 5 Card Stud | Paramount Pictures | Henry Hathaway (director); Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens |
| A U G U S T | 3 | Hang 'Em High | United Artists | Ted Post (director); Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley |
| A U G U S T | 3 | With Six You Get Eggroll | Naho Productions | Howard Morris (director); Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll |
| A U G U S T | 15 | Targets | Saticoy Productions | Peter Bogdanovich (director); Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh |
| A U G U S T | 15 | A Time to Sing | Allied Artists | Arthur Dreifuss (director); Hank Williams Jr., Shelley Fabares, Ed Begley |
| A U G U S T | 20 | How Sweet It Is! | Productions P.A.C. | Jerry Paris (director); Debbie Reynolds, James Garner, Maurice Ronet |
| A U G U S T | 26 | Rachel, Rachel | Kayos Productions | Paul Newman (director); Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons, James Olson |
| S E P T E M B E R | 11 | The Young Runaways | Universal Pictures | Arthur Dreifuss (director); Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Lloyd Bochner |
| S E P T E M B E R | 18 | Funny Girl | Columbia Pictures | William Wyler (director); Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford |
| S E P T E M B E R | 18 | Pretty Poison | Twentieth Century Fox | Noel Black (director); Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland |
| S E P T E M B E R | 22 | The Split | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Gordon Flemyng (director); Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine |
| S E P T E M B E R | 23 | Charly | Selmur Productions | Ralph Nelson (director); Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala |

## October–December

| Opening | Opening | Title | Production company | Cast and crew |
| O C T O B E R | 1 | Night of the Living Dead | Image Ten | George A. Romero (director); Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman |
| O C T O B E R | 2 | Coogan's Bluff | The Malpaso Company | Don Siegel (director); Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark |
| O C T O B E R | 7 | I Love You, Alice B. Toklas | The Mirisch Company | Hy Averback (director); Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young |
| O C T O B E R | 9 | Finian's Rainbow | Warner Bros. | Francis Ford Coppola (director); Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele |
| O C T O B E R | 9 | If He Hollers, Let Him Go! | Globe Films International | Charles Martin (director); Raymond St. Jacques, Barbara McNair, Kevin McCarthy |
| O C T O B E R | 13 | The Subject Was Roses | Frankovitch Productions | Ulu Grosbard (director); Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen |
| O C T O B E R | 14 | Paper Lion | Eldorado Productions | Alex March (director); Alan Alda, Lauren Hutton, David Doyle |
| O C T O B E R | 16 | The Boston Strangler | Twentieth Century Fox | Richard Fleischer (director); Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy |
| O C T O B E R | 17 | Bullitt | Solar Productions | Peter Yates (director); Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset |
| O C T O B E R | 19 | A Flea in Her Ear | Elgin International Films | Jacques Charon (director); Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan |
| O C T O B E R | 22 | Star! | Twentieth Century Fox | Robert Wise (director); Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig |
| O C T O B E R | 22 | Vixen! | Entertainment Ventures Inc. | Russ Meyer (director); Erica Gavin, Harrison Page, Garth Pillsbury |
| O C T O B E R | 22 | Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women | American International Pictures | Peter Bogdanovich (director); Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee |
| O C T O B E R | 23 | Live a Little, Love a Little | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Norman Taurog (director); Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, Don Porter |
| O C T O B E R | 24 | Ice Station Zebra | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | John Sturges (director); Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan |
| O C T O B E R | 30 | The Lion in Winter | Avco Embassy Pictures | Anthony Harvey (director); Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins |
| O C T O B E R | 31 | They Came to Rob Las Vegas | Warner Bros. | Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi (director); Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb |
| N O V E M B E R | 6 | Head | Raybert Productions | Bob Rafelson (director); The Monkees, Annette Funicello, Timothy Carey |
| N O V E M B E R | 13 | Killers Three | American International Pictures | Bruce Kessler (director); Robert Walker Jr., Diane Varsi, Dick Clark |
| N O V E M B E R | 13 | Yellow Submarine | King Features Syndicate | George Dunning (director); The Beatles (voices), Paul Angelis, John Clive |
| N O V E M B E R | 15 | The Shoes of the Fisherman | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Michael Anderson (director); Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner |
| N O V E M B E R | 16 | The Legend of Lylah Clare | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Robert Aldrich (director); Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine |
| N O V E M B E R | 18 | House of Cards | Les Productions Fox Europa | John Guillermin (director); George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles |
| N O V E M B E R | 20 | Lady in Cement | Arcola Pictures | Gordon Douglas (director); Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker |
| N O V E M B E R | 24 | Faces | Cassar Productions | John Cassavetes (director); John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin |
| N O V E M B E R | 27 | Hellfighters | Universal Pictures | Andrew V. McLaglen (director); John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton |
| N O V E M B E R | 30 | The Shakiest Gun in the West | Universal Pictures | Alan Rafkin (director); Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan |
| D E C E M B E R | 1 | The Green Slime | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Kinji Fukasaku (director); Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel |
| D E C E M B E R | 4 | Where Eagles Dare | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Brian G. Hutton (director); Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure |
| D E C E M B E R | 10 | Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Jerome Hellman Productions | Melvin Frank (director); Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers |
| D E C E M B E R | 12 | The Killing of Sister George | Cinemation Industries | Robert Aldrich (director); Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne |
| D E C E M B E R | 13 | Shalako | Michael Carreras Productions | Edward Dmytryk (director); Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd |
| D E C E M B E R | 15 | Greetings | West End Films | Brian De Palma (director); Robert De Niro, Jonathan Warden, Gerrit Graham |
| D E C E M B E R | 17 | Candy | Francis Productions | Christian Marquand (director); Ewa Aulin, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton |
| D E C E M B E R | 18 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Warfield Productions | Ken Hughes (director); Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries |
| D E C E M B E R | 18 | Hell in the Pacific | Selmur Productions | John Boorman (director); Lee Marvin, Toshirō Mifune |
| D E C E M B E R | 18 | The Night They Raided Minsky's | Amsterdam Film Company | William Friedkin (director); Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, Burt Lahr |
| D E C E M B E R | 18 | Uptight | 20th Century Fox | Jules Dassin (director); Ruby Dee, Roscoe Lee Browne, Julian Mayfield |
| D E C E M B E R | 19 | Skidoo | Paramount Pictures | Otto Preminger (director); Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon |
| D E C E M B E R | 20 | The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit | Walt Disney Productions | Norman Tokar (director); Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner |
| D E C E M B E R | 20 | Three in the Attic | American International Pictures | Richard Wilson (director); Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace |
| D E C E M B E R | 21 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Rafran Cinematografica | Sergio Leone (director); Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale |
| D E C E M B E R | 22 | The Sea Gull | Commonwealth United Entertainment | Sidney Lumet (director); Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, Simone Signoret |
| D E C E M B E R | 24 | The Love Bug | Walt Disney Productions | Robert Stevenson (director); Dean Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett |
| D E C E M B E R | 25 | Assignment to Kill | Les Productions Fox Europa | Sheldon Reynolds (director); Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud |
| D E C E M B E R | 25 | The Brotherhood | Theatrical Film Enterprises | Martin Ritt (director); Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas |
| D E C E M B E R | 25 | The Sergeant | Warner Bros. | John Flynn (director); Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law, Ludmila Mikaël |
| D E C E M B E R | 25 | The Stalking Moon | National General Pictures | Robert Mulligan (director); Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster |
| D E C E M B E R | 26 | Monterey Pop | Leacock-Pennebaker | D. A. Pennebaker (director); Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding |
| D E C E M B E R | 26 | Krakatoa, East of Java | Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith |