On August 11, 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age
movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George
Lucas, opened in theaters across the United States. Set in
California in the summer of 1962, the film was nominated
for five Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best
Picture, and helped launch the big-screen careers of Richard
Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford, as well as the former child actor
and future Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard.
The film’s success enabled Lucas (below) to get his next
movie made, the mega-hit Star Wars (1977).
Wolfman-Jack
Harrison Ford
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