Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1969

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
February 1969
February 19 The Night of the Following Day (Limited) Universal  
March 1969
March 2 Six in Paris (Limited) $13,949
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
 
March 5 99 Women (Limited)  
 
March 10 I Am Curious (Yellow) (Wide) $20,200,000
 
March 12 Where Eagles Dare (Wide) MGM $7,100,000
The Witches (Limited) Lopert Pictures Corporation  
 
March 13 The Love Bug (Wide) $50,576,808
 
March 26 100 Rifles (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
April 1969
April 1 Model Shop (Limited)  
Sweet Charity (Limited) Universal $8,000,000
 
April 3 Goodbye, Columbus (Wide) $22,939,805
 
April 17 Salesman (Limited) Maysles Film  
 
April 21 Teorema (Limited) Continental Distributing  
 
April 24 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (Wide) United Artists $6,000,000
 
April 25 Katerina Izmailova (Limited)  
May 1969
May 7 Impasse (Limited)  
Sinful Davey (Limited)  
 
May 8 Death Of A Gunfighter (Limited) Universal  
 
May 13 The Scavengers (Limited)  
 
May 14 The Devil's 8 (Limited)  
Krakatoa, East of Java (Limited)  
Pit Stop (Limited)  
 
May 15 Midas Run (Limited) Cinerama  
 
May 22 Winning (Wide) Universal $14,644,335
 
May 23 Target: Harry (Limited) ABC Pictures International  
 
May 25 Midnight Cowboy (Wide) MGM $44,785,053
 
May 27 Popi (Limited)  
 
May 28 The April Fools (Wide)  
Once Upon a Time in the West (Wide) Paramount Pictures $5,321,508
June 1969
June 8 That Cold Day in the Park (Limited)  
 
June 11 The First Time (Limited)  
The Oblong Box (Limited)  
 
June 13 True Grit (Wide) Paramount Pictures $31,132,592
 
June 18 The Wild Bunch (Wide) Warner Bros. $509,424
Eye of the Cat (Limited) Universal  
Ring of Bright Water (Limited) Cinerama  
 
June 27 Che! (Wide) $2,000,000
July 1969
July 1 This Savage Land (Limited)  
 
July 14 Easy Rider (Wide) Sony Pictures $41,728,598
 
July 23 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (Limited) American Cinema Releasing  
 
July 25 The Stewardesses (Wide) $13,500,000
 
July 30 Stiletto (Limited) Embassy  
August 1969
August 18 Take The Money And Run (Limited) Cinerama  
 
August 20 Alice's Restaurant (Wide) United Artists $6,300,000
 
August 27 De Sade (Wide) $1,200,000
Medium Cool (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
The Rain People (Limited)  
September 1969
September 10 The Trouble with Girls (Limited) MGM  
 
September 15 Battle of Britain (Limited) United Artists  
 
September 18 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Wide) Sony Pictures $31,897,253
 
September 28 The Bed Sitting Room (Limited)  
October 1969
October 12 Lions Love (Limited) Self Distributed  
 
October 15 Paint Your Wagon (Wide) Paramount Pictures $31,678,778
 
October 17 The Secret of Santa Vittoria (Limited)  
 
October 22 The Sterile Cuckoo (Wide) $13,982,357
 
October 24 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Wide) 20th Century Fox $102,308,900
 
October 26 Coming Apart (Limited) Kaleidoscope Pictures  
 
October 29 Downhill Racer (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
November 1969
November 18 The Arrangement (Wide) Warner Bros.  
 
November 21 Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (Wide) $20,073
 
November 25 Crossplot (Limited) United Artists  
 
November 27 The Undefeated (Wide) 20th Century Fox $8,000,000
December 1969
December 4 A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Limited) National General Pictures  
 
December 8 Z (Wide) Rialto Pictures $14,283,305
 
December 10 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Wide) $12,600,000
 
December 11 Marooned (Wide) $4,300,000
 
December 16 Cactus Flower (Wide) Sony Pictures $25,889,208
Hello, Dolly (Wide) $33,208,099
 
December 17 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Limited)  
 
December 18 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Wide) MGM $22,800,000
Anne of the Thousand Days (Limited)  
The Damned (Limited) Warner Bros.  
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Limited) Universal  
 
December 19 Topaz (Wide) Universal $6,000,000
 
December 21 The Happy Ending (Limited) United Artists  
 
December 25 The Reivers (Limited)