The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features the highest-grossing film at the box office, Mike Nichols’ The Graduate. Directed by Nichols from a screenplay by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham (based on the novel by Charles Webb) and starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels and Murray Hamilton, The Graduate grossed $104.7 million worldwide and was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-graduate-1967), A.D. Murphy in Variety (https://variety.com/1967/film/reviews/the-graduate-1117791319/), and Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice.

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