Ryan O'Neal to star in a movie for Stanley Kubrick, "Barry Lyndon". While that film was in pre production, O'Neal played a jewel thief in "The Thief Who Came to Dinner" (1972) opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates. Then he was reunited with Bogdanovich for "Paper Moon" (1973) in which he starred opposite his daughter Tatum O'Neal. Tatum won an Oscar for her performance in a very popular movie and in 1973, Ryan O'Neal was voted by exhibitors as the second most popular star in the country, behind Clint Eastwood. O'Neal spent over a year making "Barry Lyndon" (1975) for Kubrick. The
The Passenger (1975 film) The Passenger (1975 film) The Passenger () is a 1975 drama art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Written by Mark Peploe, Peter Wollen and Antonioni, the film is about an Anglo-American journalist, David Locke (Jack Nicholson) who assumes the identity of a dead businessman while working on a documentary in Chad, unaware that he is impersonating an arms dealer with connections to the rebels in the current civil war. Co-starring Maria Schneider, "The Passenger" was the final film in Antonioni's three-picture deal with producer Carlo Ponti and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after "Blowup" and "Zabriskie Point", and competed for the Palme d'Or at