Who Saw This in Theatres in 1973??

I saw this movie in the theater with my dad in 1973. He not only liked Woody Allen but he liked his music (jazz) too. With the Sting out around the same time, I liked the ragtime music as well. I recall a Sleeper/Bananas double-feature which aired in one theater. He was somewhat popular but remember that his most famous movies (Annie Hall, Manhattan) were still a few years away.

Cable TV had just arrived in my area around 1974 and HBO did not have a lot to air at the time. It aired Sleeper (and The Sting) once or twice a day back then so within 6 months I knew most of the lines from both movies LOL!

Yup, I saw this when it first came out; I laughed so hard, I literally almost fell out of my seat in the theater. I'd been a fan of Allen's since his days doing stand up on the Ed Sullivan show back in the sixties, so my rememberance of his popularity might be a little inflated, but as I recall, he was fairly well known and liked as a writer/director/star of comedies. Recognition of him as an important cinema "artist" had not yet arrived. As another poster noted, the movies (Annie Hall, Manhatten, Interiors) which established him as someone who could do more than just make us laugh were produced a few years later.

I saw it at the cinema in 1973, but I'm from the UK plus I was only a kid, so some of the references were probably lost on me anyway, although I remember getting some of them.

At the time Woody Allen was fairly well known, but not huge - that didn't happen until Annie Hall. His films would get articles in the film magazines, but not big ones - they weren't important releases don't thin, t least over here. Although his films were probably slightly more successful then than in the last few years or so (apart from Match Point, which got a fairly major release; a couple of others have yet to show up in cineas here) although obviously he is probably still more famous now than then.

I also saw Love and Death at the time. It was only shown in the local Art House, but Sleeper did make the mainstream cinemas, as part of a double bill. I think Sleeper was the main feature; I can't remember what the other film was off hand, sorry.