The American Film Theatre was a limited run series of film adaptations of stage plays, produced by Ely Landau

Ely Landau

Ely Abraham Landau was an American producer and production executive best remembered for films of plays in the American Film Theatre series....

. Two seasons were produced from 1973 to 1975. The 14 films were contracted to be exhibited in 500 theaters in 400 cities, admission based on subscription to the entire series.

The films were released on DVD in 2003 by Kino International and again in 2008 as a boxed set.

1973-74 season

• A Delicate Balance
  A Delicate Balance (film)
  A Delicate Balance is a 1973 drama film directed by Tony Richardson. The screenplay by Edward Albee is based on his 1966 Pultizer Prize-winning play of the same name.The film was the second in a series produced by Ely A...
  
  (1973)
• The Homecoming
  The Homecoming (film)
  The Homecoming is a 1973 film directed by Peter Hall based on the play of the same name by Harold Pinter. The film was screened at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.-Plot:...
  
  (1973)
• The Iceman Cometh
  The Iceman Cometh (1973 film)
  The Iceman Cometh is a 1973 film directed by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay was written by Thomas Quinn Curtiss, based on Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play of the same name. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.This was the last film for...
  
  (1973)
• Luther
  Luther (1973 film)
  Luther is the 1973 film of John Osborne's biographical play, presenting the life of Martin Luther. It was one of eight in the first season of the American Film Theater's series of plays made into films. It was produced by Ely Landau, directed by British director Guy Green, and filmed at Shepperton...
  
  (1973)
• Lost in the Stars
  Lost in the Stars (film)
  Lost in the Stars is the 1974 film version of the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musicalized adaptation of the Alan Paton novel Cry, the Beloved Country...
  
  (1974)
• Rhinoceros
  Rhinoceros (play)
  Rhinoceros is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play belongs to the school of drama known as the Theatre of the Absurd...
  
  (1974)

1974-75 season

• Butley
  Butley (film)
  Butley is a 1973 film directed by Harold Pinter, an adaptation from Simon Gray's 1971 play of same name. The film starred Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, and Michael Byrne....
  
  (1974)
• The Maids
  The Maids (film)
  The Maids is a 1974 film that was directed by Christopher Miles. It is based on the play of the same title by the French dramatist Jean Genet. The film stars Glenda Jackson as Solange, Susannah York as Claire, Vivien Merchant as Madame, and Mark Burns as Monsieur...
  
  (1974)
• Three Sisters (1970, U.S. release by AFT in 1974)
• The Man in the Glass Booth
  The Man in the Glass Booth
  The Man in the Glass Booth is a 1975 American drama film directed by Arthur Hiller. The screenplay was adapted from Robert Shaw's 1967 novel and 1968 stage play, both of the same name. The plot was inspired by images of the trial of Adolf Eichmann....
  
  (1975)
• In Celebration (1975)
• Galileo
  Life of Galileo
  Life of Galileo , also known as Galileo, is a play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. The first version of the play was written between 1937 and 1939; the second version was written between 1945–1947, in collaboration with Charles Laughton...
  
  (1975)
• Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
  Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (film)
  Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is a 1975 French/Canadian musical film directed by Denis Héroux. The screenplay by Eric Blau is an adaptation of his book for the long-running off-Broadway revue of the same name...
  
  (1975)
• Philadelphia, Here I Come
  Philadelphia Here I Come!
  Philadelphia, Here I Come! is a 1964 play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel. Set in the fictional town of Ballybeg, Co.Donegal, the play launched Friel onto the international stage.-Plot:...
  
  (1975)