The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features the box-office champion, Norman Jewison’s Fiddler on the Roof. Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Topol, Norma Crane, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, Leonard Frey and Neva Small, Fiddler on the Roof is an adaptation of the hit Broadway musical by Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fiddler-on-the-roof-1971), Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/28/archives/is-fiddler-more-demille-than-sholem-aleichem-fiddler-on-the-roof.html), and Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times.

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