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After AMERICAN GRAFFITI’s unexpected boxoffice success, the writing was on the wall that George Lucas was now an A-List director. Lucas’s only film before GRAFFITI, which premiered Aug. 2, 1973 at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, was the 1971 sci-fi thriller THX 1138 for Warner Bros. & Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope. GRAFFITI, a comedy drama…