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Tag Archives: 1960s
Bells Are Ringing (1960) Vincente Minnelli, Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark
Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients Read More »
Camelot (1967) Joshua Logan, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero
The story of the marriage of England’s King Arthur to Guinevere is played out amid the pagentry of Camelot. Read More »
The Caretaker AKA The Guest (1963) Clive Donner, Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw
Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. Read More »
Destroy, She Said AKA Détruire dit-elle (1969) Marguerite Duras, Catherine Sellers, Michael Lonsdale, Henri Garcin
A professor, his wife, a student, and a married woman travel to a hotel on the edge of the forest for a week-long vacation. Read More »
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short AKA De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1966) André Delvaux, Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck
A schoolteacher (Miereveld or “field of ants”) is entranced by one of his students (Fran). Read More »
Blind Beast AKA Môjû (1969) Yasuzô Masumura, Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku
A blind sculpter kidnaps a beautiful young model and takes her back to his home. Read More »
Fantômas (1964) André Hunebelle, Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
Criminal mastermind Fantômas, a man of a thousand faces, is unhappy with Fandor Read More »
Pirates of the Mississippi AKA Die Flußpiraten vom Mississippi (1963) Jürgen Roland, Hansjörg Felmy, Sabine Sinjen, Horst Frank
European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Read More »
Mondo cane n. 2 (1963) Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi, Stefano Sibaldi, Henning Skaarup, Peter Ustinov
The original shockumentary sequel made up of episodes in the life of man and beast, filmed all over the world Read More »
The Taste of Violence AKA Le goût de la violence (1961) Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf
This European “western” by Robert Hossein (scripter, director, and lead) is set in an unnamed Latin American country suffering under a dictator. Read More »
Flower Drum Song (1961) Henry Koster, Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong
Chinese stowaway Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) arrives in San Francisco with her father to meet her fiancé, wealthy nightclub owner Sammy Fong (Jack Soo) Read More »
The Exiles (1961) Kent Mackenzie, Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds
Native Americans in Los Angeles. For 12 hours one Friday night, from late afternoon until dawn, we follow a handful of urban Indians. Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 4 AKA Shôwa zankyô-den: Chizome no karajishi (1967) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Sumiko Fuji
Fourth film in the “Shôwa Zankyôden” series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era. Read More »
Surf Party (1964) Maury Dexter, Bobby Vinton, Patricia Morrow, Jackie DeShannon
A young girl travels to California with a couple of friends in order to visit her brother, whom she hasn’t seen for some time. Read More »