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Tag Archives: 1960s
Love and Crime AKA Meiji · Taishô · Shôwa: Ryôki onna hanzai-shi (1969) Teruo Ishii, Sada Abe, Yukie Kagawa, Yoshi Katô
Discover 4 famous japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe Read More »
The Stripper (1963) Franklin J. Schaffner, Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor
Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga’s stage shows. Read More »
The End of Belle AKA La mort de Belle (1961) Édouard Molinaro, Jean Desailly, Alexandra Stewart, Monique Mélinand
Stéphane Blanchon, who teaches at the International College, lives a quiet comfortable life in Geneva. Read More »
As Long As You’re Healthy AKA Tant qu’on a la santé (1966) Pierre Étaix, Denise Péronne, Simone Fonder
This anthology film from Étaix’s peak period presents four comic episodes Read More »
Stimulantia (1967) Hans Abramson, Hans Alfredson, Harriet Andersson
8 episodes, ranging from experimental to documentary to conventional narrative cinema Read More »
Taxi for Tobruk AKA Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1961) Denys de La Patellière, Hardy Krüger, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert. Read More »
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins
Wes, Vern and Otis are three cowhands on the way to a cattle drive. Read More »
Walk Like a Dragon (1960) James Clavell, Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, James Shigeta
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln ‘Linc’ Bartlett finds out there’s a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco Read More »
Rebus (1969) Nino Zanchin, Laurence Harvey, Ann-Margret, José Calvo
When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game Read More »
Silence Has No Wings AKA Tobenai chinmoku (1966) Kazuo Kuroki, Mariko Kaga, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shôichi Ozawa
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido Read More »
Pit Stop (1969) Jack Hill, Brian Donlevy, Richard Davalos, Ellen Burstyn
Grant Willard sponsors drivers in a “new” form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. Read More »
The Young Savages (1961) John Frankenheimer, Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. Read More »
The Shop on Main Street AKA Obchod na korze (1965) Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková
Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Read More »
Take the Money and Run (1969) Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire
This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell. Read More »