Francois is a young carpenter married with Therese. They have two little children. All goes well, life is beautiful, the sun shines and the birds sing. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Juliana do Amor Perdido / Lost Love Juliana (1970) Sérgio Ricardo, Maria Do Rosario, Francisco Di Franco, Macedo Neto, Drama
A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a violent religious fanatic interferes. Read More »
The Pornographers: Introduction to Anthropology (1966) Shôhei Imamura, Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Ganjirô Nakamura, Comedy, Drama
Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to stay beneath the radar screen of the local mob Read More »
Surprise Package (1960) Stanley Donen, Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward, Comedy
An American gangster is exiled from the United States for criminal activity and is sent back to the Greek island where he was born. Read More »
Onna no naka ni iru tanin / The Stranger Within a Woman (1966) Mikio Naruse, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Crime, Drama
Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Read More »
La taglia è tua… l’uomo l’ammazzo io / The Reward’s Yours… The Man’s Mine (1969) Edoardo Mulargia, Robert Woods, Aldo Berti, Marc Fiorini, Western
A group of killers seek out wanted gunman El Puro for the $10,000 dollar reward. Read More »
The Lost Man (1969) Robert Alan Aurthur, Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr., Drama
Former U.S. Army lieutenant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) who, after becoming a black militant during the 1960s Black Reveolutionary movement Read More »
The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962) Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Umgelter, June Wilkinson, Don Kenney, Karin Dor, Comedy
The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. Read More »
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964) Terence Fisher, Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. Read More »
The Killers (1964) Don Siegel, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway. Read More »
Youth of the Beast / Yajû no seishun (1963) Seijun Suzuki, Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Mystery
Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. Read More »
The Producers (1967) Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Estelle Winwood, Comedy
Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. Read More »
Ulysses (1967) Joseph Strick, Milo O’Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, Drama
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom Read More »
El dedo del destino / The Fickle Finger of Fate (1967) Richard Rush, Tab Hunter, Luis Prendes, Gustavo Rojo, Comedy
A U.S. engineer (Tab Hunter) in Spain hunts thieves of two candlesticks, one of which is found in his suitcase. Read More »
Everything’s Ducky (1961) Don Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jackie Cooper, Comedy, Fantasy
Two sailors sneak a talking duck on board their ship. Complications ensue. Read More »