When a blazing car goes over the cliff to the east of Brighton an insurance investigator is sent to the coast to poke around. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Dilemma (1962) Peter Maxwell, Peter Halliday, Ingrid Hafner, Patricia Burke, Drama, Thriller
Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing. Read More »
Alice in Wonderland (1966) Jonathan Miller, Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Drama, Family, Fantasy
There have been numerous film adaptations of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, over the years. Read More »
Hell is a City (1960) Val Guest, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Crime, Thriller
Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Read More »
Kiss the Other Sheik / Oggi, domani, dopodomani (1965) Eduardo De Filippo, Marco Ferreri, Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak, Virna Lisi, Comedy
Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. Read More »
Tobruk (1967) Arthur Hiller, Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green
September 1942 – With Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps on the march through Egypt, a British special forces unit, composed of German Jews who serve with the British despite the mutual resentment between both Read More »
The Secret of the urn (1966) Hideo Gosha, Bin Amatsu, Keiko Awaji, Takuya Fujioka, Action, Adventure, Drama
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. Read More »
Ukamau / And So It Is (1966) Jorge Sanjinés, Elsa Antequera, Néstor Cárdenas, Benedicta Huanca, Drama
While her husband is on his way to the market, a peasant woman is raped and murdered. Her widower carefully plans his revenge. Read More »
The Private Navy of Sgt. OFarrell (1968) Frank Tashlin, Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jeffrey Hunter, Comedy, War
Sgt. O’Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow servicemen, women and beer. Read More »
Procès de Jeanne dArc / Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) Robert Bresson, Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat, Drama, History
A reconstruction of the trial of Joan of Arc (based entirely on the transcripts of the real-life trial), concerning Joan’s imprisonment, interrogation and final execution at the hands of the English, filmed in a spare, low-key fashion. Read More »
Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver / This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse (1967) José Mojica Marins, Tina Wohlers, Nadia Freitas, Horror
Coffin Joe is still looking for the perfect woman to give birth to a son of his, and, cleared of the past crimes in the first film (At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul), keeps terrorizing the people in his small town with his iconoclast and sadistic practices. Read More »
A Flea in Her Ear (1968) Jacques Charon, Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Comedy
A Frenchwoman (Rosemary Harris), suspecting her lawyer husband (Rex Harrison) of having an affair, plots to catch him in the act. Read More »
À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma / At Midnight Ill Take Your Soul (1964) José Mojica Marins, Magda Mei, Nivaldo Lima, Horror
In a small town, the creepy and violent gravedigger Zé do Caixão is feared by the locals. Zé do Caixão lives with Lenita, who can not deliver a son to him. Read More »
Beatrice Cenci / The Conspiracy of Torture (1969) Lucio Fulci, Tomas Milian, Adrienne Larussa, Georges Wilson, Biography, Drama
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazy landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci whom he keeps his daughter locked up in the dungeon of his castle for his plaything, sexually abusing her when he feels like it. Read More »
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) Robert Mulligan, Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Angie Rossini is an innocent (Italian Catholic) Macy’s salesgirl, who discovers she’s pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Read More »