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Tag Archives: 1960s
Le tonnerre de Dieu / The Thunder of God (1965) Denys de La Patellière, Jean Gabin, Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Comedy, Drama
Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can’t resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Read More »
Corruption (1968) Robert Hartford-Davis, Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Horror
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend’s scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. Read More »
A Study in Terror (1965) James Hill, John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes’ sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start Read More »
Senilità / Careless (1962) Mauro Bolognini, Anthony Franciosa, Claudia Cardinale, Betsy Blair, Drama
The place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Read More »
Safe at Home! (1962) Walter Doniger, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, William Frawley, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Young Hutch Lawton brags to his Little League buddies that his dad knows Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Read More »
A Guide for the Married Man (1967) Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Comedy, Romance
Ed convinces his best friend Paul that he should fool around with other women in order to preserve his happy marriage. Read More »
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) Vincente Minnelli, Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, Drama
Former film star Jack Andreus is released from a sanitarium where he has lived for the previous three years, suffering from alcoholism, a traumatic automobile accident, and a severe mental breakdown. Read More »
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Adventure, Drama, History
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. Read More »
Wild and Wonderful (1964) Michael Anderson, Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann, Larry Storch, Comedy
In this comedy, a Yankee musician is working in Paris when he encounters a movie star chasing after her naughty French poodle Monsieur Cognac. Read More »
Pouic-Pouic / Squeak-Squeak (1963) Jean Girault, Louis de Funès, Mireille Darc, Roger Dumas, Comedy
Léonard Monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange. His eccentric wife Cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in South America. Read More »
La lunga notte del ’43 / The Long Night of 1943 (1960) Florestano Vancini, Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Drama, Romance, War
In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman, married to a man bound to a wheelchair, with a desertor from the Italian army Read More »
Le farceur / The Joker (1960) Philippe de Broca, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Palau, Comedy
Edouard Berlon (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a happy-go-lucky rogue who takes nothing seriously and flits irresponisbly from one affair to another. Read More »
Sonntagsfahrer / Sunday Drivers (1963) Gerhard Klein, Angelica Domröse, Erika Dunkelmann, Gerd Ehlers, Comedy, Drama
“Sunday Drivers” is an uneasy road comedy in which disgruntled “bourgeois remnants” set out from Leipzig for Berlin, where they plan to sell their cars and cross to the West. Read More »
The Trap (1966) Sidney Hayers, Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
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