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Tag Archives: 1960s
Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures (1964) Joseph W. Sarno, Marla Ellis, Eve Harris, Sheila Britt

Three college friends go off to New York to become Broadway stars and they endure an endless parade Read More »
Sin You Sinners (1963) Anthony Farrar, Joseph W. Sarno, June Colbourne, Dian Lloyd, Derek Murcott

A stripper/fortune teller uses a magical Haitian amulet to keep young, and in so doing forces others to kill for her. Read More »
The Fabiani Affair / Horace 62 (1962) André Versini, Charles Aznavour, Raymond Pellegrin, Giovanna Ralli

The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. Read More »
Secret Intentions / Las secretas intenciones (1970) Antonio Eceiza, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Haydée Politoff, Teresa del Río

Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. Read More »
When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965) Alvin Ganzer, Connie Francis, Harve Presnell, Peter Noone

Danny Churchill is a young heir who tries to help Ginger, an attractive postal worker in rural Nevada Read More »
Theater of Life – Hishakaku (1963) Tadashi Sawashima, Kôji Tsuruta, Yoshiko Sakuma, Ken Takakura

Hishakaku asks his woman, Otoyo, a former geisha, to move to Tokyo, where they are taken in by Boss Kokin. Read More »
The Radiant Prince / Shin Genji monogatari (1961) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hanayo Sumi

Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother Read More »
The Taste of Violence / 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 »
The Secret Formula / La fórmula secreta (1965) Rubén Gámez, José Castillo, Manuel Gaitán, Pilar Islas

An irreverent essay, unified only by the author’s unique voice, full of surreal moments Read More »