A RAF Bomber is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / La rivière du hibou (1961) Robert Enrico, Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen
A Civil War civilian is to be executed by hanging, but when the plank is kicked away Read More »
The Sorrow and the Pity / Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) Marcel Ophüls, Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
From 1940 to 1944, France’s Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Read More »
Patriotism / Yûkoku (1966) Masaki Dômoto, Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. Read More »
Never a Dull Moment (1968) Jerry Paris, Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. Read More »
Man of the Cursed Valley / L’uomo della valle maledetta (1964) Siro Marcellini, Primo Zeglio, Ty Hardin, Irán Eory, Piero Leri
Gwen, who is married to Torito, an Indian, escapes from a rape attempt Read More »
Suleiman the Conqueror / Solimano il conquistatore (1961) Vatroslav Mimica, Mario Tota, Edmund Purdom, Giorgia Moll, Alberto Farnese
Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman’s attempts to conquer Vienna. Read More »
What a Crazy World (1963) Michael Carreras, Joe Brown, Susan Maughan, Marty Wilde
Unemployed East End lad Alf Hitchens has an on-off relationship with his girlfriend Marilyn Read More »
Sandra / Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa… (1965) Luchino Visconti, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. Read More »
Hate Thy Neighbor / Odia il prossimo tuo (1968) Ferdinando Baldi, Spiros Focás, George Eastman, Nicoletta Machiavelli
Ken wants justice for his brother Bill, who was killed by a notorious gunman named Stevens for a goldmine map. Read More »