While filming the Olympics, a filmmaker encounters a Japanese girl. Manchurian born and French educated, she’s an intriguing anomaly. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Exodus (1960) Otto Preminger, Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson
The theme is the founding of the state of Israel. The action begins on a ship filled with Jewish immigrants bound for Israel who are being off loaded on Cyprus. Read More »
The Secret of the Black Falcon (1961) Domenico Paolella, Lex Barker, Livio Lorenzon, Nadia Marlowa
A secret document has fallen into the hands of pirates. Spain and England are both interested. Read More »
Assassination (1964) Masahiro Shinoda, Tetsurô Tanba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada
In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire. Read More »
A Certain Killer (1967) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Mikio Narita, Yumiko Nogawa
The main character is a man from the WW2 generation who has lost his dreams in post-war Japan.
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The Thin Red Line (1964) Andrew Marton, Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook
Dark tale of one man’s determination to survive his tour of duty. Separated from his new wife after only eight days of marriage Read More »
Call Me Bwana (1963) Gordon Douglas, Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams
A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off course and lands in Africa where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Read More »
In the French Style (1963) Robert Parrish, Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, Philippe Forquet
A young American girl studying art in Paris can’t decide if she wants to stay or go back home. Read More »
A Gathering of Eagles (1963) Delbert Mann, Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander Read More »
A Fistful Of Dollars (1964) Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch
An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo’s. Read More »