
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas where his oil wells are drying up and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Enter Laughing (1967) Carl Reiner, José Ferrer, Shelley Winters, Elaine May, Comedy, Romance

David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. Read More »
Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) Daniel Mann, Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Martin Balsam, Comedy

Actor Jason Steel plays a caring, godlike doctor on television. Off the set, he’s the insecure fiancé of pretty art teacher Melissa. Read More »
The Brass Bottle (1964) Harry Keller, Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden, Comedy, Fantasy

Comedy about the proverbial genie who comes out of a bottle (a table lamp in this instance) to serve his new master. Read More »
Sibirska Ledi Magbet / Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962) Andrzej Wajda, Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric, Drama, Mystery, Romance

In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. Read More »
Beach Ball (1965) Lennie Weinrib, Edd Byrnes, Chris Noel, Robert Logan, Comedy, Musical

Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group, the Wigglers. Read More »
Dvoje / And Love Has Vanished (1961) Aleksandar Petrovic, Beba Loncar, Miha Baloh, Milos Zutic, Drama, Romance

Mirko tells the relationship between an amateur photographer architect, and Jovana, music student. Read More »
Seul ou avec d’autres / Alone or With Others (1962) Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux, Michelle Boulizon, Nicole Braun, André Dubois, Drama

September 1961. It’s the start of a new academic year at the Université de Montréal. Nicole meets Pierre, a sophomore who shows her how to succeed in her courses without attending them. Read More »
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) Peter Bogdanovich, Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In 1998, six months after the collision of a meteor and subsequent explosion of a rocket sent to Venus Read More »
Kenjû zankoku monogatari / Cruel Gun Story (1964) Takumi Furukawa, Jô Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Thriller

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa’s sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. Read More »