
In the Austrian Alpine town of Holfen, a young woman is found murdered. Theo and Hansel, two wood-cutters, stop off at a bar where they tell Dr. Kalman, an academic studying local folk tales Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Scarlet Négligée (1968) Ron Scott, Byron Lord, Shirley Boyd, Nancy Reeves, Crime, Romance

Three robbers hide out in a brothel. Read More »
Heavens Above! (1963) John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Comedy

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. Read More »
The Young Warriors (1966) John Peyser, James Drury, Steve Carlson, Jonathan Daly, Drama, War

In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans. Read More »
Kyûpora no aru machi / Foundry Town (1962) Kirio Urayama, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada, Eijirô Tôno, Drama

Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families Read More »
Loss of Innocence / The Greengage Summer (1961) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Comedy, Drama, Romance

When she arrives in the French region of Champagne in the company of her mother, her two sisters and her brother, sixteen-year-old Joss Grey is still just a teen-ager. Read More »
The Sky Bike (1967) Charles Frend, Liam Redmond, William Lucas, Ellen McIntosh, Adventure, Family

In The Sky Bike, Tom (Spencer Shires) spends his school holidays dreaming of becoming a pilot. Read More »
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965) J. Lee Thompson, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna, Comedy

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. Read More »
Galia (1966) Georges Lautner, Mireille Darc, Venantino Venantini, Françoise Prévost, Crime, Drama

Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. Read More »
Hadaka no shima / The Naked Island (1960) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Drama

Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Read More »