The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Wild and Wonderful (1964) Michael Anderson, Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann, Larry Storch, Comedy
In this comedy, a Yankee musician is working in Paris when he encounters a movie star chasing after her naughty French poodle Monsieur Cognac. Read More »
Pouic-Pouic / Squeak-Squeak (1963) Jean Girault, Louis de Funès, Mireille Darc, Roger Dumas, Comedy
Léonard Monestier has made his fortune trading on the stock exchange. His eccentric wife Cynthia almost bankrupts him by selling some of his shares to buy an oil concession in South America. Read More »
Le farceur / The Joker (1960) Philippe de Broca, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Palau, Comedy
Edouard Berlon (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a happy-go-lucky rogue who takes nothing seriously and flits irresponisbly from one affair to another. Read More »
Sonntagsfahrer / Sunday Drivers (1963) Gerhard Klein, Angelica Domröse, Erika Dunkelmann, Gerd Ehlers, Comedy, Drama
“Sunday Drivers” is an uneasy road comedy in which disgruntled “bourgeois remnants” set out from Leipzig for Berlin, where they plan to sell their cars and cross to the West. Read More »
The Trap (1966) Sidney Hayers, Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
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The Heroes of Telemark (1965) Anthony Mann, Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Action, Drama, History, War
Set in German-occupied Norway, this is an embellished account of the remarkable efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage the German development of the atomic bomb. Read More »
Buta to gunkan / Pigs and Battleships (1961) Shôhei Imamura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Kinta is caught in the mesh of poverty and opts out by joining the local yakuza gang. His greed draws him into the drug dealing, pimping, and racketeering that fill the gang’s coffers. Read More »
I nostri mariti (1966) Luigi Filippo D’Amico, Dino Risi, Alberto Sordi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Alessandro Cutolo, Comedy, Romance
Movies in three episodes due to three different hands. In the first, D’Amico, a young man is attracted by a rather masculine woman. Read More »
Wait Until Dark (1967) Terence Young, Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Susy was recently blinded and recently married. Susy’s husband, Sam, is asked to hold a doll for a woman he doesn’t know as they get off an airplane. Read More »