This whimsical slapstick comedy was based on Frank Muir and Denis Norden’s successful radio and TV series Whack-O! This fully blown film version sought to…
Browsing: Movies 1960
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While Christopher Lee worried about typecasting, Hammer went ahead anyway with this sequel in name only to its huge 1958 hit Dracula. Anaemic David Peel…
Trying to change his life by joining the navy, well-meaning but clumsy grocer’s assistant Norman Puckle (Wisdom) is posted to the destroyer HMS Dorchester where…
Elizabeth Taylor won the 1960 Best Actress Oscar for her role in Butterfield 8, although most Hollywood observers felt she was really being honoured (two…
The Carry On team’s homage to Dixon of Dock Green hits the ground running, while Williams, Hawtrey, and Connor are happily settled into their familiar characterisations. The film’s basic…
After her first stardom in America, Jayne Mansfield made two films in England in 1959 – the better-known Too Hot to Handle and this film-noir…
The classic Cinderella story was reversed here with Jerry Lewis in the leading role (he also produced the film). Fella (Lewis) is a clumsy simpleton.…
England, 1947. Plastic surgeon Dr Rossiter (Anton Diffring) – a madman obsessed with perfection in women – must beat a hasty retreat to France when…
In 1692 a witch named Elizabeth Selwyn (Patricia Jessel) is burned at the stake but summons supernatural powers to save herself. Three years later a…
Al Zugsmith tries to outdo High School Confidential (1958) for Universal with this one and he almost makes it, in spite of Walter Winchell and Earl Wilson.…
“Cone of silence” is a blind flying term signifying the correct approach position for an aircraft directed by radio control when weather conditions make it…
One of six films Stanley Baker would do with another Hollywood blacklistee, director Joseph Losey, The Criminal combines heist, prison and gangster film tropes with an…
Crossroads To Crime was the live-action feature film directorial debut of Gerry Anderson, the famous creator of Supermarionation as seen in Stingray, Supercar, Thunderbirds, Joe 90…
An airliner and a Navy jet are on a collision course in this forerunner to the Airport series of 1970s ‘disaster movies’. There are several stories…
The solid virtues of a well-made play transferred to film by a sympathetic director and a strong cast are here for all to see. William…
Too young to know. Too wild to care. Too eager to say “I Will!” Danny (Gary Clark) and Sue (Marlo Ryan) are a young couple…
Based on a book by Matthew Finch and set in a dental training college, this unremarkable little comedy will set your teeth on edge. David Cookson…
Engineer Bart Thompson (Ward Ramsey) and a group of construction workers are building a new harbour on a Caribbean island when they unearth a caveman,…
Based on the Sinclair Lewis novel, which blew up a storm of controversy when it was published in 1927, Elmer Gantry stars Burt Lancaster in the title…
Archie Rice (Laurence Olivier) is a boozy, womanising, bleary and lewd song-and-dance man in a cheap music hall. His harried wife, Phoebe (Brenda de Banzie),…