This full-length cartoon from the Walt Disney studios is a beautifully animated version of Dodie Smith’s classic children’s tale. The adorable spotty dogs of the…
Browsing: Movies 1961
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Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) is an eccentric Medfield College professor who is so engrossed in conducting experiments in his garage/lab, he forgets to turn up…
Pierre (Chicago burlesque comic Billy Falbo) finds himself in situations where he ends up seeing naked women everywhere (in a series of short, silent skits)…
In his early days as a saintly college boy, a mythological All-American, too full of his own goodness to be true, Pat Boone presented an…
Set in the London jazz world of the 1960’s, a jealous drummer seeks to destroy his bandleader’s marriage so that he can assume his jazz…
A Greek fisherman named Demetrios (Sal Ponti, billed here as Anthony Hall)rescues a woman who turns out to be the Princess of Atlantis (Joyce Taylor).…
Victor Herbert’s operetta Babes in Toyland brought classic Mother Goose characters together through story and song. The opera had already been brought to the silver screen once…
Professor Bruce Patterson (Terry-Thomas), a British archaeologist on the staff of a California university, has a natural charm that automatically attracts women. When his roving…
Director Coleman Francis makes Ed Wood look like Steven Spielberg with this no-budget, no-script, no-plot effort. The film opens with a scene of a topless…
After several appearances in dramatic roles, Elvis Presley returned to musical comedy in this movie set against the exotic backdrop of Hawaii (which had just…
The most famous scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is the opening one – the one from which the film (and the Truman Capote novella on which…
This is a mixed-up collection of Carry On delights with a totally meaningless title for a totally plotless array of brief comic situations and familiar character players. As…
Hammer made a range of films outside the horror genre and some of them are excellent, particularly this unusual thriller reteaming Peter Cushing and André…
Unfortunate-looking would-be teen-idol Arch Hall Jnr. starred in a series of low-rent juvie drive-in movies in the early 60s which were written and produced by…
Superintendent Meredith (Bernard Lee) and Sergeant Anson (Stanley Morgan) of Scotland Yard investigate the murders of a waiter called Tickler (Sam Kydd) and a millionaire…
American millionaire Robert L Talbot (Rock Hudson) takes his Italian girlfriend Lisa Fellini (Gina Lollobrigida) to his luxurious villa only to find that the rendezvous haven…
Major Keller (Laurence Payne) is a highly decorated and respected British army officer, who is now facing a court-martial for willfully bringing about the death…
Unable to find living space to rent in overcrowded Tokyo on their leave from the Korean War, CPO Andy Cyphers (Glenn Ford) and his trio…
Hammer’s stab at the werewolf legend may look tame compared to later computerised transformations, but this was shocking stuff in its day, and much horrid…
Simultaneous atom bomb tests by the Americans and Russians at the two poles shift the Earth’s axis and put the planet on a collision course…