A year after cutting his teeth on Dentist in the Chair (1960), Bob Monkhouse returned in this disappointing sequel. Colonel JJ Proudfoot (Eric Barker), the managing…
Browsing: Movies 1961
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The Cornish village of Porthcorran is stricken with fear when brilliant young biochemist Dr Peter Blood (Kieron Moore) returns to join his father after a…
Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson-Justice) gives his medical students a slating to remember over a patient. The patient is Dr Richard Hare (Michael Craig), a…
Philandering travel agent Bill Ferguson (Richard Todd) has an argument with his naive fiancée Stella (June Thornburn) after he loses the key to his Edinburgh…
When newlyweds Jack (Ian Carmichael, displaying the dottiness that served him well throughout his career) and Peggy (Janette Scott) face eviction, they are tricked into…
Charlton Heston is the legendary Rodrigo Diaz di Bivar – the Christian hero who rids Spain of the Moors in the 11th century – in…
An excellent example of what happens when Hollywood tries to get serious. William (Star Trek) Shatner is a high school teacher with the usual qualifications;…
This compact thriller gets considerable mileage from a rather worn plot – that of convincing, for criminal purposes, a sane but unstable person that they…
Made in the wake of the 1959 Notting Hill riots, Flame in the Streets is an early examination of tense racial prejudices within a working-class family. Adapted…
In this sequel to the hit 1959 film Gidget, Frances “Gidget” Lawrence (with Sandra Dee replaced this time by newcomer Deborah Walley) heads off with…
A giant prehistoric sea monster (65 feet tall standing on its hind legs) is released from its underwater home by a volcanic eruption and caught…
A gentle, exquisitely-photographed film about the romantic illusions and growing-up of two young English girls on holiday in France. The girls – 16-year-old Joss (Susannah…
This sentimental film from Walt Disney Studios is based on a true story and takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1865. The opening scenes show…
A stalwart band of Blighty’s finest heroes risk life and limb during WWII to destroy huge German gun emplacements threatening Allied ships in the Aegean…
7-year-old Rachel Mathias (Loretta Parry) and 9-year-old Michael O’Malley (Philip Needs) strike up a strong friendship and spend most of their time they can together.…
This cheap and cheesy British swashbuckler resembles a Hammer film in everything except name. Set in the 18th century, the “Hellfire Club” is a secret…
Best-selling travel author Reggie Blake (Terry-Thomas) is successful largely because of the publicity stunts of his astute publisher, Charles Lunton (Wilfrid Hyde-White). Sales of his…
US Naval officer Fergie Howard (Steve McQueen) and brainy young scientist Jason Eldridge (Jim Hutton) conspire to break the bank of a Venice casino with…
Based on a novel by Walter Tevis, Robert Rossen’s tough, sardonic 1961 classic about an amoral pool shark was electrifying stuff, with Paul Newman giving…
In The Doghouse follows the misadventures of kindhearted but bumbling new veterinarian Jimmy Fox-Upton (Leslie Phillips) who eventually graduates after 10 years of trying. He…