This adaptation of Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw sees Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) become the governess to two small children, Flora (Pamela…
Browsing: Movies 1961
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Major Freddie Oppenheimer (Bill Travers) – who has lost a leg – is in a British Army Rehabilitation Hospital in 1942 during the early days…
Retired American district court judge Daniel Haywood (Spencer Tracy) is brought to Nuremberg to preside over the trials of the German judiciary at the end…
This multi-million dollar depiction of the life of Jesus Christ – filmed on location in Spain – attracted considerable controversy when it was released. While…
Mad scientist Dr Charles Decker (Michael Gough) returns from Africa after it has been presumed for a year that he died in a plane crash.…
Miss Helen Wellonmellon (Helen Traubel) hires Herbert H. Heebert (Jerry Lewis) to work as a handyman and general dogsbody around her boarding house for young…
Adapted from Willis Hall’s hit West End play (which starred Peter O’Toole in the lead role), The Long and the Short and the Tall tells…
Teen idol Paul Anka was just 20 when he tried his hand at dramatics in this below-average movie made on the cheap. Anka plays Craig…
Master Of The World is a crazy, implausible and wholly fascinating film. Although it is not in the front rank of expensive spectacles, it is a…
Don Chaffey’s A Matter Of WHO is one of Terry-Thomas’ most offbeat films. That doesn’t mean it’s good, simply that the unusual nature of the picture…
Marilyn Monroe’s husband, playwright Miller, penned what ultimately was to be the last outing for her and her co-star Clark Gable (although Montgomery Clift was…
This Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) film revolved around three London children – brother and sister Sophie (Rachel Clay) and David (Michael Wade) and their friend…
Though he rarely mentioned his debut feature as a director after he’d released it, Peter Sellers remained fond of this impressive but critically undervalued comedy-drama…
Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island begins in Richmond, Virginia at the siege of 1865 during the Civil War, with a group of Union prisoners of war -…
Production executive and sometime avant-garde film-maker Curtis Harrington made his feature debut with this strange story of a sailor who meets a mysterious woman who…
In this fictitious story of what goes on in Westminster’s Corridors of Power, the hero is an MP called Johnnie Byrne (Peter Finch). He is…
Tansy Carr (18-year-old Juliet Mills) is the vivacious schoolgirl daughter of wealthy international industrialist Sir Matthew Carr (Michael Redgrave). Tansy refuses to go to Paris…
Weak-kneed and fumbling GI Ernie Williams (Danny Kaye) impersonates a one-eyed English general in 1944 and becomes the victim of a Nazi assassination plot. Ernie…
Conniving Cockney Horace Pope (Alfred Lynch) is just an everyday street peddler when the authorities pick him up for practising his trade. Not wanting to…
In his sole directorial outing, Marlon Brando epitomises his unique style in the film’s opening scene. As he slowly relishes a banana, the camera dollies…