A teenage girl is put under pressure from her parents to restrain her sexual desires while her boyfriend’s equally domineering family have plans for his…
Browsing: Movies 1961
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All-American teenager Susan Slade (Connie Stevens) indulges in a shipboard romance with a handsome, wealthy young fellow (Grant Williams), whose name – appropriately – is…
Penny Applebee (Susan Strasberg, daughter of method acting guru Lee Strasberg) grew up with her mother after her parents divorced when she was quite young.…
Mousey Rita Tushingham made her screen debut in this ground-breaking movie (a romance of sorts, and a comedy also), playing Jo – the unwanted 17-year-old…
John Cassavetes’ second film as director marked a rare Hollywood engagement for the famously independent filmmaker. Long dismissed as a creative cul-de-sac, it’s also a fascinating…
This crime melodrama from British Lion is set in the heart of London and concerns American-born industrialist James Kennedy (Cameron Mitchell), who decides to fight…
A happy-go-lucky bunch of British prisoners in a German POW camp during World War II discover that their new acerbic fellow prisoner is high-ranking British…
This thought-provoking classic stars Dirk Bogarde as Melville Farr, a homosexual (but married) barrister who risks his career to hunt down a blackmailer who has…
With the earth threatened by a blazing radiation belt and the global temperature rising by two degrees each day, the inventor of a new nuclear…
On his wedding day, sailor Albert Tufnell (John Meillon) is torn between delight at the prospect of marrying pretty Shirley Hornett (Vera Day) and alarm…
Cheeky ice cream man Fred Scrutton (Bob Monkhouse) chauffeurs his friend Tim (Leslie Phillips) and Tim’s sexy fiancée Deirdre (Shirley Eaton) on a caravan holiday…
Natalie Wood and charisma-free Richard Beymer seem slightly miscast at times in this story about two rival gangs on New York’s West Side – the…
Timid Ernie Broughton (Kenneth Connor) – a proofreader of horror paperbacks – and his best pal, bookie Syd Butler (Sid James) travel to Blackshaw Towers…
A comic vehicle for pop star Adam Faith who plays Tony Blake, an aspiring writer and photographer desperate to sell his new book on the…
“It isn’t Jesus. It’s just a fella”. A group of scruffy, adorable children, led by gumdrop-eyed Hayley Mills, discover injured escaped convict Arthur Blakey (Alan…
This drama about Glenn Tyler – a rebellious backwoods delinquent on parole, who ends up going to college to become a great writer – represents an attempt…
The story in The Wind of Change revolves around a teen gang who hang around the coffee bars of Notting Hill. Some of the gang…
In the ancient city of Baghdad, Aladdin (Donald O’Connor) is given the legendary lamp by his mother (Adriana Facchetti) without either being aware of its…
In 1961, Cliff Richard had most of the world at his feet. Easily Britain’s most successful performer, he had just picked up his fifth gold disc…