Elvis Presley returns in a romantic romp with colourful locations, a serviceable (though silly) plot and some super ladies, including Stella Stevens, as attractive nightclub…
Browsing: Movies 1962
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Three ambitious but unsuccessful bank robbers – Bernard (Dave King), Alfie (Norman Rossington) and tame toff Harry (Daniel Massey) – buy an old fire engine…
It is New Year’s Eve, and there are two interesting gatherings in the capital of the (fictional) South American republic of Tribulacion. One is the…
Based on the memoirs of striptease queen Gypsy Rose Lee, the film follows her early years in vaudeville, which involved being dragged from one musical…
Fred Tickle (Reginald Beckwith) is the downtrodden Commissionaire at the Gallant Blades razor factory. He passes every weary day without even noticing the world go…
This remake of a 1924 silent film called The Hands of Orlac and the 1935 Peter Lorre film Mad Love has virtuoso concert pianist Vernon…
What director Howard Hawks did for South American mail plane pilots in 1939’s Only Angels Have Wings, he does here for a mismatched band of professional…
One of the first Hollywood-produced combat flicks (alongside Robert Aldrich’s earlier Attack!) to truly deliver on its promised anti-war message, Hell Is For Heroes was originally…
HMS Defiant brings alive in CinemaScope and Technicolor the people and events of Frank Tilsley’s 1958 novel Mutiny. The story opens in 1797 when the frigate…
Hapless Second Lieutenant Merle Wye (Jim Hutton) of US Army Intelligence is dismayed that he has not seen any action during World War II. He…
Dr Christine Allison (Susan Hayward) follows her married lover to England. When he becomes incurably ill and in agony from the pain, he begs her…
Adam Cramer – a charismatic out-of-town rabble-rouser in a gleaming white suit (played by the then little-known William Shatner) – arrives on a bus in…
The American millionaire owner of TransGlobal Airlines, Paul Fisher (future Gilligan’s Island star Alan Hale Jr.), travels to England with his family to consider buying…
Jerry Lewis is in zany form here, under the capable control of director Frank Tashlin. Raised in an orphanage, Lester March (Lewis) is a disaster-prone…
Director Richard Lester had already worked with the anarchic Goons on TV (A Show Called Fred) and on film – the short The Running Jumping…
Called in to investigate an apparently minor crime (the theft of a file of leases from a local estate agent), the Brighton CID follow a…
Director François Truffaut presents cinema’s ultimate love triangle with Jeanne Moreau as the mercurial Catherine, the woman whom best friends and writers Jules (Oskar Werner)…
Elvis Presley stars as Walter Gulick – Freshly discharged from the army and back in his hometown of Cream Valley, looking for a job, He…
Fans of the sort of comedy produced by Terry-Thomas or Eric Sykes will find much to enjoy in this slapstick farce. It’s a classic British…
Set in an industrial Lancashire town, A Kind Of Loving tells the bittersweet tale of Vic Brown (Alan Bates), a young draughtsman who falls for Ingrid (June…