Thirteen international diplomats’ daughters in a Swiss boarding school (Miss Pittford’s Academy) – led by American teenager Candy Hull (Kathy Dunn) – stir up trouble…
Browsing: Movies 1963
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In June 1900, Major Matt Lewis (Charlton Heston) rides into Peking with a detachment of Marines and is appalled to see an American missionary killed…
Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning account of Guido Anselmi, an overworked movie director (Marcello Mastroianni) crossing the line between reality and fantasy. Guido (pictured above) is spiritually paralysed…
“It’s what happens when 10,000 kids meet on 5,000 Beach Blankets!” An anthropologist studying the sex habits of young people finds himself in the middle…
Young millionaire Rick Bradshaw (William Kerwin) is obsessed by an unknown woman he dreams about. He goes to a shrink, places a sketch of the…
Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay’s finest hour) is stuck in a dead-end job – he’s a clerk at Shadrach & Duxbury’s Funeral Emporium in the provincial…
This tense and terrifying thriller was crafted by the master of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock. Beautiful blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) meets Lawyer Mitch…
Having broken into Disney films in the late 1950s, Janet Munro suffered from typecasting for much of her tragically brief career (she died at just…
“You’ll recoil and shudder as you witness the slaughter and mutilation of nubile young girls . . .” “Guru of Gore” Herschell Gordon Lewis presented…
Based on the Broadway Musical about teenage singing sensation Conrad Birdie giving his final TV show (in his hometown) before leaving for military service. The…
The Caretaker as a play changed the face of modern theatre and made Harold Pinter’s name. This 1963 film version features mesmerising performances from the…
Carry On Cabby began life as a script that Paul Rothwell had worked on at the request of Peter Rogers, Call Me A Cab, following the premise…
With Charade, the director Stanley Donen achieved the magic pairing that everybody wanted to see: Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. Made on location in Paris -…
For her role as the last pharaoh of Egypt in Fox’s gargantuan Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor audaciously asked for and received, the first $1 million contract…
Leaving his parents’ home in Yonkers, young Buddy Baker (Tony Bill) arrives unannounced at the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his older brother, Alan (Frank Sinatra,…
This romantic comedy has three attractive air-hostesses combining their work crossing the Atlantic between New York and European capitals with a search for a rich…
A handful of British comedians present the worst treatment of Gilbert and Sullivan in history, with cramped sets, cheap-looking and out of place archive footage…
This endearing comedy attempted to transfer comedian Charlie Drake’s style of humour to the big screen. Despite being co-writer Drake’s finest screen appearance, The Cracksman mixes slapstick…
After pulling off a small train robbery, “Little” Walter (Ronald Fraser) and his gang hide out in a deserted monastery on a remote Cornish island.…
While on holiday in Weymouth, Forset, American boat owner Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) is violently mugged by teddy boy thug, King (Oliver Reed), and his…
