Paul Newman gives an excellent character portrayal as the irresponsible, womanising son of a hardworking Texas rancher in Hud – A powerful modern-day Western which…
Browsing: Movies 1963
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Chief Inspector Johnnoe (Nigel Patrick) of Scotland Yard is told by his exasperated superior officer, Superintendent Bestwick (Harry Andrews) that he can no longer use…
The songs are gone, but the Broadway musical about the life of a French whore in Pigalle (the seedy red-light district of Paris) retains the…
The livelihood of crop dusting pilots Mike (Elvis Presley) and Danny (Gary Lockwood) is stolen away from them when a sheriff impounds their plane because…
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was not only one of the longest comedies on film (at nearly three hours in its original version), it…
Tommy Steele stars as Billy Bowles, a talent-spotter at the KLO record company whose unscrupulous boss, Max Catlin (Michael Medwin) sees that his talent-spotting abilities…
Richard Abel (Lance Percival), a stagehand at the London Palladium, visits the London nightspots with his fat friend (William Rushton). He hangs out in a Paul…
Three million dollars were spent on Jason and the Argonauts – $250,000 on building a full-size Argo ship and most of the balance on the ‘Dynamation…
Johnny Colini (Marc Lawrence), an exiled American organised crime boss living in Sicily, rescues young Sicilian outlaw Salvatore Giordano (Henry Silva) from the police. He…
The Prime Minister (Richard Vernon) is angling for the youth vote but (stupidly) cutting the amount of pop music on television. Teenagers decide to reject…
Kings of the Sun was the first time Hollywood had dealt with the mysterious history of the Mayan civilisation on the Yucatan Peninsular. Without metals, horses,…
Released as a double bill with Paranoiac, The Kiss of the Vampire finds Gerald Harcourt (Edward de Souza) and his new wife, Marianne (Jennifer Daniel),…
A group of young American school children are sent home from their rural school following the sounding of a nuclear attack alarm. The staff are…
With nothing better to do – and hoping to get paid – travelling handyman and ex-GI Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) helps out five German-speaking nuns…
Novelist Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a succession of ostensibly isolated “accidental” deaths are really related murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C.…
As war is about to break out, a party of wealthy English schoolboys is flown to the supposed safety of the South Pacific. But their…
Shot in black and white with music by Elmer Bernstein, this romantic comedy, tinged with drama, is set against the backdrop of non-stop New York…
“In life, there are many occasions when a simple decision to turn either to the right or to the left may have disastrous consequences and…
The economy of the tiny Grand Duchy of Fenwick (population about 1,000) is suffering because its bottles of home-made wine (“Pinot Grand Fenwick”) explode on…
Ellen, aka Eve (Doris Day), missing and legally dead for five years, returns to her husband Nick (James Garner) just after Nick has got remarried…