It is July 1588 and, in the English Channel, the British Fleet has been battling for two days against the mighty Spanish Armada. Badly damaged,…
Browsing: Movies 1964
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Released in the US as Seaside Swingers, this light and breezy film – shot in widescreen and Technicolor – was a vehicle for 60s pop stars,…
It is early morning in America. In New York, air force commander General Black (Dan O’Herlihy) is woken by a recurring nightmare and leaves his…
Although superbly filmed in 70mm, The Fall of the Roman Empire feels cynical compared to the bombastic emphasis on scale and spectacle employed by Ben-Hur (1959)…
After a Mediterranean honeymoon. Dexter Munro (Stanley Baxter) and his new wife Juliet (Sally Smith) are forced to move in with Sir Beverley Grant (James…
When astronauts land on the Moon in 1964 they are surprised to discover a British flag and evidence that the place was first visited in…
After small parts in ten movies and seven years acting in TV’s Rawhide, 34-year-old Clint Eastwood starred in this Italian/German co-production. The producers had originally wanted…
Gormleigh-on-Sea is a drab little old-fashioned English seaside town – where landladies lock the door at 10 pm and rain buckets down throughout the summer…
A pretty young student called Terry (former ‘Miss America 1959’ Mary Ann Mobley) gets into trouble when she’s exposed as the songwriter of some disreputable…
Innocent Irish country lass Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham) leaves her father’s Co Clare farm to work as a grocery clerk in Dublin and falls in…
The third Bond film and arguably the best ever, and certainly the movie which proves once and for all that Sean Connery was, is, and…
Anxiously awaiting a divorce from her husband, beautiful Janet Lagerlof (Romy Schneider) is suddenly plunged into a complex situation when she learns that she will…
Set during the last days of the British Empire, Richard Attenborough plays Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale, the martinet of an East African military outpost in the…
The Beatles first feature film was a surprisingly sensational comedy, which revolved around a fictional 36 hours in their hectic schedule during a trip to London.…
In the same year that Dr Martin Luther King received the Nobel Prize, audiences queued up to see Horror Of Party Beach – a movie where…
This British spy comedy casts Dirk Bogarde as Nicholas Whistler, a work-shy would-be writer who is content with his life on the dole – until…
Based on her best-selling autobiography about her life in the Roaring Twenties as the legendary Madam of New York City’s plushest bordello, the movie follows…
Following the success of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Bette Davis returned to the screen in another shock thriller which also relied on…
It’s 1941 and meek and mild-mannered bookkeeper Henry Limpet (Don Knotts) would love to join the Navy but has been rated 4F (“too small and…
A fascinating Second World War drama that examines what might have happened if the Germans had won the Battle of Britain and Hitler had successfully invaded…