Layabout disc jockey Sam Costa lies in bed and operates the first computerised, push-button hit parade in history. In addition to music the computer also…
Browsing: Movies 1964
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Though sometimes unfavourably compared to the 1946 film noir masterpiece of the same name, director Don Siegel’s taut, terse adaptation of the Hemingway short story…
In Belgium in October 1917, young British soldier Private Arthur James Hamp (Tom Courtenay) is accused of desertion and accepts that a court martial will…
Dean Martin, portraying himself, is stranded in the small town of Climax, Nevada, and becomes the subject of a plot to have him buy the…
A US Air Force Lieutenant tries to convince his hillbilly cousin to allow the government to build a missile base on his family’s rural land. Light…
Charwoman Mrs Cragg (Peggy Mount) retrieves a discarded cigar from the wastepaper basket of city tycoon James Ryder (Harry H Corbett) and presents it wrapped…
Cornelia Hilyard (Olivia de Havilland) is a wealthy widow left in her mansion alone when her effeminate adult son, Malcolm (William Swan) goes away for…
When a wind-blown virus devastates life on Earth, millions of the population die and the remainder become vampires living in the dark and sleeping during…
Cosseted 16-year-old Dot (Rita Tushingham) and ton-up biker Reggie (Colin Campbell) are a couple of school sweethearts who marry hastily and quickly learn about the…
Post Office messenger boy Dave Martin makes a bid for pop stardom despite the disapproval of his old-fashioned father. You’d hardly know that The Beatles…
Shipwrecked Viking Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is rescued by monks. At the monastery, he learns about the legendary giant golden bell called the “Mother of Voices”.…
After threatening Tippi Hedren with death by pecking in The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock turned her into a traumatised, man-hating kleptomaniac in Marnie. Hitchcock originally offered the…
One of Disney’s most delightful tales, Mary Poppins featured the best integration yet of cartoon and live-action film. Based on the P.L. Travers books, the movie…
The Masque of the Red Death (the seventh in a series of eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptions by director Roger Corman), is set in the…
This pleasant, undemanding Disney comedy from the reliable director of The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) was originally made with plans to broadcast it as two hour-long Disney…
The original Beach Party (1963) was a big teen success, so the producers came up with this lacklustre sequel. When a new gym – managed by…
This sumptuous adaptation of the smash Broadway musical version of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion won eight well-deserved Academy Awards in 1964 – Best Picture, Best Director, Best…
Danny (Albert Finney) is a charismatic young Welsh chap who enters the isolated countryside mansion of wealthy old wheelchair-bound widow Mrs Bramson (Mona Washbourne) as…
Humble estate agent’s clerk Jimmy Brewster (Alan Bates) is determined to become a gentleman whatever the cost, and asks sleazy ex-public schoolboy Charlie Prince (Denholm…
One of those kitsch 1960s Californian beach party movies which began with Beach Party (1963). In this one, Tommy Kirk plays a Martian scout sent to Earth…