Dr Erik von Steiner (Preston Foster) and his colleagues Steve Connors (Philip Carey), Carol White (Merry Anders) and Danny McKee (Steve Franken) accidentally construct a…
Browsing: Movies 1964
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This first movie spin-off from the highly successful TV spy show The Man from UNCLE also stands as one of the best. Secret agents Napoleon…
In this spoof of his own intricate heist classic Rififi (1955), Jules Dassin pioneered one of the most popular subgenres of the 1960s, the comic crime…
During the last days of the German occupation of Paris, Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield), an art-obsessed German colonel, arranges to steal all of the city’s…
Tom White (William Kerwin, billed here as Thomas Wood) and Terry Adams (Connie Mason) are heading to Atlanta when they are lured via a fake…
17-year-old shopkeepers daughter Geneviève Emery (Catherine Deneuve) and 20-year-old mechanic Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo) are in love, but Geneviève’s mother (Anne Vernon) – who runs…
This fictionalised account of the life of Margaret ‘Molly’ Brown was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which was inspired by the…
Bernard Wicki’s film of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play (also known as Time and Again) is a fascinating work. The tragi-comedy (as Dürrenmatt describes it) is related to…
The annual Grand Prix brings racing driver Lucky Jackson (Elvis Presley) to Las Vegas. To meet expenses and buy an engine he has raised some…
A lavish, frantic comedy with Shirley MacLaine as serial wife Louisa, marrying one of the best casts ever assembled: Dick Van Dyke’s humble storekeeper turned…
Vance Pierson (Barry Sullivan), an English engineer working in Spain, wishes to buy the house occupied by beautiful blonde widow Laura Blanco (Martha Hyer), in…
Three young Cockney louts – Mickey (John Malcolm) Ginger (Ray Armstrong) and Tim (a youthful John Challis who would go on to play Boycie in…
After losing their job as entertainers on a luxury cruise ship, Johnny (Cliff Richard) and his backing band (The Shadows) are cast away by the…
Henry Orient (Peter Sellers in his first Hollywood film) is a madly egocentric and overly amorous unexceptional avant-garde concert pianist – sometimes Latin and sometimes…
This anthology movie is the story of a luxuriously upholstered vehicle – at once witty, romantic, plush, glamorous and dreamy – as a Rolls-Royce (a…
A timid English writer arrives in Crete to open a mine for his family business and falls under the spell of a local peasant with a…
The true story of the defence of a missionary station and hospital called Rorke’s Drift, where 139 soldiers of the South Wales Border regiment held…