Cathy Come Home was possibly the most important contribution made by the BBC’s The Wednesday Play. It told of Cathy (Carol White), a young Northern lass who made…
Browsing: Movies 1966
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Forty years after his optical process enhanced Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Eugene Shuftan suffered the indignity of being fired from this trippy reverie by director Conrad…
Charlie Is My Darling follows two days in the life of The Rolling Stones during their tour of Ireland in 1965 Three months before shooting the tour, director Peter…
Just before Arthur Penn would change the landscape of the American film industry forever with Bonnie and Clyde (1967), he directed The Chase. Derided at…
This was the first Andy Warhol film to emerge from the underground and play at art houses. The original version comprised two films projected side…
Circus Of Fear starts with a dramatic and meticulously-planned armoured car heist against the backdrop of Tower Bridge. It all goes horribly wrong when a security…
George (Donald Pleasence), a meek and neurotic middle-aged Englishman, and his beautiful and willful French wife, Teresa (Françoise Dorléac), live in an old castle on…
Made back-to-back with Dimension 5, this anti-Communist sci-fi effort stars a tired-looking Michael Rennie (who died four years later at the age of 61) as…
“We’ll have to bypass Watford. The place is full of Daleks!” This classic 1960s sci-fi flick from Amicus Productions is loosely based on the story…
This ten-part black-and-white weekly serial from the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) aired in British cinemas on Saturday mornings and was written by Michael Barnes and…
It’s 1801 in Odense, Denmark. Young Hans Christian Andersen (Paul O’Keefe) – known as Chris – lives with his father, Papa Andersen (Jack Gilford), a…
HC ‘Sapper’ McNeile’s debonair adventurer hero “Bulldog” Drummond was updated here to capitalise on the James Bond phenomenon. Richard Johnson may be a bit stuffy…
Vicki Robbins (Suzanna Leigh) is a pop singer suffering from exhaustion after collapsing while performing a song on television. She is packed off to a…
Montgomery Cliff (in his last role) plays James Bower, an American physicist visiting West Germany who’s recruited by a shady CIA agent, played by Roddy…
An unofficial US government agency, Espionage Inc, is assigned to investigate a Chinese communist organisation called The Dragons who are attempting to import the materials…
Traditional westerns were typically sedate affairs, with the odd bar fight, a spot of gun slinging and a corrupt sheriff the only things that made…
The sixth movie in the long-running ‘Doctor’ comedy series (from the books by Richard Gordon) sees Leslie Phillips in the lead role as Dr Gaston…
Iconic Maori singer Howard Morrison starred in this lighthearted, low-budget, poor cousin of A Hard Day’s Night (1964) from New Zealand. Howard invites drummer Gary…
“Meet the girls with the Thermo-Nuclear navels!” Thanks to cult Italian horror director Mario Bava, this sequel to Dr Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine (1965) piles on…
It is 1895. Four travellers are left abandoned at nightfall at a lonely crossroad in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe by a local coach…