Even the most amiable of families can sometimes fall out. In this case, the family is of the Mafia variety, tough and ruthless, yet kind…
Browsing: Movies 1968
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One of the most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s was Steve McQueen who is at his charismatic best in this stylish film about…
One of the most underrated films of the 1960s, Candy uses the lascivious adventures of your average, innocent, teenage sexpot (played by doe-eyed 19-year-old Swedish…
Carry On Camping has no plot to speak of – it is simply a collection of familiar eccentrics going on a camping holiday. But when Sid…
Or “Nurse carries on again”. In this sequel to Carry On Nurse, Francis Bigger (Frankie Howerd) is a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on…
The Khyber Pass, Kalabar, India, 1895. Private Jimmy Widdle (Charles Hawtrey) of the Queen’s Own 3rd Foot and Mouth Regiment (the feared “Devils in Skirts”)…
Maximilian Schell plays an anonymous stranger called “K” who arrives at a strange village and claims he is the new land surveyor for a nearby…
Boris Karloff appeared in his last major role in this Spanish production as blind sculptor Franz Badulescu who models his work on skeletons provided for…
Tony Richardson’s disapproving rendition of the infamously disastrous Crimean War cavalry charge in 1854 disappointed many upon its 1968 release, shorn as it was of…
Albert Finney stars as – and makes his directorial debut in – Charlie Bubbles, an enigmatic comedy-drama concerning a materially successful man, fighting vainly the…
Cliff Robertson found himself cast as heroic types after he played the young John F Kennedy in PT 109 (1963), but the most rewarding role of…
Two great influences on 1960s film combined in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: the story came from Ian Fleming, creator of superspy James Bond; and the…
Designed for a receptive, cool, hip 1960s audience, this chilling short (54 minutes) fable from director Peter Sykes explores RD Laing’s thesis that schizophrenia and…
Beautiful fashion model Lynn Nolan (Sue Lloyd) is badly disfigured at a swinging 60’s London party during a brawl between her fiancé, famous plastic surgeon…
Though burnt for her sins three centuries earlier, the presence of the “black witch” is still felt in the village of Greymarsh. When Robert Manning…
British agent Alexander Eberlin (Laurence Harvey) – a ruthless operator with the reputation of being something of a Dandy – is assigned to hunt down…
Based on a cult comic strip, this mix of fantasy and madcap criminality is directed with mischievous glee by horror specialist Mario Bava. In many…
A cross between The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Payroll (1961), this caper thriller stars Leslie Neilsen as Frank Dayton, the evil but brilliant mastermind who trains his…
Michael Caine plays recovered alcoholic cat burglar Henry Clarke, who finds himself enticed into the home of Fe Moreau (Giovanna Ralli), where he discovers an…
Paul Pennyfeather (Robin Phillips) is a naive young divinity student at Oxford who finds himself sent down after a group of drunken undergraduates remove his…