Lawman Lydecker (played by former Cleveland Browns Hall of Famer Jim Brown) and Yaqui Joe (an Indian bank robber played by Burt Reynolds) join forces with a…
Browsing: Movies 1969
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Young Melbourne journalist Will Gardiner (Scottish actor Mark McManus, later to find fame as DCI Jim Taggart) has interconnected crises on his hands: a clash…
This failed attempt to make a movie star of singer Wayne Newton saw him playing Mark Jonah Winters, a hitchhiking vagrant fruit picker accused of…
Disillusioned artist Brad Morahan (James Mason, who also co-produced the film) escapes New York for his Australian homeland seeking solitude on an island on the…
A psychiatrist (director Donn Greer) begins narrating the sad tale of Alice Trenton (Sheri Jackson), a nice college student who gets in with the wrong…
Folk singer Arlo (Arlo Guthrie, who does quite well in his film debut), a talented young man of exceptionally undistinguished appearance, is waiting to be…
Part bawdy peek-a-boo romp, part kitchen-sink drama, this box-office hit features then-rising star Victor Henry as Ginger, a twenty-year-old self-employed window cleaner whose womanising is…
This AIP film follows the downhill plunge of Tara Nicole Steele (Holly Near in her film debut), the unattractive, overweight, vulnerable daughter of wealthy couple…
The lifelong obsession of King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) is to have a son and heir, but his wife, the pious Catherine of Aragon (Irene…
Jack Lemmon plays Howard Brubaker, a Wall Street broker about to get a promotion, but on arriving at his tycoon boss’s modern New York apartment,…
This dry period comedy has ardent feminist and would-be journalist Miss Winter (Diana Rigg) infiltrating a gang of killers whose members only accept contracts on…
The air is thick with screen stars and 27 restored Spitfires flown by genuine WWII veterans defending Britain from the rampant Luftwaffe in the dark…
The adapted play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus serves as an ideal springboard for this offbeat anti-war film by Richard Lester which, miraculously, manages…
Victorian England was a time of unparalleled bawdiness for the upper class and sexual serfdom for the lower classes. Noblemen married for procreation and patronised…
Ryan O’Neal makes his big screen debut as Jack Ryan, a Vietnam veteran and ex-con who loses his job as a cucumber picker on a…
Actress Adriana Roman (Lana Turner) announces her retirement from the stage to marry wealthy Charles Winthrop (Daniel O’Herlihy). Winthrop’s daughter, Lisa (Karin Mossberg), vows to…
Paul Mazursky made his directing debut with this old-fashioned romantic comedy loaded with all sorts of “happening” 60s situations: wife-swapping, psychotherapy, pot smoking, and so…
A bunch of British paratroopers disappear in mid-air during a routine jump from an army plane. Two NATO investigators, Bob Megan (square-jawed character actor Patrick…
In the late stages of World War II, aristocratic German officer Major Paul Krueger (Robert Vaughn) delays Hitler’s order to destroy the last bridge spanning…
In 1969, Britain woke up to skinheads. They had been around for ages but in September 1969 the Daily Mirror christened the movement. At the same time,…