US Navy Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison (James Garner) is a confirmed coward who devotes all his efforts to avoiding combat duty. Madison serves as a “Dog Robber” for Admiral Jessup (Melvyn…
Browsing: Movies – 1960s
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It is 1720 and a group of little uniformed girls in an orphanage are apprehensively awaiting the annual inspection by the Governors. One by one the children are presented and…
Joan Greenwood plays the general’s wife who converts her husband’s Scottish military headquarters into a hotel in his absence to fleece visiting Americans and raise some cash. Director Anthony Kimmins…
After serving a tour in Vietnam, Mike (Tom Stern) returns to his California hometown to discover that his old motorcycle gang – the Bakersfield Madcaps – has been run out…
When he refuses to join an unofficial strike, factory worker Tom Curtis (Richard Attenborough) is ostracised by his workmates and finds enormous strain placed on his wife and young son.…
Slick business tycoon John Cleves (Jason Robards) is a normal, well-behaved husband and father . . . on every day of the week except Wednesday. On any Wednesday, he can…
Winner of five Academy Awards in 1960 including Best Film, The Apartment is legendary writer/director Billy Wilder at his scathing, satirical best. Insurance Clerk C. C. ‘Bud’ Baxter (Jack Lemmon) has found the…
American professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) is surrounded by international intrigue after he agrees to translate a Hieroglyphic message. His employer’s seductive mistress (Sophia Loren) reveals that there is a…
Apocalyptic tidal waves caused by earthquakes threaten to destroy the world’s coastal cities, and the fate of the earth is in the hands of five virile, good looking scientists and…
Nick Johnson (Tony Curtis) is a modern-day Bluebeard who has been married several times, but all his rich wives were “accidentally” killed after some time. But Nick has met his…
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 those who “deserve” to die.…
Some gangsters get their hands on an old WWII German submarine and set out to pirate a luxury liner – the RMS Queen Mary – in this rather unlikely crime caper…
A mad scientist sets out to gather the human parts necessary to create a race of mindless killers. The (so-called) plot has something to do with resurrecting corpses through use…
Victor Herbert’s operetta Babes in Toyland brought classic Mother Goose characters together through story and song. The opera had already been brought to the silver screen once in 1934 (Laurel and Hardy…
A dripping tap grows into a raging gush over the opening credits. The bath is about to overflow but Diana Dors is busy applying lipstick at a fogged-up mirror and…
This black & white made-in-Manhattan film tells of the downfall of newlywed Boston housewife Meg Kelton (Gigi Darlene). After a happy shower with her businessman husband, Ted (Alan Feinstein), he…
Widow Josie Minick (Doris Day) takes up sheep farming in order to support herself and her son. Her new neighbours are dismayed by her activities. Bland is too strong a…
A prison Jazz Band fronted by Acker Bilk are released from prison and perform a series of concerts. Before long they are up to their old tricks and are back…
Having fought on opposing sides during the American Civil War, brothers Mace (James Stewart) and Dee (Dean Martin) Bishop join forces as part of an outlaw gang that is forced…
The year is 40,000 AD. Peacefully floating around in zero-gravity – and taking her clothes off to what sounds like Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Horns – sexy 41st Century…
