Weak-kneed and fumbling GI Ernie Williams (Danny Kaye) impersonates a one-eyed English general in 1944 and becomes the victim of a Nazi assassination plot. Ernie…
Browsing: 1961
Penny Applebee (Susan Strasberg) grew up with her mother after her parents divorced when she was quite young. After her mother’s death, the wheelchair-bound Penny…
Major Keller (Laurence Payne) is a highly decorated and respected British army officer, who is now facing a court-martial for willfully bringing about the death…
Carol (Christina Gregg) has been sexually abused by her alcoholic stepfather, Flynn (Patrick Magee) and when a customer at their truck drivers’ café (Michael Wynne)…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 3 (Australia) 30 minute episodes This weekly television panel discussion show from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had…
In this sequel to the hit 1959 film Gidget, Frances “Gidget” Lawrence (played this time by newcomer Deborah Walley) heads off with her parents (Carl…
All-American teenager Susan Slade (Connie Stevens) indulges in a shipboard romance with a handsome, wealthy young fellow (Grant Williams), whose name – appropriately – is…
1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) 1 9 7 9 (USA) This show grew out of a 1958 novelty record titled The Chipmunk Song…
This sentimental film from Walt Disney Studios is based on a true story and takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1865. The opening scenes show…
John Saunders (Max Bygraves) is fresh out of teacher training college when he inherits a class of badly behaved children in their final year in…
The story of five fun-loving young bachelors who live together in “The Hut” – a converted Hawaiian restaurant in the Hollywood Hills. Newcomer Leo Mack…
This thought-provoking classic stars Dirk Bogarde as Melville Farr, a homosexual (but married) barrister who risks his career to hunt down a blackmailer who has…
US Naval officer Fergie Howard (Steve McQueen) and brainy young scientist Jason Eldridge (Jim Hutton) conspire to break the bank of a Venice casino with…
Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson-Justice) gives his medical students a slating to remember over a patient. The patient is Dr Richard Hare (Michael Craig), a…
A teenage girl is put under pressure from her parents to restrain her sexual desires while her boyfriend’s equally domineering family have plans for his…
Hammer made a range of films outside the horror genre and some of them are excellent, particularly this unusual thriller reteaming Peter Cushing and André…
A line-up of stars from the Carry On fraternity get together for this laboured but likeable Gerald Thomas comedy about five poverty-stricken music students at…
Atomic explosions from nuclear testing by the Americans and Russians at the two poles put the Earth on a collision course with the Sun in…
Hammer’s stab at the werewolf legend may look tame compared to later computerised transformations, but this was shocking stuff in its day, and much horrid…
January 01 – In Britain, the Farthing (¼ of a penny) is withdrawn from circulation and ceases to be legal tender. 02 – Oral contraceptives…
