Prehistoric Women | Slave Girls (1967)
Can a dash of feminism rescue campy trash? Or even a genetics overload?...
Never Let Go (1960)
Under-rated British film noir classic. All the principals playing against type...
Is Paris Burning (1966)
Politics didn’t usually play a part in war films in the 1960s...
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
A couple of decades before “high concept” was invented came this high concept...
El Condor (1970)
Highly under-rated western, directed with some style by a Britisher, bolsters Jim Brown’s...
Austerlitz (1960)
If I’d seen this first, I might well have resisted the publicity tsunami...
The Skull (1965)
I have no idea why this masterpiece has not been acclaimed. For virtually...
Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Why settle for a measly Gatling Gun, as Mapache does in Sam Peckinpah’s...
Carry On Nurse (1960)
There was no greater divide between audiences and critics in Britain than the...
Flight from Ashiya (1964)
A post-WW2 operation to save a handful of Japanese adrift at sea in...
Triple Bill of Duds
The selection process for my weekly Monday visit to the cinema has sorely...
Gunn (1967)
Director Blake Edwards was so confident that he could repeat on the big...
The Fast Lady (1962)
Even the biggest stars have to start somewhere. Julie Christie in embryo, however...
The Truth about Spring (1965)
Although a truly innocent movie about young love, wrapped up in a sunken...
A Question of Suspense (1961)
The British had another word for the B-film. They called it a...
Flareup (1969)
I thought I’d be taking one for the team in tracking down this...
Ada (1961)
Oddly enough, this shares some elements with Killers of the Flower Moon...
Bang! Bang! You’re Dead! (1966)
All hail Senta Berger! Another from the Harry Alan Towers...
The 300 Spartans (1962)
Doomed for half a century to be seen as Saturday television matinee material...
In the French Style (1963)
Short stories can be an excellent starting point for movies because usually they...
Kitten with a Whip (1964)
I’ll let you down gently. Ain’t no whip. What you have instead is...
The Running Man (1963)
Twisty Carol Reed thriller pivoting on emotional entanglement that keeps you guessing...
Downhill Racer (1969)
Robert Redford rarely took the easy option. Even his big romantic number...
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
Stanley Kramer never caught a decent academic/critical break. Subject matter worthy, execution poor...
Day of the Triffids (1963)
Pandemic means panic and these are by far the best scenes in the...
Freud | The Secret Passion (1962)
The Oppenheimer of its day. Instead of splitting the atom, seizing on inexplicable...
Pollyanna (1960)
Walt Disney discarded much of Eleanor H. Porter’s original best seller...
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s One of the joys of writing this blog has been the opportunity to...
Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Sequels being all the rage – James Bond, Matt Helm, Derek Flint...
Arabesque (1966)
By this point in the 1960s, Gregory Peck’s career was pretty much at...