The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Take twelve condemned men, drop them in the desert hundreds of miles from...
1960s Movies Redux Volume Two
When I started investigating the movies of the 1960s one of the shocks...
Stranger in the House | Cop-Out (1967)
Standout performance by James Mason holds together this curiosity...
Breathless | A Bout de Souffle (1960)
I’m conscious of puncturing a sacred arthouse cow. While applauding the cinematic bravura...
Les Damoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
In effervescence and color palette a close cousin to Barbie (2023) with the...
Love Is A Ball (1963)
Three main characters playing against type and a feisty, independent, woman are the...
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Machines get in the way of this tale of men under pressure...
The Wrong Box (1966)
Somewhere between SBIG (So Bad It’s Good) and WAL (Worth a Look)...
The Brotherhood (1968)
Minimal violence and no sex was the wrong recipe for this Mafia picture...
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960)
This shouldn’t work at all. The episodic structure breaks all the narrative rules...
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Cinerama was the IMAX of the day and far superior in my view...
The Lost Continent (1968)
Hammer had struck gold revisiting ancient civilization in One Million Years B.C...
The Long Ships (1964)
Decent hokum sees Vikings ally with Moors to seek a mythical giant bell...
Act One (1963)
Highly enjoyable and surprisingly good. Could be viewed as a companion piece to...
Day of the Nightmare (1965)
As you can imagine back in the day audiences struggled with accepting cross-dressing...
Made in Paris (1966)
She sings, she dances, she shakes her booty. What else would you expect...
The Loved One (1965)
If only British director Tony Richardson had seen fit to add some meat...
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Burt Lancaster gives the performance of his life as the eponymous burnt-out salesman...
Secret World (1969)
Jacqueline Bisset is the big draw here. After breaking into the Hollywood bigtime...
For Love or Money (1963)
Kirk Douglas (The Brotherhood, 1968) had been so intent on establishing his dramatic...
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Taken on its own merits, George Cukor’s western is a highly enjoyable romp...
A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
Little has dated as badly as this male supremacy sexist hogwash...
The Stalking Moon (1969)
About-to-retire Indian scout Sam Varner (Gregory Peck) helps the U.S. Cavalry round up...
The Flim Flam Man | One Born Every Minute (1967)
Throwback to It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), prelude to Smokey and the Bandit (1977)...
Five Golden Dragons (1967)
Producer Harry Alan Towers, himself something of a legend, had put together a...
Don’t Make Waves (1967)
Unfairly maligned on release. Part throwback screwball comedy, part farce, part satire...
The Money Trap (1965)
Film noir morality play. Highly under-rated, especially unfair since all four principals put...