Carry On Spying (1964)
The potential for leering – given the squads of bikinied beauties, cleavage abounding...
The Mind Benders (1963)
As far as Hollywood was concerned brainwashing was ascribed to foreigners intent on...
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
A pratfall still works wonders. An open door or window, anything that happens...
The Maltese Bippy (1969)
The start is promising. Three decent laughs in the first three scenes, all...
After the Fox (1966)
There’s a classic MacGuffin in here somewhere, but I can’t make out if...
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Screen charisma can only get you so far. The pairing of William Holden...
The Way West (1967)
How this crispy-told beautifully-mounted character-driven western ever languished among the also-rans...
Pit of Darkness (1961)
Occasionally I get to wondering when one of these British crime B-pictures is...
Operation Kid Brother / O.K Connery (1967)
Half a century ago it would have blasphemy to do anything but mock...
Night of the Following Day (1969)
As his popularity in the 1960s faded, Marlon Brando was often called upon...
Secret Ceremony (1968)
Few stars were as willing to trade their glamorous screen persona for a...
The Learning Tree (1969)
Director Gordon Parks made a big noise a couple of years later with Shaft (1971)...
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Tennessee Williams wrote better parts for women than he did for men...
Wait Until Dark (1967)
You wouldn’t have figured Audrey Hepburn – she of the model looks...
The St Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967)
I didn’t realise that the Prohibition gangsters who invented the drive-by shooting were...
Dead Heat on a Merry Go Round (1966)
Highly entertaining woefully underrated heist picture with an impish James Coburn...
The Power (1968)
Low budget sci-fi effort that had little chance in the box office stakes...
Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
You know the score: plane crashes in inhospitable territory (in this case a...
Man in the Dark (1964)
Hammer Scream Queens rarely make an impact outside the genre...
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
It always helps a prison picture if your character has been wrongfully convicted...
The Executioner (1970)
Minor gem. One of the espionage films of the era ignored by audiences...
The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)
In her first top-billed role Angie Dickinson delivers a strong performance...
The Picasso Summer (1969)
Must-see for collectors of cinematic curios. A treatise on entitlement, bullfighting, Picasso...
Doctor in Trouble (1970)
Limp ending to a fine series. Torpedoed by too many oddities...
Doctor in Clover (1966)
Ding dong! All change. Out go the dithering twerps and in comes...
Tomorrow at Ten (1962)
Surprisingly hardnosed for a British crime thriller. Surprisingly stylish and when the sting...
Kaleidoscope (1966)
Amazing the tension that emanates from the turn of a card...
Bus Riley’s Back in Town (1965)
Given Ann-Margret receives top billing I had automatically assumed she was Bus...
A Very Special Favor (1965)
Surprisingly funny for a movie that’s long been out of favor...