Modesty Blaise (1966)
You might well enjoy this if a) you are in a very good mood, b) you love psychedelia...
The Train (1964)
Director John Frankenheimer (The Gypsy Moths, 1969) tackles the movie’s off-putting central issue...
Puppet on a Chain (1970) | Review
The spy genre was dying on its feet, even James Bond slipping into...
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Could be a companion piece for The Oscar (1966). Dumb punks with scarcely...
The Oscar (1966)
Tale of an actor’s rise and not exactly fall because we leave Frank...
The Group (1966)
The ensemble picture provided a showcase for new talent. But consider the gender...
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Exploitation Hollywood. Cautionary tale of young singer in the 1930s seduced by the...
Cash McCall (1960)
As time wore on and attitudes to corporate skull-duggery hardened – Wall Street...
H.M.S. Defiant | Damn the Defiant! | The Mutineers (1962)
Had the audacity to take on Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) at the...
Prudence and the Pill (1968)
Cleverly calibrated chuckle-worthy comedy of manners. Far more enjoyable than the basic material...
Father Goose (1964)
The African Queen with kids or 100 ways to see Cary Grant deflated...
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Employs Hitchcock’s trick of having you rooting...
Eye of the Devil | 13 (1966)
Shades of The Innocents (1961), The Wicker Man (1973) and The Omen (1976)...
Judith (1966)
This is why you hire Sophia Loren. In the middle of a complicated...
A year in the movies: 1945
A memorable motion picture arrived in the form of MILDRED PIERCE...
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
Unsung masterpiece. In the same year, director Jphn Frankenheimer went from the career...
Psycho (1960)
Even though critically reviled at the time – “up to his clavicle in...
Play Dirty (1969)
Heroism is a handicap in this grimly realistic, brutally cynical, ode to the futility of war. David Lean would have...
Young Cassidy (1965)
I’m assuming MGM adjudged that a film about a playwright, no matter how famous, and even if directed by John...
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
It wouldn’t be the first time that a director, disgruntled by his fee or some snit with the producer, was...
GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1969) | Trial By Horse
A Mexican revolutionary hires an American gunslinger to organize the rescue of their leader...
GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1969) | Card Game Scene
A Mexican revolutionary hires an American gunslinger to organize the rescue of their leader...
GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1969)
Discover the thrilling western classic Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)...