Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Soubriquets were not common currency in Hollywood. Names might be shortened to a Christian name or a surname, as...
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Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Surprisingly thoughtful action-packed “eastern western” with obvious parallels to the plight of the Native American. Here, the British attempt...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s A more misleading title would be hard to find – and that goes for the posters too. This is...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Astonishment all round from box office aficionados that the reissue of Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (1999) has...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s If you’ve any memory of this picture – jaunty jalopies battling it out at the start of the 20th...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Sometimes the stars fail to align, initial promise fizzling out. Mark Stevens, rising post-war star, top-billed in film noir The...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Everyone wants to be a star-maker. Director Mark Robson thought he had some form in this area after Valley...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Action-packed superior James Bond rip-off belonging to the Eurospy subgenre and elevated by memorable lines, wit and visual imagination....
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Agatha Christie tales were in a mostly B-movie limbo in the 1960s, despite Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecution...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Blame Lex Barker (Pirates of the Coast, 1963) and Daliah Lavi (The Demon, 1963) for my interest in this...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s As you know I’m a sucker for a swashbuckler. And as often I’m suckered. But this is an unexpected...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Ode to the male gaze. Once a cult vehicle, this will struggle to find favor these days what with...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s “Murder is good for business,” declares magnificently callous circus boss Monica (Joan Crawford). And so is nostalgia. Interrupting the...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Thoroughly involving potboiler with alcoholic novelist Andrew Craig (Paul Newman) turning unlikely detective to uncover murky double-dealings at the...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Robert Vaughn gives a terrific performance as a numbed alcoholic ex-C.I.A. journalist Bill Fenner drafted into Venice to investigate...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Jules Verne was the marquee attraction here after the box office success of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954), the Oscar-winning Around...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s King Arthur (plus Excalibur) meets Robin Hood (minus Merrie Men). I wouldn’t have been surprised to see Billy the...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Cracking British heist film prefiguring titles as disparate as The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Heat (1995). Superb opening scene...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Innocence and experience alike are corrupted by the destructive power of love in this elegant and compelling early masterpiece...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Dirty Half-Dozen – cashiered British major, five hardened criminals with particular sets of skills – on a mission to...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Quentin Tarantino is probably alone in preferring this movie mishap to John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix (1966) – or I have somehow...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Approach with affection and you will be rewarded. This is third tier Hammer, way down the pecking order behind...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s If you’re going to put an English rose through the mill who better than husky-voiced Glynis Johns and except...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s The 1960s was awash with movie megalomaniacs, most courtesy of the spy vogue. You could also count on secret...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s There’s a terrific western directed by John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, 1960) inside this Rat Pack offering, the second...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Derring-do and heroism were the 1960s war movie default with enemies clearly signposted in black-and-white. This one doesn’t fall...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Best viewed as Charles Bronson’s breakout movie. Yes, he had played supporting roles in The Magnificent Seven, The Great...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s I thought I’d taken a stab at finding out what happened to Mimsy Farmer after More (1969) and by chance stumbled...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s One great scene doesn’t make a great movie, but I’ll tell you about it anyway and we can all...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Armed robbers lack the finesse of a jewel thief or burglar when it comes to pulling off a major...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) set in the West – men driven mad by gold fever. Straightforward...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s I hate it when a mystery movie so blatantly cheats. Sure, we expect some sleight of hand, some vital...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s A triumvirate of art thieves are blackmailed into stealing a famous Goya painting from the Prada museum in Madrid....
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s The gentlest of British comedies – a fading subgenre after the infiltration of the genre by the unsubtle Carry...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s I grant you, not many movies pivot on a broken matchstick. Nor, for that matter, play around with the...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Of all the lazy, incompetent streamers this has to take the biscuit. Not content with branding as new films...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Tricky little number that pivots on a tricky plot point and is almost sunk by the kind of moralizing...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s You took on Spencer Tracy (Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961) at your peril. Not even the best efforts of a...
Advertisements Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Marvellous little drama. Succession the old-fashioned way when promotion was determined by interview, the process not clogged up by...