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Death of a GunfighterDeath of a Gunfighter (1969)
Dir. Alan Smithee
Feat. Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor
The first Alan Smithee film is a hard–bitten western with Widmark as an old–fashioned lawman in a town determined to modernise. The title…
Department S (TV Series)Department S (TV Series) (1969)
Feat. Peter Wyngarde
Perhaps the last elaborate flourish in its genre, this AVENGERS–style TV series was set around three 'special agents' who solve the unsolvable…
Downhill RacerDownhill Racer (1969)
Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
A pre–HOOSIERS Gene Hackman dons the coach's whistle in this Winter Olympics drama, with Robert Redford providing the film’s clash of…
Funeral Parade of RosesFuneral Parade of Roses (Bara no Soretsu) (1969) Recommended
Dir. Toshio Matsumoto
Feat. Shinnosuke Ikehata (aka Peter), Yoshio Tsuchiya
A bold and significant product of the Japanese New Wave that loosely transposes Oedipus Rex to the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo with a…
Futtocks EndFuttocks End (1969)
Dir. Bob Kellett
Feat. Ronnie Barker, Sir Michael Hordern, Roger Livesey
Bonafide comedy classic in the 'wordless' style of Eric Sykes, stars Ronnie Barker as a lecherous befuddled Army General who hosts a weekend…
HamletHamlet (1969)
Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins
The predominant use of close–ups enhances Nicol Williamson's bold performance as an impulsive, roguish young Hamlet.
Hello Dolly!Hello Dolly! (Hello, Dolly!) (1969)
Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Barbra Streisand is the attraction of this Gene Kelly musical, as a meddling matchmaker.
John and MaryJohn and Mary (1969)
Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan
Archetypal late–sixties timepiece has Hoffman and Farrow wandering New York after a one–night stand. Yates's direction is equally…
Katzelmacher Katzelmacher (1969)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla
Daring Fassbinder drama focused on a group of Munich friends indulging in the banality of their ordered lives until the arrival of a Greek immigrant…
Liver Birds, TheLiver Birds, The (1969)
Feat. Nerys Hughes, Polly James, Mollie Sugden
Two very different single girls share a flat in the age of glam–rock, the pill and women's lib in this hugely popular BBC sitcom that was the…

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