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Subgenre Sampler
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The (1969)- Dir. Robert Butler
Feat. Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn… - One of Kurt Russell's early, family–friendly appearances in a straightforward Disney comedy. He plays a student who is injected with a…
Death 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) (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 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 Roses (Bara no Soretsu) (1969)
- 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 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…
Hamlet (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!) (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 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 (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…
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