Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Professionals, The (1966)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan…
- A taut precursor to THE WILD BUNCH, with a gang of American mercenaries making an incursion into Mexican territory to rescue a beautiful hostage…
Rage (1966)
- Dir. Gilberto Gazcón
Feat. Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso
- Sweaty Mexican American thriller with Glenn Ford playing a self–pitying alcoholic doctor who lives alone in a border town, and finds himself…
Reptile, The (1966)
- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Noel Willman, Ray Barrett
- When villagers start dying from snake venom in Cornwall, things point suspiciously to the tinkerings of a strange doctor. Moody Hammer schlock.
Romeo and Juliet (1966)
- Dir. Paul Czinner
Feat. Margot Fonteyn, Rudolph Nureyev
- The famed Royal Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet. This historical performance stars Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev as the quintessential…
Russians Are Coming, The Russians are Coming! The (1966)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint…
- A Russian submarine runs aground on the New England coastline, sending locals into paroxysms of humourous paranoia. Fairly well–judged satire…
San Ferry Ann (1966)
- Dir. Jeremy Summers
Feat. Barbara Windsor, David Lodge, Wilfred Brambell…
- Dialogue–free comedy about a group of rag–tag British travellers travelling on the San Ferry Ann from Dover to France and getting up to…
Sand Pebbles, The (1966)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen
- An epic series of adventures on an American gunboat in the turbulent China of the 1920s, Steve McQueen giving a particularly underrated performance,…
Seconds (1966)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Rock Hudson
- Boldly experimental thriller from the director of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, in which a bored businessman opts for a new, 'more fulfilling' identity…
Spinout (1966)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares
- Musical comedy starring Elvis as a race car driver and singer in a band, whose carefree single life is threatened by the romantic advances of three…
Steptoe and Son (TV Series) (1966)
- Feat. Harry H. Corbett, Wilfred Brambell
- The classic 60s comedy show featuring the bickering father and son team, who run a faltering rag and bone business.