Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Son of Flubber (1963)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn…
- A (then) rare Disney sequel in which Fred MacMurray returns as THE ABSENT–MINDED PROFESSOR for another round of visual gags based around the…
Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)
- Dir. Joan Littlewood
Feat. James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear…
- A sprightly British kitchen sink comedy about a man who returns from two years at sea to find his house demolished and his wife living with a married…
Stitch in Time, A (1963)
- Dir. Robert Asher
Feat. Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeanette Sterke…
- More disasters befall Norman as on a trip to the hospital he meets a young girl hasn't smiled since her parents death so our kindhearted hero wrecks…
Summer Magic (1963)
- Dir. James Neilson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire
- Sweetly sentimental Disney version of the Kate Wiggins novel 'Mother Carey's Chickens', about a poor Boston family who make a drafty Maine homestead…
Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Sandra Dee, Audrey Meadows, Robert Morley…
- Lightly likable comedy with Stewart as an anguished father concerned that his college–age daughter is hanging out with the wrong crowd –…
Terror, The (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Boris Karloff
- A legendary Corman quickie on which all of star Boris Karloff's scenes were shot in 3 days on sets leftover from THE RAVEN!
That Kind of Girl (1963)
- Dir. Gerry O'Hara
Feat. Margaret Rose Keil, David Weston, Linda Marlowe
- Another gem rescued from obscurity by the BFI's Flipside label, this one deals with the hush–hush topic of venereal disease against a backdrop…
This Sporting Life (Sporting Life, The) (1963)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts
- Richard Harris gives a star–making performance as a roguish rugby player with a no less gruelling personal life. Intense melodrama edifies the…
Thrill of It All!, The (1963)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Doris Day, James Garner
- Carl Reiner (THE JERK) wrote this mildly thrilling Doris Day vehicle, where she plays a housewife roped into a series of TV commercials.
Tom Jones (1963)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith…
- Albert Finney inhabits the randy trou of Tom Jones, a wild and reckless young man with an eye for the ladies. A lavishly produced Oscar winner,…