Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3634 Films to Buy & Rent
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,…
Toys in the Attic (1963)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux…
- Raw melodrama adapted from the acclaimed play with Dean Martin returning home to his two spinster sisters. Chewy dialogue and gives flight to this…
Twice Told Tales (1963)
- Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland
- Triptych of horrors drawn from the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ham actor extraordinaire Vincent Price is in ripping form here.
Ugly American, The (1963)
- Dir. George Englund
Feat. Marlon Brando, Arthur Hiller, Sandra Church
- Featuring one of Marlon Brando’s more interesting choices of roles, this political thriller dramatises the American–vs–Communist…
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Agnes Moorehead
- Energetic rom–com with Jerry Lewis playing a clumsy and socially inept dog–walker who is engaged to the heiress of a department store…
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
- A compendium of three stories starring Sophia Loren in her luscious prime in three very different roles. Together with Marcello Mastroianni, it…
300 Spartans, The (1962)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker
- Richard Egan leads the hardened best of Sparta into the famous battle at Thermapayle between the Greek and Persian empires in in the 5th century…
40 Pounds of Trouble (Forty Pounds of Trouble) (1962)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, Phil Silvers…
- Tony Curtis plays a harangued casino manager dodging outstanding alimony payments while caring for an abandoned six–year–old girl.…