Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
2000 Year Old Man, The - The Complete History (1961-1998)
- Feat. Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner
- Mel Brooks, playing the 'oldest man in the world' in conversation with Carl Reiner, fronts this all–time classic comedy sketch, much of which…
Agatha Christie 'Miss Marple' Boxset (Murder She Said, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul, Murder Ahoy) (1961-1964)
- Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford
- Four classic Agatha Christie stories from MGM's brief 'Miss Marple' phase, with the mercurial Margaret Rutherford doning the old spinster's detective…
Avengers, The (TV Series) (1961-1969)
- Feat. Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson
- The impossibly hip secret agent show is a high–camp classic and a nostalgic pleasure. Well–devised scripts, quirky dialogue and playful…
Awful Dr. Awloff, The (1961)
- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Howard Vernon
- Deranged doctor Howard Vernon collects skin–grafts for his disfigured daughter, in a Spanish makeover of Franju's 'Eyes Without A Face'. A…
Babes in Toyland (1961)
- Dir. Jack Donohue
Feat. Ray Bolger, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn
- The second version of Victor Herbert's operetta set in the fantasy world of 'Toyland' where the wedding plans of two young toys are interrupted by an…
Blast of Silence (1961)
- Dir. Allen Baron
Feat. Allen Baron
- Grumpy, low–fi noir presides over the movements of a tetchy contract killer (dir. Baron) as he prepares to whack a two–bit mobster during…
Blue Hawaii (1961)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Elvis Presley
- Lush setting for this Elvis vehicle is easy on the eye. The King's least Rock'n'Roll effort.
Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1961)
- Dir. Joseph Green
Feat. Jason Evers
- Ripping off other 'brain transplant' cheapies, this flick goes several steps further down the exploitation path and thus has burrowed a special place…
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal…
- Audrey Hepburn is just lovely as an uptown Manhattan socialite who proves a major distraction for her writer neighbour. A chic, carefree frolic based…
Children's Hour, The (1961)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Maclaine, James Garner…
- Good performances from the two leads as lesbian school–teachers who are involved in smalltown scandal when a trouble–making student…