Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Only Two Can Play (1961)- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough… - One of Peter Seller's earlier films sees him in rare semi–dramatic part, playing a librarian in a small Welsh town who has an affair. Dryly…
Paris Blues (1961)- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward… - Undernourished romantic drama has Newman and Poitier as Jazz musicians on holiday in Paris forced to decide whether to stay or return to the U.S. for…
Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele - Corman's most famous plundering of Poe extracts a host of psycho–sexual tensions out of a fine script. Vincent Price is convinced he is the…
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Ann-Margret, Bette Davis, Glenn Ford… - Frank Capra's final film (and Ann–Margret's debut) is an appealing remake of his earlier LADY FOR A DAY, in which the poverty–stricken…
Raisin in the Sun (1961)- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee… - Rounded drama about the struggles of black family living in Chicago in the 1940s, that was ground–breaking in its day and features several…
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)- Dir. Jose Quintero
Feat. Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne… - Middle–aged actress in crisis, Vivien Leigh, finds sexual fulfillment at the hands of the gigolos of Rome, chiefly Warren Beatty's.…
Samson (Sansome) (1961)- Dir. Gianfranco Parolini
Feat. Brad Harris, Serge Gainsbourg, Irena Prosen - Pioneering film in "sword and sandal" genre about Samson, the character from the Hebrew bible who joins Queen Mila and a rebel army to take back the…
Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear) (1961)- Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis… - Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film in exercise in sustained tension with Susan Strasberg as a paralysed young woman haunted by visions of her…
Singer Not the Song, The (1961)- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot… - Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
Splendour in the Grass (1961)- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle… - Smitten teens work up considerable sexual frenzy when their respective families won't let them be together. Appropriately, it's the lurid scenes…
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