Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele
- Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
Midnight Lace (1960)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin…
- Suave thriller with a strong dramatic performance for Day who plays a newly–wed in Paris taunted and pursued by a stalker.
Millionairess, The (1960)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Peter Sellers, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica…
- Loren plays a spoiled heiress who tries to 'buy' a husband in the form of principled doctor Sellers. Fairly good adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's…
Murder, Inc. (1960)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg, Burt Balaban
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Simon Oakland
- Cinemascope gangland film based on the true story of the eponymous Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s. It launched the careers of both Stuart…
My Three Sons (TV Series) (1960)
- Feat. Fred MacMurray, Don Grady, Stanley Livingston…
- One of the longest–running sitcoms in American television history (at 360 episodes), this 'family values' classic starred Fred MacMurray as a…
Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) (1960)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama
- An exquisitely simple and moving Japanese drama, notable for having almost no spoken dialogue in depicting a year of struggle for a small farming…
Never Let Go (1960)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Adam Faith…
- Solid crime drama about a young salesman (Todd) who has his car inconveniently stolen – leaving him with a large debt – and then…
Never On Sunday (1960)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri
- Director Jules Dassin (think a bug–eyed Tony Randall) plays a disillusioned American philosopher searching for answers in the birthplace of…
Ocean's Eleven (Ocean's 11) (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Jr. Davis, Peter Lawford…
- The definitive 'Rat Pack' movie, with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop among the eleven confederates who…
October Man, The (1960)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman…
- Atmospheric pot–boiler in which John Mills plays an amnesiac accused of murder who fights to prove his innocence, apprehend the murderer and…