Subgenre Sampler
Daredevil in the Castle (Osaka jo monogatari) (1961)- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi… - Another solid genre excursion from seasoned dir. Hiroshi Inagaki (THE SAMURAI TRILOGY), with Toshiro Mifune again taking the lead as a despondent,…
On the Double (1961)- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White - Zany action–comedy set during the Invasion of Normandy, where an American soldier and talented mimic (Danny Kaye) impersonates a British high…
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…
Yojimbo (1961)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa - Mercenary Sanjuro walks into town and sells his services to both factions of rival gangs – to stand back and watch them destroy each other.…
Gladiators 7 / The Giant of Marathon (1960-1962)- Dir. Pedro Lazaga, Jacques Tourneur, Mario Bava
Feat. Steve Reeves, Mylene Demongeot, Gerard Tichy - Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the early 1960s: Gladiators 7 (1962) Directed by Pedro Lazaga – A Greek riff on THE…
Hercules (1960)- Dir. Pietro Francisci
Feat. Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale - The first of the Italian versions of 'Hercules' starring former Mr Universe, Steve Reeves. Here he embarks on a mission to retrieve the 'golden…
Long and the Short and the Tall, The (1960)- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris… - A taut WW2 drama, based on a stageplay, set around a dysfunctional British patrol caught out behind enemy lines in Burma. Hinging on the treatment…
Sink the Bismarck (1960)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith… - A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck. Conveying both the allied…
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Curt Jurgens - Maritime adventure in which Orson Welles portrays a reluctant sea captain forced to take a shady rogue deportee from Hong Kong onboard his vessel…
Great St Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959)- Feat. Steve McQueen, David Clarke
- A little known noir gem starring a young Steve McQueen as a getaway driver for a group of criminals plotting to rob a bank in St Louis. Based on…
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