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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Second Time Around, The (1961)- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith… - Debbie Reynolds stars as a feisty widow who becomes sheriff of a wild Arizona town, where a gambler and a rancher vie for her affections.
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…
Supercar (TV Series) (1961-1962)- The first fully developed Supermarionation series from Gerry Anderson, establishing his winning formula of futuristic vehicles, high adventure, and…
Taste of Honey, A (1961)- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens… - Powerful and starkly realistic 'kitchen sink' drama in which a mollycoddled lonely girl (Rita Tushingham) leaves her loveless home to befriend a…
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow - Husband, father and brother must cope with the disintegrating mental health of a young woman on an island. The focus is on religion, madness and the…
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