Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price…
- Two colonels of a Scottish regiment – one convivial, one disciplinarian – face off in a battle of wills in this drama of peacetime…
Two Way Stretch (1960)
- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bernard Cribbins…
- Peter Sellers leads a jailbird trio whose plans for the ultimate heist are scuppered by the arrival of a staunch prison warden.
Unforgiven, The (1960)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster
- Audrey Hepburn plays an adopted ranchers daughter who becomes the focus of a racist furore when her Indian roots are discovered.
Village of the Damned (1960)
- Dir. Wolf Rilla
Feat. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn…
- The original, superior version of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about a brood of malevolent blue–eyed kiddies born in an English…
Virgin Spring, The (1960)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow
- Bergman won his first Oscar for this brooding yet gripping medieval tale about a peasant couple who avenge the savage murderers of their daughter.
Wasp Woman, The (1960)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark
- A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Hideko Takamine
- Melancholic masterpiece from a largely overshadowed figure in Japanese cinema: concerning the post–war ‘water trade’ of bar hostesses in…
When Comedy Was King (1960)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel…
- Second anthology of priceless silent comedy from complier Robert Youngson features excerpts from the likes of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy,…
Where the Boys Are (1960)
- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux…
- Fairly 'swingin' sixties beach romp with Hart, Hamilton and a cast of bright young co–eds on Spring Break vacation at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.…
Wild River (1960)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
- Romantic drama focused around an Authority agent (played with controlled complexity by Montgomery Clift) who meets with resistance and a fair share…