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Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Funny how you remember the circumstances of seeing a film for the first time. This was important for me because it was the start of me digging into the vast heritage of the movies rather than watching just what was showing at my...…
With HD Retro Trailers, you’ll find videos from all around the world, in the best quality…
With HD Retro Trailers, you’ll find videos from all around the world, in the best quality…
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s I kept waiting for Deborah Kerr to turn up and it was a good 20 minutes before I realized that the actress had so immersed herself in the dowdy Ida Carmody that she was turning in what would be recognized as an Oscar-nominated...…
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Chortled all the way through. You can see why it was the biggest film at the British box office in 1960. Dirk Bogarde had turned up his nose at repeating the character for the fourth time and went off to make more serious...…
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Extremely dark-edged thriller at least a decade ahead of its time. Absolute corker of a sting in the tail. Instead of being the gangster’s moll, Jayne Mansfield – following on from another British-made thriller Playgirl After Dark / Too Hot to Handle (1960) – turns...…
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Well-worked full length British thriller that goes against the grain of presenting sympathetic hoods in the vein of Ocean’s Eleven or The League of Gentlemen both out the same year in which audiences largely align with the gangsters in part because they come across as charming and...…
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Should have qualified as that rare thing – an all-star female cast…
This overheated melodrama stands as a classic example of Hollywood’s offensive attitudes to…
First film to deal with U.S. Army war crimes. Though here’s it’s tabbed…
Sci fi film noir. Anything that involves cult director Edgar G. Ulmer…
Could not be more controversial or contentious. But we’ve been here far more…
Character has generally been replaced by gore or slaughter in the modern horror…
Poses two questions. Is this every bit as bad as Once More with Feeling…
Superb chiller that, unusually, takes time to develop several strands over a longer…
You could hardly get a more prescient movie, almost in the 1984 class in depicting…
The disaster picture in embryo. Well, the disaster picture without the actual disaster…
At the very least I had thought, given the involvement of classy director…
Well-structured thriller – especially given the short running time…
Richard Greene had been a childhood idol as that dashing hero Robin Hood…
There were five our great reasons to see this picture. Firstly, it was…
A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying…
The structure of this piece gives away its origins. It’s effectively a portmanteau…
Contemporary audiences will be familiar with the jukebox picture. Moviegoers attending biopics of…
Surprisingly hard-edged tale with Debbie Reynolds giving the performance of her career and…
A sterling cast does justice to some great Cole Porter songs in an…
Marvellous long-forgotten character-driven espionage drama exploring the twin themes of guilt and duty…
More social document than drama, but that aspect somewhat diluted by the moviemakers’…
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