A Prize of Arms (1962)
Will easily hook a contemporary audience. Especially stylish in its narrative choices
11th January 2026
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2026
Eegah! (1962)
Eegah, the wild 1962 cult classic where a prehistoric giant crashes modern love in Palm Springs
8th January 2026
2025
Who’s Got the Action (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Complication. The keenest weapon in the screenwriter’s armory. And the most overused and, conversely, not employed to its greatest potential. Generally, it’s the only device for a romance – boy meets girl, (enter complication as…) boy loses girl, boy gets girl. But, just...
8th December 2025
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Tennessee Williams wrote better parts for women than he did for men. You can start with Vivien Leigh, Oscar-winner for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) – Marlon Brando only nominated – and Anna Magnani Oscar-winner for The Rose Tattoo (1955) with Maria Pavan nominated and star Burt...
3rd November 2025
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s It always helps a prison picture if your character has been wrongfully convicted (The Shawshank Redemption, 1994) or is incarcerated through an unfortunately set of circumstances including self-destructive tendencies (Cool Hand Luke, 1967). Whatever the case, the malevolence of the wardens or the...
20th October 2025
Tomorrow at Ten (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Surprisingly hardnosed for a British crime thriller. Surprisingly stylish and when the sting in the tail comes, it’s an emotional one, adding a deeper level to one of the main characters. In most crime picture – wherever they originate, Britain, Hollywood, France, Italy...
12th October 2025
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962) Colorized
Alive… without a body… fed by an unspeakable horror from hell! A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend’s head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body. Director: Joseph Green Writers: Joseph Green, Rex Carlton Stars: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith,...
22nd September 2025
The Wild and the Willing (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s The problem with showcasing new talent is that it’s a pretty difficult sell given that all audiences have to go on is a studio’s faith in these newcomers. You can’t actually justify which of these will succeed until long after their initial forays....
8th September 2025
Hand of Death (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Unless you go by the name of Dr Jekyll, you don’t want to become a guinea pig for your own scientific experiments. Niftily done, memorable opening and finale, minimum expenditure on special effects ensures the shock value is limited until it counts as...
16th July 2025
Live Now, Pay Later (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Easy credit led to a boom in the standard of living but also created global recession after the sub-prime mortgage scandal. Back in the day you couldn’t borrow money except from a bank and they only lent to people with money. To get...
25th June 2025
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s As much as the censor would permit – would be the subtitle. While not as harsh as the Nelson Algren source novel, it’s still, wrapped up in a bitter romance, a more brutal than heretofore expose of the sex worker, far removed from...
14th June 2025
The Finger Man / Le Doulos (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Stunning tour de force combining narrative complexity with technical audacity. Set up the template for later crime epics like Reservoir Dogs (1992) and The Usual Suspects (1995) and influenced Scorsese and Coppola. For the likes of me who revels in technical achievement, a delight, long tracking shots,...
8th June 2025
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Helluva fillip for reissue and credibility purposes to be able to point to the picture being helmed by the director – John Guillermin – of The Towering Inferno (1974), not to mention King Kong (1976) and The Blue Max (1966) – which suggested top-notch skills if not the budget...
31st May 2025
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Of all the misguided sentimental anti-Communist drivel, this is a very poor swansong for triple Oscar-winning director Leo McCarey (Going My Way, 1944). A tone that’s awkward enough all the way through goes straight through the wringer when we are asked to accept...
12th May 2025
I Thank a Fool (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s One of those bonkers pictures whose nuttiness is initially irritating but ends up being thoroughly enjoyable once you give in to the barmy plot and overheated melodrama. Murder, suicide, madness, illicit sex, blackmail – and that’s just the start of this farrago of...
5th May 2025
A Prize of Arms (1962)
A Prize of Arms is a 1962 British crime film directed by Cliff Owen
4th May 2025
The Spiral Road (1962)
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27th April 2025
Wild Guitar (1962)
He Was A Country Boy But He Played The Wildest Strings In This Mad-Mad Town A young Arch Hall, Jr. is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company played by Arch Hall, Sr. (aka William Watters). Director: Ray Dennis Steckler Writers:...
20th April 2025
Jigsaw (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Unusual crime picture even for the period. Most of these British B-pictures focused on the crime or an innocent caught up in nefarious activity, not just a straightforward police procedural before the term was even invented. In fact, the plodder was more likely...
19th April 2025
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Cynical and opportunistic Swedish oil executive Eric Erickson (William Holden) blackmailed into World War Two espionage finds redemption after witnessing first-hand the horrors of Nazi Germany. Two extraordinary scenes lift this out of the mainstream biopic league, the first Erickson witnessing an execution,...
5th April 2025
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
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20th March 2025
St. George and the Dragon (1962)
The Most Incredible Weapon Ever Wielded! The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, embarks on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard. aka The Seven Curses of Lodac aka The Magic Sword Director: Bert I. Gordon Writer: Bert I. Gordon,...
12th March 2025
Out of the Fog / Fog for a Killer (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Unusual and unusually effective entry into the low-budget British B-film crime category. Teeters for a time on the bittersweet before plunking for ending on a more realistic sour note. Surprising, too, in being issue-driven – the problem of the rehabilitation of criminals, or...
1st March 2025
Jessica (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Roman Holiday (1953), Three Coins in a Fountain (1956) and Boy on a Dolphin (1956) had set a high bar for Hollywood romances set in Italy. Since Jean Negulesco had directed the last two, he was expected to sprinkle box office magic on this slight tale of young...
28th February 2025
Echo of Diana (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Minor British B-picture gem, though more for the exquisite narrative and tsunami of twists than the acting. And while not being one of those devious arthouse farragoes spins the starting point as the climax. Also, very prescient, heavily reliant of the espionage tradecraft...
15th February 2025
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Charm was in short supply in the 1960s. Sure, for a period you still had Cary Grant but David Niven was as often to be found in an action picture (The Guns of Navarone, 1961) or a drama, and others of the ilk,...
13th February 2025
2024
Panic in the Year Zero! (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s While the release of Conclave and Juror #2 augurs well for the future of movies made for the more mature audience, it’s worth remembering that such fare was commonplace six decades ago, even in the lower-budget strata. Well-structured, well-acted drama was never hard to find. Since I...
29th December 2024
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin...
12th December 2024
Dr No (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Minus the gadgets and the more outlandish plots, the James Bond formula in embryo. With two of the greatest entrances in movie history – and a third if you count the creepy presence of Dr No himself at the beds of his captives...
11th December 2024
Light in the Piazza (1962)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Will resonate more strongly today. Never intended as a light-hearted confection, despite the obvious premise of young love catching fire in Italy, this was a bold picture in its day and a more subtle examination of the wider impact of mental illness than...
8th December 2024
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