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The Mind Benders (1963)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s As far as Hollywood was concerned brainwashing was ascribed to foreigners intent on disrupting democracy as with The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Such inherent hypocrisy will come as no surprise since scientists at McGill University in Canada had been carrying out C.I.A.-funded sensory deprivation experiments in...…

26th November 2025
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The Thrill of It All (1963)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Has three unusual distinctions for a Doris Day comedy. First of all, it’s feminist. Secondly, it’s prophetic. Third, and perhaps most interesting of all, is that it plays exactly into  expectations – for completely different reasons – for audiences sixty years apart. Only...…

27th September 2025
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Tamahine (1963)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Columbia sold this as if Nancy Kwan was a Bond girl with massive images of the star in a bikini – the advert in the trade magazine comprised a drop-down A2 pull-out i.e. three times the size of a normal page. But anyone...…

6th September 2025
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