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Fate Is the Hunter (1964)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s More like Flight from Ashiya (1964) than Flight of the Phoenix (1965) in that airline disaster triggers flashback rather than contemporaneously finding a solution to the problem, but similar in tone to the more recent Flight (2012) and Sully (2016) where the automatic response of the authorities was to blame pilot...…

12th December 2025
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Woman of Straw (1964)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s In a plot worthy of Hitchcock without that director’s sly malice, rich playboy Tony (Sean Connery) conspires with not-so-innocent nurse Maria (Gina Lollobrigida) to rid himself of  heinous upper-class racist misogynistic bully Charles (Ralph Richardson), his uncle. Beyond  a savage case of entitlement,...…

29th November 2025
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Carry On Spying (1964)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s The potential for leering – given the squads of bikinied beauties, cleavage abounding and partial nudity a prerequisite in the standard James Bond picture  – could have gone into the stratosphere. So it’s to the producer’s credit that they opted to drop ogler-in-chief...…

28th November 2025
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A Shot in the Dark (1964)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s A pratfall still works wonders. An open door or window, anything that happens to be on the floor, or for that matter any object of any description – billiard cues, for example – within easy reach offers the opportunity for havoc – and...…

25th November 2025
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Paris When It Sizzles (1964)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Screen charisma can only get you so far. The pairing of William Holden and Audrey Hepburn must have seemed certain to create a box office tsunami given they had worked together before on the hit Sabrina (1954) and were coming off hits, the former in The...…

21st November 2025
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Man in the Dark (1964)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Hammer Scream Queens rarely make an impact outside the genre, so it comes as something of a surprise to find Barbara Shelley effortlessly making the transition from The Gorgon (1964) to a slinky femme fatale spinning a deadly web around three men. While British femme...…

21st October 2025
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Clémentine Chérie (1964)

A sensational discovery is made in the laboratory of a textile house: the elastic fabric. Which is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits, which are later found to also be permeable to the rays of the sun. Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit...…

4th October 2025
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Hot Enough for June / Agent 8 3/4 (1964)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Thanks to his language skills unemployed wannabe writer Nicholas (Dirk Bogarde) is recruited as a trainee executive on a too-good-to-be-true job visiting a Czech glass factory  only to discover that while engaged on what appears a harmless piece of industrial espionage is in...…

19th September 2025
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The Last Steps (1964)

A young poster artist sees an older married woman in cinema and falls in love. Original Title: Les pas perdus Director: Jacques Robin Writers: René Fallet, Jacques Robin Stars: Michèle Morgan, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Carmet Genre: Classics Foreign Film, Drama The Last Steps Cult Cinema Classics…

17th September 2025
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