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Isadora (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s We’re two years away from the 100th anniversary of the death of feminist icon and pioneering dancer Isadora Duncan, but this movie has been in cold storage virtually since its release, so I’m wondering whether its sudden appearance on Amazon will trigger any interest...…
2nd December 2025
Secret Ceremony (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Few stars were as willing to trade their glamorous screen persona for a decent role as Elizabeth Taylor, here eschewing the trademark hip swivel, low cut dresses and elegant costumes for a clumping walk, frumpy look and eating with her mouth full. After...…
14th November 2025
The Power (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Low budget sci-fi effort that had little chance in the box office stakes that year up against the big budget psychedelic 2001: A Space Odyssey and the visceral Planet of the Apes. Producer George Pal and director Byron Haskin, the key figures behind War of the Worlds (1953),...…
25th October 2025
Submarine X-1 (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s One of the tropes of the World War Two mission picture was that it afforded plenty scope to boost the careers of supporting players – The Dirty Dozen (1967) being the best example given it boasted Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland (the denoted breakout...…
3rd October 2025
The Scalphunters (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s If ever a film deserves reassessment, this is it. This western, marketed as a vehicle for Burt Lancaster in the wake of hugely successful The Professionals (1966), sees the star playing cussed trapper Joe Bass trying to retrieve furs stolen first by Native Americans and...…
22nd September 2025
Black Lizard / Kuro tokage (1968) +1
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17th September 2025
The Biggest Bundle of ‘Em All (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Bunch of incompetent crooks kidnap an impoverished Mafia boss who pays his ransom by setting up a major heist. By a stroke of casting alchemy this brings together Cesare (Vittorio De Sica), the epitome of old world Italian charm, knock-out gangster’s moll and...…
20th August 2025
Hot Spur (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Blame the algorithm. Once I had to my great surprise found The Hunting Party (1971) on Amazon Prime the streamer decided that my next port of call should be another rape-filled western. There are only two things to recommend this – firstly, it makes The Hunting...…
7th August 2025
Mission Mars (1968)
Mission Mars is a 1968 American science fiction film starring Darren McGavin…
19th July 2025
Tiger by the Tail (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Back to those ingénues – or whatever-happened-to-Tippi Hedren. Christopher George’s villainous turn in El Dorado (1967) brought him as much immediate attention as James Caan and though he quickly achieved leading man status he never parlayed it beyond the likes of low-budget numbers...…
7th July 2025
The Green Berets (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Apart from attempts to justify the Vietnam War and a hot streak of sentimentality, a grimly realistic tale that doesn’t go in for the grandiosity or self-consciousnesss of the likes of Apocalypse Now (1979), The Deer Hunter (1978) and Platoon (1978). It’s been...…
21st June 2025
Hang ‘Em High (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Clint Eastwood didn’t waste much time capitalizing on the unexpected success of the Dollars Trilogy. But the first was not released in the United States till 1967 and despite the success of the series across Europe was generally dismissed as a fluke, until American audiences...…
1st June 2025
Cauldron of Blood (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Superior “lost” horror picture that suffered from minimal initial release and is now rapidly entering the cult dominion. Effective and occasionally very stylish entry to the genre. Apart from Boris Karloff (The Sorcerers, 1967) playing against type, it’s not populated by the usual...…
17th April 2025
Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Works a treat. And works like clockwork, the set-up so meticulous, it doesn’t put a comedic foot wrong and even allows space, at exactly the right time, for the ticking timebomb to be sorted out. Gags galore. Sight gags, sound gags and observational...…
16th April 2025
The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Somewhere between camp classic, hilarious comedy and bitchiness-on-speed, loaded down with a May-December narrative, too much of the genuine soap opera element of the filming of a soap opera but lifted up by some very touching moments. This started life as a black...…
15th April 2025
The Snow Woman (1968)
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23rd March 2025
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Except for an ingenious escape attempt and Paul Newman spoofing his Cool Hand Luke (1967) persona, this World War Two POW number falls into the “sounded like a good idea at the time” category. Harry Frigg (Newman), the American army’s most notorious escapee (though from...…
21st March 2025
Sebastian (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Decoding the emotional life of mathematics professor Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) lies at the heart of a spy thriller mainlining on loyalty and trust. The presence of a flotilla of potential Bond girls has opened this picture up to charges of being a spoof,...…
19th March 2025
The Heroin Gang (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Was it David MacCallum’s floppy-haired blondness that prevented him making the jump to movie action hero because, with the ruthlessness of a Dirty Harry, he certainly makes a good stab at it in this slightly convoluted drugs thriller? Never mind being saddled with an...…
19th February 2025
The Devil Rides Out / The Devil’s Bride (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Strong contender for Hammer’s film of the decade, a tight adaptation of Dennis Wheatley’s black magic classic with some brilliant set pieces as Nicholas de Richleau (Christopher Lee) battles to prevent his friend Simon (Patrick Mower) falling into the hands of satanist Mocata...…
12th February 2025
P.J. / New Face in Hell (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Exceptional down-and-dirty thriller and throwback film noir woefully underrated on release but with a brilliant mystery (or two), a touch of satire, red herrings, some great lines, and believable characters. Private eye P.J. Detweiler (George Peppard) is so down on his luck he...…
8th February 2025
Negatives (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Role play wasn’t the sub-culture it is now. Though fashion had injected more of a sense of dressing up what with Russian furs courtesy of Doctor Zhivago (1965) and snazzy berets from Bonnie and Clyde (1967), the idea of people living out their lives in costume had...…
23rd January 2025
The Devil’s Brigade (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s I couldn’t get my head around the idea of the U.S. Army recruiting a bunch of undisciplined misfits, many with jail time, in order to link them up with a crack Canadian outfit. Turns out this part of the film was fictional, the...…
22nd January 2025
The Bride from Hades (1968)
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19th January 2025
I, the Executioner (1968)
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12th January 2025
Uptight (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s While a misplaced attempt to relocate John Ford’s Oscar-winning The Informer (1935) to Cleveland, Ohio, after the funeral of Martin Luther King, director Jules Dassin more than makes up for it with his exploration of black militancy and racial conflict. The basic story of unemployed...…
11th January 2025
2024
Where Were You When The Lights Went Out (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Of the 25 million stories you could have chosen when New York and the surrounding area was hit by an electricity blackout in the mid-1960s, you could have elected for something more interesting than this farce-style comedy that after the opening sections resembles...…
31st December 2024
A Twist of Sand (1968)
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Initially promising, ultimately disappointing thriller that proves you should not go to sea without a big budget. Because he is the only skipper to have successfully negotiated the Skeleton Coast off Namibia in South Africa, smuggler Geoffrey Peace (Richard Johnson) gets roped into...…
28th December 2024
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