Classic movie reviews, movie articles, movie information from 1960 to 1969, the end of Golden Age of Hollywood.
For its first live-action musical, the Walt Disney studio chose Victor Herbert’s fantasy operetta Babes in Toyland. Guest writer Jessica Pickens reviews the colorful 1961 film, which starred Annette Funicello, Tommy Sands and Ray Bolger.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Beatlemania coming to America. To celebrate the occasion, guest writer Greg Altum reviews the Fab Four’s first starring film, the 1964 “day in the life” comedy/concert classic A Hard Day’s Night
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1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s with Audrey Hepburn has legions of fans, but the film makes some major changes to the original Truman Capote story. Guest writer Leah Williams compares and contrasts the movie and its source material.
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In a change of pace from her cheery Disney screen roles, Hayley Mills played an out-of-control teen counseled by new governess Deborah Kerr in 1964’s The Chalk Garden. Guest writer Toto2 reviews this provocative British drama.
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The quest for gold and a thirst for revenge sends gunslingers Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach on a collision course in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Guest writer Jeff Pike critiques the good, bad and (yes) ugly in Sergio Leone’s landmark 1966 Italian western.
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Suburban marrieds Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain and their two kids are terrorized along the desert highway by joy-riding teens in Hot Rods to Hell. Guest writer Jessica Perkins puts the pedal to the metal and reviews the cult 1967 action/drama.
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Jeffrey Hunter played a circuit-riding attorney in 1880s Texas in The Man from Galveston. Guest writer Laura Grieve lays down the law on the 1963 frontier legal drama, which started out as a TV pilot and lead to Hunter’s short-lived 1963-64 series Temple Houston.
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One of Paul Newman’s best-loved film roles was rebellious convict Luke Jackson in 1967’s Cool Hand Luke. Guest writer Leah Williams offers her take on the performance and the similarities between the actor and his on-screen persona.
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An middle-aged banker is offered a chance at a new identity and new life by a mysterious company in director John Frankenheimer’s Seconds. Guest writer Kim Wilson offers her take on the innovative 1966 sci-fi thriller starring Rock Hudson and John Randolph.
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Renowned New York psychiatrist James Coburn’s professional and personal worlds are turned upside down when he takes on a new patient, the President of the United States, in the wild ’67 comedy The President’s Analyst, reviewed here as part of the 1967 in Film Blogathon.
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