Subgenre Sampler
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Human Vapour, The (1964)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya
- After an awry experiment, a benign librarian is able to spontaneously vapourize and get away with robbery, blackmail and murder in metropolitan…
Lorna (1964)
- Dir. Russ Meyer
Feat. Lorna Maitland, Mark Bradley, James Rucker
- Russ Meyer's first film with an actual plot, this gothic rural pot–boiler defined the word 'roughie', a term coined for sleaze films that…
Nasty Rabbit, The (1964)
- Dir. James Landis
Feat. Arch Hall Jr., Micha Terr
- Drive–in spoof/propaganda frolic about a Russian attempt to set loose a disease–infected rabbit in the U.S.
Nothing but the Best (1964)
- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews
- Ruthless real estate agent Alan Bates grubs and grafts a way upwards, out of his working–class background and into the snobbish…
Roustabout (1964)
- Dir. John Rich
Feat. Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck
- Relatively pleasing Elvis Presley vehicle. The King joins a carnival run by Barbara Stanwyk.
Satan Bug, The (1964)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Alistair Maclean, Richard Basehart
- Set in a hushed desert landscape of secret government laboratories and ominous rock–formations, this Cold War paranoia–thriller…
Secret Invasion, The (1964)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney…
- Expedient actioner is a rare, unsensational Roger Corman flick about British intelligence using criminals behind enemy lines in WW2 Yugoslavia.
Thin Red Line, The (1964)
- Dir. Andrew Marton
Feat. Keir Dullea, Jack Warden
- First version of James Jones' war–novel (later redone by Terrence Malick), chronicles the US invasion of Guadalcanal during WWII in grim B&W,…
Empty Canvas, The (La Noia) (1963)
- Dir. Damiano Damiani
Feat. Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
- Unsuccessful painter Buccholz falls for a young model who spurns his love and drives him to both ruin and his overbearing mother. Based on the novel…
Flipper (1963)
- Dir. James B. Clark
Feat. Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Connie Scott
- Original depiction of dolphin/boy friendship, with the sea–mammal and 60s TV lad Chuck Conners having thrills and splashes in the Florida Keys,…