Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Never On Sunday (1960)
- Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri - Director Jules Dassin (think a bug–eyed Tony Randall) plays a disillusioned American philosopher searching for answers in the birthplace of…
Our Man in Havana (1960)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara… - Witty, forgotten spy satire from dir. Reed (THE THIRD MAN) has Alex Guinness run riot as an undercover vacuum cleaner salesman spooking for the…
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. David Niven, Doris Day - NY critic David Niven, wife Doris Day and their gaggle of kids (plus pet sheepdog) are an unstoppable hurricane of cheer and frivolous good humour,…
Pure Hell of St Trinian's / Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1960-1966)- Dir. Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Feat. George Cole, Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell… - A double feature of later 'St Trinians' comedies derived from Ronald Searle's cartoons (though without mainstay Alistair Sim). Pure Hell of St…
Rebel, The / Punch and Judy Man, The (1960-1962)- Dir. Robert Day, Jeremy Summers
Feat. Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Dennis Price… - A double feature of Tony Hancock's two big–screen outings. The Rebel (1960) Dir. Robert Day – Here Hancock trades in his office career…
Shoot the Pianist (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger… - Part homage to Hollywood film noir, part love story and part and parcel of the new wave, a down–on–his–luck pianist is drawn into…
Strange World of Gurney Slade, The (TV Series) (1960)
- Feat. Anthony Newley
- An unpredictable, wildly inventive comedy where an actor (Anthony Newley) walks off the set of a banal sit–com and into an absurd fantasy world…
Tall Story (1960)- Dir. Joshua Logan
Feat. Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins - A young Jane Fonda makes her screen debut in this candy–coated comedy as a bubbly co–ed with romantic yearnings for basketballer Anthony…
Two Way Stretch (1960)- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bernard Cribbins… - Peter Sellers leads a jailbird trio whose plans for the ultimate heist are scuppered by the arrival of a staunch prison warden.
When Comedy Was King (1960)- Dir. Various
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel… - Second anthology of priceless silent comedy from complier Robert Youngson features excerpts from the likes of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy,…
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