BEST FILMS OF THE 1. SThis is my own personal list of the top films of the 6. It includes my own views, as well as views from e- mails, other critics and websites. I tried to include films from all the main genres; including, war, horror, sci- fi, romance, kid's, etc. As well as movies that were groundbreaking from a technology point of view or changed the industry in some way. I did not include foreign films.
The Hollywood Reporter. Christina Baker Kline’s hit novel Orphan Train will be getting the movie treatment from. Here is a complete unedited open of the 1960's TV series 12 O'clock High. Featuring Paul Burke and Richard Anderson. Includes sponsor tag, first commercial. TV Westerns - 1960-1964 - This page includes The Outlaws, The Tall Man, Tate, Overland Trail, Stagecoach West, Klondike, Gunslinger, and more. The top films are placed in alphabetical order. Each are great in their own way and would be quite difficult to arrange in a 1- 2. The movie titles are linked to the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) which contains extra information on each film, including the cast and crew. To get back to my site from this link, you will need to use the . By viewing these 2. I believe you will have a great feel for what the American film was all about in the 6. The second is this film, . Jack Lemmon plays a vulnerable office worker trying to move up the ladder. His uncaring boss, played by Fred Mac. Murray, starts to help him along when Lemmon allows him to use his apartment for his extramarital affairs. Lemmon begins having problems when he starts falling for the young elevator operator (Shirley Mac. Laine in her first role) who's one of his bosses girlfriend. The movie has wonderful acting, but it's Billy Wilder who wrote and directed the film, that added the right touches of humor, drama and sadness. This film was one of the first film's to start testing the limits of the censory board. It helped that it used lots of humor to help make the issues of infidelity and attempted suicide seem less offensive. Writers and Directors would continue to push the boundaries and it's interesting to look at films near the end of the decade such as . Vietnam and Watergate had caused a disenchantment with the government, and anyone who rebelled with authority was seen as the good- guy by the younger generation. The characters of Bonnie and Clyde were seen as good looking, humorous and great fun to be around, even though they were theives. The audience came to root for the criminal and wish bad on the police or government. This can be seen in other films of the decade; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Easy Rider, Psycho and the gangs in West Side Story. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway played Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the two real- life, depression era, bank robbers. The film follows the couples meeting, forming a small band of criminals (Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder), their success and ultimate demise. The brutal climax of the film was quite controvesial. The ambush and slow motion gunning down of the lead characters were shocking even by today's standards. The gunfire massacre, as their bodies convulsed and explodes with blood, was one of the most graphic depictions of death seen on the movie screen. The story follows two bankrobbers who are likable, funny and good- looking, played by two of the hottest stars of the day, Robert Redford and Paul Newman. The title characters are based on the real life 1. Bolivia and supposedly killed. The movie leaves this last point up in the air (no pun intended) with the film ending on a freeze frame of Butch and Sundance jumping over a cliff to escape. George Roy Hill directed this film which is part Western and part Comedy, with the hint of a love story thrown in, supplied by Katherine Ross who's in love with one of the bandits. The pieces of this film just work well together, especially the screenplay and cinematography, which both won Oscars, and the chrisma of the two male stars who just shine on the screen together. Mainly for it's appearance on other lists and because it is one of my mother's favorite films. A movie with epic proportions, it is your typical love story with a historical event as its backdrop. In this case it is a love triangle set during the Russian Revolution. Omar Sharif is a doctor/poet caught in the turmoil of the war and in love with two women, played by Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin. David Lean directed with his usual epic flair. Frederick Young won a deserved Oscar for cinematography. The whole picture is like eye candy with visuals of amazing beauty. Maurice Jarre also won an Oscar for the musical score, with the haunting . This wonderful black comedy deals with issues of the cold war and nuclear holocaust. Peter Sellers is brilliant playing three seperate roles, a straight British Officer trapped at the Army base, the apologetic President of the United States, and a mad German scientist, who's metal arm keeps flying up in the Nazi salute. The rest of the cast is just as good, including Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, James Earl Jones and Slim Pickens, the Air Force Pilot who rides the bomb down yelping with his cowboy hat. One of the best comedies ever, but it's not a laugh out loud film. One way a writer can get laughs is by making jokes so close to the truth it becomes hard to tell if they are jokes or not. These aren't over the top hilarious one- liners, or grossout jokes, but the dark humor that sits with you for awhile and makes you ponder how bizarre life really is. Appears on both AFI's list of best films (#2. The characters, story, music, the way it was filmed and even how it was made all symbolize the 6. The story centers around two drug dealing bikers, played by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, who decide to bike from the west coast to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. They want to discover America and feel the freedom of riding their bikes. They make friends with a crazed lawyer, played by Jack Nicholson and a peaceful commune of free loving hippees. But they also learn they are not welcome in many places and this discrimination leads to a shocking conclusion. This movie was one of the first independent films to buck the Hollywood system, being made for only $? The film was also unique using popular music of the time and the cinematography was groundbreaking by using natural settings and people, filming on location across the Southern United States. It became the ultimate biker film that started a movie fad. It appears on AFI's list of best films at #8. The right cast, script, director, soundtrack and era that it was released. Dustin Hoffman plays a grad student who's seduced by an older, married friend of the family, Mrs. Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft. Hoffman's innocence comes through with both the seduction and as he begins to fall in love with Robinson's daughter. The script was as much of a drama as it was a comedy and made a star out of Hoffman. Simon and Garfunkel wrote and performed the memorable soundtrack, and it became Mike Nichols best directed films. Although I believe this is a good film and quite important, I don't think it deserves the huge praise and high ranking on the AFI list at #7. I think this became an important and personal film to many people growing up in the 6. A little overrated in my belief. When a young, white woman arrives home to introduce her new fiance to her parents, she has yet to inform them that he's black. The film follows the young couple revealing this important fact to both sets of parents and the dinner party that follows as all the characters try to deal with the issues of interracial marriage. There are two important facts that make this film work so well. The first is the screenplay. William Rose won the Oscar for the script that carefully dealt with the issue from all points of view and made each of the characters intelligent and likable. The second is the cast which garnered four Oscar nominations for acting (One win for best actress). This was the last film that teamed Katherine Hepburn with Spencer Tracy. The classic Hollywood duo was the perfect couple to bring the issues of interracial relationships to white America. Their daughter was played sweetly by Hepburn's real life neice, Katherine Houghton. Sidney Poitier played the suitor. His presence on the screen is one of power, pride and love for both his soon to be wife and his parents. Again, Potier was the perfect (and possible the only) actor that the 6. His parents were played equally well by Cecil Kellaway and Beah Richards who kept their own on screen with Tracy and Hepburn. The film appears on the AFI list of best films at #9. I don't think it belongs on the list. Too many films are missing from the list that are better than this movie. It continues to boggle my mind that the Beatles were only together for seven years, yet they changed their musical style, their look, recorded hundreds of songs and experimented with movies. Director Richard Lester used the Beatles natural sense of humor and musical talent to string together slapstick jokes and puns with energetic concert performances. The natural charisma and humor that John, Paul, George, and Ringo brought to the screen made them even bigger stars than before. The group would experiment more with film, . Lawerence, a WWI British military officer dispatched to Arabia. He decides to stay in the area and become a dessert warrior, who begins to break through century- old rivalries between the Arabs and unite them against the Turks. Peter O'Toole was spectacular playing the bleach blond, Messiah- like lead dressed in flowing white robes. He was backed by a who's who of top actors; Omar Sharif, Claude Rains, Anthony Quinn and Alec Guinness. Besides from the acting, David Lean's direction and cinematographer, Frederick Young, were able to photograph the beauty of the desert, the huge crowd scenes and massive battle sequences. One of my cinematic dreams is to see this film on the big screen. I can only imagine what the beautiful, sweeping landscapes of the desert will look like flowing across a theater wall. This classic appears on AFI's list of best films at #5. Laurence Harvey plays a Korean POW who returns home to a hero's welcome. Little do we know that his captors have brainwashed and reprogrammed him to assassinate a key political figure.
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