Category Archives: 1964

Becket

IMDB Rating: 8.10
4386 votes

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Storyline
As the story opens, King Henry II, who ruled England from 1154 to 1189 has entered Canterbury Cathedral to do penance at the tomb of his former friend, Thomas Becket. Bare to the waist, the king kneels to receive a flogging from Saxon monks. He begins to reminisce, recalling at first the carefree, promiscuous adventures with Becket, then his favorite drinking and wenching companion. A violently emotional drama that probes the changing relationship between two young men - between two close friends bound together by similar pride of flesh and spirit who become deadly enemies as they pursue their separate destinies . . . that of king . . . and saint.
Actors
Thomas à BecketRichard Burton
King Henry IIPeter O'Toole
King Louis VII of FranceJohn Gielgud

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

IMDB Rating: 8.70
125868 votes

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Storyline
U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: "Hello, Dimitri....I'm fine....Now then, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb....The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb....Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders...he went a little funny in the head....and he went and did a silly thing....He ordered his planes to attack your country." A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating "all our precious bodily fluids" as part of their plan to take over the world." Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian's ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.
Actors
Group Captain Lionel MandrakePeter Sellers
President Merkin MuffleyPeter Sellers
Dr. StrangelovePeter Sellers

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

IMDB Rating: 6.60
1444 votes

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Storyline
Commander Kit Draper and Colonel Dan McReady are orbiting Mars in an exploritory surveyor. A malfunction forces them to eject with only Draper and a monkey named Mona surviving. Draper must learn to survive in this hostile environment fighting thirst, hunger and even hostile aliens if he expects to see home again.
Actors
Cmdr. Christopher 'Kit' DraperPaul Mantee
FridayVictor Lundin
Col. Dan McReadyAdam West

The Three Lives of Thomasina

IMDB Rating: 7.00
664 votes

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Storyline
A young Scottish girl's cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious "witch" who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals.
Actors
Andrew McDhuiPatrick McGoohan
Lori MacGregorSusan Hampshire
Reverend Angus PeddieLaurence Naismith

Flight from Ashiya

IMDB Rating: 5.20
160 votes

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Storyline
Plunge into hell with the most fearless breed of men on earth!
Actors
TSgt. Mike TakashimaYul Brynner
L:t. Col. Glenn StevensonRichard Widmark
2nd Lt. John GreggGeorge Chakiris

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

IMDB Rating: 7.90
4565 votes

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Storyline
Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...
Actors
Narrator: Sam the SnowmanBurl Ives
RudolphBillie Mae Richards
HermeyPaul Soles

Mary Poppins

IMDB Rating: 7.60
23143 votes

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Storyline
The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.
Actors
Mary PoppinsJulie Andrews
Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr.Dick Van Dyke
Mr. George W. BanksDavid Tomlinson

007 Goldfinger

IMDB Rating: 7.80
22340 votes

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Storyline
The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) has initiated "Operation Grand Slam," a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there's Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who gives new meaning to the phrase "golden girl"; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger's high-flying scheme.
Actors
James BondSean Connery
Pussy GaloreHonor Blackman
Auric GoldfingerGert Fröbe

A Fistful of Dollars

IMDB Rating: 7.80
11351 votes

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Storyline
An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Actors
JoeClint Eastwood
MarisolMarianne Koch
Ramón RojoGian Maria Volonté

A Shot in the Dark

IMDB Rating: 7.50
4054 votes

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When rich M. Ballon's spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. But Clouseau, being attracted to the beautiful girl, is convinced that she is hiding something. So, he has her released from jail and tries to follow her secretly. Things do not work out the way the inspector wanted and people keep being murdered, and each time innocent Maria seems to be the killer. But with someone important wanting Clouseau and nobody else to cover this case, his tolerance-challenged boss Charles Dreyfuss is close to losing his mind when casualties keep turning up. And Clouseau keeps on causing trouble without knowing it...
Actors
Inspector Jacques ClouseauPeter Sellers
Maria GambrelliElke Sommer
Benjamin BallonGeorge Sanders
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