1961 Movies

The Guns of Navarone

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson

Starring: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle

Country: United States of America

Outline: A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

West Side Story

Directed by: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise

Starring: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

El Cid

Directed by: Anthony Mann

Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page

Country: United States of America

Outline: The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Lover Come Back

Directed by: Delbert Mann

Starring: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams

Country: United States of America

Outline: A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

Come September

Directed by: Robert Mulligan

Starring: Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin

Country: United States of America

Outline: Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.

King of Kings

Directed by: Nicholas Ray

Starring: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell

Country: United States of America

Outline: The temporary physical life of everyone's Savior, Jesus Christ.

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Written by: Carl Reiner

Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Country: United States of America

Outline: The misadventures of a TV writer both at work and at home.

Yojimbo

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa

Country: United States of America

Outline: A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Judgment at Nuremberg

Directed by: Stanley Kramer

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

A Raisin in the Sun

Directed by: Daniel Petrie

Starring: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands

Country: United States of America

Outline: A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Through a Glass Darkly

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård

Country: United States of America

Outline: Recently released from a mental hospital; Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

Father of the Bride

Directed by: Gary Alazraki

Outline: Add a Plot

La notte

Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki

Country: United States of America

Outline: A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

The Hustler

Directed by: Robert Rossen

Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott

Country: United States of America

Outline: An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

One, Two, Three

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis

Country: United States of America

Outline: In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.

Last Year at Marienbad

Directed by: Alain Resnais

Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin

Country: United States of America

Outline: In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

The Innocents

Directed by: Jack Clayton

Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Steptoe and Son

Starring: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outline: A thirty-something year-old man named Harold and his elderly father, Albert, work as rag and bone men (collecting and selling junk). Harold is ambitious and wants to better himself, but his...

Victim

Directed by: Basil Dearden

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls

Country: United States of America

Outline: The death of a young man leads to the discovery of a blackmail plot against a number of gay men in 1960s London.

Accattone

Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi

Country: United States of America

Outline: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Splendor in the Grass

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie

Country: United States of America

Outline: A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

The Children's Hour

Directed by: William Wyler

Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins

Country: United States of America

Outline: A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Léon Morin, Priest

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel

Outline: Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.

The Younger Generation

Outline: Eleven-part TV series featuring an ensemble cast of up-and-coming acting talent, in plays by young authors, each actor or actress taking the lead role in turn.

Four Corners

Directed by: Matthew Myslinski

Outline: An Australian current affairs documentary television programme, the longest running of its kind nationally, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).