1964 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1964, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Omicron
Directed by: Ugo Gregoretti
Starring: Renato Salvatori, Ugo Gregoretti, Rosemary Dexter, Calisto Calisti
Country: Italy
My Fair Lady
Directed by: George Cukor
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Country: United States of America
Outline: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
A Hard Day's Night
Directed by: Richard Lester
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Country: United States of America
Outline: A "typical" day in the life of The Beatles, including many of their famous songs.
No Time for Sergeants
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton
Country: United States of America
Outline: Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
Goldfinger
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton
Country: United States of America
Outline: While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
A Shot in the Dark
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom
Country: United States of America
Outline: Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate.
Peyton Place
Directed by: Mark Robson
Starring: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy
Country: United States of America
Outline: A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
What a Way to Go!
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin
Country: United States of America
Outline: A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Directed by: Charles Walters
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen
Outline: A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life.
The Carpetbaggers
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker, Robert Cummings
Outline: Jonas Cord is a disagreeable rich young tycoon on the corporate make, with some subplots about booze, broads and Hollywood in the 1930's.
Woman in the Dunes
Directed by: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Itô, Kôji Mitsui
Country: United States of America
Outline: An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Country: United States of America
Outline: An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Hamlet
Directed by: Grigori Kozintsev
Starring: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina, Yuriy Tolubeev
Outline: When the king of Denmark dies suddenly, his son, crown prince Hamlet, returns home to find that his uncle Claudius has usurped the throne and married Hamlet's recently widowed mother. Then, one night, Hamlet is visited by his father's ghost who commands him to avenge his murder at the hands of Claudius.
Dosti
Directed by: Satyen Bose
Starring: Sudhir Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sanjay Khan, Baby Farida
Outline: Friendship of a lonesome studious blind boy with a crippled street singer.
Nothing But a Man
Directed by: Michael Roemer
Starring: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster
Outline: A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Becket
Directed by: Peter Glenville
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Gino Cervi
Country: United States of America
Outline: King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas à Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.
A Fistful of Dollars
Directed by: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy
Country: United States of America
Outline: A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
Fail-Safe
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy
Country: United States of America
Outline: American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?
I Am Cuba
Directed by: Mikhail Kalatozov
Starring: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Country: United States of America
Outline: Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
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