1967 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1967, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
The Graduate
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
Country: United States of America
Outline: A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Bonnie and Clyde
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman
Country: United States of America
Outline: Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
The Dirty Dozen
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes
Country: United States of America
Outline: During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton
Country: United States of America
Outline: A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.
To Sir, with Love
Directed by: James Clavell
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall
Country: United States of America
Outline: Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
The Jungle Book
Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, Bruce Reitherman
Country: United States of America
Outline: Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Starring: Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
Country: United States of America
Outline: Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.
You Only Live Twice
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba
Country: United States of America
Outline: Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.
Camelot
Directed by: Joshua Logan
Starring: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings
Country: United States of America
Outline: The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.
Valley of the Dolls
Directed by: Mark Robson
Starring: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate
Country: United States of America
Outline: Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.
The Prisoner
Written by: Patrick McGoohan
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Outline: After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Callan
Written by: James Mitchell
Starring: Edward Woodward, Russell Hunter, Lisa Langdon, Anthony Valentine
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Outline: David Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and country" under duress. This...
Cool Hand Luke
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D. Cannon
Country: United States of America
Outline: A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
The Invaders
Written by: Larry Cohen
Directed by: Paul Shapiro
Starring: Roy Thinnes
Country: United States of America
Outline: David Vincent, an architect returning home after a hard, hard, day parks his car in an old ghost town in order to rest for a while before continuing on home. Suddenly, in the middle of the ...
In the Heat of the Night
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant
Country: United States of America
Outline: An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
In Cold Blood
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Starring: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart
Country: United States of America
Outline: After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Playtime
Directed by: Jacques Tati
Starring: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, France Rumilly
Country: United States of America
Outline: Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
Belle de Jour
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page
Country: United States of America
Outline: A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Wait Until Dark
Directed by: Terence Young
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Country: United States of America
Outline: A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.
The Incident
Directed by: Larry Peerce
Starring: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges, Brock Peters
Outline: Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.
The Producers
Directed by: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor
Country: United States of America
Outline: Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
Two for the Road
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron, William Daniels
Country: United States of America
Outline: A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.
El Dorado
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt
Country: United States of America
Outline: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old Indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
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