Archive for the ‘1960’ Category
Exodus
Following World War II, the life of the Jewish nation is uncertain. The United Nations is contemplating taking a vote on creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Until then, many Jews are exiled from much of Europe - especially Germany - and as they have...
Swiss Family Robinson
A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a...
The Time Machine
From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race...
Wild River
A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay)...
The Bellboy
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All that he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong - does...
Magnificent Seven, The
A remake of ''The Seven Samurai'', this American version star Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Robert Vaughn, just to name a few. They are picked to guard a Mexican village from Banditos that come every now and then to take whatever the...
Little Shop of Horrors...
Classic black comedy about young Schnook who develops a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill him in order to feed. The basis for the further hit musical. Preto clássico comédia sobre jovens schnook quem desenvolve uma planta sanguinário e é...
Psycho
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is tired of how life has treated her. It must respond to her lover Saturday lunch breaks and they can not get married because Sam has more than give his money into a alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $ 40,000...
North to Alaska
Sam (John Wayne) and George (Stewart Granger) blow gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring back the fiancée of George to Alaska. Sam thinks that it is already married, and, instead, with the angel (Capucine) returns. Sam, after the attempt...
Apartment, The
On the 1st of November, 1959, in New York, C. C. "Bud" Baxter is a popular clerk, "consolidated life", an insurance society with 31.259 employees. The secret of his success is a well situated flat where he lives whom he sublets for his superiors, him...
