Memorable Cinema Films in the 60's and 70's

who can forget the creepy Hammer horrer films.. the amazing Mr Lee as Dracula and Mr Cushin as Van-Helsing. my personal favorite is the Creeping Flesh, how spooky is that film… 😮 😮

Of course. Who could forget it? I always liked the Germans in it and of course the mickey take on Santos-Dumont with the aircraft that flew backwards.

Airy Planes.

No one has mentioned this film , which was quite an epic in it’s time.

THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES.

Plenty of fun and action, to cheer you up on a gloomy day. 😀 😀 😀
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I’m at it again, only reading half a thread before posting a reply but if I see something I want to reply to I have to do it then or I’ll have forgotten what I wanted to say by the time I’ve read all of it.
For those who enjoyed Exodus another one on the Israeli war of independence worth a look is Cast A Giant Shadow.

Ok then it’s lonely old me with a final helping of memorable Films, they are.

Dam Busters,
Battle of Britain.
Operation Crossbow.
Reach for the sky.
Close encounters of the third kind. 😮
The Train.
The Enforcer.
Bruce Lee films.
The dirty dozen.
Fire in the Sky.
Thunderball.
Goldfinger..
The Exorcist.
The Omen.
Laurence of Arabia ( a truly epic film).
Texas chainsaw Massacre.

There are others , but these are my favourites. 😀
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I think you may just find that Reach For The Sky and The Dambusters were 1950s but who cares? both brilliant films along with The First Of The Few which is even older (1942? iirc). Considering when they were made it could even be argued that they are better than some more modern efforts like The Battle Of Britain, 633 Squadron and Air America. I’d also have to include three more in my list of favourites as well.

Cross Of Iron
Triple Cross
Battle Of The Bulge (No, not my battle with an expanding waist line)

Oh sod it, I’ll throw in The Blue Max as well.

The 1970’s? Hello? ALIEN? Come on, people! 😀

Spaghetti Westerns

What about those Westerns such as.

FIST FULL OF DOLLARS.

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE.

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY.

They were a few of the many spaghetti Westerns that were made during the 60s and 70s. Never again will films like this be made, showing gratuitous violence on a grand scale, and very exciting to watch. These films fed my blood lust at the time, and it didn’t have any lasting harm full effects on me. Equally the music soundtracks were just excellent, and the acting was first rate. In fact it all seemed very real to me, pure escapism from the normal day to day routine of life. If you like Guns and action, then these are the films to see. :diablo: :diablo:
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Butch Cassidy < amazing film 😛
how can one forget “The good, The Bad and the Ugly”.

Zulu is one of my top films, one of Great Britians most amazing conflicts, a true story and the film gave it the respect it deserved.
Carry On up the kyber has to be the best comic film ever made, i have watched it hundreds of times and it still makes me laugh, a true classic….
the best film from the 70s… has to be Star Wars… i want to drive a Imperial Walker, always have done… 😀 ;).
did someone mention Jaws… what a film that was… duuun dun…duuuun dun…dun dun..dun dun…dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun AHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRHHHHGGGGHHHH… 😀

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting ….unforgettable!!

Watched “The Virgin Soldiers” on video the other night. Lots of great scenes; the squaddies getting circumcised in the mistaken belief they’d get 10 days sick leave afterwards, the bullsxxting sergeant hiding in the loo when the train was ambushed, the squaddie insisting to the MO he’d only got a cold and being told “well, we’ll give it a minute, and if it doesn’t cough we’ll call it gonorrhea”, another one always minutely examining his “big blue vein”, and of course Juicy Lucy; “WOW! I NEVER HAVE VIRGIN BEFORE!” Leslie Thomas is one heck of a good writer, IMHO.

Easy Rider..

Yes indeed, easy rider was an Icon of America at that time. Without doubt another classic film which was in a time of it’s own. Got to say it again, the sixties was a great era of our times. :diablo:
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One of the most memorable films of the sixties was Easy Rider with Peter Fonda….Dennis Hopper and a young Jack Nicholson

What a carry on.

Yeah, who could ever forget Kenneth Williams with his “Oooooo, Matron!” or “Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!” Not to mention the young Barbara Windsor being examined by Jim Dale.

That’s right, the carry on series was a milestone in cinema comedy. Never again will such a wonderful bunch of people come together, to make us laugh.
Sid James and Kenneth Williams are without doubt, two of the greatest for their time. As for Barbara Windsor and Jim Dale, 😀 😀 😀
Yes indeed, the sixties produced some wonderfull talent, which remains UNFORGETTABLE.
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Yeah, who could ever forget Kenneth Williams with his “Oooooo, Matron!” or “Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!” Not to mention the young Barbara Windsor being examined by Jim Dale.

What a carry on…

Musn’t forget the carry on films, my favourites are.

Carry on camping..

Carry on screaming ( I think this was the funniest one of the lot) great spooky atmosphere.

Carry on Doctor.

Carry on cabbie.

Carry on nurse.

Carry on cruising..

The sixties, a great era for the film industry.

Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth connor, Charles Hawtry, Jim Dale, Joan Sims, Barbera Windsor and Hattie Jacques were my favourites. 😀 😀 😀 😀
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Favourite Films

Oddly enough a film I keep going back to is ‘Big Wednesday’, child of the 60’s and all that.

Cheers

The Kop

Bit of a stupid question maybe, but was that chanting by the Zulu warriors taken up by Liverpool FC fans as “Liv-er-pool, Liv-er-pool”? Just sounds so similar in rhythm, and doesn’t the Kop at Anfield take its name from Spion Kop in S.Africa? What was the connection there?

The Kop was named after the ‘Battle of Spion Kop’ which took place on the 24th January 1900, oddly enough the British lost.

Sacrifice scene at the end of The Wicker Man with the sun setting always stands out for me.

I love Alfred Hitchcocks 1963 classic ……The Birds….i’ve lost count of how many times i’ve watched it