171. Divorce - Italian Style ( Divorzio all'italiana )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Pietro Germi
Actors: Daniela Rocca, Marcello Mastroianni, Angela Cardile, Ugo Torrente, Leopoldo Trieste, Stefania Sandrelli
Plot: A middle-aged nobleman, in love with his beautiful young cousin, plots various ways to kill his nagging, unattractive wife as a means out of the marriage in 1960s Sicily, where divorce is illegal.
172. Big Red
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Tokar
Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Émile Genest, Janette Bertrand, Georges Bouvier, Doris Lussier
173. Shoot the Piano Player ( Tirez sur le pianiste )
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard
Plot: A nightclub pianist is drawn into the sights of gangsters when he helps out a friend and small time hood, leading to tragic consequences.
174. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors ( Tini zabutykh predkiv )
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei Parajanov
Actors: Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili, Nikolai Grinko, Leonid Yengibarov
Plot: Taking place in a Carpathian village, the film follows Ivan as he finds love and tragedy - while the lively village changes with the seasons, holidays and events around them.
175. Point Blank
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Boorman
Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, John Vernon, Michael Strong
Plot: A crook gets double crossed and left for dead during a robbery. He returns
to demand his share but to get this he must mow his way up the corporate
ladder.
176. Hell in the Pacific
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Boorman
Actors: Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
Plot: A Japanese fighter pilot and an American fighter pilot wash up on a small pacific island and are forced to work together to survive.
177. The Sundowners
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Chips Rafferty
Plot: A study of the Carmody family, Paddy, Ida and their son Sean, as the roam the Australian Outback as sheep drovers. While Ida and Sean would rather settle on a farm - Paddy is happy being constantly on the move. The final decisions will revolve around many different situations including a sheep-shearing contest, a birth, gambling and a horse race.
178. Days of Wine and Roses
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt, Tom Palmer
Plot: A man who works in public relations meets a beautiful, young woman and they have a great time.... Until he gets drunk.
179. Faces
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Cassavetes
Actors: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Fred Draper, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery
Plot: This film details the disintegration of a California couples 14-year
marriage. Gena Rowland and John Marley make it worth watching.
180. The Fortune Cookie
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Judi West, Cliff Osmond, Lurene Tuttle
Plot: When a cameraman is knocked out during a football game, his ambulance-
chasing lawyer brother is quick to file suit before he can awaken. When he
finally learns the truth, he's against the suit, until it brings his ex-
wife back in his life. Feigning injury to keep her around, he goes ahead
with the suit but may change his mind when he sees how it affects the
player who originally hit him.
