71. A Hard Day's Night
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Richard Lester
Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington
Plot: A day in the life of the Fab Four as they skip from station to station trying to give a slip to adoring fans and get into all sorts of mischief.
72. Viridiana
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano, Victoria Zinny
Plot: A novice visits her uncle shortly before taking her vows. Events lead her
to refuse her vows, and instead to stay on at her (now deceased) uncle's
manor with his son. The virtuous woman takes in beggars at the manor
until things get out of hand in Luis Bunuel's brilliant satire of
bourgeois values and the Catholic church.
73. Ivan's Childhood ( Ivanovo detstvo )
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko, Dmitri Milyutenko
Plot: During WWII, a young boy works as a spy on the Eastern Front - small enough to cross German lines unnoticed. Three soviet officers do their best to look after the boy/spy.
74. avventura, L' ( Adventure, The )
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams
Plot: A group of upper middle class Italians takes a boating trip, stopping on an isolated island. One of their party goes missing, and her best friend and lover stay behind to look for her. Eventually, however, all parties concerned move on in this study of bourgeois decadence and ennui.
75. Cape Fear
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Robert Mitchum , Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Jack Kruschen , Martin Balsam
Plot: A sadistic ex-con tracks down a Southern lawyer, and wages a campaign of terror on him and his family.
76. The Producers
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Zero Mostel, Estelle Winwood, Christopher Hewett, Dick Shawn
Plot: The original version of this story. Before the play and before the movie re-make. Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel try to make money by producing a sure fire flop on Broadway.
77. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Plot: An aging couple who often fight use their guests as tool to piss the other
off in a life long battle with their marriage. Based on a play.
78. The Music Man
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Morton DaCosta
Actors: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford
Plot: Professor Harold Hill, a gilt-edged con artist, tricks the citizens of
River City into organizing a boys band so he can sell them nonexistent
band instruments.
79. Eyes Without a Face ( yeux sans visage, Les )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georges Franju
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob, François Guérin, Alexandre Rignault
Plot: A doctor feels responsible for ruining his daughter's face in an accident
- so much that she must wear a mask. He kidnaps young women with help from
his assistant in order to remove their faces and graft it onto his
daughter. Despite numerous failures, he refuses to give up, in his twisted
mind it is all for his daughter.
80. Wait Until Dark
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Terence Young
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston, Samantha Jones
Plot: A blind woman is terrorized by a group of con-men who come up with an
elaborate scheme to steal back a doll containing drugs.
