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The Best Movies of 1961
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Movie: West Side Story ( 1961 )
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's ( 1961 )
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
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Movie: The Parent Trap ( 1961 )
Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.
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Movie: One Hundred and One Dalmatians ( 1961 )
When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the owners must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.
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Movie: A Raisin in the Sun ( 1961 )
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
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Movie: The Misfits ( 1961 )
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically-independent lifestyle.
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Movie: Judgment at Nuremberg ( 1961 )
Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
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Movie: Yojimbo ( 1961 )
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
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Movie: The Hustler ( 1961 )
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
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Movie: The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 )
A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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Movie: Murder She Said ( 1962 )
When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
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Movie: The Children's Hour ( 1961 )
A schoolgirl ruins her two headmistresses with a scandalous lie.
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Movie: The Innocents ( 1961 )
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
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Movie: El Cid ( 1961 )
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
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Movie: One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 )
After they rob a bank in Mexico, Dad Longworth absconds with the loot leaving his partner, Rio, to be captured by the Rurales. 5 years later, Rio escapes from prison and seeks revenge on Longworth, but falls in love with his step-daughter.
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Movie: Splendor in the Grass ( 1961 )
The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
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Movie: Babes in Toyland ( 1961 )
Mary Contrary is set to marry Tom Piper when he is kidnapped by Roderigo and Gonzorgo, two goons working for the evil Barnaby who wants to marry Mary for her inheritance.
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Movie: Blue Hawaii ( 1961 )
After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.
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Movie: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ( 1961 )
When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.
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Movie: La Notte ( 1962 )
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
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Movie: Through a Glass Darkly ( 1961 )
Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
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Movie: Paris Blues ( 1961 )
During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.
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Movie: Last Year at Marienbad ( 1962 )
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
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Movie: Mothra ( 1962 )
An expedition to Infant Island uncovers a native tribe and twin tiny fairy priestesses of a mythical deity, who sets out to rescue the pair after they are kidnapped by a greedy businessman.
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Movie: Mysterious Island ( 1961 )
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
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Movie: One, Two, Three ( 1961 )
In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
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Movie: The Pit and the Pendulum ( 1961 )
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
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Movie: Viridiana ( 1962 )
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
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Movie: The Absent Minded Professor ( 1961 )
A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.
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Movie: Accattone ( 1968 )
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
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Movie: The Comancheros ( 1961 )
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves dealing with the Comanches known as Comancheros.
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Movie: A Woman Is a Woman ( 1961 )
A stripper who's desperate to become a mother accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.
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Movie: Pocketful of Miracles ( 1962 )
New York bootlegger Dave the Dude and his girlfriend Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin try to turn boozy street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when Annie learns that her daughter Louise is marrying the son of a Spanish count.
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Movie: King of Kings ( 1961 )
The temporary physical life of the Biblical Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Movie: Lola ( 1962 )
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
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Movie: Blueprint for Robbery ( 1961 )
Makeshift gang carries off a theft of $2,000,000 and manages to baffle the police for three years.
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Movie: Lover Come Back ( 1962 )
A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.
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Movie: Flower Drum Song ( 1962 )
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
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Movie: Divorce Italian Style ( 1962 )
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
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Movie: A Taste of Honey ( 1962 )
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
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Movie: Two Rode Together ( 1961 )
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
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Movie: The Curse of the Werewolf ( 1961 )
In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.
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Movie: The Deadly Companions ( 1962 )
An ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son and tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
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Movie: The Colossus of Rhodes ( 1961 )
While holidaying in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two plots to overthrow the tyrannical king: one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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Movie: The Last Sunset ( 1961 )
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
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Movie: Gorgo ( 1961 )
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting the wrath of the creature's much-larger mother.
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Movie: Whistle Down the Wind ( 1961 )
When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owner's three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
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Movie: Reptilicus ( 1961 )
After copper miners discover a piece of the frozen tail of a giant prehistoric reptile in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.
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Movie: Come September ( 1961 )
Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.
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Movie: The Day the Earth Caught Fire ( 1961 )
When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
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Movie: The Young Savages ( 1961 )
A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.
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Movie: Gidget Goes Hawaiian ( 1961 )
Gidget, on vacation in Hawaii, finds a gang of lads vying for her attention, starting a chain of romantic complications when her boyfriend arrives.
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Movie: Scream of Fear ( 1961 )
A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
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Movie: The Ladies Man ( 1961 )
A clueless, recently-single graduate unwittingly takes a job as a servant in a mansion inhabited by dozens of young women.
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Movie: Victim ( 1961 )
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
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Movie: The Second Time Around ( 1961 )
In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
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Movie: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ( 1961 )
An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
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Movie: Town Without Pity ( 1961 )
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
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Movie: Cash on Demand ( 1963 )
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
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Movie: Francis of Assisi ( 1961 )
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
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Movie: The Naked Edge ( 1961 )
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
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Movie: The Phantom Planet ( 1961 )
After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
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Movie: Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog ( 1961 )
The remarkable veritable story of a terrier named Bobby and the enduring friendship he forges with a tenderhearted shepherd known simply as Old Jock---unbroken even by the kindly old man's death.
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Movie: The Beast of Yucca Flats ( 1961 )
A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast.
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Movie: Mr. Sardonicus ( 1961 )
A mysterious and cruel Baron, whose face has become frozen in a horrifying grin, demands that a prominent London physician apply experimental treatments on him to restore his face.
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Movie: Fanny ( 1961 )
Young Marius dreams of leaving his dull provincial life and seeing the world. When the beautiful Fanny declares her adoration for him, Marius must choose between an adventurous life at sea and the grandest adventure of all: love.
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Movie: Carry on Regardless ( 1963 )
The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs. Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff.
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Movie: A Thunder of Drums ( 1961 )
The trials and tribulations of bitter veteran Captain Maddocks and argumentative rookie Lieutenant McQuade at a cavalry desert outpost.
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Movie: Erik the Conqueror ( 1963 )
Two estranged brothers confront each other as rivals when war breaks out between Britain and the Vikings for control of England.
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Movie: Snow White and the Three Stooges ( 1961 )
An ice-skating Snow White finds refuge from the Wicked Queen with the Three Stooges.
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Movie: Summer and Smoke ( 1962 )
A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student who prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
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Movie: Hercules in the Haunted World ( 1961 )
Hercules must journey into Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.
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Movie: Paris Belongs to Us ( 1961 )
The indiscreet Terry, mistress of an American journalist, revealed to her lovers, Juan and Gérard, something they should never have known.
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Movie: Back Street ( 1961 )
A chance encounter leads to romance between an aspiring designer and a Marine. After their paths diverge, she builds a fashion career in NYC. Years later, they reunite, but new opportunities abroad challenge their rekindled connection.
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Movie: Master of the World ( 1961 )
In 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.
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Movie: Hercules and the Captive Women ( 1963 )
Strong yet sleepy Hercules discovers that the Queen of Atlantis is plotting to take over the world with superhuman warriors.
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Movie: Too Late Blues ( 1962 )
Ghost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Jess Polanski, she comes between him and his band members, and he leaves his dreams behind in search of fame.
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Movie: Wild in the Country ( 1961 )
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
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Movie: The Frightened City ( 1962 )
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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Movie: Konga ( 1961 )
Dr. Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, Konga, to get rid of them.
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Movie: I Like Money ( 1961 )
A poor but proud French teacher gets fired after refusing to modify the grades of a rich student. As this could be the opportunity to exploit his honesty, Castel Benac hires Topaze as a managing director for a shady business.
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Movie: The Wonders of Aladdin ( 1961 )
A poor young man finds a magic lamp that possesses a genie, who will grant the boy three wishes if he sets him free from the lamp.
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Movie: The Devil at 4 O'Clock ( 1961 )
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
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Movie: Something Wild ( 1961 )
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
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Movie: On the Double ( 1961 )
At the time of the invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British general in order to confuse German spies and assassins in London.
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Movie: The Mark ( 1961 )
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
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Movie: Duel of the Titans ( 1961 )
Twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city.
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Movie: The Terror of the Tongs ( 1961 )
In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.
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Movie: Tammy Tell Me True ( 1961 )
A wholesome river girl floats her boat to college and meets a professor who finds her charming.
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Movie: Gun Fight ( 1961 )
On the stagecoach to Laramie, Wayne Santley rescues singer Nora Brown from the advances of gambler Cole Fender. In Laramie, Wayne discovers his brother Brad is an outlaw, but he refuses to join the gang of rustlers and sets up a homestead. He and Nora are married. Later Brad repents and joins his brother, but Brad's former partner Pawnee organizes an attack on the bro...Read all
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Movie: Bachelor in Paradise ( 1961 )
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
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Movie: The Honeymoon Machine ( 1961 )
A navy lieutenant and his civilian friend use a classified computer to help them break the bank at a Venetian casino.
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Movie: Queen of the Nile ( 1964 )
Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.
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Movie: The Thief of Baghdad ( 1961 )
In the time of the Arabian Nights, the city of Baghdad is ruled by Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually controlled by the scheming Grand Vizier Ghamal. The poor of Baghdad are aided by Karim, the Thief of Baghdad.
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Movie: The Mask ( 1961 )
A young archaeologist thinks he is cursed by an Aztec mask that makes him have strange nightmares. Before committing suicide, he sends the mask to his psychiatrist, who soon plunges into the mask's nightmarish world.
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Movie: Blast of Silence ( 1962 )
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
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Movie: The Errand Boy ( 1961 )
A goofy paperhanger is hired to root out a financial inefficiency on a Hollywood studio lot, wreaking havoc as he goes.
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Movie: Susan Slade ( 1961 )
A poor writer rivals a rich man's son for a young woman with a secret out-of-wedlock child.
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Movie: The Outsider ( 1961 )
Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
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Movie: Angel Baby ( 1961 )
A young woman's transformation from healed to healer incurs many dramatic changes, some of which are much more apparent than others.