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The Fraeon Archive · The 1960s
19591961

1960

The old studio system crumbled while the French New Wave, spaghetti westerns and a new frankness rebuilt cinema from the edges.

The films everyone saw

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Psycho

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

4.2

Psycho

1960

The Magnificent Seven

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

3.8

The Magnificent Seven

1960

Spartacus

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

3.8

Spartacus

1960

The Apartment

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

4.1

The Apartment

1960

La Dolce Vita

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

4.0

La Dolce Vita

1960

Eyes Without a Face

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

3.8

Eyes Without a Face

1960

The Young One

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

3.5

The Young One

1960

Breathless

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

3.8

Breathless

1960

Ocean's Eleven

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

3.2

Ocean's Eleven

1960

Sink the Bismarck!

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.

3.4

Sink the Bismarck!

1960

Le Trou

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system – yet their escape is anything but assured.

4.1

Le Trou

1960

The Time Machine

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

3.7

The Time Machine

1960

Exodus

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

3.3

Exodus

1960

The Alamo

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

3.5

The Alamo

1960

Purple Noon

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

3.8

Purple Noon

1960

Swiss Family Robinson

After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.

3.4

Swiss Family Robinson

1960

The Unforgiven

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.

3.1

The Unforgiven

1960

Peeping Tom

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

3.8

Peeping Tom

1960

What the critics kept

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Rocco and His Brothers

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

4.0

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

The Virgin Spring

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

3.9

The Virgin Spring

1960

Two Women

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

3.9

Two Women

1960

Inherit the Wind

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

3.8

Inherit the Wind

1960

L'Avventura

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.

3.8

L'Avventura

1960

Black Sunday

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

3.7

Black Sunday

1960

Village of the Damned

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

3.6

Village of the Damned

1960

Shoot the Piano Player

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

3.6

Shoot the Piano Player

1960

Hidden gems of 1960loved by the few who found them

Macario

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.

4.4

Macario

1960

The Naked Island

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

4.0

The Naked Island

1960

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

4.0

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

4.0

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1960

Late Autumn

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

3.9

Late Autumn

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

3.9

The Bad Sleep Well

1960

Testament of Orpheus

An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.

3.8

Testament of Orpheus

1960

The Truth

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.

3.8

The Truth

1960

Everybody Go Home!

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

3.8

Everybody Go Home!

1960

Devi

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her.

3.8

Devi

1960

The Traffic Policeman

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

3.7

The Traffic Policeman

1960

On the small screen

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Coronation Street

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

2.7

Coronation Street

1960

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.

3.8

The Andy Griffith Show

1960

My Three Sons

A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.

3.3

My Three Sons

1960

The Flintstones

The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.

3.7

The Flintstones

1960

Popeye the Sailor

Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.

3.6

Popeye the Sailor

1960

On the page

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To Kill a Mockingbird

fiction · fiction classics

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

1960

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

1960

Rabbit, Run

Fiction · Middle class men

Rabbit, Run

John Updike

1960

Один день Ивана Денисовича

Communism · Forced labor

Один день Ивана Денисовича

Александр Солженицын

1960

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Fiction · Mystery

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Agatha Christie

1960

The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

Fiction · Man-woman relationships, fiction

The Troll Garden and Selected Stories

Willa Cather

1960

The Incredible Journey

Adventure and adventurers · Fiction

The Incredible Journey

Sheila Burnford

1960

A Burnt-Out Case

Fiction · Religion

A Burnt-Out Case

Graham Greene

1960

Psycho-cybernetics

Success · Psychological aspects of Success

Psycho-cybernetics

Maxwell Maltz

1960

Storm Over Warlock

Fiction, science fiction, general · Science fiction

Storm Over Warlock

Andre Norton

1960

Cricket in Times Square

Mice · Cats

Cricket in Times Square

George Selden

1960

Nomination

United States · United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Nomination

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.

1960

Silas Marner

George Eliot

1960

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Fiction · Indians of North America

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O’Dell

1960

Library of Congress catalog [of] books

Library of Congress

1960

Commonwealth of Nations · Registers of dead

The war dead of the Commonwealth

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1960

Night Shift

euthanasia · terminal illness

Night Shift

Stephen King

1960

Harriet the Spy

Juvenile works · Juvenile audience

Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh

1960

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