Vincent Price plays "The Last Man on Earth" in this Italian & American-produced science fiction horror film. Despite the lofty insinuations of this movie's title, it is nothing more than a glorified zombie picture. Directors Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow seemed determined to give the [..]

"Marnie" is unusual for an Alfred Hitchcock movie in that it deals with some very dark themes, such as rape, mental illness, and blackmail. By themselves, these topics don't have much of a story for cinema, but they do here as they involve the main characters played [..]

The theatrical talents and vivacious personality of Sophia Loren are on full display in the raucous Italian dark comedy film "Marriage Italian Style." The story of a businessman who has an on-and-off relationship with a prostitute for some twenty years and then discovers that one of [..]

"Roustabout" is one of the higher quality Elvis Presley films of the 1960's. Director John Rich ("Wives and Lovers" 1963) and writers Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss have the King of Rock and Roll taking a job in the circus. The results are very entertaining. [..]

The story of two children and their nanny, a talented new star named Julie Andrews, and thirty years of Walt Disney's show business experience paid off big time in the massive box office hit "Mary Poppins." This musical-fantasy-comedy film combined every area Disney had been working on for [..]

George Peppard gave a very energetic performance as a Howard Hughes-type of businessman in "The Carpetbaggers." Director Edward Dmytryk ("Raintree County" 1957) held a tight rein on the movie's production, making the two-and-a-half hour running time go by very fast. Peppard's character's ruthlessness held the audience's attention, that's [..]

"Ride the Wild Surf" is a romantic drama film set in the beach party culture of the 1960's. However, there is no comedy in this drama of three friends who travel to Oahu's North Shore for surfing action and subsequent romantic drama. Director Don Taylor ("Everything's [..]

"Send Me No Flowers" is a romantic comedy starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall, the third and final film they made together. Director Norman Jewison ("The Thrill of It All" 1963) was adept enough at the helm of the project to make this a [..]

"Robin and the 7 Hoods" stands out as a superior entry into Frank Sinatra's patented Rat Pack genre of motion pictures. It has comedy, drama, and, of course, loads of music. Sinatra's favorite conductor and music arranger Nelson Riddle was in charge of this department. [..]

Melina Mercouri and Maximilian Schell play two professional thieves who assemble a team to steal a jewel-studded Ottoman Empire-era dagger from a museum in Istanbul in "Topkapi." Tight direction by Jules Dassin ("Never on Sunday" 1960) made this an exciting heist film, from a screenplay by Monja Danischewsky, [..]