Five classic Films From The 1960’s That Everyone Should See
I asked my friend Roger to give his summation and write reviews of some of the all-time great movies from the 1960’s. For those who are too young to have seen these gems and automatically dismiss classic movies from the sixties, Roger is a big movie buff and is very good at distilling the essence of movies down to five lines (which is what he has done) to give you a concise, compelling summary.
We here at stuffnobodycaresabout.com believe that a handicap should not prevent someone from being given equal opportunities. Roger has always wanted to write and we felt Roger’s attention deficit disorder makes him well-suited to review movies for the younger generation, many of whom have a limited attention span themselves and can’t read a long review. So with that, here are Roger’s reviews.
Five Classic 1960’s Films Reviewed
by Roger Donald Birnam
The Manchurian Candidate – (1962) Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) keeps having a recurring nightmare about his time in a prison camp during the Korean War. After the war all the members of his platoon act strangely, particularly Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) an unlikeable fellow, and this sets Major Marco on a trail to uncover a sinister plot. If I get cremated I won’t need the cemetery plot my family has in Kennebunkport. Why do razor refills cost so much money compared to buying the assembly with the blade? 9 out of 10 stars
To Kill A Mockingbird – (1962) A supposed favorite book of lots of people who probably never really read it, the movie is very slow moving, so you might be better off reading the book. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) is a single dad lawyer who protects his children Scout & Jem (Mary Badham & Phillip Alford) from bad neighbors in a southern town where a black man Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) is falsely accused of raping a white woman. I really like old country and western music compared to the type of country music that is played on the local radio station here in Maine. The neighbors are kind of noisy and I wish they would put up a higher fence to block out the sound. 7 out of 10 stars.
Goldfinger– (1964) the third James Bond film has 007 (Sean Connery) fighting Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), a very, focused man who really, really likes gold a whole lot (kind of like current right-wing radio station hosts) and who wants to steal a lot of it along with a henchman named Odd Job who has a hat that can kill. If you go out to play golf and it starts to rain what should you do? My refrigerator is a new GE Profile with the side by side doors and the bottom freezer. 7 out of 10 stars
Dr. Zhivago – (1965) During the Russian revolution Dr. Zhivago (Omar Sharif) who writes poetry, falls in love with the beautiful Lara (Julie Christie) and can’t bring himself to leave his wife and child. The communists take everything from him, but his spirit is filled with freedom via his poems to Lara. If Alexei Yashin had not moved back to the Russian hockey league, I bet he would have put up numbers like Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals. Hey there is a bird sitting on my window sill! 8 out of 10 stars
Bonnie and Clyde – (1967) Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) are very glamorous bank robbers during the depression and they become folk heroes as they shoot people and “rob banks.” As they criss-cross the midwest and south robbing banks, they piss off a Texas Ranger named Frank Hamer (Denver Pyle) who vows to catch them. I noticed the banks are not paying high interest rates anymore compared to the 1980’s when I was once getting 18% on a savings account. It gets cold here in Maine and I’ve been thinking they should bring back to the local department stores the real parkas that have the goose down feathers in them, not the Chinese imports with synthetic pigeon and rat stuffing. 8 out of 10 stars
