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The Last Voyage

The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights to hold a bulkhead between the flooded boiler room and the engine room and avoid the sinking of the vessel, the passenger Cliff Henderson struggles against time trying to save his beloved wife Laurie Henderson, who is trapped under a steel beam in her cabin, with the support of ...

1960 Action 91 min Play

6.3

Portrait in Black

A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.

6.3

1960 Drama 112 min Play

Hell Bent for Leather

When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.

1960 Western 82 min Play

6.5

Bottoms Up!

An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for ...

6.5

1960 Comedy 90 min Play

Faces in the Dark

A businessman (John Gregson) loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife (Mai Zetterling) planned to leave him for another man (Michael Denison).

1960 Mystery 84 min Play

7.8

The Naked Island

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

7.8

1960 Drama 97 min Play

Dinosaurus!

After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population.

1960 Adventure 85 min Play

5.4

The Facts of Life

Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.

5.4

1960 Comedy 103 min Play

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.

1960 Comedy 125 min Play

The Time Machine

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

1960 Adventure 103 min Play

G.I. Blues

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean (Elvis Presley) hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a venture, but a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili (Juliet Prowse) is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But, when that friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.

1960 Western 128 min Play

1960 Comedy 104 min Play

7.6

The Magnificent Seven

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

7.6

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The flamboyant Victorian wit (Peter Finch) sues the Marquess of Queensberry for a sodomy slur, but it boomerangs.

1960 Drama 130 min Play

Midnight Lace

Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.

1960 Drama 110 min Play

Jigoku

After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally!

1960 Drama 99 min Play

Weddings and Babies

A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.

1960 Adventure 134 min Play

1960 Drama 78 min Play

7.1

Pollyanna

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

7.1

6.2

The Entertainer

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

6.2

1960 Drama 96 min Play

Hell to Eternity

Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at the Manzanar camp for Japanese Americans, while he enlists in the Marines, where his ability to speak Japanese becomes a vital asset. During the Battle of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.

1960 Drama 131 min Play

La Dolce Vita

Journalist and man-about-town Marcello 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.

1960 Comedy 176 min Play

5.1

Visa to Canton

A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.

5.1

1960 Action 75 min Play

The Grass Is Greener

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.