Dirk Bogarde

  • John Frankenheimer – The Fixer (1968)

    John Frankenheimer1961-1970DramaUSA

    In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.Read More »

  • Joseph Losey – The Servant (1963)

    Joseph Losey1961-1970DramaUnited Kingdom
    The Servant (1963)
    The Servant (1963)

    Synopsis: Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.Read More »

  • Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – Ill Met by Moonlight AKA Night Ambush (1957)

    Michael Powell1951-1960DramaEmeric PressburgerUnited KingdomWar
    Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
    Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

    Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island’s German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.Read More »

  • George Cukor & Joseph Strick – Justine (1969)

    1961-1970AdventureDramaGeorge CukorJoseph StrickUSA

    IMDB wrote:
    In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine.Read More »

  • Basil Dearden – The Mind Benders (1963)

    1961-1970Basil DeardenDramaThrillerUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist, Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman (Sir Dirk Bogarde) decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife Oonagh (Mary Ure).Read More »

  • Roy Ward Baker – The Singer Not the Song (1961)

    1961-1970DramaRoy Ward BakerUSAWestern

    Summary:
    During the 1950s, in a small isolated Mexican village, the local Roman Catholic priest, Father Gomez (Leslie French), is an older man with a broken spirit. During his tenure in the village of Quantano, he fought hard to keep his flock of parishioners, in spite of threats and intimidation from the part of local bandit Anacleto Comachi (Sir Dirk Bogarde) and his men. The atheistic bandit has imposed his tyrannical rule over the region for many years. The local Police cannot find any witnesses to come forward and testify to any wrongdoing from the part of Anacleto. Therefore, they cannot charge him or arrest him. The Catholic Church replaces Father Gomez with a younger, more energetic priest, Father Keogh (Sir John Mills) from Ireland. Before departing the village, Father Gomez warns Father Keogh of the dangers of defying Anacleto Comachi’s authority. Read More »

  • Andrew L. Stone – The Password Is Courage (1962)

    Drama1961-1970Andrew L. StoneUnited KingdomWar

    A British officer, captured by the Germans, tries everything he can to escape. In the process, amongst many other adventures he gets awarded the Iron Cross !! Based on a true story.Read More »

  • Joseph Losey – Modesty Blaise (1966)

    1961-1970ComedyCrimeJoseph LoseyUnited Kingdom

    Monica Vitti is Modesty Blaise, fabulous international spy-slash-jewel thief. She is hired by Sir Gerald Terrant (Harry Andrews) of the British government — I think, but I’m not sure, for reasons I’ll explain momentarily — to make sure £50 million in diamonds gets to the proper Middle Eastern sheik in exchange for oil reserves. Modesty warns them that if she is not told the full story about the diamonds and the plans to rob them en route, she will consider herself a free agent and steal the diamonds for herself. Thus begins a strange series of events that are part spy spoof, part random stream of consciousness events, and partly based on the long-running comic strip begun in 1963.Read More »

  • Joseph Losey – Accident (1967)

    Drama1961-1970Joseph LoseyUSA

    Synopsis:
    Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives. Things begin to change for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful student who is engaged to William, another of Stephen’s students. Though he begins to feel alive again in her presence, Stephen’s feelings for Anna can only end in tragedy for them and those around them.Read More »

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