1963 movies

Great Escape, The (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Garner, James | Attenborough, Richard | Donald, James | Bronson, Charles | Pleasence, Donald | Coburn, James | Messemer, Hannes | McCallum, David | Jackson, Gordon | Leyton, John | Lennie, Angus | Stock, Nigel | Graf, Robert | Taylor, Jud
Directors: Sturges, John
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Based on a true story, “The Great Escape” deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.

Spencer’s Mountain (1963)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Fonda, Henry | O'Hara, Maureen | MacArthur, James | Crisp, Donald | Cox, Wally | Farmer, Mimsy | Gregg, Virginia | Bronson, Lillian | Bissell, Whit | Rorke, Hayden | Bennett, Kathy | Taylor, Dub | Summers, Hope | Mayer, Ken | FitzSimons, Bronwyn
Directors: Daves, Delmer
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Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he and Clay get into a bit of trouble. If he has one dream in life it’s to build his wife Olivia a beautiful house on a piece of land he inherited on Spender’s mountain. When his eldest son, Clayboy, graduates at the top of his high school class and has the opportunity to go to college, Clay has only one option left to him.

Birds, The (1963)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Rod | Tandy, Jessica | Pleshette, Suzanne | Hedren, Tippi | Cartwright, Veronica | Griffies, Ethel | McGraw, Charles | McDevitt, Ruth | Chapman, Lonny | Mantell, Joe | Weaver, Doodles | Atterbury, Malcolm | McGovern, John | Swenson, Karl | Deacon, Richard
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is cross a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, relative incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows sliver before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townsfolk take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and in the end everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against recurrent attacks by the birds. It’s enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.

Sword in the Stone, The (1963)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Cabot, Sebastian | Sorensen, Rickie | Swenson, Karl | Matthews, Junius | Tyler, Ginny | Wentworth, Martha | Alden, Norman | Napier, Alan | Reitherman, Richard | Reitherman, Robert | Ravenscroft, Thurl | Allen, Barbara Jo
Directors: Reitherman, Wolfgang
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This alive feature of speech is set in mediaeval times. After the english language king dies going no heir, in the god’s acre of a duomo in London, a sword appears imbedded in a stone inscribed, “Who so pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of England.” Although many try, no one can budge the sword from the stone. Deep in the dark woods, kind, but absent-minded Merlin the necromancer begins to teach 11-year-old Arthur, who is called Wart, and lives in the castle of Sir Ector where he’s an learner squire to burly, oafish Sir Kay — when he’s not washables stacks of pots and pans in the scullery. By being changed by Merlin into diverse animals, Wart learns the basic truths of life, but he also runs into the evil Madam Mim, who tries to demolish him. Merlin and Mim have a Wizards’ Duel, during which each changes into versatile creatures, with Merlin using his wits to win. On New Year’s Day, a great tourney is held in London to pick a new king. Wart, attention as Kay’s squire, forgets Kay’s sword, and runs back to the inn to get it, but the inn is locked. Wart, seeing the sword in the stone, innocently, and easily, pulls it out. When the knights marvel at the toppingly sword and oppugn where he got it, Wart has to prove himself all over again, and again he pulls the sword from the stone. Wart is announced king by the marveling warriors. Wart as King Arthur is discerning of his power to govern, but Merlin returns to assure him.

Charade (1963)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant, Cary | Hepburn, Audrey | Matthau, Walter | Coburn, James | Kennedy, George | Minot, Dominique | Glass, Ned | Marin, Jacques | Bonifas, Paul | Chelimsky, Thomas | Aslan, Grégoire | Bernier, Marcel | Delfosse, Raoul | Drake, Colin
Directors: Donen, Stanley
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Regina constant lambert returns to Paris from a ski vacation in svizzera to find that her economise has been murdered. She is later told by CIA agent alexander hamilton Bartholemew that charles stuart constant lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. politics during World War II, and the governance wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day she is visited by Peter Joshua, whom she had met shortly while on holiday. When her husband’s former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by Charles, start vocation her sounding for the money, Peter offers to help find it. Thus begins an rarify sendup in which cypher is what it seems to be.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Tracy, Spencer | Berle, Milton | Caesar, Sid | Hackett, Buddy | Merman, Ethel | Rooney, Mickey | Shawn, Dick | Silvers, Phil | Terry-Thomas | Winters, Jonathan | Adams, Edie | Provine, Dorothy | Anderson, Eddie 'Rochester' | Backus, Jim | Blue, Ben
Directors: Kramer, Stanley
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After a long prison condemnation Smiler Grogan is header at high speed to a golden state park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He unexpectedly careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives inside information of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on communion the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.