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1950s Movies

Raintree County (1957)

October 2, 2020January 7, 2023 - by greatmovies

It’s the mid nineteenth century in Freehaven, Raintree County, Indiana. John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) has just graduated from high school at the top of his class, with a promising career as a writer. He is a romantic, principled, and an idealist, believing the story of the golden raintree – after which the county is named – growing somewhere, most likely in the county’s swamp area, searching for and locating it which would provide all the answers to one’s life questions.

1960s Movies

The Time Machine (1960)

September 25, 2020January 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Time Machine movie storyline. On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. Wells – George to his friends – arrives late to his own dinner party. He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his friends knew. They were also unbelieving, and skeptical of any practical use if it did indeed work.

1960s Movies

Dark of the Sun (1968)

September 24, 2020January 8, 2023 - by greatmovies

Dark of the Sun movie storyline. British commando Captain Curry (Rod Taylor), is hired by President Ubi of war-torn Congo, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds from a time-locked vault before the separatist Simba army that’s fighting Ubi’s forces and the UN peacekeepers overruns the remote town where the bank that holds the vault is located.

1960s Movies

Sunday in New York (1963)

August 1, 2020January 20, 2023 - by greatmovies

Sunday in New York movie storyline. One Sunday, twenty-two year old virgin Eileen Tyler decides to take the train from her home in Albany to visit her older brother, airline pilot Adam Tyler, in New York City. The surprise visit is in part to commiserate about the break-up with her fiancé, Russ Wilson, but also to ask Adam for some advice about the issue which led to her and Russ’ break-up: if it’s all right to have premarital sex.

1950s Movies

Separate Tables (1958)

June 19, 2020February 17, 2023 - by greatmovies

Separate Tables movie synopsis. In Bournemouth, England, the Beauregard Hotel is located three minutes from the sea and managed by Pat Cooper. It is off-season and only the resident guests are lodged in the hotel. The timid Sibyl is a spinster and hysterical woman totally controlled by her arrogant and snobbish mother Mrs. Maud Railton-Bell that does not want that she works.

1970s Movies

Darker Than Amber (1970)

June 9, 2020July 3, 2023 - by greatmovies

Travis McGee (Rod Taylor) and his close friend Meyer (Theodore Bikel) are fishing underneath a bridge in their coastal Florida home. To their shock a young woman is thrown off the bridge; she is bound and her ankles weighted with a dumbbell. Travis dives in and saves her, learning her name is Vangie. He is surprised when she insists that he not contact the police and Travis finds himself falling in love with the mysterious woman.

1960s Movies / Alfred Hitchcock Movies

The Birds (1963)

July 28, 2019July 21, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Birds (1963) is the apocalyptic story of a northern California coastal town filled with an onslaught of unexplained, arbitrary and chaotic attacks of ordinary birds – not birds of prey.