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1960s Movies

The Servant (1963)

December 6, 2021May 1, 2022 - by greatmovies

Wealthy Londoner Tony, who says he is part of a plan to build cities in Brazil, moves into his new house, and hires Hugo Barrett as his manservant. Barrett appears to take easily to his new job, and he and Tony form a quiet bond, retaining their social roles.

1970s Movies

Galileo (1975)

August 7, 2020January 19, 2023 - by greatmovies

Galileo movie storyline. This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world’s first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus’ theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

1960s Movies

Boom! (1968)

July 20, 2020January 23, 2023 - by greatmovies

Boom! movie storyline. Flora ‘Sissy’ Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders (Richard Burton), nicknamed “Angelo Del Morte” (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a very young man). The mysterious man may or may not be “The Angel of Death”.

1970s Movies

The Go-Between (1971)

July 6, 2020February 3, 2023 - by greatmovies

The Go-Between movie storyline. Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last, and the summer Leo (Dominic Guard) turns thirteen. He’s the guest of Marcus (Richard Gibson), a wealthy classmate, at a grand house in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian (Julie Christie), Marcus’ twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh (Edward Fox), a viscount and good fellow.