Quintessential blind-lady-in-distress thriller, from the theater piece by Frederick Knott, playwright also of Dial M for Murder. It's undeniably talky and stagy, but the device whereby the heroine learns that her new ally is really her new enemy is an ingenious bit of stagecraft, and it gains on screen from …
A whimsical excuse for a movie: Woody Allen has dubbed his own dialogue onto a silly Japanese spy movie. It is undisciplined, to put it gently. But the voices are really a very funny parody of standard, raspy movie dubbing, and a reasonable number of the gag lines receive gusty …
Evil-minded comedy in Victorian dress, played a bit archly and daintily by the likes of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and others, but periodically fun, especially when taken over by Peter Sellers and a roomful of cats. Based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson; directed by Bryan Forbes.
Jacques Demy's hommage to the MGM musical, and in specific to Gene Kelly, who is accorded a key role (and a grand entrance) on screen. The central players, paired this one time only, are real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac (the latter killed in a car wreck soon after …
The most overproduced James Bond escapade -- in Sean Connery's tenure -- gains a firm foothold in memory on the basis of the aerial dogfight won by Bond in his toy helicopter, and the climactic assault on a rocket launching pad hidden inside a Japanese volcano. Karin Dor, Donald Pleasence; …