Movies from 1968

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

160 mins     Mystery, Sci-Fi      

I think it is in "Bambi" where on of the characters say "if you can't say anything nice don't say nothing at all", so I had better say bye now and review over. Okay it is not that bad but I do not think "2001: A Space Odyssey...

5 Card Stud (1968)

103 mins     Mystery, Western      

"5 Card Stud" is another one of those westerns where the idea ends up a lot better than the final movie. In fact I really like the idea of making a western a mystery with men involved in a lynching being picked off one by one...

A Stranger in Paso Bravo (1968)

92 mins     Western      

A Stranger in Paso Bravo (1968) Anthony Steffen is the mysterious man who enters Paso Bravo, seeking answers over a fire many years earlier and revenge at the same time...

Anzio (1968)

117 mins     Drama, War      

"Anzio" must be one of the most uninspired war movies I have watched, taking a true story and then turning it not only into a typical Hollywood war movie but at the same time an anti-war movie. Yes it does mean it is mixed be...

Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)

89 mins     Action , Drama, War      

I didn't see it mentioned anywhere but it appears that "Attack on the Iron Coast" was inspired by Operation Chariot a British Army and Navy attack on the dry dock at St Nazaire. That isn't that unusual as since WWII there hav...

Big Jessie (1968)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

"Big Jessie" is really episode 20 of the 60s western series "Cimarron Strip" but as I have mentioned before, due to their stand alone nature they are now often shown as individual movies, As such at 75 minutes, 90 with advert...

The Blue Moon Train (1968)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

There were 23 episodes of "Cimarron Strip" made and "The Blue Moon Train" was episode 21 although it was the 10th one produced. The strange thing it doesn't feel like that as it feels like it might have been produced towards ...

The Boston Strangler (1968)

116 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery      

So for the first half of "The Boston Strangler" we are presented with a heavy police procedural as the focus is on the detectives as they try and solve the case with very few clues to go on and ending up using a psychic to tr...

Bullitt (1968)

114 mins     Action , Crime, Mystery      

Have we, as a movie loving population, become so spoilt by what cinema has to offer now that it is getting increasingly harder to be impressed by those older movies which some hold in high regard. I say this because I reckon ...

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

108 mins     Comedy, Romance      

One woman, one child but three men who could be the daughter's father, no I am not talking about the musical "Mamma Mia" but the 1968 comedy "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell". Here we have Gina Lollobrigida as the mother who is con...

Bury Them Deep (1968)

109 mins     Western      

As I watched the spaghetti western "Bury Them Deep", also known as "All'ultimo sangue" I couldn't help but think on the Lonestar westerns of the 1930s. Now there is a lot of difference between this spaghetti western and one o...

Carry On Up the Khyber (1968)

88 mins     Comedy      

In a way "Carry On Up the Khyber" is one of the better "Carry On" movies as the whole thing does revolve around a story not so much derived from the history books but using a period in history as its source. As such we have a...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

144 mins     Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical      

Ever since I saw "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" as a child, sometime during the 70s, I have loved it and is one of those movies which if appears on the TV schedule I always try to make time to watch. But the thing about "Chitty Ch...

Cimarron Strip: Knife in the Darkness (1968)

73 mins     TV Movie, Western      

Cimarron Strip: Knife in the Darkness (1968) Marshall Crown has a serial killer on his hands in Cimarron with the same MO as Jack the Ripper...

Coogan's Bluff (1968)

93 mins     Action , Crime, Drama      

In many ways "Coogan's Bluff" was a transitional movie for Clint Eastwood as it took him from Clint the Cowboy to Clint the Cop. And the movie itself was transitional because at the start Clint plays an Arizona Deputy Sheriff...

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)

89 mins     Horror      

Let me get straight to the point, the appeal of "Curse of the Crimson Altar" when watched now is that it starred Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee and Michael Gough. With three actors all of which who made some memorable horror ...

Day of the Evil Gun (1968)

95 mins     Western      

When you watch "Day of the Evil Gun" and end up thinking it is all very familiar you wouldn't be wrong as to put it simply it is another western which works a similar theme to the classic "The Searchers". Characters may have ...

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

96 mins     Horror      

I don't know, maybe it is just me but the more Hammer horror movies I watch the less I see what is so wonderful about them. This is certainly the case when it comes to "The Devil Rides Out" because there are many which rate i...

The Devil's Brigade (1968)

130 mins     Action , War      

1967 saw Robert Aldrich giving us "The Dirty Dozen" which starred Richard Jaeckel as one of the men training a rabble bunch of criminal soldiers for a dangerous mission. The following year we had Andrew V. McLaglen giving us ...

Finian's Rainbow (1968)

141 mins     Family, Fantasy, Musical      

How do you like your musicals? Do you like the classy singing & dancing of a Fred & Ginger musical or the big show numbers of a Rodgers and Hammerstein production or maybe prefer the energy and vibrancy of a 60s musical. Wel...