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Beach Movies
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Thunder Alley ( Hell Drivers )
AIP
Richard
Rush
Stanley Adams,
Maureen Arthur, Frankie Avalon, Michael Bell, Warren Berlinger,
Fabian
Annette Funicello, Kip King, Diane McBain, Michael T. Mikler,
Jan Murray, Sandy Reed
American
West Coast youth stock-car culture.
Fabian's lousy driving gets him suspended from racing
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Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
United
Artists / Giant
Clive
Donner
Barry Evans,
Judy Geeson, Angela Scoular, Adrienne Posta, Sheila White, Michael
Bates
Maxine Audley, Vanessa Howard, Denholm Elliott, Moyra Fraser
One
of the classic Swinging Sixties youth culture movies.
Artists: The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Stevie Winwood and
general pop music background
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Thirty Is A Dangerous Age, Cynthia
Columbia
/ Walter Shenson
Joe
McGrath
Dudley Moore,
Eddie Foy Jr, Suzy Kendall, John Bird, Duncan MacRae, Patricia
Routledge
Sixties
culture movie.
A shy nightclub pianist has girl trouble
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Mondo Hollywood
Omega
- Cyrano
Carl
Cohen
A
documentary-style film on the swingin' Hollywood culture, music
and personalities of the mid-Sixties. Making appearances are
Julie Andrews, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Bridgit Bardot, Richard
Burton & Elizabeth Taylor,
Alfred Hitchcock, LSD guru Dr. Richard Alpert, Rudi Gernreich,
Valerie Porter, Ronald Reagan
Frank Zappa, Manson victim hair stylist Jay Sebring and Manson
Gang member Bobby Beausoliel
The
soundtrack is by Mike Curb, mostly using acts from his own 'Sidewalk'
record label including
The Mugwump Establishment, Teddy and Darrell, Davie Allan and
The Arrows, The Riptides
Bobby Jameson, The God Pan, Darrell Dee, The 18th Century Concepts
and Mike Clifford
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Catalina Caper
Crown-International
Pictures
Lee
Sholem
Tommy Kirk,
Del Moore, Peter Duryea, Robert Donner, Ulla Stromstedt, Jim
Begg, Michael Blodgett
Venita Wolf, Peter Mamakos, Sue Casey, Brian Cutler, Lyle Waggoner,
Lee Deane, Bonnie Lomann
Britt Nilsson, Donna Russell, Carol Connors, Timothy Garland,
Little Richard
Best
described as a beach culture movie with music.
The mixed-up plot involves an art theft as the main theme but
also contains a love story and various other youth culture sequences
interspersed with songs and dance numbers
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Johnny
Cash
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Festival
Patchke
Productions
Murray
Lerner
Documentary
movie on country and folk music festivals with appearances by
Joan Baez, Paul Butterfield
Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Cousin Emmy, Mimi
Farina, Buffy Sainte-Marie
Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry
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Mondo Mod
Box
Office International
Peter
Perry
Narrated
by Humble Harve
A
documentary film on pre-hippie Hollywood club culture, containing
footage of Sixties night clubs such as Pandora's Box, Gazzarri's,
The Whisky A-Go-Go and The Fifth Estate among many others.
Featured music is by Sam the Soul and The Inspirations, The Group
and The Gretschmen
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Hell's Angels On Wheels
Fanfare
Richard
Rush
Adam Roarke,
Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf, Sonny Barger, Jana Taylor, Richard
Anders
John Garwood
Semi-documentary
Hell's Angels / Biker cult movie notably including real-life Hell's
Angels president
Sonny Barger and a group called The Poor
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C'Mon Let's Live A Little
Paramount
David
Butler
Bobby Vee,
Jackie DeShannon, Eddie Hodges, Suzie Kaye, Patsy Kelly, John
Ireland Jr
Russ Conway, Mark Evans, Jill Banner
American
college culture film.
Boy meets girl, romances girl, is led astray by radical student.
Got it?
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Don't Look Back
Leacock
- Pennebaker - Cowboy Pictures
D.A.Pennebaker
Derroll Adams,
Joan Baez, Tito Burns, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithfull,
Allen Ginsberg
Albert Grossman, Bob Neuwirth, Alan Price
Documentary
and performances from Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, accompanied
by legendary manager, Albert Grossman, folk singer Joan Baez,
various groupies, journalists and hangers-on.
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Mini Weekend
Tigon
Georges
Robin
Eve Aubrey,
Patti Bryant, Rosalind Elliot, Connie Frazer, Avril Gaynor,
Maria Hauffer, Veronica Lang
Jane MacIntosh, Anna Palk, Liza Robers, Kathleen Southern, Lucy
Swain, Anthony Trent
Youth
culture comedy drama made in black and white
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The Seekers Down Under
E.M.I.
Music ( Australia )
Judith Durham,
Athol Guy, Keith Potger, Bruce Woodley
In
their second semi-travelog musical film the group take you on
another sightseeing tour around
Australia, this time filming on location at Barossa Valley (South
Australia), Melbourne (Victoria)
Canberra (Australian Capital Territory) and Sydney (New South
Wales)
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The Sweet Ride
TCF
Harvey
Hart
Jacqueline
Bisset, Tony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Bob Denver, Michael
Wilding
Late
Sixties surf culture movie.
Californian surf drop-outs and beachcombers with music by Moby
Grape
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Girl On A Motorcycle ( Naked Under Leather )
MidAtlantic
/ Ares
Jack
Cardiff
Marianne
Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton
Cult
semi-porn Sixties culture film. A married woman visits her lover
on her motorcycle, eventually crashing to her death while in the
throes of a sexual reverie. Long series of still images. Very
surreal
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The Fastest Guitar Alive
MGM
/ Sam Katzman
Michael
Moore
Roy Orbison,
Sammy Jackson, Maggie Pierce, Joan Freeman, Lyle Bettger, Jean
Doucette, Ben Lessy
Comedy
western film with music. Inept Confederate soldiers, including
the Big 'O' as a singing Southern spy with a bullet-firing guitar,
are sent on a gold-carrying mission
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The Cool Ones ( Cool Baby, Cool! )
Warner
Brothers
Gene
Nelson
Roddy McDowell,
Debbie Watson, Robert Coote, Phil Harris, Nita Talbot, Gil Peterson
Glen Campbell, Teri Garr
Musical
comedy, with choreography by Toni Basil, sending up the 'trendy'
music business.
A former pop singer makes a comeback and a frustrated go-go dancer
on the 'Whizbam!'
TV show creates a new dance craze, "The Tantrum," when she grabs
the mic from Glen Campbell.
Performances by Lee Hazelwood, The Leaves and the underage 'Bantams'.
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Good Times
Motion
Picture International
William
Friedkin
Sonny and
Cher, George Sanders, Norman Alden, Larry Duran
Hollywood
/ West Coast culture movie. A singing duo fantasise about having
a film career
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Poor Cow
Anglo-Amalgamated
/ Vic Films / Fenchurch
Ken
Loach
Carol White,
Terence Stamp, John Bindon, Kate Williams, Queenie Watts
London
low-life semi-documentary about a young mother and her criminal
husband.
Lyrics to the title song are provided by Donovan
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Privilege
Universal
/ Worldfilm Services / Memorial Enterprises
Peter
Watkins
Paul Jones,
Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, Max Bacon, Jeremy Child, James
Cossins, Victor Henry
Fantasy
Sixties pop culture where a pop star's publicity turns him into
a kind of religious messiah
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Magical Mystery Tour
Apple
Corporation
George
Harrison / John Lennon
The Beatles,
Jan Carson, Shirley Evans, George Claydon, Neil Innes, Vivian
Stanshall, Victor Spinetti
Swinging
Sixties culture pop movie made for television.
The 'Fab Four' take a surreal bus ride across the U.K.
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Don't Make Waves
MGM
/ Filmways
Alexander
Mackendrick
Tony Curtis,
Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes, Sharon Tate,
Jim Backus, Mort Sahl
Malibu
Beach culture comedy film
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The Happening
Columbia
/ Horizon / Dover
Eliot
Silverstein
Anthony Quinn,
George Maharis, Michael Parks, Faye Dunaway, Robert Walker,
Oscar Homolka
Swinging
Sixties hippie culture.
Hippies kidnap a businessman but lose the plot and it all goes
to pieces
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Smashing Time
Paramount
/ Partisan / Carlo Ponti
Desmond
Davis
Rita Tushingham,
Lynn Redgrave, Ian Carmichael, Anna Quayle, Michael York, Irene
Handl, Jeremy Lloyd
Swinging
London culture comedy film
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The Jokers
Universal
/ Adastra / Gildor / Scimitar
Michael
Winner
Michael Crawford,
Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Peter Graves, Gabriella Licudi,
Warren Mitchell
Swinging
London culture satire / crime comedy about a pair of rich brothers
who make the rounds of posh parties playing increasingly
elaborate practical jokes, resulting in a plan to 'borrow' the
crown jewels
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To Sir With Love
Columbia
James
Clavell
Sidney Poitier,
Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Lulu
Patricia Routledge, Geoffrey Bayldon, Lulu
Youth
culture movie classic with music, considered to be the inspiration
for the 'Please Sir' TV series.
The second British attempt at a version of 'The Blackboard Jungle'
with Sidney Poitier as the teacher
trying to achieve a better relationship with his students.
Featured artists are Lulu, with the title song hit, and The Mindbenders
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Blast-Off Girls
Creative
Film Enterprises
Herschell
Gordon Lewis
Dan Conway,
Ray Sager, Tom Tyrell, Tom Liace, Dennis Hickey, Chris Wolsky,
Ralph Mullin
Harland Sanders, Sherri Lane, Sharon Camille, Ann Heath, Julia
Ames, Sally Tenerelli, Sarasue Gleiss
Barbara Harrison, Lawrence J. Aberwood, Neil Julien, Don Logay,
Jack Horner, Steve White
Tom Eppolito, Bob Compton, Roy Barry, Tony Sorci
A
sleazy pop promoter signs up pop band The Big Blast and fast-tracks
their career with a bunch of hired girls who use their talents
on his opponents to help him achieve his objectives. The band
become unhappy with his 'cut' of the profits and try to leave
but, nice guy that he is, he really starts to get to work and
sets them up for trouble with the law, blackmailing them to sign
a new contract if he helps them out. The highlight is a cameo
by Col. Harlan Sanders who offers the band all the fried chicken
they can eat if they will set up and play in his restaurant. Featuring
music from The Faded Blue, Charlie, The Wildcats and The Blast-Off
Girls .
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Riot On Sunset Strip
AIP
Arthur
Dreifuss
Aldo Ray,
Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Laurie Mock, Tim Rooney, Bill Baldwyn,
George Carey
Schuyler Haydn, Gene Kirkwood, Anna Mizrahi, Hortense Petra
West
coast culture film dealing weakly with the mid-Sixties riots and
wild goings-on in Hollywood discotheques tied together loosely
with a storyline about a policeman's concern when his daughter
gets involved in the hippie drug scene.
Music features The Standells, The Chocolate Watch Band and The
Enemies
who later evolved into Three Dog Night
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Hell On Wheels
Distributed
by Crown International Pictures and Loonic Video
Will
Zens
Marty Robbins,
John Ashley, Gigi Perreau, Connie Smith, The Stonemans, Eddie
Crandall
Robert Dornan, Chris Eland, Robert Foulk, Frank Gerstle, Marvin
Miller
Essentially
an American stock-car racing movie with music
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Andy Warhol
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Bike Boy
Vaughan
/ Factory films
Andy
Warhol
Viva, Ingrid
Superstar, Bridgit Polk, Joe Spencer, Ed Hood
Warhol's
cult film on New York low-life culture.
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The Love-Ins
Columbia
Pictures Corporation
Arthur
Dreifuss
Richard Todd,
James MacArthur, Susan Oliver, Mark Goddard, Carol Booth, Marc
Cavell
Janee Michelle, Ronnie Eckstine, Joe Pyne
Hippie
culture film mirroring the alleged activities of Timothy Leary.
A college professor moves to Haight-Ashbury and starts a cult
by becoming the older 'guru' to a group of young hippies. Needless
to say, the path to enlightenment involves him having his wicked
way with several of the better-looking acolytes and advocating
the use of LSD.
Psychedelic sequences are accompanied by music from
The Chocolate Watch Band, The U.F.O.s and The New Age Group
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Tonite Let's All Make Love In London
Lorrimer
Peter
Whitehead
Mick Jagger,
Andrew Loog Oldham, Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Lee Marvin,
David Hockney
Alan Aldridge
A
documentary drama film on the swingin' London culture
with music and appearances by The Stones, Pink Floyd, Twice As
Much, Vashti
Eric Burdon and The Animals, The Small Faces and Chris Farlowe
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Mondo Teeno ( The Teenage Rebellion )
British
sequences directed by Richard Lester
A
documentary on youth cultures around the world narrated by Burt
Topper.
The title song is by The Glass Family and the soundtrack is by
Mike Curb and Bob Summers
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The Touchables
Robert
Freeman
Pop-art
swingin' Sixties youth culture film in which four swinging dolly
birds in an inflatable dome kidnap a good-looking young pop star
for fun - theirs! The theme music is by Nirvana and additional
soundtrack music comes from Wynder K. Frog, The Ferris Wheel and
Roy Redman.
This is the only full feature film that Beatles photographer
Robert Freeman directed
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It's A Bikini World
Trans
American
Stephanie
Rothman
Jack Bernardi,
Sid Haig, Suzie Kaye, Tommy Kirk, William O'Connell, Bob Pickett.
Deborah Walley
Beach
culture comedy film featuring The Animals performing 'We Gotta
Get Out Of This Place'
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Dora Bryan - from
'A Taste Of Honey'
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Two A Penny
World
Wide
James
F.Collier
Cliff Richard,
Dora Bryan, Ann Holloway, Avril Angers, Geoffrey Bayldon, Peter
Barkworth
Youth
drugs culture religious propaganda curiosity.
Billy Graham plays a cameo role in this film which casts Cliff
as a drug-dealing pop star.
Songs by Cliff include 'Twist and Shout' and 'Questions'
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Cucumber Castle
The BeeGees, Adam Faith and Lulu feature
in this short ( unreleased? ) musical film
The Deadly Bees
Ronnie Wood appears in a band called 'The
Birds'
The Dirty Dozen
Trini Lopez acts and sings
Four Stars ( **** )
Andy Warhol film with Nico
American Music From Folk To Jazz To Pop
Documentary on music varieties including
footage of The Dave Clark Five and The Supremes
I A Man
Andy Warhol film with Nico
Bedazzled
Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore - one scene
features Dud in a recording studio
The Graduate
Music by Simon and Garfunkel
How I Won The War
Cast includes John Lennon in a dramatic
role
Christmas On Earth Continued
Footage of the British concert including
performances by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine
The Move, The Who and Tomorrow. The ( unreleased? ) stock comes from
the home video 'Jimi Hendrix: Live In Monterey 1970'
Surfari
Greg Noll surfing documentary
The Grateful Dead
A short, fast-forward motion documentary
of one of their concerts from start to finish
Half A Sixpence
Musical starring Tommy Steele
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