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Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
MGM
/ Allen Klein
Saul
Swimmer
Peter Noone
and Herman's Hermits, Stanley Holloway, Mona Washbourne
Lance Percival, Marjorie Rhodes, Nat Jackley
Herman's
Hermits star in this youth culture musical comedy about a group
of musicians who inherit
a racing dog. Herman ( Noone) decides to enter the dog, named
Mrs. Brown, in races and the group
travel from Manchester to London in hopes of qualifying for a
national invitational.
They find work as a pop group (wow!) and Herman falls in love
with the girl next door.
Besides the title tune, "There's a Kind of Hush," "The World Is
for the Young," and
"The Most Beautiful Thing In My Life" are among featured songs.
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Head
Raybert
Productions
Bob
Rafaelson
The Monkees,
Victor Mature, Annette Funicello, Timothy Carey, Logan Ramsey,
Abraham Sofaer
Vito Scotti, Charles Macaulay, T. C. Jones, Charles Irving,
William Bagdad, Percy Helton, Sonny Liston
Youth
culture fantasy musical documenting the life of a Sixties pop
group
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Pop Down
Fremar
/ New Realm
Fred
Marshall
Diane
Keen, Jane Bates, Andy Ellison, Carol Rachell, Nicole Yarna,
Margaret Evans, Debbie Slater
Bill Aaron, Zoot Money, Tony Hicks, Brenton Wood, Fred Marshall
Psychedelic pop film with a sci-fi story
line based around visiting aliens.
Other musical contributions include Don Partridge, Blossom Toes,
Luis Bonfa, Maria Toledo
Hetty Schneider,
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity,The Idle Race and
Dantalion's Chariot
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The Beatles Mod Odyssey
Tarot
Associates Inc
George
Dunning II, Heinz Edelmann
A
short 7 minute promotional trailer film for 'Yellow Submarine'
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Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Karl
Ferris
A
10-minute surreal 60's fantasy created by the Hendrix and
Donovan photographer-turned-filmmaker
Karl Ferris to promote Donovan's 1968 "Gift From A Flower
To A Garden" boxed set album.
Featuring Donovan and quintessential Mod girl Jenny Boyd.
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The Doors
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The Doors: The Doors Are Open
Granada
Television / Movies Unlimited
John
Sheppard
Jim Morrison,
Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore
Documentary
movie made for television and released on video in 1992. The film
contains interviews, performance footage from a concert at London's
'Roundhouse' and music over newsreel footage of demonstration
scenes. Performances include such classics as "Light my Fire,"
"The Unknown Soldier," "Spanish Caravan," and "When the Music's
Over."
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The Stones Rock And Roll Circus
Michael
Lindsay-Hogg
This
was filmed for television at the Wembley International Studios
on 11th December 1968 but never released in its entirety at the
time ( although some footage showed up in other productions )
as Mick Jagger was reputedly unhappy with the quality. The circus
acts were supplied by Sir Robert Fossett's circus, including a
fire-eater and trapeze artists. Stars featured were Marianne Faithfull,
Jethro Tull, The Who (performing a fab acapella piece), Taj Mahal,
Ian Anderson, and a 'supergroup' called 'Dirty Mac' consisting
of John Lennon, Keith Richard, Eric Clapton and the Hendrix drummer
Mitch Mitchell, with a special number featuring Yoko Ono.
There was also, originally, a curious interlude involving Mick
Jagger and Keith Richard in a knife-throwing act. It was subjected
to post-production in the UK and USA between 1989 and 1995 and
released as a 65 minute video in 1996 by ABKCO Films. For those
of you who missed it, hard luck - it was on UK television on December
26th 2024 - just after midnight!
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Experience ( See My Music Talking )
Pomegranate
Peter
Neal
A
short, twenty-nine minute documentary on Jimi Hendrix with a typically
British pop-art background
setting and narrated byAlexis Korner.
The music is based around hits from Jimi's first two albums
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Cream's Farewell Concert
Distributed
by Film Shows
Sandy
Oliveri
Ginger Baker,
Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton
Filmed
on 26th November 1968 at The Royal Albert Hall for television.
A documentary on, and the performance from, Cream's last concert
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You Are What You Eat
Commonwealth-United
Barry
Feinstein
Basically
an irreverent 'underground' documentary, built around a prospective
album soundtrack,
about the various mid-Sixties cultures and starring the talents
of Paul Butterfield, Barry McGuire,
Rosko, Tiny Tim and Peter Yarrow. Additional music and cameos
come from Super Spade,
The Electric Flag, John Simon
David Crosby and Harper's Bizarre. Cameo appearances from The
Family Dog,
The Mothers Of Invention, Ringo Starr and others.
The director, Barry Feinstein, was also one of the leading album
cover photographers of the Sixties
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Joanna
TCF
/ Laughlin
Michael
Sarne
Genevieve
Waite, Christian Doermer, Calvin Lockhart, Donald Sutherland
Swinging
London culture.
A girl art student comes to the big city but doesn't make good
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Yellow Submarine
King
Features / Apple
George
Duning
Swinging
Sixties culture cartoon fantasy featuring the music of The Beatles
with their voices being 'done' by: Paul Angelis, Peter Batten,
John Clive, Dick Emery, Geoffrey Hughes, Lance Percival
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Candy
Selmur
/ Dear / Corona
Christian
Marquand
Ewa Aulin,
Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, James Coburn
Walter Matthau, Charles Aznavour, John Huston, Elsa Martinelli
Ringo Starr, John Astin
Hippie
culture psychedelic fantasy about a girl who can't say 'No'
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Jane Birkin
not from film
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Wonderwall
Cinecenta
/ Alan Clore-Compton
Joe
Massot
Jack MacGowran,
Jane Birkin, Richard Wattis, Irene Handl, Iain Quarrier, Beatrix
Lehmann, Brian Walsh
Swinging
Sixties youth culture 'psychedelia' film with sexual overtones.
The music is by George Harrison
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Blonde On A Bum Trip
Nile
Street / Distribpix
Ralph
Mauro
Alexis Wassell,
Don Nevins, Barbara Spiegelber, Carole Trent
Acid,
psychedelia culture move with good nightclub scenes and music
from
The E-Types, The Vagrants and Bit A Sweet
See why Big Apple hippies, crazy rock music, and psychedelic drugs
make for a lethal combination
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IF . . .
Paramount
/ Memorial
Lindsay
Anderson
Malcolm McDowell,
David Wood, Richard Warwick, Robert Swann, Arthur Lowe, Christine
Noonan
Flashes
of sixties culture in this surreal, all-time great, cult fantasy
treatment of school life and, ultimately, pure anarchy
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Flesh
MGM
Andy
Warhol
Joe Dallesandro,
Geraldine Smith, Patti D'Arbanville, Candy Darling
Jackie Curtis, Geri Miller
Cult
underground film about New York street life. A day in the life
of a male prostitute
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Performance
Warner
Nicolas
Roeg
Mick Jagger,
James Fox, Anita Pallenberg, Michele Breton, Johnny Shannon,
John Bindon
Drama
with music. A vicious gangster moves in with a former pop idol.
Songs include 'Gone Dead Train' by Randy Newman, 'Dyed Dyed Red'
by Buffy Sainte-Marie, 'Memo From Turner' by Mick Jagger
'Wake Up Niggers' by Last Poets, 'Performance' and 'Poor White
Hound' by Merry Clayton.
For various reasons the film was not actually released until 1970
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Finian's Rainbow
Warner
/ Seven Arts
Francis
Ford Coppola
Fred Astaire,
Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Barbara
Hancock, Al Freeman
Musical
fantasy film
No Sixties cultural significance, just pleasant unassuming fun
with 'Downtown' singer Pet Clark
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Duane Eddy
Duane Eddy
not from film
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Kona Coast
Warner
Brothers
Lamont
Johnson
Joan Blondell,
Richard Boone, Vera Miles
Drama
in which a fishing boat captain gets revenge on the guys who murdered
his daughter.
Small uncredited appearance by Duane Eddy
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Up The Junction
Paramount
/ BHE
Peter
Collinson
Adrienne
Posta, Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Liz Fraser,
Alfie Bass, Hylda Baker
Another
classic Sixties youth culture movie, based on a Nell Dunn novel.
Polly, a Chelsea girl, attempts to forsake her upper-class roots
and moves to
working-class Clapham. She takes a factory job where she is confronted
with
various heavy issues including domestic violence, abortion, and
the general
downbeat life of the area. Dennis Waterman plays Polly's Lambretta-riding
boyfriend Peter. Brilliant, haunting, bluesy soundtrack by Manfred
Mann
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For Singles Only
Columbia
Pictures Corporation
Arthur
Dreifuss
John Saxon,
Mary Ann Mobley, Lana Wood, Mark Richman, Milton Berle, Dick
Castle, Ann Elder
Talya Ferro, Norma Foster, Duke Hobbie, Marty Ingels, Maria
Korda, Leslie McRae, Dita Nicole
Chris Noel, Hortense Petra, Charles Robinson, Cal Tjader, Walter
Wanderley, Norman Wells
Musical
comedy about two girls who move into a singles apartment.
Music by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Sunshine Company
The Walter Wanderley Trio, The Lewis & Clark Expedition
and The Cal Tjader Band
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Psych-Out
Dick
Clark Enterprises
Richard
Rush
Susan Strasberg,
Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke, Max
Julien
Henry Jaglom, Linda Gaye Scott, I. J. Jefferson, Tommy Flanders,
Ken Scott, Garry Marshall
Geoffrey Stevens, Susan Bushman, John 'Bud' Cardos
Hippie
/ flower power culture musical.
'Taste a moment of madness . . . listen to the sound of purple.
Come where the pleasure is'. A hippie band 'adopts' a deaf runaway
girl who comes to Los Angeles to try and find her missing brother
after receiving a postcard from him saying 'God is alive and well
and living in a sugar cube'. Music is by The Strawberry Alarm
Clock and The Seeds
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Hello
Down There ( Sub-A-Dub-Dub )
Ivan
Tors Films
Jack
Arnold and Ricou Browning
Harvey
Lembeck, Henny Backus, Jim Backus, Ken Berry, Kay Cole, Richard
Dreyfuss, Bruce Gordon
Merv Griffin, Pat Henning, Bud Hoey, Andy Jarrell, Lora Kaye,
Jay Laskay, Janet Leigh, Frank Logan
Charles Martin, Roddy McDowall, Lee Meredith, Charlotte Rae, Tony
Randall, Frank Schuller
Arnold Stang, Gary Tigerman, Lou Wagner
Comedy
Sci-fi musical about a family living in an experimental underwater
condo where they also rehearse their pop band. After making a
nationwide broadcast from under the sea they make it big, announcing
their plan of opening underwater night clubs. Flipper, being a
dolphin, was intelligent enough to stay well away from this one.
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One Plus One ( Sympathy For The Devil )
Connoisseur
/ Cupid Productions
Jean-Luc
Godard
The Rolling
Stones, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg, Sean Lynch, Clifton
Jones, Danny Daniels
Nicky Hopkins, Anne Wiazemsky, Nike Arrighi, Iain Quarrier,
Frankie Dymon Jr
Semi-documentary
on the 'Sympathy For The Devil' production
with revolutionary overtones using rock'n'roll as its basis
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More 1968 films which I plan
to expand upon in future updates. Any pictures or info you have on these
would be most welcome!
The Committee
Film stars Paul Jones with music by The
Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Pink Floyd
The Lone Ranger
A 22-minute Western style award-winning
short with music by Pete Townshend
The Savage Seven
Film cast includes Duane Eddy with music
by Cream and Iron Butterfly
The Bliss of Mrs Blossom
The New Vaudeville Band
Jenny, Wife, Child
Davie Allan and The Arrows
Killers Three
Merle Haggard
Bravos II
Los Bravos
Skidoo
Harry Nilsson
The Tigers
The Tigers ( the Japanese 'Monkees' )
Work Is A Four Letter Word
Cilla Black
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