What's your favourite 1960's film?

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What's your favourite 1960's film?

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This one's for the non-Americans (hence "film").
Mine's "Breakfast At Tiffany's".

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What's your favourite 1960's movie?

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Mine's "Breakfast At Tiffany's".

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Sorry, that's a bit before my time, so I'm largely unfamiliar with movies from the 60's (at which point in time my mother and father were in elementary school ;) ). The closest I could come up with would be 12 Angry Men from 1957, which I have seen a half dozen times and always enjoyed immensely.

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Actually the distinction is not without importance for me. Even though movies shot on tape are considered amatuerish and unworthy of "real" movie makers, nonetheless some of my favorite movies have been shot that way. I would rather see a movie made for $50,000 and shot on tape, that was actually good, than see some 25 million dollar blockbuster shot on film using all sorts of cranes and such, but was mediocre and uncreative. But, um, I suppose this is off topic. :)

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My favourite 1960's movie was in 1962- Zorba the Greek. I am American (Serbian-American), but Zorba the Greek can be considered a film (?) was shot on Kriti (Crete) by I believe a British director. It starred a Mexican-American, a Russian, a Greek, and a Brit. And Nikos Kazantzakis was Greek, and born on my birthday lol.

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my parents were also just in junior high in the 60`s, so i will have to go a year earlier than justin to 1956- as a roman catholic we children were always forced to watch the 10 comandments with Charlton Heston...
I have always had images swirling in arounf my brain of Him making his wooden staf turn into a snake, and how he came down the mountain an old man...bCast overview, first billed only:
Charlton Heston .... Moses
Yul Brynner .... Rameses
Anne Baxter .... Nefretiri
Edward G. Robinson .... Dathan
Yvonne De Carlo .... Sephora
Debra Paget .... Lilia
John Derek .... Joshua
Cedric Hardwicke .... Sethi (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Nina Foch .... Bithiah
Martha Scott .... Yochabel
Judith Anderson .... Memnet
Vincent Price .... Baka
John Carradine .... Aaron
Olive Deering .... Miriam
Douglass Dumbrille .... Jannes

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I can't say that I have a specific favorite movie, but there are ones that I will rewatch when they come on. Having cable makes this more possible these days.

I liked Breakfast at Tiffany's and do re-watch it when it comes on. Actually I like just about anything with Audrey Hepburn. I also like The TenCommandments, but I actually prefer Heston's Ben Hur. That is a truly great movie. Another favorite of mine is The Philadelphia Story with Clark Gable and Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart. I even bought the DVD for that one!

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