Great Sleeper Movies of the 1960s

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (on YouTube in full for free)
-The Swimmer
-The Happy Ending (also on YouTube)
-Ladybug, Ladybug
-A Child Is Waiting
-An Autumn Afternoon
-Birdman of Alcatraz
-Dry Summer
-The Incident (YouTube)
-The Professionals
-The Face of Another
-Hombre
-Hunger (1966... a favorite of mine, was on YouTube)
-The Collector
-Il Sorpasso
-The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner (my favorite movie from the UK)
-David and Lisa
-Too Late Blues (best movie about music)
-His Days Are Numbered
-Never on Sunday (fun movie)
-Le Trou (might be the best prison movie)
-The Sign of the Leo
-Cairo 30
-Pitfall
-Woman In The Dunes (Teshigahara is my favorite Asian director)
-The Red Angel
-La Caza
-Carriage to Vienna
-Yesterday Girl (stylish, but with substance)
-The Round-Up
-Fists In The Pocket (really great realistic drama/horror regarding a family with some problems)
-Sands of the Kalahari (similar to "Flight of the Phoenix", and another movie made around the same time -- survival)
-The Hill (Sean Connery/Sidney Lumet - great prison movie)
-The Shop On Main Street
-Red Beard (one of Kurosawa's best)
-My Way Home (1965)
-Onibaba
-The Insect Woman
-The Pumpkin Eater
-Lord of the Flies
-The Organiser (1963)
-The Fire Within
-Pale Flower
-Ride the High Country
-Knife In The Water (Polanski's best)
-Mamma Roma (might be my favorite Pasolini)
-Lonely Are The Brave (Kirk's favorite movie)
-Two Half-Times In Hell
-Sundays With Cybele
-All Fall Down
-The End of the Summer
-One-Eyed Jacks (underrated Western. Only movie Brando directed)
-Two Women
-Accatone
-Romeo, Julie a tma
-Purple Noon (the Original Mr. Ripley)
-Peeping Tom
-Elmer Gantry
-Late Autumns
-Kapo
-Eyes Without a Face

 

Define “sleeper movie”.

 

How does Cairo 30 apply?

 

Movies that aren't talked about much today.

It was made in 1966.

 

Will Penny
Lonely are the Brave

 

I watched Pekinpah's The Deadly Companions (1961) the other day.

You know what it wasn't? Cheesy. Something I feel like is hard to come by in that era.

 

I think you can say that about any Peckinpah movie. Good movie... I recommend "Noon Wine" which at that time, Peckinpah called his favorite.

Btw, if you're a fan, most of the full interviews from "Man of Iron" are on YouTube. If you click on this, you'll be re-directed toward all the others.

 

Peeping Tom.... chilling....

 

Day Of Anger
Made In U.S.A.
Grand Prix
The Train
Hands Over The City
Any Number Can Win
Follow That Dream (probably my favorite Elvis movie, period)
Paris Blues
A Woman Is A Woman
La Vérité
The Big Risk

 

I'm sorry to say I've only seen Hombre and Lord Of The Flies on this list.

Hombre, more because I am a big Elmore Leonard fan. It is a fine film. Leonard has a distinct way of handling dialogue as well as pacing and development when it comes to these lone hero stories.

I watched Lord Of The Flies in junior high English class after reading the novel. Piggy has the conch!

 

Mirage

 

The Americanization of Emily

 

The dialogue is my favorite part of "Hombre" - not verbose, but said a lot, but I haven't seen it in a long time.. Martin Ritt made some good movies, despite being somewhat blacklisted, or given ridiculously low-budgets, but still delivered most of the time.

I love movies like "Lord of the Flies", where we see children act like adults, hierarchies, politics, might is right, etc... If you like that, check out a movie made around the same time, "Ladybug, Ladybug" directed by Frank Perry, who made some other great ones like "The Swimmer" and "David and Lisa".. It seems like his movies went downhill once he and his wife divorced (she would co-write with him).

 

One of the great speeches