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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
3 (3%)
A Taste of Honey (1961)
1 (1%)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
0 (0%)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
4 (4%)
Becket (1964)
0 (0%)
Psycho (1960)
10 (9.9%)
The Birds (1963)
3 (3%)
Marnie (1964)
2 (2%)
The Apartment (1960)
8 (7.9%)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
1 (1%)
Cool Hand Luke (1960)
4 (4%)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
5 (5%)
The Great Escape (1963)
2 (2%)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
2 (2%)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
4 (4%)
The Graduate (1967)
9 (8.9%)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
4 (4%)
The Hustler (1961)
2 (2%)
In Cold Blood (1967)
2 (2%)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
5 (5%)
Repulsion (1965)
4 (4%)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
6 (5.9%)
Spartacus (1960)
0 (0%)
Lolita (1962)
2 (2%)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
7 (6.9%)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
2 (2%)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
1 (1%)
The Train (1964)
1 (1%)
Titicut Follies (1967)
2 (2%)
Dont Look Back (1967)
4 (4%)
Salesman (1968)
1 (1%)

Total Members Voted: 21

Voting closed: August 10, 2010, 10:58:05 AM

Author Topic: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon  (Read 3988 times)

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Re: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2010, 01:53:42 PM »
Psycho
The Birds
The Lion in Winter
Night of the Living Dead Don't Look Back
The Manchurian Candidate
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Re: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2010, 10:38:07 PM »
The Apartment
The Manchurian Candidate
The Great Escape*
The Graduate
Midnight Cowboy*

*How am I the only person voting for these two?

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Re: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2010, 11:54:47 PM »
My thinking has always been:

Guns of Navarone > Dirty Dozen > The Great Escape

As for Midnight Cowboy, yeah, I probably should have voted for it, especially with The Train being strangely underseen.

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Re: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2010, 01:43:16 AM »
My thinking has always been:

Guns of Navarone > Dirty Dozen > The Great Escape

Mine is the same, except the other way around and with The Train thrown in the middle.
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Re: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2010, 10:43:02 AM »
Cool Hand Luke
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf?
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
In The Heat Of The Night
Midnight Cowboy

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Re: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon
« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2010, 11:45:29 AM »
The Apartment (1960)     - 8 (7.9%)
Cool Hand Luke (1960)    - 4 (4%)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)    - 5 (5%)
The Great Escape (1963)    - 2 (2%)
The Graduate (1967)    - 9 (8.9%)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)    - 7 (6.9%)

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Re: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon
« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2010, 12:28:23 AM »
I'll be taking the top 4 vote-getters from this region for my marathon.

Psycho (10)
The Graduate (9)
The Apartment (8)
Night of the Living Dead (7)

Aw, Dont Look Back couldn't quite overcome its slow start.

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Re: UK and US films for Michael's 1960s Marathon
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2010, 12:34:34 AM »
Psycho (1960)     
The Graduate (1967)    
In Cold Blood (1967)
Dont Look Back (1967)    
Salesman (1968)
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