UNIVERSAL '68
by chpknock | created - 26 Nov 2020 | updated - 26 Nov 2020 | PublicUniversal releases in 1968
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1. Birds in Peru (1968)
X | 95 min | Drama
On a beach, a group of sailors have sex with a depressed young woman. Madam of a nearby brothel takes her in but she leaves with an artist who lives close by. Meanwhile, her old rich husband and his sinister chauffeur are looking for her.
Director: Romain Gary | Stars: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 196
2. The Bofors Gun (1968)
105 min | Drama
A national service non-commissioned officer (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, Peter Vaughan
Votes: 317
3. The Champagne Murders (1967)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A champagne tycoon's (Furneaux) partner (Ronet) suspects his partner's gigolo husband (Perkins) of murders he's been framed for.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Stéphane Audran
Votes: 862
4. Charlie Bubbles (1968)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
A married writer has an affair with his secretary.
Director: Albert Finney | Stars: Albert Finney, Colin Blakely, Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli
Votes: 843
5. I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
The professional and romantic misadventures of an advertising executive in 1960s swinging London.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Carol White, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,077
6. The Last Adventure (1967)
M | 112 min | Adventure, Drama
Best friends become aware of a crashed plane lying on the bottom of the ocean, allegedly stuffed with wealth. Adventurers set off in search of prey. And along with them, Letizia is linked, with whom both friends are secretly in love.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus, Serge Reggiani
Votes: 3,862
7. King Kong Escapes (1967)
G | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Family
The evil Dr. Who captures King Kong to dig for Element X when his robot duplicate, Mechani-Kong, is unable to do the job, but Kong soon escapes and battles his doppelganger.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Rhodes Reason, Mie Hama, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada
Votes: 3,195
8. A Matter of Innocence (1967)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a travelling companion. While in India, her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Hayley Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Dorothy Alison, Peter Bayliss
Votes: 219
9. Oedipus Rex (1967)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy--he'll murder his father and marry his mother.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene
Votes: 6,885
10. Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968)
M/PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation, but Valentine Brose would rather stay at home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms.
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: David Warner, Cilla Black, Zia Mohyeddin, David Waller
Votes: 140
11. Hellfighters (1968)
G | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Divorced Chance Buckman fights international oil rig fires. An injury brings his daughter and to his dismay, she weds Greg, a team member. Chance gets a desk-job, so he and Madelyn remarry, but a Venezuelan oil rig fire reunites them.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles
Votes: 6,412
12. A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
TV-PG | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system and becomes bodyguard to a rich recent widow on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name--and get over her husband.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach, Kenneth Haigh
Votes: 621
13. Don't Just Stand There (1968)
99 min | Comedy
A young writer is sent to Europe on an assigment to finish the final chapters of a sex novel by a famous authoress who has decided to stop writing.
Director: Ron Winston | Stars: Robert Wagner, Mary Tyler Moore, Glynis Johns, Harvey Korman
Votes: 136
14. Coogan's Bluff (1968)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Arizona Deputy Sheriff Coogan is sent to New York City to escort an escaped fugitive back for trial.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling
Votes: 18,924
15. In Enemy Country (1968)
Unrated | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo hidden in a German stronghold in France.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Paul Hubschmid
Votes: 254
16. Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968)
96 min | Comedy
Agatha Knabenshu arrives in a small town in Missouri to sell player pianos to the locals. She's fired after her disastrous sales attempts nearly destroy the town. The stranded saleslady ... See full summary »
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Phyllis Diller, Bob Denver, Joe Flynn, Eileen Wesson
Votes: 117
17. The Hell with Heroes (1968)
Approved | 102 min | Drama
In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Rod Taylor, Claudia Cardinale, Harry Guardino, Kevin McCarthy
Votes: 284
18. The Ballad of Josie (1967)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Western
A widow stirs things up in a western town by raising sheep instead of cattle--and by organizing the local women to demonstrate for women's suffrage.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Andy Devine
Votes: 1,131 | Gross: $1.32M
19. Boom! (1968)
M/PG | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Joanna Shimkus
Votes: 1,759
20. Nobody's Perfect (1968)
Unrated | 103 min | Comedy
In 1960's Japan, mischievous American seaman Doc Willoughby tries to outwit his superiors on the U.S.S. Bustard, attempts to woo U.S. Navy Lt. Tomiko Momoyama, and aims to return a stolen Buddha statue to its Japanese temple.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Doug McClure, Nancy Kwan, James Whitmore, David Hartman
Votes: 122
21. Jigsaw (1968)
M | 97 min | Mystery, Thriller
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Pat Hingle
Votes: 190
22. Counterpoint (1967)
Approved | 107 min | Drama, Music, War
A famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen
Votes: 1,049
23. Madigan (1968)
TV-14 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In New York City's Spanish Harlem, detectives Madigan and Bonaro are given 72 hours by their superior to capture a hoodlum wanted for homicide in Brooklyn.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino
Votes: 4,079
24. P.J. (1967)
Approved | 109 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A down-on-his-luck New York private eye takes a bodyguard job for the death-threatened mistress of a shady millionaire and gets involved in conspiracy and murder.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters
Votes: 535
25. The Pink Jungle (1968)
Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A South American fashion photo shoot turns into a diamond mine seeking adventure for an American photographer and his model.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: James Garner, Eva Renzi, George Kennedy, Nigel Green
Votes: 414
26. Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, War, Western
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
Director: William Hale | Stars: James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Brenda Scott, Don Stroud
Votes: 1,075
27. The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Western
A pardoned stagecoach robber, becomes government agent and marries a naive unsuspecting east-coast dentist in order to join a wagon train and catch the smugglers who have been selling guns to the Indians.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Don 'Red' Barry
Votes: 3,021
28. The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)
Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, War
In 1943, a group of captured Allied military can't agree on an escape plan, The allies headquarters develop a plan and send in a man who they hope is captured, to coordinate the captives' escape.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan, Tom Bosley
Votes: 1,784 | Gross: $7.70M
29. What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud, Susan Saint James
Votes: 572
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