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1. A Matter of WHO (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A man's death of smallpox at London airport sends officials into a panic as they conduct a frantic search for the carrier.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Sonja Ziemann, Alex Nicol, Richard Briers
Votes: 193
2. A Question of Suspense (1961)
62 min | Crime, Drama
A bent business man bumps off a colleague who threatens to expose him for forging bonds.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Peter Reynolds, Noelle Middleton, Yvonne Buckingham, Norman Rodway
Votes: 120
3. A Taste of Honey (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin
Votes: 6,361
4. A Taste of Money (1961)
71 min | Comedy
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Jean Cadell, Dick Emery, Pete Murray, Ralph Michael
5. A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Alfred Marks, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 281
6. Attempt to Kill (1961)
59 min | Crime
A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
Director: Royston Morley | Stars: Derek Farr, Tony Wright, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson
Votes: 78
7. Carry on Regardless (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs. Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff.
Directors: Gerald Thomas, Ralph Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 2,498
8. Cash on Demand (1961)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Richard Vernon, Norman Bird
Votes: 2,883
9. Clue of the New Pin (1961)
58 min | Crime, Drama
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Paul Daneman, James Villiers, Katherine Woodville, Bernard Archard
Votes: 99
10. Clue of the Silver Key (1961)
59 min | Mystery
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
Director: Gerard Glaister | Stars: Bernard Lee, Lyndon Brook, Finlay Currie, Jennifer Daniel
Votes: 102
11. Dangerous Afternoon (1961)
62 min | Crime, Drama
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Nora Nicholson, Diana Chesney, Richard McNeff, Jan Miller
Votes: 228
12. The Devil's Daffodil (1961)
86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
Director: Ákos Ráthonyi | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, William Lucas, Sabine Sesselmann, Penelope Horner
Votes: 636
13. Dentist on the Job (1961)
Unrated | 88 min | Comedy
The marketing department of a pharmaceutical company decides to find a dentist to endorse its brand of toothpaste.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker
Votes: 320
14. Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting; reviving the dead.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kenneth J. Warren
Votes: 1,063
15. Why Bother to Knock (1961)
89 min | Comedy
A romantically active travel agent gives all of his girlfriends keys to his flat - too many to keep count of.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer, June Thorburn
Votes: 242
16. Double Bunk (1961)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy
When newlyweds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra on a trip down the river ... See full summary »
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sidney James, Liz Fraser
Votes: 399
17. Echo of Barbara (1961)
58 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Maureen Connell, Paul Stassino, Ronald Hines
Votes: 9
18. Enter Inspector Duval (1961)
64 min | Crime, Drama
Inspector Duval comes to London to help crack the case of a socialite murdered during a jewel heist.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Anton Diffring, Diane Hart, Mark Singleton, Charles Mitchell
Votes: 70
19. Fate Takes a Hand (1961)
72 min | Drama
A mail bag stolen in a robbery 15 years ago, is found and the post office decide that the letters should be delivered. A newspaper reporter, accompanied by a post office security officer ... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Ronald Howard, Christina Gregg, Basil Dignam, Willoughby Goddard
Votes: 71
20. Feet of Clay (1961)
Not Rated | 55 min | Crime, Drama
A dangerous drug-smuggling case becomes even more dangerous when an investigating lawyer discovers that the individual behind the operation is a police probation officer.
Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Vincent Ball, Wendy Williams, Hilda Fenemore, Robert Cawdron
Votes: 42
21. Five Golden Hours (1961)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
A petty crook is doing all right in his chosen profession of gallantly consoling wealthy widows--until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness who knows all about get-rich-quick ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders, Kay Hammond
Votes: 300
22. Flame in the Streets (1961)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
During the 1960s in Britain, tense race relations between whites and blacks are affecting the workplace, the family, the dating scene, and the society at large.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda de Banzie, Earl Cameron
Votes: 413
23. Follow That Man (1961)
84 min | Comedy
An unscrupulous fortune hunter pursues a much-older (and very rich) woman.
Director: Jerome Epstein | Stars: Sydney Chaplin, Dawn Addams, Elspeth March, Joan Heal
24. Four Winds Island (1961)
113 min | Family
Director: David Villiers | Stars: Mandy Harper, Annette Robertson, Iain Gregory, John Pike
Votes: 20
25. Freedom to Die (1961)
61 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Craig Owen is an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Paul Maxwell, Felicity Young, Bruce Seton, Kay Callard
Votes: 122
26. Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961)
82 min | Adventure
Pirate wreckers ravage a small seaside community while the ineffectual local squire tries to discourage his son's romance with a smuggler's pretty daughter.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Peter Cushing, John Fraser, Bernard Lee, Michèle Mercier
Votes: 282
27. Girl on Approval (1962)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama
1961. Drama. Stars Oscar nominated. Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell and Annette Whiteley. A key example of British new wave, a great study of the uneasy life of 14 year old Sheila.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell, Annette Whiteley, Ellen McIntosh
Votes: 146
28. Gorgo (1961)
Unrated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting the wrath of the creature's mother.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter, Christopher Rhodes
Votes: 4,232
29. Hand in Hand (1961)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Family
A little Roman Catholic boy and a little Jewish girl become best friends despite the prejudice that surrounds them.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, John Gregson, Sybil Thorndike
Votes: 586
30. Highway to Battle (1961)
71 min | Drama
Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Gerard Heinz, Margaret Tyzack, Ferdy Mayne, Dawn Beret
Votes: 20
31. His and Hers (1961)
90 min | Comedy
Returned from North Africa, a British novelist is at odds with his wife when she insists on dividing the house and the domestic chores, and he goes mad when she starts writing his biography and flirting with his publisher.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Nicole Maurey
Votes: 285
32. Hunted in Holland (1961)
61 min | Adventure, Crime, Family
Tim (Sean Scully) comes over to Amsterdam to visit his penfriend Piet (Jacques Verbrugge). An Englishman operating as a tourist guide is a diamond-smuggler and the boys along with Piet's sister Annike (Sandra Spurr), foil his plans in a boat chase.
Director: Derek Williams | Stars: Sean Scully, Jacques Verbrugge, Sandra Spurr, Walter Randall
Votes: 75
33. In the Doghouse (1961)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
British comedy about the ups and downs of a London vet.
Director: Darcy Conyers | Stars: Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth
Votes: 214
34. Invasion Quartet (1961)
87 min | Comedy, War
Spike Milligan and his friends decide to go to occupied France to silence a large German gun that is firing across the channel. They bumble though encounters with Germans and the French ... See full summary »
Director: Jay Lewis | Stars: Bill Travers, Spike Milligan, Grégoire Aslan, John Le Mesurier
Votes: 217
35. Jeunesse perdue (1961)
77 min | Drama
Two Swedish girls fall in love with a Persian man in London. Beside this there is much dancing, much stripping and a lot of alcohol.
Director: Akramzadeh | Stars: Akramzadeh, Anna Longlands, Saadoun Al-Ubaydi, Britt Leonhard
Votes: 48
36. Johnny Nobody (1961)
TV-PG | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A small Irish town: atheist writer shot by a man claiming amnesia. Miracle or murder? Local priest discovers it's a plot: revenge killing. Gets to trial too late - the jury have acquitted. JN gloats - to be struck dead in the courtroom.
Director: Nigel Patrick | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, William Bendix, Aldo Ray
Votes: 324
37. Konga (1961)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Dr.Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'.
Director: John Lemont | Stars: Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad, Claire Gordon
Votes: 2,162
38. Man Detained (1961)
59 min | Drama, Mystery
A petty burglar sets a chain of events in motion when he steals some bullion that the owner hasn't declared to the authorities.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles
Votes: 81
39. Man at the Carlton Tower (1961)
57 min | Mystery
When a hotel becomes the scene of a murder and robbery, investigators take to the streets in pursuit of the suspect.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Allan Cuthbertson, Terence Alexander
Votes: 37
40. Mary Had a Little... (1961)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Agnès Laurent, Hazel Court, Jack Watling, John Bentley
Votes: 81
41. I Like Money (1961)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A poor but proud French teacher gets fired after refusing to modify the grades of a rich student. As this could be the opportunity to exploit his honesty, Castel Benac hires Topaze as a managing director for a shady business.
Director: Peter Sellers | Stars: Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern
Votes: 520
42. Murder She Said (1961)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 8,565
43. Murder in Eden (1961)
63 min | Crime, Mystery
Art critic Max Aaronson denounces a famous old painting in Arnold Woolf's gallery as a forgery. He says it is not the only one, but shortly after he is killed by a hit-and-run driver.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Buckingham, Mark Singleton
Votes: 113
44. Mysterious Island (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill
Votes: 8,539
45. Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961)
86 min | Comedy
The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he can get his hands on.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker
Votes: 78
46. Never Back Losers (1961)
61 min | Drama
Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine inquires into the "accident" ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis, Patrick Magee, Richard Warner
Votes: 119
47. Night Without Pity (1961)
56 min | Crime
Director: Theodore Zichy | Stars: Sarah Lawson, Neil McCallum, Alan Edwards, Dorinda Stevens
48. No Love for Johnnie (1961)
110 min | Drama
After winning re-election, British Labour Party M.P. Johnnie Byrne faces a series of setbacks in his political career, as well as in his marriage, and must act wisely in order to save both.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 655
49. No, My Darling Daughter (1961)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy
Tansy Carr (Juliet Mills) is the vivacious daughter of a wealthy international industrialist who runs away with a playboy millionaire, but falls in love with the hard-working young man who has been sent to bring her back.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Michael Craig, Roger Livesey, James Westmoreland
Votes: 259
50. Nothing Barred (1961)
83 min | Comedy
Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public
Director: Darcy Conyers | Stars: Brian Rix, Leo Franklyn, Naunton Wayne, Charles Heslop
Votes: 77
51. The Devil Inside (1961)
71 min | Crime
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: William Sylvester, Mai Zetterling, John Meillon, Anthony Dawson
Votes: 271
52. Old Mac (1961)
53 min | Drama, Family
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Lamb, Vi Stevens, Lesley Scoble, Gareth Tandy
53. On the Fiddle (1961)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, War
During World War II, a street peddler invents a story about enlisting, which convinces the magistrate to send him to the RAF instead of prison. A new loyal friend goes along with his schemes to avoid work, but eventually duty calls.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Victor Maddern, Harry Locke
Votes: 563
54. Murder on the Campus (1961)
61 min | Mystery
When reporter Mark Kingston's student brother falls from his Cambridge college window, he makes haste from the States to set out to prove that it would not have been suicide, but was rather murder.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Robertson Hare
Votes: 237
55. Over the Odds (1961)
65 min | Comedy
Director: Michael Forlong | Stars: Marjorie Rhodes, Glenn Melvyn, Cyril Smith, Esma Cannon
56. Part-Time Wife (1961)
70 min | Comedy
A husband "loans" his wife to a friend who needs to make a good impression.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Anton Rodgers, Nyree Dawn Porter, Kenneth J. Warren, Henry McCarty
Votes: 38
57. Partners in Crime (1961)
54 min | Crime, Mystery
A company-owner arrives home from a night out with his wife, disturbs a burglar, and is shot.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond, John Van Eyssen, Stanley Morgan
Votes: 44
58. I Promised to Pay (1961)
94 min | Crime, Drama
A gang plans to steal a factory's wages, but an armored van foils them. They rob anyway, killing the driver. His vengeful wife and encroaching police make the gang betray each other.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas
Votes: 893
59. Petticoat Pirates (1961)
87 min | Comedy
A group of Wrens rebel because they have been turned down for service on a warship.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner
Votes: 73
60. Pit of Darkness (1961)
76 min | Crime, Thriller
Richard Logan, a safe maker, wakes up with amnesia after being found unconscious. A detective hired by his wife was murdered. A safe his firm installed was robbed. Logan teams up with his wife to uncover the truth behind these events.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Leonard Sachs
Votes: 281
61. Young, Willing and Eager (1961)
77 min | Crime, Drama
Carol flees to London from her alcoholic stepfather, but runs into a rough crowd in her new home.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Jess Conrad, Hermione Baddeley, Kenneth Griffith, Christina Gregg
Votes: 172
62. Roommates (1961)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In order to cut costs and conduct practice sessions, a group of students studying at an elite music school decide to stay together. Soon, one of them finds himself in trouble.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Paul Massie, Kenneth Williams
Votes: 381
63. Return of a Stranger (1961)
63 min | Crime, Thriller
John and Pam have bought a terrace house in a village, and move into it with their little son. In the middle of the night Pam notices that a man is peeping at them from the pavement outside... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps, Timothy Beaton
Votes: 78
64. Seven Keys (1961)
57 min | Crime, Drama
An ex-con goes looking for his late cellmate's hidden loot.
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Jeannie Carson, Alan Dobie, Delphi Lawrence, John Carson
Votes: 116
65. So Evil, So Young (1961)
77 min | Drama
A young girl is framed for a robbery, and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Jill Ireland, Ellen Pollock, John Charlesworth, Jocelyn Britton
Votes: 185
66. Some Like It Cool (1961)
61 min | Comedy
Tame comedy in which Julie converts her stuffy husband Roger and his equally prudish parents to the joys of nudism.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Julie Wilson, Marc Rolland, Wendy Smith, Brian Jackson
Votes: 32
67. Spare the Rod (1961)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Max Bygraves, Donald Pleasence, Geoffrey Keen, Betty McDowall
Votes: 250
68. Strip Tease Murder (1961)
66 min | Crime, Drama
The stripper Rita is trying to blackmail her former lover, the wealthy Carlos Branco, threatening to reveal his illegal dope trade for the police. Branco responds by hiring the hit man ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: John Hewer, Ann Lynn, Jean Muir, Vanda Hudson
Votes: 36
69. Sunswept (1961)
69 min | Drama
Director: Edward Craven Walker | Stars: Yannick Philouze, Elizabeth Walker, Ingrid, Lita Soria
70. Tarnished Heroes (1961)
75 min | Drama, War
When Major Roy Bell and his company are trapped by the advancing German army, Bell decides to embark on a dangerous mission to blow up a bridge which is of strategic importance to the enemy.
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Patrick McAlinney, Brian Peck, Richard Carpenter
Votes: 43
71. Scream of Fear (1961)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Director: Seth Holt | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee
Votes: 5,491
72. The Best of Enemies (1961)
Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
In 1941 during the desert war in Abyssinia the Italian captain Blasi and the British major Richardson alternate between being bitter enemies or best friends depending on the circumstances.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Amedeo Nazzari, Michael Wilding
Votes: 766
73. The Great Armored Car Swindle (1961)
59 min | Crime, Drama
The nephew of a printer gets involved with foreign spies intent on making counterfeit money.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Peter Reynolds, Dermot Walsh, Joanna Dunham, Lisa Gastoni
Votes: 132
74. The Canadians (1961)
TV-PG | 85 min | Western
When 6000 Sioux flee to Canada, they are permitted to stay. But a Montana rancher and his cowboys, in search of stolen horses, kill all inhabitants of a Sioux village and claim they only wanted to free a white squaw who had been kidnapped.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher, Burt Metcalfe
Votes: 297
75. The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961)
69 min | Drama
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Laurence Payne, Susan Stephen, Ralph Michael, Richard Caldicot
Votes: 33
76. The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Approved | 93 min | Horror
In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller
Votes: 6,832
77. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 6,203
78. The Fourth Square (1961)
57 min | Drama
The Police investigate a theft of emerald jewelry which had led to a murder.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Paul Daneman
Votes: 98
79. The Frightened City (1961)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Director: John Lemont | Stars: Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Alfred Marks
Votes: 1,117
80. The Green Helmet (1961)
Approved | 88 min | Drama
A racing driver loses his nerves after several crashes
Director: Michael Forlong | Stars: Bill Travers, Ed Begley, Sidney James, Nancy Walters
Votes: 190
81. Loss of Innocence (1961)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Claude Nollier
Votes: 597
82. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Not Rated | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 55,375 | Gross: $28.90M
83. The Hellfire Club (1961)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure
Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Thomas. In order to reclaim his title, ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Keith Michell, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing, Peter Arne
Votes: 367
84. The Hellions (1961)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Luke Billings and his four reprobate sons ride into a small South African settlement in search of revenge on Police Sergeant Sam Hargis. Hargis knows he cannot outgun the five outlaws and ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey, Jamie Uys, Marty Wilde
Votes: 179
85. The Impersonator (1961)
64 min | Mystery
In a small English town a schoolmistress meets a sergeant from the nearby U.S. airforce base and they decide on a date. When they miss each other at a cafe as arranged, a train of events is... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Shaughnessy | Stars: John Crawford, Jane Griffiths, Patricia Burke, John Salew
Votes: 166
86. The Innocents (1961)
Not Rated | 100 min | Horror
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
Votes: 33,056 | Gross: $2.62M
87. The Kitchen (1961)
76 min | Drama
The staff in a cafe's kitchen in London's West End have a very busy morning.
Director: James Hill | Stars: Carl Möhner, Mary Yeomans, Eric Pohlmann, Scot Finch
Votes: 82
88. The Last Rhino (1961)
56 min | Adventure, Family
A boy tries to save a wounded and out of control rhino from both his well-meaning game warden uncle and bloodthirsty Kenyan tribesmen.
Director: Henry Geddes | Stars: David Ellis, Susan Millar-Smith, Tom Samuels, Tony Blane
Votes: 16
89. The Long Shadow (1961)
64 min | Drama
Set in post WW II-Vienna this British spy adventure centers on an international effort to thwart the communists that is led by an American newspaper journalist trying to save the two innocents from certain death.
Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: John Crawford, Susan Hampshire, Willoughby Goddard, Humphrey Lestocq
Votes: 9
90. Jungle Fighters (1961)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, War
In 1942, a group of British soldiers is sent on a mission in the Malaysian jungle and gets lost into the Japanese controlled zone.
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris, Ronald Fraser
Votes: 982
91. The Man in the Back Seat (1961)
57 min | Crime, Drama
Two young thugs rob a bookie leaving a dog-racing track with his winnings, but when they grab his case full of money they discover that he has chained it to his wrist. They dash around town... See full summary »
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Derren Nesbitt, Keith Faulkner, Carol White, Harry Locke
Votes: 191
92. The Mark (1961)
Approved | 127 min | Drama
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Brenda de Banzie
Votes: 993
93. The Middle Course (1961)
Not Rated | 59 min | War, Drama
A small town in France must adopt ingenious methods to cope with occupying German forces. A Canadian pilot crashes nearby and is invaluable in helping the villagers fight their own private war.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Vincent Ball, Lisa Daniely, Peter Illing, Roland Bartrop
Votes: 50
94. The Missing Note (1961)
56 min | Family
Three children track their lost piano with one note missing through London.
Director: Michael Brandt | Stars: Heather Bennett, Hennie Scott, John Moulder-Brown, Toke Townley
Votes: 16
95. The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961)
59 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A group of children befriend a monster.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Rachel Clay, Michael Wade, Terry Raven, Ronald Howard
Votes: 137
96. The Naked Edge (1961)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento
Votes: 1,477
97. The Night We Got the Bird (1961)
83 min | Comedy
Cecil's family is unaware that he and his cabinet-maker employee are making and selling false antique furniture. It is only when he dies and his salesman Bernie marries his widow Julie that... See full summary »
Director: Darcy Conyers | Stars: Brian Rix, Dora Bryan, Ronald Shiner, Leo Franklyn
Votes: 113
98. The Pursuers (1961)
63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A group of former concentration camp prisoners has formed an underground network to hunt Nazi leaders, who are still on the loose. At a secret meeting in Paris they discuss what to do with ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Cyril Shaps, Francis Matthews, Susan Denny, Sheldon Lawrence
Votes: 104
99. Call Me Genius (1961)
105 min | Comedy
Tony Hancock gives up his day job to become an artist. He's a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics dislike his work. Nevertheless, he impresses a talented artist.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Margit Saad
Votes: 1,212
100. The Queen's Guards (1961)
Approved | 110 min | Drama
Grenadier Guards Captain John Fellowes prepares for the Trooping the Colour ceremony and reminisces about his years at Sandhurst Military Academy as well as his family's dramatic life.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Daniel Massey, Raymond Massey, Robert Stephens, Jack Watson
Votes: 185
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