The 1960s Part Two: 1965 to 1969
BOOK OF THE YEAR! Click here to check it out.... You will find basic credits information on many of these films by clicking on the All Movie Guide and The TV Guide Movie Database pages. All films in Colour (except where indicated as B/W)
| Film | Year | Stars | Soundtrack | Production Co. | Director | Songs By |
| Ballad
in Blue
(US:Blues For Lovers) (UK/Eire) B/W |
1965 | Ray Charles, The Raelets | *45s-HMV
LP- HMV (UK) Songs: Hit the Road Jack*; Let the Good Times Roll ;Lucky Old Sun; Unchain My Heart*; Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So; Leave Me Alone; Now I Can See; Talkin' About You; Light Out of Darkness; What'd I Say?* Some songs on Ray Charles compilation CD (Rhino) |
Alsa Films/ Warner Pathe
Filmed at Ardmore Studios, Dublin |
Paul Henreid | Ray Charles and various |
| Catch Us if You Can
B/W (US: Having a Wild Weekend) |
1965 | Dave Clark Five | LP- Epic (USA)
Dave Clark Five: Catch Us if You Can; Having a Wild Weekend; I Can't Stand it; Move On; Ol Sol; On the Move; Sweet Memories;When |
Bruton/Anglo Amalgamated | John Boorman | Dave Clark |
| Cuckoo Patrol
B/W |
1965 | Freddie and the Dreamers | Grand National | Duncan Wood | Kenny Graham | |
| Dateline Diamonds
B/W Plot involves a "pirate radio" station |
1965 | Appearances by The Small Faces, Chantelles, Kiki Dee, Mark Richardson, Kenny Everett (DJ) | Small Faces:It's too late; Come on children;I've got mine;Whatcha gonna do about it? | Viscount/ Rank | Jeremy Summers | Johnny Douglas |
| Every Day's a Holiday (US:Seaside Swingers) | 1965 | Mike Sarne, John Leyton, Freddie and the Dreamers The MoJos, The Leroys, Grazina Frame, Gillian Lynne Dancers | LP Mercury SR-61031
Songs include:Every Day's a Holiday/Freddie and the Dreamers :Don't Do That to Me; What's Cooking?/ John Leyton:All I Want is You*; Crazy Horse Saloon/ Grazina Frame and John Leyton: A Boy Needs a Girl/Grazina Frame: Second Time Shy/Mike Sarne: Indubitably Me*** *On CD Best of John Leyton: See For Miles SEE CD 201 ***On Mike Sarne compilation CD |
Fitzroy/ Maycroft/ Grand National | James Hill | Tony Osborne and various |
| Gonks Go Beat | 1965 | Lulu and the Lovers, Nashville Teens, Troles, Graham Bond Organization, The Long and the Short, Ray Lewis and theTrekkers, Vanqueros, Elaine and Derek, Alan David. | Lulu sings:Choc Ice;The Only One /The Long and the Short perform : Take This Train | Titan/Anglo Amalgamated | Robert Hartford- Davis | |
| Help!
DVD:
|
1965 |
The Beatles
|
Songs:Another Girl;
Help!; I Need You; The Night Before; Ticket to Ride; You're Going to
Lose that Girl; You've got to hide your love away
CD:
|
Walter Shenson/Suba Films/United Artists | Richard Lester | John Lennon Paul McCartney |
| I've Gotta Horse
Released on VHS by DD Video UK
|
1965 | Billy Fury Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin, The Bachelors,The Gamblers, Jon Pertwee, Sheila O'Neil | LP: Decca LK 4677
The Song "Stand by Me" is on the CD: "Billy Fury 40th Anniversary Anthology" (DERAM 2cd set) |
Windmill/ Larry Parnes | Kenneth Hume |
David Heneker John Taylor(m/l) Mike Leander |
| The
Intelligence Men
(US:Spylarks)
|
1965 | Eric Morecambe Ernie Wise William Franklyn | Rank | Robert Asher
Choreography by Eleanor Fazan |
Philip Green | |
| Pop Gear
(US: Go Go Mania) |
1965 | Matt Monro, Animals, Rockin' Berries, Billie Davis, Nashville Teens, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas, Foremost, Sounds Incorporated, Spencer Davis Group, Beatles, Susan Maughan, Honeycombs, Herman's Hermits, Four Pennies, Peter and Gordon, Tommy Quickly and the Remo Four. |
Features: Beatles: She Loves You; Twist and Shout/ |
Associated British | Frederick Goode | Various |
| Reflections on Love (Short : 14mins) Available on: Wonderwall (1969) DVD | 1965 | Jenny Boyd | Kula Shaker | |||
| Secrets of a Windmill Girl | 1965 | April Wilding Valerie Mitchell, Dana Gillespie, Anton Ray Group | ??? |
Searchlight/ Compton |
Arnold Louis Miller | Malcolm Lockyer |
| A Study in Terror | 1965 | Georgia Brown | LP :
Georgia Brown performs:' Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay'*, and 'In These Hard Times' * another version of this can be found on the Georgia Brown LP 'A Little of What You Fancy' on Vocalion CD
|
Sir Nigel/ Compton- Tekli | James Hill | Score:
John Scott |
| Three Hats For Lisa | 1965 | Joe Brown, Sid James, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs, David Toguri | 45/LP Pye
"My Favourie Occupation" on CD: Joe Brown- A Picture of You Sequel SELCD 544 |
Seven Hills/Anglo Amalgamated | Sidney Hayers
Choreography by Gillian Lynne |
Leslie Bricusse and Robin Beaumont |
| Up Jumped a Swagman | 1965 | Frank Ifield | LP (UK) Columbia
Frank Ifield sings: Look Don't Touch;I Remember You*; I've Got a Hole in my Pocket; I'll Never Feel This Way Again;Cry Wolf; Wild River; Make it Soon; Waltzing Matilda; Lovin'On My Mind; Lovers *On CD: Frank Ifield-The Essential Collection EMI CD MFP 6384 See Frank Ifield 3 x CD set on EMI |
Ivy/ABPC | Christopher Miles | Norrie Paramor |
| Finders Keepers | 1966 | Cliff Richard, The Shadows | LP: Columbia
Musical Numbers include: Finders keepers/Time drags by/
Washerwoman/La la la song /Oh senorita /This day/ Paella/Fiesta/My
Way Released on CD by EMI |
Interstate/ United Artists |
Sidney Hayers Choreography: Malcolm Clare, Hugh Lambert |
Norrie Paramor, The Shadows |
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Filmed in UK/Spain DVD:
Stage |
1966 | Zero Mostel Phil Silvers Michael Crawford, Michael Hordern | LP United Artists 5144
CD:
|
Quadrangle/ United Artists | Richard Lester | Stephen Sondheim (m/l)
|
| The Ghost Goes Gear
DVD:
|
1966 | Spencer Davis Group, Stevie Winwood, Acker Bilk, Lorne Gibson Trio, The M6, St. Louis Union, Dave Berry, The Three Bells | Associated British Pathe | Hugh Gladwish | ||
| Go With Matt Monro
(Short) |
1966 | Matt Monro, Roy Castle, Marian Montgomery |
A musical hosted by Matt Monro which starts in London's West End, moves on to Rome before returning home. Numbers include "Such a lot of living," "Three coins in a fountain", "Come stay", "Bridge of Sighs", "Walk away", "Teach me tonight", and "Get happy". |
Associated British Pathe | Bertram Tyler | |
| Marat Sade
DVD:
Stage (Royal Shakespeare Company, London) |
1966 | Glenda Jackson, Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Royal Shakespeare Company |
CD Available: Premier 1022 (USA) 'Marat/Sade & US Songs:Homage To Marat;The Corday Waltz; Song
And Mime Of Corday's Arrival In Paris ;The People's Reaction;Those
Fat Monkeys; Poor Old Marat;One Day It Will Come To Pass |
Michael Birkett/ United Artists
Filmed at Pinewood |
Peter Brook | Songs: Peter Weiss (Text: translated by Adrian Mitchell) /Richard Peaslee (Music) |
| The Pretty Things
B/W (Short) |
1966 | The Pretty Things | West Associates/ Amanda | Anthony West | ||
| Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
VHS:
Stage (London 1961 and NY) |
1966 | Tony Tanner Millicent Martin
|
LP Warner BS-1643 | Warner Bros. | Philip Saville | Anthony Newley Leslie Bricusse (m/l)
Al Ham
|
| That Riviera Touch | 1966 | Eric Morecambe Ernie Wise | Features: That Riviera Touch (Ron Goodwin)/ Now that you're here (Goodwin-Green-Hill) On 45 HMV POP 1518 | Rank | Ron Goodwin | |
| The Bee Gees
(Short) |
1967 | The Bee Gees | Associated London | |||
| Half a
Sixpence
DVD:
Stage (London 1963/NY)
|
1967 | Tommy Steele Julia Foster (voice:Marti
Webb), Cyril Ritchard, Grover Dale (from B'way cast)
|
LP RCA LSO-1146
CD: London cast available (with Tommy Steele) on Must Close Saturday Records CD www.must-close-saturday-records.co.uk
|
Ameran/ Paramount | George Sidney | David Heneker (m/l) |
|
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush DVD (USA) |
1967 | Barry Evans, Spencer Davis Group, Stevie Winwood and Traffic | Spencer Davis Group: Every Little Thing;
Just Like Me; Picture of Her; Possession; Taking Out Time; Virgin's
Dream; Waltz for Caroline /Andy Ellison: It's Been a Long Time/Traffic:
Am I What I Was, or Was I What I Am?; Here We Go Round the Mulberry
Bush; Utterly Simple
CD:
|
Giant/United Artists
Filmed on location in Stevenage Herts. |
Clive Donner | Various including Stevie Winwood and Traffic |
| Just Like a Woman | 1967 | Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, John Wood, Dennis Price | Two songs performed by Mark Murphy | Dormar/ Monarch
Produced at Isleworth Studios |
Robert Fuest | Score and Songs by Ken Napper and Kevin Sutton |
| Magical Mystery Tour
(Made for TV) DVD:
|
1967 |
The Beatles
|
Songs:Magical Mystery Tour;
The Fool On The Hill; Flying; Blue Jay Way; Your Mother Should Know;
I Am The Walrus; Hello Goodbye; Strawberry Fields Forever; Penny Lane
; Baby You're A Rich Man; All You Need Is Love
CD:
|
Apple Films | Lennon and McCartney | |
| Privilege | 1967 | Paul Jones | Paul Jones:Free Me; I've been a
bad bad boy; Privilege
LP: HMV |
Worldfilm/ Memorial/ Universal | Peter Watkins | Mike Leander, Mark London |
|
Red and Blue (short) |
1967 | Vanessa Redgrave, Gary Raymond, William Sylvester, Michael York | Woodfall | Tony Richardson
Julian More (screenplay+translator of lyrics?) |
Songs by Cyrus Bassiak
|
|
| Smashing Time
DVD:
|
1967 | Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave | LP:Stateside (UK) ABC-SOC-6 (USA)
Songs: Smashing
Time - Rita Tushingham & Lynn Redgrave |
Partisan/ Paramount | Desmond Davis | John Addison, George Melly, Skip Bifferty |
| Tell Me Lies
(USA: US) B/W Stage (London 1966-RSC production titled 'US') |
1967 | Glenda Jackson, Michael Williams | Tracks:Icarus; Zapping The Cong
; Road Number One; Make And Break ; Barry Bondhus ; God Is Flame ; Escalation;
The Leeches;When Dreams Collide; Rose Of Saigon ; Tell Me Lies ;Any
Complaints?
LP Gre-Gar 5000 (Title of album=US) CD: Premier 1022(USA release) Marat/ Sade & US |
Ronorus | Peter Brook | Richard Peaslee(m), Adrian Mitchell (words) |
| Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | 1967 | Pink Floyd, Twice as Much,Vashti | LP:Instant (UK)
Pink Floyd: Interstellar OverDrive;Twice as Much : Night Time Girl; Vashti: Winter is Blue |
Lorrimer Films | Peter Whitehead | |
| To Sir with Love
DVD:
|
1967 | Lulu
The Mindbenders |
LP: Fontana TL-5546
*45s: Decca Lulu sings: To Sir with Love*; Off and Running;Stealing My Love From Me; It's Getting Harder all the Time The Mindbenders perform: Off and Running*;Stealing My Love From Me; It's Getting Harder all the Time |
Columbia | James Clavell | Marc London/ Wine/ Raleigh/ Albertine |
| Les Bicyclettes De Belsize
(Short) |
1968 | Judy Huxtable, Anthony May | Delmore/ Illustra | Douglas Hickox | Les Reed (m/l) | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (70mm)
DVD:
|
1968 | Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes | CD:
|
Warfield /DFI/United Artists | Ken Hughes | Richard M and Robert B Sherman |
| Cream:Last Concert
(Short) |
1968 | Cream | Stigwood/Fair Enterprises | Tony Palmer | ||
| Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely
Daughter
|
1968 | Peter Noone Herman's Hermits Stanley Holloway
Nat Jackley |
LP: MGM SE-4548 ST
*On CD: Very Best of Herman's Hermits EMI CD MFP 6383 Herman's Hermits perform: Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter*; Daisy Chain; Holiday Inn; Lemon and Lime;There's a Kind of Hush*; The World is for You; It's Nice to be Out in the Morning; She's Done It Again; All Over the World; Round the Corner; The Most Beautiful Thing in My Life/Stanley Holloway Performs: The World is for the Young; Round the Corner/Nat Jackley Performs: My Old Man's a Dustman;God Save the Queen |
MGM British Filmed at Shepperton Studios |
Saul Swimmer | Trevor Peacock, Graham
Gouldman, Geoff Stephens, Kenny Young
Ron Goodwin (Score) |
| Oliver
(70mm) DVD:
Stage London (1960), NY
|
1968 | Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Harry Secombe,
Shani Wallis
|
CD:
|
Romulus/ Columbia | Carol Reed | Lionel Bart
|
| Popdown | 1968 | Diane Keen, Zoot Money, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger Trinity, Brenton Wood, Treasure Chest, Don Partridge, Tony Hicks, Kevin and Gary, Dandelion's Chariot, Blossom Toes, Hetty Schneider Quartet, Luis Bonfa | Brian Auger Trinity: Wheels on fire | Premar/New Realm | Fred Marshall | |
| Salt and Pepper | 1968 | Sammy Davis Jr. | LP: United Artists UAS-5187
Sammy Davis Jr. performs songs: 'I Like the Way You Dance'+ (Staging by Lionel Blair) and 'Salt and Pepper'* |
Chrislaw/ Tracemark/ United Artists
Made at Shepperton and on location at Royal Holloway College, Egham |
Richard Donner | John Dankworth (score)
Sammy Davis Jr./George Rhodes+ Leslie Bricusse* (m/l) |
| The Best House in London | 1969 | Tessie O'Shea sings: The Birds of London Town | ||||
| Can Hieronymous Merkin.....find
True Happiness?
|
1969 | Anthony Newley
Joan Collins, Bruce Forsyth, Stubby Kaye, George Jessel, Milton Berle, Ron Rubin
|
LP (USA) Kapp KRS-5509 Songs: Overture/ If All the World's a Stage/ Piccadilly Lily /Oh, What a Son of a Bitch I Am /Sweet Love Child/ Astrological Ballet/ Chalk & Cheese/ I'm All I Need /On the Boards /Lullaby/ Piccadilly Lily (reprise) /Once Upon a Time /When You Gotta Go /I'm All I Need (reprise)/ Finale |
Regional Film/Taralex/ Universal | Anthony Newley | Anthony Newley (m), Herbert Kretzmer (l) |
| Goodbye Mr. Chips
(70mm) VHS:
Stage (Chichester UK) |
1969 |
Peter O Toole
|
LP: MGM-SIE-19 STX
Tracks: Overture/Fill The World With Love - Boys/Where Did My Childhood Go? - Peter O'Toole/ London Is London - Petula Clark & Chorus/And The Sky Smiled - Petula Clark/Apollo - Petula Clark /When I Am Older - Boys/ Walk Through The World - Petula Clark/ Entr'acte and What Shall I Do With Today? - Petula Clark/What A Lot Of Flowers and Reprise - Peter O'Toole/ Schooldays - Petula Clark & Boys/When I Was Younger - Peter O'Toole/You And I - Petula Clark/Fill The World With Love Reprise - Peter O'Toole & Boys/You And I (Orchestral Reprise) Released on CD set by Film Score Monthly (USA)
|
APJAC/ MGM | Herbert Ross | Leslie Bricusse (m/l)
MD: John Williams |
| Oh What a Lovely War
Stage (London: Theatre Royal, Stratford, 1963) |
1969 | Maggie Smith, John Pierre Cassel |
LP Paramount 5008 London OCR now available on CD from: www.must-close-saturday-records.co.uk |
Accord/ Paramount | Richard Attenborough | Jerome Kern, Arthur Wimperis, Ivor Novello and others |
| Wonderwall: The Movie
DVD (UK and USA) :
|
1969 | Jane Birkin, Iain Quarrier, Jack MacGowran, Beatrix Lehmann |
CD: Music by George Harrison
|
Compton/Alan Clore/ Cinecenta | Joe Massot | George Harrison |
|
Yellow Submarine DVD:
NEW EDITION DVD ISSUED 1999 COMPLETELY RE-MASTERED COLOR: NOW IN DOLBY 5:1 SURROUND SOUND |
1969 |
The Beatles (Voices)
|
CD:
|
Apple/King Features/ United Artists | George Duning | John Lennon Paul McCartney |
The list below includes MUSICAL MOVIES MADE IN THE USA, BUT WITH A BRITISH CONNECTION (the Film may be set in England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland -OR- It features British performers -OR- The technical crew is British (Director of photography etc). If the studio used for a film's production is in the UK, it is generally classed as a "British" movie. *British stars in US produced movies are shown in BLUE
| The Sound of Music
Made in USA/Austria (70mm) External Link DVD:NEW THX Sound (Sept 2000) Special Edition 2 x DVD set with many extras:
Stage |
1965 | Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer | CD:
|
20th Century Fox/ Argyle | Robert Wise | Richard Rodgers(m), Oscar Hammerstein II (l) |
| Camelot
Made in USA (70mm)
DVD:
Stage (NY/ London 1964) |
1967 | Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero (voice:Gene Merlino) | CD:
|
Warner Bros. | Joshua Logan | Alan Jay Lerner,(l) Frederick Loewe(m) |
| Doctor Dolittle
Made in USA (70mm) DVD:
Stage (1998) |
1967 | Rex Harrison Anthony
Newley, Richard Attenborough, Samantha Eggar
|
LP Philips 314534500 CD:UK only |
20th Century Fox/ APJAC | Richard Fleischer | Leslie Bricusse (m/l) |
| The Happiest Millionaire (Made in USA)
DVD:
|
1967 | Tommy Steele |
LP: Buena Vista 5001 CD:
|
Walt Disney | Norman Tokar | Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman |
| Thoroughly Modern Millie
(Made in USA) DVD:
|
1967 | Julie Andrews, James Fox,
Beatrice Lillie
|
CD:
|
Universal | George Roy Hill | James Van Heusen(m), Sammy Cahn(l), various |
| Finian's Rainbow
Made in USA (70mm) VHS/DVD :
Stage (NY: 1947) |
1968 | Fred Astaire Petula Clark Tommy
Steele Don Francks, Brenda Arnau
|
LP Warner BS-2550.
S/T not currently available.This recommended CD is of the 1960 NY revival:
|
Warner/ Seven Arts | Francis Ford Coppola | Burton Lane(m), E. Y. Harburg(l) |
| Star!
Made in USA (70mm) DVD
|
1968 | Julie Andrews Bruce Forsyth, Daniel Massey
The Gertrude Lawrence Story |
CD 20th Cent Fox 07822-11009-2 :
|
20th Century Fox/ Robert Wise/ Saul Chaplin | Robert Wise | James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Kurt Weill , Cole Porter, Noel Coward and others |
| Hello Dolly
Made in USA (70mm) DVD:
Stage |
1969 | Barbra Streisand, Michael Crawford
|
CD:
|
20th Century Fox/ Chenault | Gene Kelly | Jerry Herman(m/l) |