1963 movies

Spencer’s Mountain (1963)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Henry Fonda | Maureen O'Hara | James MacArthur | Donald Crisp | Wally Cox | Mimsy Farmer | Virginia Gregg | Lillian Bronson | Whit Bissell | Hayden Rorke | Kathy Bennett | Dub Taylor | Hope Summers | Ken Mayer | Bronwyn FitzSimons
Directors: Delmer Daves
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Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he and Clay get into a bit of trouble. If he has one dream in life it’s to build his wife Olivia a beautiful house on a piece of land he inherited on Spender’s mountain. When his eldest son, Clayboy, graduates at the top of his high school class and has the opportunity to go to college, Clay has only one option left to him.

The Birds (1963)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Jessica Tandy | Suzanne Pleshette | Tippi Hedren | Veronica Cartwright | Ethel Griffies | Charles McGraw | Ruth McDevitt | Lonny Chapman | Joe Mantell | Doodles Weaver | Malcolm Atterbury | John McGovern | Karl Swenson | Richard Deacon
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It’s enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.

The Sword in the Stone (1963)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Sebastian Cabot | Rickie Sorensen | Karl Swenson | Junius Matthews | Ginny Tyler | Martha Wentworth | Norman Alden | Alan Napier | Richard Reitherman | Robert Reitherman | Thurl Ravenscroft | Barbara Jo Allen
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman
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This animated feature is set in medieval times. After the English king dies leaving no heir, in the churchyard of a cathedral in London, a sword appears imbedded in a stone inscribed, “Who so pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of England.” Although many try, no one can budge the sword from the stone. Deep in the dark woods, kind, but absent-minded Merlin the Magician begins to teach 11-year-old Arthur, who is called Wart, and lives in the castle of Sir Ector where he’s an apprentice squire to burly, oafish Sir Kay — when he’s not washing stacks of pots and pans in the scullery. By being changed by Merlin into various animals, Wart learns the basic truths of life, but he also runs into the evil Madam Mim, who tries to destroy him. Merlin and Mim have a Wizards’ Duel, during which each changes into various creatures, with Merlin using his wits to win. On New Year’s Day, a great tournament is held in London to pick a new king. Wart, attending as Kay’s squire, forgets Kay’s sword, and runs back to the inn to get it, but the inn is locked. Wart, seeing the sword in the stone, innocently, and easily, pulls it out. When the knights marvel at the wondrous sword and question where he got it, Wart has to prove himself all over again, and again he pulls the sword from the stone. Wart is proclaimed king by the marveling warriors. Wart as King Arthur is apprehensive of his ability to govern, but Merlin returns to reassure him.

Charade (1963)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Grant | Audrey Hepburn | Walter Matthau | James Coburn | George Kennedy | Dominique Minot | Ned Glass | Jacques Marin | Paul Bonifas | Thomas Chelimsky | Grégoire Aslan | Marcel Bernier | Raoul Delfosse | Colin Drake
Directors: Stanley Donen
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Regina Lambert returns to Paris from a ski holiday in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. She is later told by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew that Charles Lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day she is visited by Peter Joshua, whom she had met briefly while on holiday. When her husband’s former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by Charles, start calling her looking for the money, Peter offers to help find it. Thus begins an elaborate charade in which nothing is what it seems to be.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Milton Berle | Sid Caesar | Buddy Hackett | Ethel Merman | Mickey Rooney | Dick Shawn | Phil Silvers | Terry-Thomas | Jonathan Winters | Edie Adams | Dorothy Provine | Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson | Jim Backus | Ben Blue
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.