# Favorite Movies of 1960? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456 "2019-03-03T00:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/1 "2019-03-03T00:41:49Z")
Two Women Le Trou Never On Sunday Elmer Gantry Rocco and His Brothers Eyes Without a Face Kapo Peeping Tom Late Autumn Spartacus Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Home from the Hill ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/2 "2019-03-03T01:00:24Z")
Spartacus for me. The scene early on between Olivier and Tony Curtis was one of the best and cleverest pieces of dialogue I have ever seen. When Olivier said _My taste includes both snails and oysters_ there was no doubt of what he was talking about to his body slave, played by Curtis. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/3 "2019-03-03T01:09:53Z")
Psycho? > **[Psycho (1960 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film))** > > Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and its aftermath, in which a private investigator (Balsam), Marion's l... ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/4 "2019-03-03T01:14:09Z")
Psycho The Magnificent Seven Inherit The Wind Spartacus The Time Machine The Little Shop Of Horrors The League of Gentlemen Two Way Stretch ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/5 "2019-03-03T01:27:50Z")
\*Breathless Classe tous risques Peeping Tom The Devil’s Eye The Human Vapor Beat Girl Circus of Horrors The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse Satan’s Sword Take Aim at the Police Van \* Least favorite: _Paris nous appartient_ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/6 "2019-03-03T01:41:39Z")
A few that haven’t been mentioned. _The Apartment_ was one of Bill Wilder’s great movies. I re-watched _Sink the Bismarck!_ last month. It’s a top-notch war movie. _The Sundowners_ was a little melodramatic but it had a great cast. _Village of the Damned_ was a great British horror movie. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/7 "2019-03-03T01:41:58Z")
_The Lost World,_ the Arthur Conan Doyle dinosaur movie previously filmed in 1925, this time starring Claude Raines, Michael Rennie, and the fantabulos Jill St. John! …followed closely by _Psycho_ and _Eyes Without a Face,_ the other two films for weirdos. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/8 "2019-03-03T01:44:19Z")
Good thing you said favorite as opposed to best, because along with the classics already mentioned, I’m going to add _Dinosaurus!_ to the list. The T-rex vs steam shovel battle was a true highlight of my early movie-going career. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/9 "2019-03-03T03:01:04Z")
I rather liked **Cinderfella** with Jerry Lewis giving a pretty good performance. Corman’s **House of Usher** with Vincent Price was campy fun. The Ratpack’s **Ocean 11** has a lot to answer for, doesn’t it? **Swiss Family Robinson** from Disney was intriguing to my younger self. Pretty girl, riding an ostrich. And just overall adventure in safety. **The Time Machine** is one of my favorite movies of all time. I still watch it from time to time. I mention Jerry Lewis twice in one thread? **Visit To a Small Planet** was light and entertaining. Comedy sci-fi, whodathunk? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1960/830456/10 "2019-03-03T03:35:44Z")
Two of my all-time favorite movies, _Inherit the Wind,_ and _Psycho,_ are from 1960.