# Pick a movie for the SDMB 1964 Film Festival **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549 "2010-06-17T14:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/1 "2010-06-17T14:43:27Z")
All Dopers are invited to attend the 1964 FilmFest! Your entry fee to this cinematic wayback event is to bring your own movie. Also, it would be nice if you could say a few words about your choice. It doesn’t have to be the “best” movie, or even your favorite. It can be something you’ve never seen before or one of your guilty pleasures. [Here’s an IMDB list for 1964](http://http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1964,1964&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc). You should be able to find something in there, I’m sure. Just **one movie per post** , please…that gives everyone a chance to pick one of the fine features from that golden year. I’ll kick it off with [Man’s Favorite Sport?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058324/) – A favorite of mine ever since watching with my family while on vacation years ago. Rock Hudson as a fishing expert who doesn’t know how to fish. His boss enters him in a fishing tournament and reporter Paula Prentiss tags along to document his exploits. Outdoorsy Rom-com hilarity ensues. Directed by Howard Hawks. ps: I forgot to mention…BYO Popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/2 "2010-06-17T14:51:23Z")
The IMDB list didn’t work for me, so I used [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_in_film). I’m really torn between _Doctor Strangelove_ and _Hard Day’s Night_. Both very much of the time–but they still work. (Hmmm, both black & white.) One to watch when I need cheering up & another one not so cheerful. But honorable mentions to _Becket_, _My Fair Lady_ & _From Russia With Love_. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/3 "2010-06-17T14:56:14Z")
:smack: [IMDB 1964 list](http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1964,1964&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc) (second attempt) ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/4 "2010-06-17T15:14:40Z")
I’m tempted to say \*My Fair Lady, \*because it’s among the most iconic of musicals. But instead I’ll say \*The Umprellas of Cherbourg, \*if only because of a stunningly gorgeous Catherine Deneuve and that haunting music. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/5 "2010-06-17T15:26:59Z")
One of my favorite political thrillers: _Seven Days in May_. (I’ll let someone else pick _Fail-Safe_!) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/6 "2010-06-17T15:33:25Z")
Oops! Double post ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/7 "2010-06-17T15:35:48Z")
Goldfinger. ---
**Author:** ![Loisseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Loisseau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loisseau)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/8 "2010-06-17T15:37:43Z")
[Marriage Italian Style](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058335/) ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/9 "2010-06-17T15:41:25Z")
1964 was a good year for bad movies. _Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?,_ and _Starfighters_ are all in the top 50 from the IMDb list. All were featured on MST3K. If I had to pick one as a guilty pleasure, I think it would be _Incredibly Strange Creatures_. Who doesn’t love a Ray Dennis Steckler (aka Cash Flagg) flick? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/10 "2010-06-17T15:46:20Z")
I have to go w/ one of my all time faves, **Mary Poppins.** ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/11 "2010-06-17T16:12:42Z")
_Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte_ for this exchange: "If I wasn’t in this chair . . . " “But ya are, Blanche, ya are!” I had left my husband of a little more than a year when I saw this movie. In 24 hours I had packed up the baby, rented a hotel room in another town, got a job lined up, and went to the movie with friends. I ended up going back to him but the movie has a spot in my heart. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/12 "2010-06-17T16:26:27Z")
Although I’m a fairly devout Catholic, I usually HATE Biblical movies. One of the only good ones came out in 1964: Pierpaolo Pasolini’s “The Gospel According to St. matthew.” True, it’s not as good as his masterpiece, “The Third Test Match,” but it was quite good in its own right. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/13 "2010-06-17T16:27:49Z")
The Kubrick is my favorite film of that year, but a close runner-up is the glorious and mystical Russian film [_ **Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058642/). ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/14 "2010-06-17T16:42:21Z")
Wow, 1964 was a very good year for movies. Since no one else has actually picked it yet, I have to grab the one that is already in my collection: [Dr. Strangelove](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove). We’re gonna watch two planes have sex during the opening credits! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/15 "2010-06-17T16:44:19Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m tempted to say \*My Fair Lady, \*because it’s among the most iconic of musicals. But instead I’ll say \*The Umprellas of Cherbourg, \*if only because of a stunningly gorgeous Catherine Deneuve and that haunting music. You made a wise, wise choice. I find the Lerner & Loewe film practically unbearable. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/16 "2010-06-17T16:45:02Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > _Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte_ for this exchange: > > "If I wasn’t in this chair . . . " > > “But ya are, Blanche, ya are!” > > I had left my husband of a little more than a year when I saw this movie. In 24 hours I had packed up the baby, rented a hotel room in another town, got a job lined up, and went to the movie with friends. I ended up going back to him but the movie has a spot in my heart. Psssst – that’s from _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane_. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/17 "2010-06-17T16:45:49Z")
_A Shot in the Dark._ We need to have a comedy in there, and you can’t go wrong with Peter Sellers. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/18 "2010-06-17T16:45:54Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > We’re gonna watch two planes have sex during the opening credits! IIRC, the music he plays is “Try a Little Tenderness” over that sequence. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/19 "2010-06-17T16:54:47Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Psssst – that’s from _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane_. It is, isn’t it! I always conflate those two movies!! Damn. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549/20 "2010-06-17T17:17:35Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Wow, 1964 was a very good year for movies. > [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Psssst – that’s from _Whatever Happened to Baby Jane_. Hmmm…after checking the credits for _Baby Jane_, it looks like 1962 was a very good year as well. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-movie-for-the-sdmb-1964-film-festival/543549.md?page=2)