Need some late 50's, 60's "man" movies
09-13-16, 09:40 PM
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Need some late 50's, 60's "man" movies
Just watched Boys Night out from 62 and loved it. So love the Apartment and Odd Couple.
Anyone have a good list of similar movies from the time period similar to these man type movies featuring bachelor pads, womanizing, etc....?
Anyone have a good list of similar movies from the time period similar to these man type movies featuring bachelor pads, womanizing, etc....?
09-13-16, 10:32 PM
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Re: Need some late 50's, 60's "man" movies
This is a good start. YMMV on the Helm flicks, but the rest are plenty o'fun.
09-14-16, 04:24 AM
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Re: Need some late 50's, 60's "man" movies
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968), any of the Matt Helm movies - Murderers' Row (1966), The Silencers (1967), The Ambushers (1967), or The Wrecking Crew (1969), The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)...
This is a good start. YMMV on the Helm flicks, but the rest are plenty o'fun.
This is a good start. YMMV on the Helm flicks, but the rest are plenty o'fun.
I'd also recommend some Sinatra, esp. TONY ROME (1967), where he gets to cavort with Jill St. John.
And an earlier Sinatra title, THE TENDER TRAP (1955), much of which is set in his bachelor pad--and he has a lot of female visitors:
09-14-16, 09:44 AM
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Re: Need some late 50's, 60's "man" movies
Another appropriate Frank Sinatra film is "Come Blow Your Horn" (1963). It's based on an early Neil Simon play with a script by Norman Lear. I haven't seen it in a thousand years, but in the film Sinatra is a swinging bachelor who shows his younger brother the ropes.
09-14-16, 11:02 AM
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Re: Need some late 50's, 60's "man" movies
Boeing Boeing (1965) w/Jerry Lewis & Tony Curtis.
Goodbye Charlie (1964) w/Tony Curtis & Debbie Reynolds.
Sex and the Single Girl (1964) w/Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood
And I'll second/third the Matt Helm and Flint series films.
Goodbye Charlie (1964) w/Tony Curtis & Debbie Reynolds.
Sex and the Single Girl (1964) w/Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood
And I'll second/third the Matt Helm and Flint series films.
09-14-16, 06:24 PM
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Re: Need some late 50's, 60's "man" movies
Bachelor Flat (1961) has Terry-Thomas as the romantic lead(!), which made me think of British equivalents, like What's New Pussycat (1965) or Alfie (1966), but What's New Pussycat is an U.S. production. So just Alfie, then and otherwise I'm drawing a blank. I suppose by the Sixties, the Carry On movies qualify as per womanizing. They are there, I'm just not as familiar, like The Knack... and How to Get It (1965).
Last edited by coyoteblue; 09-14-16 at 06:32 PM.
