The 100 Project: The Top 25 Movies of the 1960s

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It's time for the next step in The 100 Project, my quest to work my way up to creating my own list of my top 100 movies. Click here for more details on how this is supposed to work. As for this particular post, we're into the decade of civil unrest and the sexual revolution, the 1960s. We were questioning societal and institutional values while becoming collectively more adventurous in our carnal endeavors. I think this batch of films represents that.

My Top 25 Movies of the 1960s

• I've seen around 80 movies (and counting) that were released during the 1960s. That's a very small number in comparison to later decades, but still at least 30 more than any decade to this point. 
• Westerns made a huge splash on this list, accounting for 5 entries plus an honorable mention.
• With 16 movies filmed in color and 9 in black and white, this decade will have the most even split between the two.
• This is the first decade in which I include a superhero movie.

25. Bullitt

(1968)

The main story about a tough guy cop protecting a guy about to testify against the mob has been done numerous times over the years. Seldom has it been done to more exhilarating results. With its sublime car chases and all-macho performance from the legendary Steve McQueen it's a bit of a marvel this hasn't been remade.

24. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

(1966)

If you start naming films known as Christmas classics, it probably won't be long before you get to this one. It serves as an annual reminder of the things we should be celebrating every year on our collective favorite holiday. It's also a wonderful redemption tale that clearly lends itself well to repeated viewings.

23. Batman: The Movie

(1966)

On the surface, it appears to be a silly and campy kids movie featuring Batman and Robin. That aspect of it is hard to escape. However, it's really a brilliant spoof of the serials of the 1930s and 40s. It's also chock full of risque double entendre that flies right over the heads of the little ones who are too busy being dazzled by all the technicolor action. (Full Review)

22. Jason and the Argonauts

(1963)

This sword and sandal epic revolves around a quest for the golden fleece. That's really secondary to some amazing stop-motion visuals and just loads of fun. It was a mainstay around my house for years while growing up and I loved it every single time.

21. Planet of the Apes

(1968)

For lots of folks, it's just the film that inspired the current crop of Apes movies. In fact, youngsters who turn it on today might be put off by the poorly visuals. After all, instead of groundbreaking CGI, we're looking at people in monkey suits. If they can get passed that they'll find a movie with tons to say, much of it still relevant even fifty years later. And that ending, wow!

20. True Grit

(1969)

Much like in 1956's The Searchers, John Wayne goes on a quest to find someone. This time he's a much more reluctant participant and only in it for the money. It's one of his best performances, but he's far from the only reason it's here. Kim Darby plays the young girl paying for Wayne's help. Their chemistry is excellent and the story is compelling. (Full Review)

19. Murder Inc.

(1960)

This film is based on a real-life group of thugs who went by the eponymous moniker. It's dark, gritty, unflinching, sadly, mostly forgotten. And if you only know Peter Falk as Columbo, or not at all, you must see him here. He's perfectly grimy and certainly a guy you wouldn't want to see following you. (Slightly Longer Review)

18. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

(1969)

Is this the original buddy flick? Not at all, but it's definitely the first one to permeate the American landscape to the degree that it did. A lot of it was due to the off the charts chemistry between stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The blaze of glory ending is myth-making at its finest.

17. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

(1962)

John Wayne makes another appearance, this time with Jimmy Stewart in tow. In tow isn't quite right because Stewart more than holds his own as the idealistic, aspiring politician. The contrast in personas between him and Wayne drives the movie splendidly. It's a western revolving around a single shot rather than a hail of bullets and you don't miss the gunfire. (Full Review)

16. The Hustler

(1961)

While Butch and Sundance was a buddy movie, this film showcases Paul Newman more singularly. Good thing because the man is magnetic. He has an A-list cast to back him up, including a brilliant Jackie Gleason. Still, Newman commands the screen and makes shooting pool the coolest thing you can do even if it might cost you everything.

15. Night of the Living Dead

(1968)

By now, the story is old hat. Previously dead people are suddenly up, stumbling around. looking for regular people to eat. What makes this movie work more than anything else is the claustrophobia it induces. We feel as if we're trapped in a small farmhouse with the people on the screen. This hour and a half of social commentary wrapped in terror gave birth to the modern zombie genre.

14. The Graduate

(1967)

The age-old story of a young man, home from college getting seduced by one his mom's friends. It's a fairly common fantasy.Director Mike Nichols, along with stars Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, breathe life into it. The movie is clearly a product of the sexual revolution yet manages to become timeless.

13 .The Good, the Bad, and the

Ugly

(1966)

This is a humor-filled western with some very stylish gunfights and tons of drop-dead gorgeous cinematography. In the lead, Clint Eastwood strikes the perfect balance between glaring, six-shooter wielding badass and deadpan comic. It is the last film of director Sergio Leone's The Man with No Name trilogy (or Dollars trilogy as it's recently become known) and it's the best of them all.

12. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

(1966)

This movie is about George and Martha who have the rockiest of all marriages. They are played by then real life couple, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The energy they generate in giving each other all sorts of hell is amazing. Both are magnificent, but Taylor is other-worldly. She doesn't merely chew scenery. She first impales it on a flaming sword and swallows it whole.

11. Requiem for a Heavyweight

(1962)

It's a boxing movie with almost no boxing in it. It's still works because it's the heavy-hearted character study of a fighter who has been forced to retire. He spends the film trying to figure out how to make it in a life without the only thing he knows. Look for another great supporting turn from Jackie Gleason, and one from Mickey Rooney, too. (Full Review)

10. Cool Hand Luke

(1967)

By the late 1960s, with the spirit of protest heavy in the air, we began to see a lot of movies where the main character existed almost solely to rebel against authority. This is one such movie. Luke (Paul Newman) finds himself in jail after a drunken night of mischief. By the end of the film, he finds himself in our hearts. Newman is once again perfection, but he might have been outdone by a never-better George Kennedy. (Full Review)

9. In the Heat of the Night

(1967)

In Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), we have another character rebelling against authority. The twist is that, as a police officer, he's also part of the establishment. He's trying to change the system from the inside while dealing with outright racism from people who are supposed to be his colleagues. He's also simultaneously trying to help solve a murder. Poitier trading proverbial jabs with Rod Steiger is compelling drama punctuated by the slap heard 'round the world.

8. Rosemary's Baby

(1968)

This is an exercise in inescapable paranoia. Mia Farrow delivers arguably the greatest performance in horror history as the titular Rosemary. After two hours of anything goes film-making, whatever I think of Roman Polanski as a person aside for a moment, his show of cinematic restraint over the last few minutes gives us one of the most haunting endings of all-time. (Slightly Longer Review)

7. The Battle of Algiers

(1966)

Based on events that took place during The Algerian Revolution, which lasted from 1954 to 1962, this is an engrossing and thought provoking war movie from beginning to end. Unlike most films in this genre, and perhaps this is my outsider's eye showing, it feels incredibly even handed making it a matter-of-fact retelling rather than being pro or anti one side or the other. (Slightly Longer Review)

6. Inherit the Wind

(1960)

The entirety of Inherit the Wind revolves around the age-old debate of evolution vs. creation. Which way the film itself leans is brilliantly open to interpretation. Evidence can be found to support both. Then again, isn't that the way it is in real life? Within this debate we have some excellently written characters performed expertly by its wonderful cast. (Full Review)

5. Bonnie and Clyde

(1967)

The real Bonnie and Clyde were a Depression-era couple who led a gang of bank robbers until the day they were gunned down by the police. Those basic facts are true of their cinematic avatars, yet they're romanticized to such a degree they become counterculture heroes. There may not be another movie more emblematic of its decade than Bonnie and Clyde is of the 1960s. It's also considered a watershed moment for the way sex and violence is depicted in movies.

4. Midnight Cowboy

(1969)

People leaving the rural parts of America and heading to its big cities (particularly New York) has long been cliche. This film dives headfirst into this trope and explores every bit of it. To that it adds mounds of both sexual expression and repression. The chemistry between John Voight and Dustin Hoffman makes it great as both men are undeniably in tune with their characters. (Full Review)

3. Psycho

(1960)

There's not much to say about Psycho that you haven't heard. You already know its legacy. You already know it's Hitchcock's most famous movie. You already know Anthony Perkins instantly became and forever will remain Norman Bates. You also know that every day since, multiple times around the world, Janet Leigh is slaughtered in her shower. The only thing left to say is if you haven't seen it yet, do it. (Full Review)

2. Once Upon a Time in the West

(1968)

Director Sergio Leone took the lessons he learned from making The Man with No Name trilogy and put them to use here. He swaps out Clint Eastwood for Charles Bronson in the lead, essentially the same role. It's a step down, but the movie around Bronson is better. That's thanks to some wonderful storytelling, beautiful cinematography, highly stylized gun battles, and a perfect bit of stunt casting by having the normally wholesome Henry Fonda play the guy. Fonda is pure, menacing brilliance The film as a whole is arguably the greatest western ever made, certainly the greatest of the spaghetti variety.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird

(1962)

Gregory Peck gives the performance he's most famous for in this courtroom drama of a lawyer who takes on the unpopular task of defending a black man in an all-white town. As you might imagine, he and his family are put in danger by this decision. It tackles still relevant themes and does so in a way that is never short of compelling.


Honorable Mentions: The Apartment (1960), Belle du Jour (1967), The Birds (1963), The Jungle Book (1967), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Virgin Spring (1960), West Side Story (1961)

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