The Great Blitz Movie Survey...Favourite Movies Across The Years - The 1960s

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So now that all that annoying football stuff is out of the way, it’s time for The Great Blitz Movie Survey.

Over the coming weeks I am looking to develop a comprehensive list of Blitzer’s favourite movies for each year from 1960 through to 2026.

I’ll break it down into threads by decades so you don’t have to spend ages on putting your favourites together.

I’m asking that you name your top five movies for each year…in order as your top movie will get five votes, 2nd favourite will get 4 votes, 3rd favourite will get 3 votes, 4th favourite will get 2 votes and 5th favourite will get 1 vote.

Year of release will be based on imdb release year.

Eg

1 - Fave Movie (5 votes)
2 - 2nd fave (4 votes)
3 - 3rd fave (3 votes)
4 -4th fave (2 votes)
5 - 5th fave (1 vote)

I’ll keep a tally and present the details later.

I’m aiming to keep voting open for a week or so, so get into it and have your say.

Format is simple:

Copy and paste the following data into your post…and then add the details

MOVIE NAME

1960

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1961

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1962

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1963

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1964

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1965

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1966

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1967

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1968

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

1969

5 -
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

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The Great Blitz Movie Survey…Favourite Movies Across The Years - The 1970s
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Just to start us off

1962 To Kill a Mockingbird

1966 Marnie

1960 Psycho

1963 The Birds

1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1967 Cool Hand Luke

1961 The Hustler

1960 Tunes of Glory

1962 Lawrence of Arabia

1965 Doctor Zhivago

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Thanks for the start…are you going to do another post as per the requested format?

(So that I can tally votes at the end)

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5 movies from each year of the 60s? You’re kidding aren’t you?

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Just do what you can…I’ve just realised that I haven’t watched five movies from 1960 or 1961…so I’ll just add the ones I’ve seen in order of preference. :slight_smile:

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I’m not sure I’ve seen 5 across the whole 60s that would be deserving of votes. I mean I assume I’ve seen a bunch, but most would have been afternoon TV movies.

Maybe I should ask Mr Frosty Jr. He’ll definitely have opinions

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1960

5 - The Magnificent Seven
4 - Exodus
3 - Sink The Bismarck
2 - The Wackiest Ship In The Army
1 - No entry

1961

5 - The Comancheros
4 - The Guns of Navarone
3 - Breakfast at Tiffany’s
2 - no entry
1 - no entry

1962

5 - Lawrence of Arabia
4 - Dr. No
3 - How The West Was Won
2 - The Longest Day
1 - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1963

5 - The Great Escape
4 - From Russia With Love
3 - 55 Days At Peking
2 - The Birds
1 - It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1964

5 - A Fistful of Dollars
4 - Goldfinger
3 - 633 Squadron
2 - Mary Poppins
1 - Zulu

1965

5 - For A Few Dollars More
4 - The Great Race
3 - Thunderball
2 - Cat Ballou
1 - The Heroes of Telemark

1966

5 - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
4 - The Sand Pebbles
3 - Fantastic Voyage
2 - The Blue Max
1 - Our Man Flint

1967

5 - You Only Live Twice
4 - Cool Hand Luke
3 - The Dirty Dozen
2 - The Graduate
1 - In The Heat of the Night

1968

5 - Where Eagles Dare
4 - Hang ‘em High
3 - Once Upon A Time In The West
2 - Bullitt
1 - The Love Bug

1969

5 - Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
4 - Battle of Britain
3 - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
2 - True Grit
1 - The Bridge at Remagen

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Never seen no entry, seems like a forgotten franchise classic

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It was hard making sure that I didn’t get the 1960 one mixed up with the two from 1961 :rofl:

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Mr Frosty Jr’s one per (some) years

60 The Apartment

61 Yojimbo

62 To Kill a Mockingbird

63 The Birds

64 Marnie

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66 Persona

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68 Planet of the Apes

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I feel like there are a lot of movies I should have seen but haven’t from 1960. The Sundowners, Exodus, The Apartment, La Dolce Vita and The Iceman Cometh, but anyway…

5 The Alamo

4 The Magnificent Seven

3 Little Shop Of Horrors

2 Psycho

1 Spartacus

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Yeah, it’s a struggle to find that many, just adding some..

1960 Psycho

1961 101 Dalmations

1962

1963 The Great Escape, Sword in the Stone

1964

1965 The Great Race

1966

1967 The Jungle Book, The Dirty Dozen

1968 Planet of the Apes

1969 Support your Local Sheriff

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1969

5 Easy Rider

4 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

3 The Gay Deceivers

2 The Italian Job

1 On Her Majesty’s (it’s not terrible).

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The Love Bug was released in 1968 (as per imdb)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064603/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_the%20love%20bug

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Booooo.

And sigh

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1960

5 - Psycho

4 - Spartacus

3 - The Magnificent Seven

2 - La Dolce Vita

1 - Breathless

1961

5 - The Hustler

4 - Breakfast at Tiffany’s

3 - The Misfits

2 - Yojimbo

1 -The Guns of Navarone

1962

5 - Lawrence of Arabia

4 - To kill a Mockingbird

3 - The Longest Day

2 - Days of Wine and Roses

1 - Cape Fear

1963

5 - The Great Escape

4 - From Russia with Love

3 - The Pink Panther

2 - 55 Days at Peking

1 - Hud

1964

5 - A Fistful of Dollars

4 - Zulu

3 - Goldfinger

2 - The Best Man

1 - The Train

1965

5 - Doctor Zhivago

4 - In Harms Way

3 - For a Few Dollars More

2 - The Soy who came in from the Cold

1 - The Collector

1966

5 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

4 - A Man for all Seasons

3 - The Battle of Algiers

2 - Blow Up

1 - The Professionals

1967

5 - The Dirty Dozen

4 - Cool Hand Luke

3 - In the Heat of the Night

2 - Belle de jour

1 - The Producer’s

1968

5 - - Once Upon a Time in the West (the only 60s movie to make my Top 10 films and arguably the greatest Western of all time)

4 - 2001, A Space Odyssey

3 - Bullitt

2 - Planet of the Apes

1 -The Party

1969

5 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

4 - Midnight Cowboy

3 - The Battle of Britain

2 - True Gritt

1 - The Wild Bunch

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Hey mate…what is this movie…I can’t find any reference to it anywhere on the net???

Edit…figured it out…should Hud :slight_smile:

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Doubled this one up in 1964 & 1965 (Please update 1965 entries)

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How come you only gave it one vote then???

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