THE 1960'S

THE 1960'S

New British stars emerged - Julie Christie in Darling (1965), Michael Caine in Alfie (1966), Rita Tushingham (who reigned supreme as the archetypal Sixties 'bird') and Sean Connery as the immortal James Bond.

A new wave of British film-making had begun with Look Back In Anger (1959), followed by Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961) and This Sporting Life (1963). These raw working class drama's transformed British cinema.

The first Bond film was Dr No (1962) and as the sixties progressed, our appetite for all things James Bond-related continued to flourish - As From Russia With Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964) were released, the Colgate Palmolive company made plenty of cash marketing 007 grooming products for men.

while the two most popular musicals starred Julie Andrews - the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965).

Out of Hollywood came Peter O' Toole as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra (1963), Peter Sellers as Dr Strangelove (1964), Dr Zhivago (1965), The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde (both 1967), Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969) and A Fistful of Dollars introduced us to the 'spaghetti western', courtesy of one Clint Eastwood.

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