1. Cool Hand Luke
   The Virgin Spring
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
   The Magnificent Seven

The 1960s film, The Magnificent Seven was actually a huge disappointment in the United States but proved to be a huge hit in Europe. Also, the plot of Stephen King's 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla is based on The Magnificent Seven.

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
   The Whip and the Body
2. Yojimbo
   Knife in the Water

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly's story line was improvised in a meeting, a story about three bums who go around through the Civil War and look for money. Based on this improvised pitch, a gentleman by the name of Picker agreed to fund the film. Actually, all three films were released in America over the course of one single year.

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
   The Sound of Music
2. The Graduate
   Psycho

The Trapp family (is the family The Sound of Music was based) were actually really successful singers in real life! For nearly a decade, the Von Trapps toured three seasons of the year. During WWII, they usually played more than 100 U.S. shows per year, averaging about $1,000 per show.

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
   Black Sunday
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
   Repulsion

For 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, the director, and producer had several tons of sand imported, washed, and painted for the moon surface scenes. Before they agreed on 2001: A Space Odyssey, a working title was "Voyage Beyond the Stars" but Stanley Kubrick disliked it immensely and forced them to change it.

1. Night of the Living Dead
   Persona
2. Easy Rider
   Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers, who wrote Mary Poppins actually refused to sell the movie rights initially... for the first 20 years. Disney started lobbying for the movie rights in the early 1940s and didn't actually make a deal with P.L. Travers until 1961 when she finally relented, mostly because she needed the money.

1. The Lord of the Flies
   The Wild Bunch
2. The Jungle book
   True Grit

The Jungle Book was the last film that Walt Disney worked on. There was also originally a rhinoceros called Rocky the Rhino and was set to appear after King Louie's scene. Rocky was intended to be a dim-witted, bumbling, near blind character to provide a bit of comic relief to the film. It got cut because Walt didn't want to put too many goofy sequences back to back from each other.

1. Comanche Station
   Ice Palace
2. G. I. Blues
   Cleopatra

Joseph L. Mankiewicz actually hoped that this film would be released into two different motion pictures, "Caeser and Cleopatra" followed by "Anthony and Cleopatra." Each film was set to run for about three hours. This is one of the most expensive movies ever made. It's budget of $44 million is equivalent to approximately $336 million in 2013 dollars. Holy cow!

1. Planet of the Apes
   Exodus
2. Flaming Star
   Guns of the TImberland

In the original Planet of the Apes, actors that were made up as different ape species tended to hang out together during breaks in filming. Gorillas with gorillas, orangutans with orangutans, and chimps with chimps. It wasn't a requirement by any means it just naturally happened that way. Also, all the ape actors had to wear their masks during breaks throughout the day. Because of this, their meals were liquified and drunk through straws.

1. Bullitt
   The Apartment
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's
   The Conqueror Worm

In Bullitt, Steve McQueen was so worried that people would think he used a stunt man during the famous chase scene, that he made a point to keep his head near the open car window just to reassure everyone in the audience that it was in fact him. Steve was also tested by the cops in the film. They took him to a morgue to see how "tough" he was, and then were thoroughly surprised when he showed up casually eating an apple.

1. The Magnificent Seven
   King of Kings
2. The Graduate
   The Bad Sleep Well

Even though everyone remembers the graduate as the start of the term "cougar." In reality, the female lead Bancroft was only 35 when the film was shot, and Hoffman, the young male lead, was 29. Mike Nichols used lighting and makeup to give Bancroft an older look. Also, Gene Hackman was initially set to play Mrs. Robinson's husband in the film but was fired 3 weeks in due to a bad fit.

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's
   Cape Fear
2. The Passion of Anna
   Contempt

In Breakfast at Tiffany's Capote, the director originally wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the part of Holly Golightly but her acting coach, Paula Strasberg told her not to take the role as the role's "call-girl-like" nature was bad for her sex kitten image. Others that were in line for the role instead of Audrey Hepburn were Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, and Kim Novak.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
   The Naked Kiss
2. L'Avventura
   The Sword in the Stone

In the film, Lawrence of Arabia, the actor depicting him was 6'3", a towering figure. In reality, the real Lawrence was only 5'5" tall, so he was actually quite short in stature. The real Lawrence's story is quite amazing in fact, his first trip to the Middle East was in the summer of 1909 where he was traveling alone. During that trip he walked nearly 1,000 miles and was shot at, robbed, and badly beaten.

1. The Exterminating Angel
   Romeo and Juliet
2. Rosemary's Baby
   The Great Escape

Rosemary's Baby was in fact a book before it was a movie. Interestingly, the films producer, William Castle, bought the movie rights before the book as even published. Also, Ira Levin who wrote the book Rosemary's Baby, named the apartment building The Bramford, after Dracula author Bram Stoker.

1. The Bride Wore Black
   The Great Escape
2. Bonnie and Clyde
   Cleopatra

The Great Escape was an interesting film because many of the characters in the film dealt with real life things that they portrayed in the film. For example, several cast members were actual prisoners of war during World War II. Donald Pleasence was held in a German camp, Hannes Messemer was captive in a Russian camp, and Til Kiwe and Hans Reiser were both prisoners of the Americans.

1. The Pink Panther
   Long Day's Journey Into Night
2. Dr. No
   Pierrot le Fou

Dr. No wasn't actually the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels to make it on the screen. Previously, in 1954, CBS made a TV version of the first Bond book that was written, "Casino Royale," starring Barry Nelson as the American version of "Jimmy Bond."

1. Planet of the Apes
   Muscle Beach Party
2. 101 Dalmatians
   At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

Muscle Beach Party was just one of American International Pictures dozen or so Beach Party themed films created between 1963-1967. This franchise is geared mainly at teenagers kicking off at a Beach Party and then took detours into spy spoofs and racing films.

1. Bonnie and Clyde
   Harakiri
2. Viridiana
   Hud

If you don't know who Bonnie and Clyde were then you should. They were two young Texans that were involved in a crime spree in the 1930s. Interestingly, this wasn't what either of them wanted to become famous for. Bonnie loved music and also loved the stage, and Clyde loved to sing, play the guitar, and taught himself how to play the saxophone. Both wanted to make it big in Hollywood on the screen.

1. In the Heat of the Night
   El Dorado
2. Thunderball
   Jules and Jim

An interesting thing about Thunderball, is Bond's jet pack was actually not flown by the actor playing Bond. It was flown by an engineer by the name of Bill Suiter. He was one of only two people in the world at the time that were qualified to fly it.

1. They Shoot Horses, Don't They
   Who's That Knocking at My Door
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
   To Kill a Mockingbird

Like the character Atticus (Lee's father), Lee grew up in the courtroom in real life too. Her father was actually a lawyer who was soft-spoken and he defended two African Americans that were accused of murder and unfortunately lost the case. Because of cases like this, Lee spent much of her childhood in the Monroeville courthouse.

1. Spartacus
   Le Samouraï
2. The Sinners of Hell
   Judgement at Nuremberg

Spartacus was a film made in 1960. An interesting thing about this film is that in order to get so many big stars to play supporting roles, Kirk Douglas showed each actor a different script that was written to emphasize each individual character that each actor was supposed to play.

1. A Man for All Seasons
   The Miracle Worker
2. West Side Story
   Midnight Cowboy

West Side Story is one of the most groundbreaking musicals of all time. The original producer of West Side Story quit raising money for the original broadway show (before the film was made) early in the process because he thought tackling such serious topics was too risky for a Broadway musical. Luckily, another producer stepped in to take a chance, and West Side Story turned into one of the most successful musicals in history.

1. The Odd Couple
   The Guns of Navarone
2. Le Doulos
   It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is an American film that was made in 1963. It is meant to be an epic comedy with an all-star cast including Spencer Tracy. The story line follows a madcap pursuit of $350,000, which today would be $2,710,000 in a stolen cash by a hilarious and diverse group of strangers. Some of the footage was cut and has deteriorated beyond the point of restoration due to some moves made against the director Kramer's wishes.

1. The Fireman's Ball
   True Grit
2. Eyes Without a Face
   The Innocents

True Grit is a western film starring the one and only John Wayne. He was apparently a bit of a snob on set. John Wayne was supposedly dissappointed by the casting of Kim Darby as Mattie Ross, and the two of them barely spoke at all when they were off camera.

1. L'Eclisse
   A Fistful of Dollars
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
   Onibaba

Stanley Kubrick actually lied to George C. Scott so that he could get funnier takes out of him. He told Scott to deliver broad and animated performances as his character Buck, promising him that none of these takes would actually be used in the final cut. He did the exact opposite and Scott felt so betrayed he vowed to never work with Kubrick ever again. Although they never collaborated again, Scott has since appreciated his role and acting in the film.

1. Red Desert
   Oliver!
2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
   Barbarella

Barbarella is a French-Italian Sci-FI film based on the French Barbarella comics. None other than Jane Fonda plays our beloved Barbarella. The fashion designer that was responsible for Fonda's costumes, Paco Rabanne, took influence from the women's liberation movement that was so hot in the 60s and so he designed outfits in the style of metal armor, taking influences from indian philosophy during the age of iron.

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
   2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Bullitt
   Splendor in the Grass

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had an absolutely all-star cast. Paul Newman actually got mad at Robert Redford for doing his own stunts. To be fair, Redford's stunts were a lot moe dangerous. It wasn't a jealousy thing, apparently, Newman was just concerned for Redford's safety. Another funny fact about this film was that Katherine Ross was banned from the set for being "too helpful." It was actually mostly due to some favoritism played towards her because she was dating the cinematographer who filmed the movie.

1. Charade
   Django
2. The Birds
   In Cold Blood

The Birds, a film that is still terrifying today, mainly because Alfred Hitchcock has always avoided providing any explanation for the avian attacks on Bodega Bay in the film. The director of the film had a long interest in birds prior to the film being made. He had been a bird watcher as a boy, he also took inspiration from an article he read in 1961 about hordes of dead birds washing up onto the streets of the seaside California town of Capitola.

1. For a Few Dollars More
   Testament of Orpheus
2. Lolita
   Wait Until Dark

Nabokov was obsessed with phonetics and double consonants. Some phonetically interesting moves he made in the writing of Lolita were Gaston Godin, Mesmer Mesmer, and Harold D. Doublename. The word play also applies to the names of places that Lolita and H.H. visit too. Some examples are, Hazy Hills, Kumfy Kabins, Hobby House, Raspberry Room, and Pierre Point.

1. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
   Hombre
2. The Apartment
   From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love is yet another one of our favorite James Bond films, and we aren't the only ones. Sean Connery said that this movie was his personal favorite out of the Bond films that he was involved in. Surprising since, during the helicopter sequence towards the end of the film, an inexperienced pilot flew the helicopter too close to Connery, almost killing him.

1. The Haunting
   Psycho
2. The Hustler
   Through a Glass Darkly

For the time period, Psycho was unprecedented in its depiction of sexuality and violence right from the opening scene. Also, interestingly Hitchcock made a controversial move for the time by making a "no late admission" policy for the film. Hitchcock thought that if people entered the theater late and never saw the star actress Janet Leigh, that they would feel cheated.

1. The Time Machine
   Dr. No
2. A Fistful of Dollars
   A Hard Day's Night

A Fistful of Dollars was a great 1960s film starring Clint Eastwood. He was actually quite involved in creating his characters distinctive style. He bought the black jeans from a shop on Hollywood Boulevard, and he got the hat from a Santa Monica wardrobe firm, and finally the trademark black cigars came from a store in Beverly Hills. He cut the cigars into three pieces to make them smaller, he knew to do this, even though he is a non-smoker himself.

1. Once Upon a Time in the West
   The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. Lawrence of Arabia
   Spartacus

Henry Fonda originally turned down this role in Once Upon a Time in the West. It took director Sergio Leone flying to the US to meet with Fonda to tell him that he wanted him for the role because it would change his typecasting of "good guy" roles. He wanted the audience to be shocked to see Fonda as a villain.

1. Andrei Rublev
   Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
2. The Pink Panther
   My Fair Lady

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was a comedy film starring Dick Van Dyke. In 1967 in an interview, Dick Van Dyke admitted that he only accepted the role of Caracatus Potts on the condition that he would not have to attempt an English accent. This was because he attempted a Cockney accent in Mary Poppins and was widely mocked by critics.

1. The Alamo
   The Angel Wore Red
2. The Dirty Dozen
   Bells Are Ringing

The Dirty Dozen was a war-film created in 1967 and was MGM's biggest moneymaker of that year. This film was quite controversial because when it was released people thought that it depicted Allied soldiers as no different than Nazis. This films cast includes three Oscar winners: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and George Kennedy.

1. Cinderfella
   My Fair Lady
2. Can Can
   Desire in the Dust

Did you know that My Fair Lady was actually adapted from a play called Pygmalion? The story of Pygmalion was rooted in Greek mythology. It is about a mythical artist that supposedly sculpted an ideal woman, only to fall in love with a statue. Similarly, in My Fair Lady Henry Higgins tries to "sculpt" a lower-class working girl into a well-spoken English lady.

1. Heller in Pink Tights
   Hello, Dolly!
2. It Started in Naples
   High Times

Gene Kelly directed the film Hello, Dolly! It was one of the top grossing films of 1969 but was so expensive to make that it still lost a reported $10 million. This effectively ended the golden age of Hollywood musicals. Also, Louis Armstrong's recording of the title song hit No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart, ending the Beatles' domination of the top slot for 14 consecutive weeks.

1. Murder, Inc.
   Midnight Lace
2. The Last Voyage
   Easy Rider

Easy Rider was absolutely a film that was made for the youth of the time. With a budget of much under $1 million, this 1969 guerrilla film went on to gross over $60 million worldwide. After the filming was finished in 1968 it took Hopper a year to edit over 80 hours of footage, footage that included real scenes of drug use and a profound ending. This movie ignited a revolution in cinema that hasn't been recaptured since.

1. Fail-Safe
   The 3rd Voice
2. 5 Branded Women
   13 Ghosts

Fail-Safe includes two Oscar winners: Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. The "computer generated" image on the control-room screen which included the world map, the planes, and the explosions, was an image entirely drawn and animated by hand.

1. The Lost World
   Return of the Magnificent Seven
2. Ocean's 11
   One Foot in Hell

Eli Wallach in the film, Return of the Magnificent Seven, wore a silk shirt, gold rings, and sported gold teeth because he was adamant about showing what a bandit did with his loot. He also used the silver trimmed saddle that Marlon Brando had used in One-Eyed Jacks. One man was such a fan that he sent John Sturges, the director, a ceremonial sword as a gift.

1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
   Portrait in Black
2. North to Alaska
   The Little Shop of Horrors

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is another James Bond film. As of 2009, George Lazenby is the youngest actor to portray 007 at age 29 during filming. The rest of the actors and their ages are: Sean Connery - 31, Roger Moore - 45, Timothy Dalton - 40, Pierce Brosnan - 41, and Daniel Craig - 38.

1. Pepe
   The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
2. Cool Hand Luke
   The Rat Race

Cool Hand Luke is an excellent character study of a non-conformist, anti-hero loner who vehemently resists authority and the idea of the Establishment. This crowd-pleasing film was based on a screenplay co-authored by ex-convict Donn Pearce from Pearce's published novel under the same name.

1. With Six You Get Eggroll
   The Pawnbroker
2. Days of Wine and Roses
   The Dirty Dozen

After its release, With Six You Get Eggroll grossed 10,095,200 at the box office, making it one of the top ten moneymaking films of Day's 39-film career. It also earned $4.5 million in theatrical rentals in the US and Canada. This film was Doris Day's final film role before she starred in the sitcom The Doris Day Show.

1. The Savage Innocents
   For a Few Dollars More
2. Sergeant Rutledge
   Toby Tyler

In the film, For a Few Dollars More, Sergio Leone, the director, broke a ton of 1960s Hollywood rules although at the time he did not know this. Some of these rules include: showing the shooter and the victim in the same shot, a horse being gunned down, marijuana use, and a rape scene.

1. West Side Story
   Shock Corridor
2. Rosemary's Baby
   Inside Daisy Clover

The film, Inside Daisy Clover was set in the mid-1930s about a teenage tomboy who lives in a ramshackle trailer with her eccentric mother on a California beach and dreams of Hollywood stardom. The story line should have been quite successful but upon its release, but the film was a huge failure. Luckily for Inside Daisy Clover, it later gained a cult following after it was released on television.

1. Midnight Cowboy
   Visit to a Small Planet
2. Where the Boys Are
   Switchin' Kitten

Dustin Hoffman gave a terrific performance in this film, Midnight Cowboy. He put so much effort portraying one of Ratso's (his character) coughing fits that one time he actually vomited. He also put pebbles in his shoe to make sure that his limp would be consistent from shot to shot. Dustin Hoffman's performance as "Ratso" Rizzo is ranked #7 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

1. The Subterraneans
   The Facts of Life
2. Crack in the Mirror
   Goldfinger

Goldfinger was the fastest grossing picture in film history when it was released and was actually entered in the Guiness Book of World Records. Sean Connery also never traveled to the USA to film this movie. Every scene where he is supposed to be in the U.S. was filmed in Pinewood Studios outside London. You notice this when he flicks the light on and off in the film, English light switches flip down instead of up.

1. Susan Slade
   8 1/2
2. A Raisin in the Sun
   Mary Poppins

Susan Slade is an American film made in 1961 that was considered a technicolor drama backed by Warner Bros. The story tells us about a teenage girl who secretly has a baby out of wedlock. Think about the time period, that was pretty racy stuff for that time period. A story like that today, no one would go see because, how many people do we all know that have children without being married? At least a few!

1. A Breath of Scandal
   Jason and the Argonauts
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
   The Bramble Bush

In, Jason and the Argonauts, it took Ray Harryhausen four months to produce the skeleton scene. This is an obscene amount of time for a scene that only lasts in the film, at most, for three minutes. In this early stages of this story's development the twin monsters Scylla and Charybdis, a centaur, and the three-headed dog Cereus were supposed to appear.

1. Night of the Living Dead
   Never on a Sunday
2. The Mountain Road
   The Last Woman on Earth

In Night of the Living Dead, the zombies that are eating bodies in the burnt-out truck are actually eating roasted ham that is covered in chocolate sauce. It was a running joke that the meal was so nausea inducing that the makeup artists didn't even have to bother putting makeup on the zombies because they ended up looking pale and sick anyways.

1. Sweet Bird of Youth
   Lolita
2. Village of the Damned
   Island of Terror

Island of Terror, is a British horror film that was made in 1966. The idea for the film came when Richard Gordon read the Gerry Fernback screenplay The Night the Silicates Came. This film is one of the last significant examples of a common 1950s plot style in which a horrific threat is introduced by a scientist but then is resolved by other people using responsible scientific measures.