Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu June 2006

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Feature Films U.S. 1960s

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

Advise & consent 1962

Provides a brutal look at the darker side of power and statesmanship as blackmail, scandal and suicide shake the foundations of the U.S. Government. The trouble begins when an unpopular Presidential nomination for Secretary of State sets off a flurry of backroom plots and counterplots, dividing the Senate into violently opposed factions.

1 videocassette (VHS) (142 min.) :

DANA 100

Advise & consent 1989

Provides a brutal look at the darker side of power and statesmanship as blackmail, scandal and suicide shake the foundations of the U.S. government. The trouble begins when an unpopular presidential nomination for Secretary of State sets off a flurry of backroom plots and counterplots, dividing the Senate into violently opposed factions.

1 videocassette (142 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2192

Alice's Restaurant 1984

A rollicking glimpse at a not-so-long ago time when young men avoided the draft and peace and love were the passwords of an entire generation. This film joyfully explores one whacky dilemma after another, including everything from confronting the local draft board to searching high and low for an open garbage dump.

1 videocassette (111 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3451

Back street 1992

A fashion designer falls in love with a department store owner. Several years later they meet and resume their love affair.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2844

Billy Budd 1962

Story of the clash between the young, innocent sailor, Billy Budd, and his corrupt superior, Claggart.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

DANA. DANA 1731 1731

Birdman of Alcatraz 1987

Based on the true story of a convicted killer, Robert Stroud (Lancaster), who avoided the depths of despair by becoming a world-renowned authority on birds during his imprisonment. The films traces his progressive steps toward self-rehabilitation, and offers a commentary on American penal system.

1 videocassette (148 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3594

Black like me 1964

The true story of a white newsman in the early 1960's who chemically changes the color of his skin in order to experience life as a black man in the South.

1 videodisc (107 min.) :

DANA 23

Black like me 1992

A white writer travels through the racially torn South of the 1950's as a black man by chemically darkening his skin color and cutting and dyeing his hair to personally experience and write about racism and prejudice.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

DANA 1009

The Brig 1986?

Mekas filmed this play about a Marine Corps prison on the stage of the Living Theatre after it had been closed down by the police for tax evasion. He and the cast slipped into the theater through a coal chute and made the film in five hours. The furious rhythms of the play convey the inhumanity of military discipline with the raw force of a battle document.

1 videocassette (55 min.) :

MEDIA 2-757

The Broken chain 1994

In the midst of the Revolutionary War, two Iriquois tribal brothers are caught up in a fight to keep their people and their land from destruction of approaching settler.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2715

The brotherhood 1968

A middle-aged man is loyal to the syndicate ways, while his younger brother is brashly eager to take on the new. An inside look at the Mafiosi.

1 videodisc (96 min.)

DANA 39

Camelot 1987

A musical retelling of the rise and fall of England's mythical King Arthur.

2 videocassettes (177 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-3454 cassette 1 2-3455 cassette 2

Cheyenne autumn 1964

Three-hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled inteh barren wastelands of Oklahoma, set out on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland in this true-life story masterfully told by legendary filmmaker John Ford.

1 videocassette (158 min.) :

MEDIA 2-858

The Children's hour 2000

When a vindictive little girl is disciplined in an exclusive girl's school, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She accuses her teachers of lesbianism--and her gullible grandmother spreads the gossip. Outraged, the teachers, Karen and Martha fight back in court, but a child's lie is hard to disprove.

1 videocassette (109 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5313

Day of anger 1968

A gunfighter rides into town and takes on a young outcast as an apprentice gunfighter. He learns his deadly lessons well and eventually realizes that someone has to stop his mentor from taking over the town. Pupil faces teacher in a violent climactic showdown.

1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.)

MEDIA 10-361

Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb 1964

A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.

2 videodiscs (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-345

Easy rider 1998

Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America.

1 videocassette (ca. 94 min.) :

DANA 1525

Easy rider 1999

Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real U.S. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.

1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : VHS Videotape

MEDIA DANA 10-57 1525

Eugene O'Neill's long day's journey into night 1992

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical account of his explosive home life with his drug-addicted mother, alcoholic father and emotionally unstable older brother.

2 videocassettes (180 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5425 cassette 1 2-5426 cassette 2

From Russia with love 1995

The second and one of the best James Bond films. Starring Sean Connery with Lotte Lenya as an evil spy. Bond is elusive as ever as the bad guys chase him through Istanbul and abroad the Orient Express. Action packed fights and narrow escapes.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3700

The fugitive kind 1960

When a young renegade drifts into a sleepy southern town and gets involved with two women, it sets events in motion that can only lead to tragedy.

1 videocassette (121 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3831

The Graduate 1967

A rich, recent college graduate comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and daughter of his father's friend.

1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA DANA 10-32 2-66 1540

The Green Berets 1987

The struggles, during the Vietnam war, of crack troops. An elite hand-picked group of men skilled in the techniques of unconventional warfare.

1 videocassette (135 min.) :

MEDIA 2-746

Guess who's coming to dinner 1998

When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.

1 videocassette (ca. 108 min.)

MEDIA 2-6667

Harper 1966

Lew Harper is a private eye who unravels a twisted case of kidnapping and murder.

1 videocassette (121 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2891

Hell's hinges Motion picture 1916

A weak preacher and his saintly sister go West to Hell's Hinges to establish a parish for him far from the temptations of the Eastern city. The minister, however, succumbs to temptation, while his sister converts the worst of the gunslingers.

1 reel, 59 min. :

MEDIA 5-376

Jason and the Argonauts 1991

Jason is a fearless sailor and explorer, who returns to the kingdom of Thessaly after a 20 year voyage to make his rightful claim to the throne. But to do so, Jason must first find the magical Golden Fleece which is guarded by a 100-foot bronze giant, the venomous Hydra, and an army of skeletons.

1 videocassette (104 min.) :

DANA 1016

The killers 2003

Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.

2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.)

DANA PN1997 . K55 2003 40

King & country 1997

Private Hamp is a volunteer at the outbreak of the First World War. As the sole survivor of his company, he decides one day to "go for a walk." Picked up by the military police, he is sent back to his unit to face court- martial for desertion. An arrogant officer reluctantly accepts the assignment to defend him. During testimony, the officer begins to feel sympathy for the obviously sincere but shell-shocked Hamp. For the first time in his military career, the officer begins to question the army's methods and attitudes toward its men.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3958

The madwoman of Chaillot 1992

An excentric countess upsets a plan to transform Paris into a giant oilfield.

1 videocassette (132 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3133

The Man who shot Liberty Valance 1962-

Jimmy Stewart plays the bungling but charming big city lawyer determined to rid the fair village of Shinbone of its number one nuisance and bad man Liberty Valance (played by Lee Marvin).

1 videocassette (123 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA 2-634 2-1224

The Manchurian candidate 1962

1 videocassette (126 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 1382 2-638

Marnie 1964

Tippi Hedren is the troubled title character, a compulsive thief and liar caught in the act by Sean Connery. Rather than turn her over to the law, he impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in an attempt to discover the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.

1 videocassette (130 min.) :

MEDIA 2-743

Medium cool 1994

As protesters and police face off in the streets during the Democratic National Convention of 1968, the relationship deepens between a dispassionate TV news cameraman and a warmhearted Appalachian woman raising her son in a Chicago ghetto.

1 videocassette (111 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3171

Midnight cowboy 1998

A Texas cowboy takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.

1 videocassette (113 min.) :

DANA 1545

The Miracle worker 1962

The story of Helen Keller, a young girl left deaf, unable to speak, and blind from a disease contracted at an early age, and the young woman, Annie Sullivan, who comes to teach Helen how to overcome her enormous handicaps and learn to communicate.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 16 2-1497

The Misfits 1987

A story of a group of misfits and lonely people, three jobless cowboys and a divorcee who keeps house for them. They gravitate to Reno for a small-town rodeo and a wild-horse roundout. Notable as the last appearance in film of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe who died shortly afterwards.

1 videocassette (VHS) (125 min.) :

MEDIA 2-356

The naked kiss 1988?

A high powered drama of a prostitute trying to go straight who is arrested for murder and reveals her shady past.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3435

Nothing but a man 198

Duff, a railroad section hand is forced to confront prejudice and self-denial when he falls in love with Josie, an educated preacher's daughter. Story centers around the young black couple as they struggle to live with dignity in a Southern community. The husband is unable to play the subservient role expected of him by both whites and blacks, and is branded as a troublemaker when he tries to maintain his self-respect.

1 videocassette (92 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6426

Point blank 1988

A professional criminal helps pull off an underworld heist, then is double-crossed, gunned down and left for dead on deserted Alcatraz Island. He resurfaces in Los Angeles to track down his share of the loot.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3682

The President's analyst 1987

The President's analyst becomes increasingly paranoid as he realizes that he will never be allowed to quit his job because he knows too much, that agents of both friendly and hostile foreign governments are after him and that the "F.B.R." has put out a contract on him ; but the ultimate villain turns out to be the telephone company, from whose clutches the "C.E.A." rescues him.

1 videocassette (100 min.) :

MEDIA 2-600

Psycho 1988

Anthony Perkins stars as the troubled Norman Bates, whose "old dark house" and adjoining motel serve as the setting for murder.

1 videodisc (108 min.) : 1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA MEDIA DANA 7-135 2-36 551

Putney Swope 1969

A comical satire which charts the rise and fall of a Madison Avenue ad agency previously controlled by Whites and is taken over by Blacks who are dedicated to the downfall of the White Establishment. The picture is mostly a parade of vignettes, dealing with people and campaigns of the advertising world.

1 videodisc (85 min.)

DANA 127

Putney Swope 1995

A comical satire which charts the rise and fall of a Madison Avenue advertising agency previously controlled by Whites which is taken over by Blacks who are dedicated to the downfall of the White Establishment. The picture is mostly a parade of vignettes, dealing with people and campaigns of the advertising world.

1 videocassette (85 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3589

A raisin in the sun 1988

Based in a Chicago ghetto in the mid-1950's, A Raisin in the Sun is the story of the Younger family. The just-widowed mother, her son and his wife, and the sister live together and cope with bigotry and hatred, as well as the strains of everyday living.

1 videocassette (171 min.) :

DANA. DANA 1421 1421

Recording The producers a musical romp with Mel Brooks 2001

This exclusive musical comedy event showcases the antics of the entire cast and crew as they record the cast album.

1 videocassette (85 min.) :

DANA 1836

Rosemary's baby 1968

The story of a young New York couple who are expecting their firsy child. Rosemary experiences confusion and fear; her husband makes a pact with the devil that promises to send his career skyward.

1 videocassette (137 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2351

Shock corridor 1963

A journalist gets himself admitted to a mental hospital to solve the murder of an inmate, but in the process his own sanity suffers.

1 videocassette (101 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5085

Sweet bird of youth 1962

Chance Wayne, an ambitious and charming Southerner, brings down the wrath of his father when he rekindles an affair with a former flame.

1 videocassette (120 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1349

The Swimmer 1968

Lancaster plays Ned, a troubled suburbanite who decides one summer morning to "swim" home via the pools of his wealthy friends. He encounters several women from his past along the way. His journey is one of embarrassement, humiliation, and steamy passion.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-751

Take the money and run 1999

Woody Allen's first directorial achievement is a hilarious satire of crime movies as he portrays a master criminal who habitually bungles his crime.

1 videodisc (85 min.) :

MEDIA 10-69

The Taming of the shrew 1983

A dramatization of Shakespeare's play about the courtship of a beautiful but sharp-tempered woman by her persistent suitor.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3566

To kill a mockingbird 1962

Two children in a small southern town are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father chooses to defend a Black man charged with raping a white girl. Based on the novel of the same title by Harper Lee.

1 videocassette : DVD

MEDIA MEDIA 2-482 10-44

Viva Maria! 1965

The daughter of an Irish anarchist is on the lam in Mexico circa 1910, hiding with a touring carnival troupe, where she meets singer Jeanne Moreau only to find themselves at the head of an armed peasant revolt.

1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.)

MEDIA 10-407

Wait until dark 1967

A photographer unknowingly brings home a drug-filled doll. His blind wife is terrorized by two murderous men in search of it.

1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-432

West Side story 1988

Musical based on the Romeo and Juliet story, set in New York's West Side slums during the late 1950's, with gang warfare erupting when Maria, sister of the leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, falls in love with the leader of the rival Anglo gang, the Jets.

1 videocassette (153 min.) : lazerdiscs

DANA. MEDIA MEDIA 68 2-465 7-72 disc 1 7-73 disc 2 7-74 disc 3

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1987

During a grueling, drunken night, the love-hate relationship between a middle-aged history professor and his wife, daughter of the college's president, is played out in "games" before and with a young new biology professor and his wife.

1 videocassette (127 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 66 2-1454

The Wild bunch 1969

The brutal story of violent men who lived during the Mexican revolution in the year 1913. It portrays a band of magnificent losers in a dying lawless West.

1 videodisc (145 min.) :

MEDIA 10-200