00 Week: Now you're talking. What are we going to do? Rob the end of a rainbow?

GOLDFINGER

1964

Directed by Guy Hamilton

Written by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn (based on the novel by Ian Fleming)

Spoilers: severe

00 Week: In his particular line of business, peace had reigned for nearly a year. And peace was killing him.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

1963 UK/1964 USA

Directed by Terence Young

Written by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkeley Mather (based on the novel by Ian Fleming)

Spoilers: severe

You'll bury us all

WHAT A WAY TO GO!

1964

Directed by J. Lee Thompson

Written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Gwen Davis

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: In the intensity of her wild desire for life—for life—but for life—solace and reason were the uttermost folly

THE TOMB OF LIGEIA

1964

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by Robert Towne (based on the story "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

1964

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell (based on the stories "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: what part of "illimitable dominion" is unclear? (high)

American Gothic Week: That motley drama—oh, be sure it shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased forevermore by a crowd who seize it not

THE COMEDY OF TERRORS

1964

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Written by Richard Matheson (based on his own imagination! wow!)

Spoilers: moderate

Walt Disney, part XXIII: I rocked the fretful baby gods to sleep before time started, and I am companion to the women who paste up the stars. The quarters of the world are bound unto my compass. I have taken tea with earthquakes. I know what the bee knows... And you really are a dreadful little boy.

MARY POPPINS

1964

Directed by Robert Stevenson

Written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi (based on the novel by P.L. Travers)

Spoiler alert: high

Send me Tony Randall and booze

SEND ME NO FLOWERS

Day, Hudson, and Randall are back, and having explored goofy mid-century sex to their satisfaction and our own, set their sights now upon goofy mid-century death.

1964

Directed by Norman Jewison

Written by Julius J. Epstein (based on the play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore)

With Rock Hudson (George Kimball), Tony Randall (Arnold Nash), Doris Day (Judy Kimball), Paul Lynde (Mr. Akins), Hal March (Winston Burr), Edward Andrews (Dr. Morrissey), and Clint Walker (Bert Powers)

Spoiler alert: moderate

The matador

FAIL-SAFE

The best Cold War movie of 1964—and that's saying one whole hell of an awful lot.

1964
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Written by Walter Bernstein and Peter George (based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler)
With Henry Fonda (the President), Larry Hagman (Buck), Walter Matthau (Prof. Groeteschele), William Hansen (Sec. of Def. Swenson), Frank Overton (Gen. Bogan), Fritz Weaver (Col. Cascio), and Dan O'Herlihy (Gen. Warren "Blacky" Black)

Spoiler alert: moderate, although presumably someone made you watch this in high school

The heists of Jules Dassin, part II: "...then as farce"

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