Favorite Movies 1960s
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Favorite Movies 1960s

Lawrence of Arabia, The Sound of Music and Midnight Cowboy all won Oscars this decade. But which film wins your devotion?

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1 To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck plays an upstanding lawyer who defends a black man in Horton Foote’s adaptation of Harper Lee's novel. 995 2211
2 Psycho
Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) absconds funds but makes an ill-fated pitstop at the Bates Motel in Hitchcock’s masterpiece. 736 2032
3 The Great Escape
Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, and Steve McQueen worm their way out of a Nazi POW camp in this true-life thriller. 686 1944
4 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
In Sergio Leone’s archetypical spaghetti Western, Clint Eastwood is a solitary, quick-to-the-draw cowboy in search of stolen gold. 667 2023
5 The Graduate
Indolent college grad Dustin Hoffman gets mixed up with his girlfriend’s mother (Anne Bancroft) in this Mike Nichols comedy. 662 1984
6 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
In this comic Western, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are robbers of nonviolent means who are forced to hide out in Bolivia. 645 1887
7 Lawrence of Arabia
Peter O’Toole brings to memorable life T.E. Lawrence’s adventures in the Middle East in this adaptation by David Lean. 483 1757
8 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick’s mindbending scifi drama has a haywire computer program named HAL wreaking havoc on a mission to space. 478 1928
9 The Dirty Dozen
A psychotic John Cassavetes stars as one of the titular dozen charged with a wartime suicide mission in one of MGM’s most lucrative movies. 455 1677
10 Dr. No
Sean Connery, setting the standard for all 007s to come, must foil the machinations of a mad Chinese scientist (Joseph Wiseman). 451 1741
11 The Sound of Music
Robert Wise’s musical tracks the vicissitudes of a young nun (Julie Andrews) who falls for a widowed captain (Christopher Plummer). 416 1944
12 Spartacus
Kirk Douglass, a slave purchased for combat by a Roman senator (Lawrence Olivier), leads an uprising of his fellow chattels. 393 1631
13 True Grit
John Wayne stands at the center of a contorted plot (based on a Charles Portis novel) to find the killer of a young girl’s father. 351 1695
14 Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blake Edwards’s classic is an idealized portrait of a beautiful, carefree woman (Audrey Hepburn) in '60s New York. 317 1773
15 The Odd Couple
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are a neat freak and slob living together in Gene Saks’s adaptation of a Neil Simon classic. 310 1484
16 The Hustler
Robert Rossen’s depiction of pool shark “Fast” Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) is a case study of hubris. 277 1467
17 West Side Story
Winner of ten Oscars, Robert Wise’s Romeo and Juliet remake depicts the tragic romance of two New York teens aligned with rival gangs. 271 1731
18 Doctor Zhivago
David Lean’s sprawling take on the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of the titutal poet-doctor (Omar Sharif). 245 1591
19 The Apartment
Jack Lemmon runs into trouble when he finds himself sharing a girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine) with his philandering boss (Fred MacMurray). 245 1331
20 Easy Rider
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda are stoner dropouts hellbent on making it to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. 212 1588
21 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Katharine Houghton and Sidney Poitier break the racial marriage barrier against the wishes of her parents (Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracey). 179 1559
22 Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger’s first American film had a clueless cowboy (Jon Voight) and street-smart hustler (Dustin Hoffman) bonding in New York. 142 1522
23 Rosemary's Baby
Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes are newcomers to a haunted Manhattan apartment building in Roman Polanski’s thriller. 129 1611
24 The Wild Bunch
In Sam Peckinpah’s bloodthirsty Western, a passel of savage cowboys (led by William Holden) are forced to retreat to Mexico. 99 1401
25 Funny Girl
Barbra Streisand won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the fast-talking '20s vaudevillian Fanny Brice. -308 1530