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Word: thrillers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTOR. A psychotic clerk (Terence Stamp) turns from collecting butterflies to capture a vivacious young art student (Samantha Eggar) in Director William Wyler's gripping, if somewhat glamorized thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jul. 9, 1965 | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...Collector is a good grisly thriller that never rises to the challenge of becoming something more. Contrived to leave viewers feeling scared silly rather than profoundly shaken, this tournament of terror spells instant stardom for two relatively uncelebrated English performers, Samantha Eggar and Terence Stamp, although Stamp is seriously miscast. From a taut beginning to a breath-stopping climax, the drama seizes attention, yet misses nearly all the depth and subtlety of the small sinister bestseller on which it is based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A House in the Country | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...Peck recollects a top secret potent enough to neutralize radioactive fallout but not enough to keep a provocative movie from heading toward a mundane and faintly preposterous conclusion. Getting there is all the fun, but no one wants to find that out during the last reel of a thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Questions of Identity | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...Fool Killer is a "big tall feller" who carries a chopper for chopping fools. His work is cut out for him in this somewhat foolish mystery thriller based on a novel by Helen Eustis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boy Meets Bogeyman | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...pilfered from E Lab. Several contain enough botulinus toxin to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles. One flask, warns Research Scientist Hoffman (Richard Basehart) is brimful of the "satan bug," a biological doomsday weapon that can launch death on a global scale. In this unpersuasive sci-fi thriller directed by John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape), it is only a matter of time until someone gravely inquires: "How worried are they in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bacteria Berserk | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

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