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1. (1967) Newly graduated from college, Benjamin Braddock had no idea what he wanted to do with his life. Lots of other people had ideas about what he should do though. One of his father's friends saw plastics as being the way to go, and his girlfriend's mother, well she just wanted to get to know Ben better ... a lot better.
2. (1969) This gritty look at life on the streets of New York offered us the story of an unlikely friendship between Joe Buck, a young man who thought he could make an easy living servicing rich women, and Ratzo Rizzo, a homeless street hustler whose health was rapidly deteriorating.
3. (1968) Loosely based on the real life of Ziegfield Folly star Fanny Bryce, this musical chronicled her rise as a powerful entertainer, despite her insecurities in her own physical appearance. Streisand's amazing voice and sense of comedic timing earned her a well-deserved Oscar.
4. (1967) Sent to jail for cutting the heads off of parking meters, he soon established himself as a maverick within the system. The bosses tried to break his will by making him spend time in the box, but his numerous escapes proved that he remained unbroken, so they killed him.
5. (1967) While visiting his mother, in a small southern town, Virgil Tibbs was arrested for murder, simply because of the colour of his skin. When the Police Chief found out that Tibbs was a police detective from Philadelphia, his reluctant help was solicited in solving the case.
6. (1964) Bond had his work cut out for him, when the plot to destroy the world economy was uncovered. The man behind the plot had a strange obsession with gold, and a silent servant who killed with the toss of his lethal hat.
7. (1968) This futuristic movie saw two astronauts and a sentient computer travelling through space, to explore the origins of a strange monolith found on the moon. The computer began acting very bizarrely, going to great lengths to defend against perceived threats to the mission, and to its own safety.
8. (1967) Loosely based on a true story, this movie told the story of a young pair of bank robbers and their gang. This pair made their name during the Depression, in the southwestern corner of the United States. Young and beautiful, they played a violent game, and died a violent death once the law finally caught up with them.
9. (1960) When Marion Crane stole $40,000, she thought she was about to embark on a new, better life. Unfortunately she chose to spend the night at the Bates motel, where the conflicted proprieter was torn between his physical attraction to her, and his attachment to his mother. Fortunately Marion's boyfriend and sister were not about to let her disappearance go unsolved.
10. (1968) When their ship crashed on a strange planet, the crew did not know what to expect. What they found was that another species ruled, and humans were treated as vermin, fit only for slavery, or better yet, extermination. Taylor's ability to speak (after his throat injury healed) finally convinced some of the scientists that he was more intelligent than they had supposed. Released to fend for himself, Taylor discovered a horrible truth about the origins of the planet.
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