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Bond
film series began in the early 1960s, with Sean Connery in the leading
role. Bond, portrayed by Connery, was selected as
the third-greatest hero in
cinema history by the AFI.
After The Beatles films
A Hard Day's
Night
(1964) and
Help!
(1965), it became standard for each new pop group to
have a verité style feature film made about them.
A Man for All
Seasons
(1966), based on Sir Thomas More, is listed by the Vatican as being
among the greatest religious movies of all time.
Other major British films of the 1960s included
Lawrence of
Arabia
(1962),
Tom Jones
(1963),
Zulu
(1964) and
Those Magnificent Men in
Their Flying Machines
(1965). Four of the decade's Academy Award winners
for best picture
were British productions, including six Oscars for the film
musical
Oliver!
(1968), based on Charles Dickens' classic
Oliver Twist
.
The caper film
The Italian Job
(1969), starring Michael Caine, is regarded as
one of the greatest British films ever, with the line "You were only supposed
to blow the bloody doors off!" by Caine voted favourite
film one-liner in a
poll.
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Other British actors in starring roles in 1960s films included Richard
Burton, Peter Sellers, Audrey Hepburn (played Cockney flower girl Eliza
Doolittle in
My Fair Lady
, 1964), Julie Christie, Peter Ustinov, Rex
Harrison, Alec Guinness, David Niven and Julie Andrews, whose portrayal of
English nanny Mary Poppins is named one of the greatest movie characters.
Ken Russell's
Women in Love
(1969) starred Glenda Jackson, who won the
Academy Award for best actress.
In
the
1970s, Ronald
Neame directed
the
festive
favourite
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