Best Musical movies of 1960s

Oh! What a Lovely War(1969)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.



Bells Are Ringing(1960)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls ...



The Unsinkable Molly Brown(1964)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life.



Guide(1965)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A tour guide falls in love with a married woman, and helps her rediscover her love for dance.



Head(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff.



Padosan(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A simple man from a village falls in love with his new neighbor. He enlists the help of his musical-theater friends to woo the lovely girl-next-door away from her music teacher.



Beach Blanket Bingo(1965)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires ...



Roustabout(1964)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 7

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.



Robin and the 7 Hoods(1964)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Chicago, during the Prohibition, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.



Kid Galahad(1962)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 5

When he completes his military service Walter Gulick returns to his birthplace, Cream Valley, New York. He was orphaned as an infant and grew up elsewhere but always wanted to return to ...



It Happened at the World's Fair(1963)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Mike and Danny fly a crop duster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff seizes it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries ...



Clambake(1967)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.



G.I. Blues(1960)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tulsa, a soldier with dreams of running his own nightclub, places a bet with his friend Dynamite that he can win the heart of an untouchable dancer...but when Dynamite is transferred, Tulsa must replace him in the bet.



Beach Party(1963)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

"Beach Party" was the first of of a series of seven related AIP beach party films. The others are Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Pajama Party, Beach Blanket Bingo, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini.



The Happiest Millionaire(1967)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the ...



Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.



Darling Lili(1970)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.



Girls! Girls! Girls!(1962)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.



I Could Go on Singing(1963)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father...



Come Blow Your Horn(1963)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Leaving home, young Buddy Baker arrives unannounced at the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his older brother, Alan, a swinging girl chasing bachelor who prefers his carefree life to ...




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