The Best Action Movies of the 1960s

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Yojimbo

1961    Akira Kurosawa    Not Rated

Action    Action Comedy    Adventure

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A Fistful of Dollars

1964    Sergio Leone    Rated R

Action    Foreign Language Film    Outlaw

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The Wild Bunch

1969    Sam Peckinpah    Rated R

Action    Outlaw    Revisionist Western

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Sanjuro

1962    Akira Kurosawa    Rated PG13

Action    Action Comedy    Adventure

Down by 2 in the past 45 days 2

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Goldfinger

1964    Guy Hamilton    Not Rated

Action    Action Thriller    Adventure

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Dr. No

1962    Terence Young    Rated PG

Action    Action Thriller    Adventure

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From Russia with Love

1963    Terence Young    Not Rated

Action    Action Thriller    Adventure

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Planet of the Apes

1968    Franklin J. Schaffner    Rated G

Action    Adventure    Dystopian Film

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Thunderball

1965    Terence Young    Not Rated

Action    Action Thriller    Glamorized Spy Film

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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

1963    Stanley Kramer    Rated G

Action    Action Comedy    Adventure

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You Only Live Twice

1967    Lewis Gilbert    Not Rated

Action    Glamorized Spy Film    Spy Film

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The Italian Job

1969    Peter Collinson    Rated G

Action    Action Comedy    Action Thriller

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Zulu

1964    Cy Endfield    Not Rated

Action    Adventure    Drama

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969    Peter R. Hunt    Rated PG

Action    Adventure    Glamorized Spy Film

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El Dorado

1966    Howard Hawks    Not Rated

Action    Adventure    Buddy Film

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Jason and the Argonauts

1963    Don Chaffey    Rated G

Action    Adventure    Family

Down by 3 in the past 45 days 3

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

1965    Russ Meyer    Not Rated

Action    Action Comedy    Chase Movie

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Where Eagles Dare

1969    Brian G. Hutton    Rated PG

Action    Adventure    War

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The Sword of Doom

1966    Kihachi Okamoto    Not Rated

Action    Adventure    Adventure Drama

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Tokyo Drifter

1966    Seijun Suzuki    Not Rated

Action    Crime    Crime Thriller

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