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The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown, 1965) 🇺🇸
Three male figures are silhouetted in the slanting light of the setting sun. They are bathed in the warm colours of an orange and red summer sky where the sun will soon sink into the depths of Neptune’s kingdom. The mysterious call of the sea is pulling at them; they know that if they want to catch the perfect wave, it’s now or never. How long will they have to wait, eyes scanning the horizon? It doesn’t matter because, for these surfer-travellers, “elsewhere is a better word than tomorrow”.
World without Sun (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1964) 🇺🇸
Eight years after the release of his film The Silent World, Captain Cousteau directed this second innovative documentary, worthy of a Jules Verne novel. This human adventure tells the story of a team of "oceanauts" sent to live in an underwater village for a month. It’s a scientific experiment called "Precontinent II".
The World of Suzie Wong (Richard Quine, 1960) 🇺🇸
When Robert Lomax steps off the Star Ferry onto the soil of Hong Kong for the first time, the thought never enters his head that the island will become his chosen home. It is, after all, hard to think about making a home for yourself when you live in a “borrowed place on borrowed time”.
James Bond — Dr. No (Terence Young, 1962) 🇺🇸
The time when cowboys in their Stetsons galloped across still-smoking plains littered with slain feathered Indians and bison seems to have receded far into the past. Other substances have replaced the tobacco smoked in peace pipes, probably inspiring the acid green of this unmistakeably 1960s poster for the very first James Bond film.
West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961) 🇺🇸
The sort of couch footballers who watch matches on the TV in their tracksuits have always made me laugh. But that’s precisely what I should have worn when watching the ultimate cult musical, West Side Story, adapted from the equally famous Broadway musical: I had no idea how much on-screen energy lay in store for me.
Easy Come, Easy Go (John Rich, 1967) 🇺🇸
Elvis isn't dead! Immortalised on this poster as three different personas, as a US Navy officer, singer and diver looking for adventure, I ran into him more than once on nights out in the bars of Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong area.
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