Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970)
Comedy
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
Starring: Ian McShane, Anna Calder-Marshall, John Gavin, Severn Darden, Joyce Van Patten
Director: Rod Amateau
Niente rose per OSS 117 / OSS 117 Murder for Sale (1968)
Action | Drama
A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.
Starring: John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jürgens, Luciana Paluzzi, Robert Hossein, Rosalba Neri
Director: Renzo Cerrato, Jean-Pierre Desagnat, André Hunebelle
Spartacus (1960)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Filmed in Technirama, this epic story chronicles one of histories greatest underdogs — Spartacus! He and other slaves are sold to an owner of a school for gladiators. Spartacus excels and is rewarded with a slave women, Varinia, for his pleasure in which he demurs. However they eventually fall for each other before a death match for a corrupt Roman senator, Marcus Crassus. After the brutal spectacle, Spartacus is enraged by the death of his friends and the loss of his love. He leads a revolt and bolts. Marching across the countryside to escape over the sea to their homelands, he is elated to find Varinia. Their quest becomes entwined with the political aspirations of Crassus and sets the fate of all three. Spartacus' saga survives the test of time and has been immortalized by this landmark film.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin
Director: Stanley Kubrick
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Drama | Romance | War
John Gavin plays Ernst Gräber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough. Upon arrival, he discovers a city that bears little resemblance to the one he left behind – and so, through the rubble of the air-raids, he searches desperately for fragments of his family's shattered lives. But amid the shards, he falls in love with Elisabeth (Liselotte Pulver), the charming daughter of a doctor who in years prior tended to the Gräber family. Ernst thus activates a magnetism that compels both individuals toward one another in love… even as it hurtles them headlong into epochal death.
Starring: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore, Keenan Wynn, Dieter Borsche
Director: Douglas Sirk
Imitation of Life (1959)
Drama | Romance
Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little girl Sarah Jane, is by far the worse. Neurotic and obnoxious, Sarah Jane doesn't like being black; since she's light-skinned (her father was practically white), she spends the rest of the film passing as white, much to her mother's heartache and shame. Lora, meanwhile, virtually ignores her own daughter in a single-minded quest for stardom.
Starring: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, Dan O'Herlihy, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker
Director: Douglas Sirk
Psycho (1960)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Marion Crane goes on the run after stealing $40,000 from one of her employer's clients. Taking a wrong turn in a storm, Marion arrives at the isolated Bates Motel, run by the twitchy Norman, who is constantly at the beck and call of his unseen mother.
Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
