I was never a fan of this one--too slick and "careful" to deliver real shocks.

The producer Robert Kent, also did "Twice-Told Tales," which suffers (IMHO) from the same slickness and pretensions. Since Kent also produced great low-budget stuff like Invisible Invaders and It! The Terror from beyond Space, it looks like he was trying to follow Roger Corman into more upscale material, using color, elaborate sets, famous literary (though public domain) authors, and Vincent Price. But it just feels like all "surface." The Corman Poe's can be pretty disturbing, the more you think about them.

Endless Summer (1966)
Michael Hynson,Robert August
D-Bruce Brown

The ultimate surfing adventure, crossing the globe in search of the perfect wave. From the uncharted waters of West Africa, to the shark-filled seas of Australia, to the tropical paradise of Tahiti and beyond, these California surfers accomplish in a few months what most people never do in a lifetime...They live their dream. Director Bruce Brown creates a film so powerful it has become a timeless masterpiece that continues to capture the imagination of every new generation.

I never surfed but after watching this,how can you resist.Beautifully shot around the world and
a perfect soundtrack by The Sandals.The film doesn't wander to anything but surfing and its fascinating to see the world as it was mid-60s. Summers here and the time is right for surfing at the beach.9 of 10 stars

Dirty Dancing (1987)
Patrick Swayze,Jennifer Grey,Jerry orbach.Cynthia Rhodes,Jack Weston,Jane Brucker,Wayne Knight,"Cousin" Bruce Morrow
D-Emile Ardolino

In the summer of 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman (Grey), a sweet sheltered daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle (Swayze), a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her doctor father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people".

I never saw Dirty Dancing before. However I definitely related to this movie having been 9 years old and remembering these songs on the radio as well as spending time at the Catskill Resorts (Grossingers,The Nevele,The Concord,Brickmans)as well . The movie captured the geography and having Cousin Brucie on the radio captured the musical spirit. 

Jennifer Grey was excellent as the sweet girl next door who becomes a woman.And even though I was never a Patrick Swayze fan,he won me over for this movie.The only thing I could quibble with is the 1980s songs they jammed in (but the finale I Had The Time Of My Life did work).

The dancing and the music for this film is deservedly famous.Why I waited till now to see it,I don't know.But getting a chance to watch people like Jerry Orbach and Jack Weston is appreciated.And Newman too.A classic.Nobody puts Baby in a corner. 10 of 10 stars

I love The Endless Summer.  I used to surf in my teens and early 20s,I used to religiously watch this film. 

The Conqueror (1956) is regarded as one of John Wayne's worst movies.It was filmed in various spots of Utah.It might also be the most tragic film as this write-up suggests

Filmed near the site of contemporaneous nuclear testing grounds, the set was contaminated by nuclear fallout. After location shooting, much dirt from the location was transported back to Hollywood in order to match interior shooting done there. Scores of cast and crew members developed forms of cancer over the next two decades, many more than the normal percentage of a random group of this size. Quite a few died from cancer or cancer-related problems, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself to death soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, 'Thomas Gomez' , John Hoyt and director Dick Powell. People magazine researched the subsequent health of the cast and crew, which it published in November 1980. By the time of the article's publication, 91 of the 220 members of the film's cast and crew had contracted cancer, and half of these had died from the disease. The figures did not include several hundred local American Indians who served as extras on the set. Nor did it include relatives who had visited cast and crew members on the set, such as the Duke's son Michael Wayne. The People article quoted the reaction of a scientist from the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency to the news: "Please, God, don't let us have killed John Wayne".

Also worth noting was the unusually high incidence of cancer amongst the nearby Mormon community,those who did not smoke or drink

That's simply ghastly!!! I had never heard of that tragic twist.

On the same subject, I watched The day after (1983) on Youtube yesterday; I hadn't seen that TV movie since its original broadcast on ABC. Although the theme of nuclear holocaust feels less urgent today than it did back then, we are still familiar enough with the concept to share the general feeling of "Oh, sh**!" manifested by the protagonists as they finally see the missiles take off after half an hour of character establishment. The special effects are kind of poor (except maybe the nuking of Kansas city, where the fireballs look scary) but the use of stock footage adds realism to the whole thing. The very depressing fate of our society after the ashes have fallen out sends out a strong message, but there is one scene I could have done without: the birth of a baby at the end, heralding a renewal of hope. In the similarly-themed film Threads, from 1984, there was also a post-nuclear holocaust baby at the end... only it was still-born. Take that, hope!!!