Overview of the events of 1960 in film
Overview of the events of 1960 in film
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1960 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1960
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Spartacus Universal
$14,000,000[1]
2
Psycho Paramount [nb 1] $9,100,000[1]
3
Exodus United Artists
$8,500,000[1]
4
Swiss Family Robinson Buena Vista
$8,100,000[3]
5
The Alamo United Artists
$7,900,000[1]
6
The World of Suzie Wong Paramount
$7,500,000[4]
7
BUtterfield 8 MGM
$6,800,000[5]
8
The Apartment United Artists
$6,700,000[1]
9
Ocean's 11 Warner Bros.
$5,500,000[1]
10
From the Terrace 20th Century Fox
$5,200,000[1]
^ After Psycho was released, Paramount transferred the film rights to Hitchcock, who later sold the distribution rights to Universal Pictures in 1962.[2]
Top-grossing films by country
The highest-grossing 1960 films in countries outside of North America.
Country
Title
Director
Revenue
Admissions
Source(s)
France
Ben-Hur William Wyler
—
13,826,124
[6]
West Germany
Ben-Hur William Wyler
—
13,525,000
[7]
India
Mughal-e-Azam K. Asif
$23,110,000
100,000,000
[n 1] [10]
Italy
Ben-Hur William Wyler
—
15,400,000
[11]
Soviet Union
Far from the Motherland Aleksei Shvachko
$2,625,000
42,000,000
[n 3]
Spain
Ben-Hur William Wyler
—
4,653,194
[15]
United Kingdom
Ben-Hur William Wyler
—
13,200,000
[16]
Notable films released in 1960
United States unless stated
#
A
Adua and Friends Simone Signoret – (Italy )Alakazam the Great anime film – (Japan )The Alamo John Wayne , co-starring Richard Widmark , Laurence Harvey , Chill Wills , Frankie Avalon , Richard Boone Ali Baba Bujang Lapok Malaysia /Singapore )The Angry Silence Richard Attenborough – (U.K. )Anuradha India )The Apartment Billy Wilder , starring Jack Lemmon , Shirley MacLaine , Fred MacMurray , Ray Walston , Jack Kruschen , Edie Adams Autumn Has Already Started Mikio Naruse – (Japan )L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni – (Italy)
B
Bad Luck Poland )Barsaat Ki Raat Madhubala and Bharat Bhushan – (India )The Bad Sleep Well Akira Kurosawa , starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan)Because They're Young Dick Clark Beat Girl David Farrar , Gillian Hills , Adam Faith , Christopher Lee – (U.K. )The Bellboy Jerry Lewis Bells Are Ringing Dean Martin and Judy Holliday Beyond the Time Barrier The Big Risk Lino Ventura , Sandra Milo , Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France )Black Sunday Italy )Les Bonnes Femmes Claude Chabrol – (France)The Bramble Bush Richard Burton and Angie Dickinson Breathless Jean-Luc Godard , starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg – (France)The Brides of Dracula Peter Cushing – (U.K. )The Broken Pots Turkey )BUtterfield 8 Daniel Mann , starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey
C
Can-Can Frank Sinatra , Shirley MacLaine , Louis Jourdan , Juliet Prowse Carry On Constable Sid James and Eric Barker – (U.K. )Cash McCall James Garner and Natalie Wood The Challenge It Takes A Thief , starring Jayne Mansfield – (U.K. )Cidade Ameaçada Brazil )Cimarron Anthony Mann , starring Glenn Ford , Maria Schell , Anne Baxter Cinderfella Jerry Lewis and Anna Maria Alberghetti Circus of Horrors Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence – (U.K. )Cleopatra's Daughter Debra Paget The Cloud-Capped Star Ritwik Ghatak – (India )El Cochecito Marco Ferreri – (Spain )College Confidential Mamie Van Doren Comanche Station Budd Boetticher , starring Randolph Scott Come Back, Africa South Africa )Crack in the Mirror Richard Fleischer , starring Orson Welles , Bradford Dillman , Juliette Gréco The Criminal Joseph Losey , starring Stanley Baker – (U.K. )Cruel Story of Youth Nagisa Oshima – (Japan )
D
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Dorothy McGuire , Shirley Knight , Robert Preston Dentist in the Chair Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor – (U.K. )Desire in the Dust Joan Bennett , Martha Hyer , Raymond Burr Devi Satyajit Ray – (India )The Devil's Eye Ingmar Bergman , starring Bibi Andersson – (Sweden )La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini , starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg – (Italy )
E
Elmer Gantry Richard Brooks , starring Burt Lancaster , Jean Simmons , Arthur Kennedy , Shirley Jones The Enchanting Shadow Hong Kong )The Entertainer Tony Richardson , starring Laurence Olivier – (U.K. )Esther and the King Joan Collins and Richard Egan – (U.S. /Italy )Everybody Go Home Luigi Comencini – (Italy )Exodus Otto Preminger , starring Paul Newman , Eva Marie Saint , Sal Mineo , Peter Lawford , Lee J. Cobb , John Derek Eyes Without a Face Pierre Brasseur and Alida Valli – (France )
F
G
G.I. Blues Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse The Gallant Hours biopic of Admiral "Bull" Halsey starring James Cagney Girl of the Night Anne Francis and John Kerr Go to Hell, Hoodlums! Japan )Goliath and the Dragon Goliath II Disney animated shortThe Grass Is Greener Cary Grant , Deborah Kerr , Robert Mitchum , Jean Simmons Guns of the Timberland Alan Ladd
H
Hell Bent for Leather Audie Murphy and Felicia Farr Hell Is a City Stanley Baker – (U.K. )Heller in Pink Tights Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn Hell to Eternity Jeffrey Hunter and David Janssen Her Brother Kon Ichikawa – (Japan )High Time Bing Crosby Hobbi al-Wahid Omar Sharif – (Egypt )The Hole Jacques Becker – (France )Home from the Hill Vincente Minnelli , starring Robert Mitchum , Eleanor Parker , George Peppard House of Usher Roger Corman , starring Vincent Price The Housemaid South Korea )The Human Vapor Ishirō Honda – (Japan )The Hypnotic Eye Jacques Bergerac
I
Il Mattatore Dino Risi – (Italy )I Aim at the Stars J. Lee Thompson , starring Curd Jürgens , Herbert Lom , Gia Scala Ice Palace Richard Burton , Robert Ryan and Carolyn Jones The Iceman Cometh Sidney Lumet , starring Jason Robards, Jr. , Myron McCormick , and Robert Redford – (made for TV)Inherit the Wind Stanley Kramer , starring Spencer Tracy , Fredric March , Gene Kelly , Harry Morgan , Dick York Innocent Sorcerers Andrzej Wajda – (Poland )It Started in Naples Clark Gable and Sophia Loren
J
K
L
The Lady with the Dog U.S.S.R. )The Last Voyage Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone The Last Witness West Germany )Last Woman on Earth Roger Corman Late Autumn Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan )The League of Gentlemen Basil Dearden , starring Jack Hawkins – (U.K. )Let's Make Love Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand The Little Shop of Horrors Roger Corman Linda Carol White – (U.K.)The Lost World Michael Rennie and Jill St. John Love and Adoration Hassan Al-Imam , starring Salah Zulfikar and Taheyya Kariokka – (Egypt )Love in Simla Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana – (India )
M
Macario Roberto Gavaldón – (Mexico )Macumba Love United States /Brazil )The Magnificent Seven John Sturges , starring Yul Brynner , Steve McQueen , Charles Bronson , Eli Wallach , Robert Vaughn , James Coburn , Brad Dexter , Horst Buchholz Make Mine Mink Terry-Thomas – (U.K.)Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands )Man in the Moon Kenneth More – (U.K.)Manzil Dev Anand – (India )Midnight Lace Doris Day , Rex Harrison , John Gavin , Myrna Loy The Millionairess Anthony Asquith , starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers – (U.K. )Money and Women Hassan Al-Imam , starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt )The Mountain Road James Stewart Mrs. Warren's Profession Lilli Palmer (West Germany )Mughal-e-Azam Madhubala and Dilip Kumar – (India )Murder, Inc. Peter Falk , Stuart Whitman , May Britt , Henry Morgan
N
The Naked Island Japan )Never Let Go John Guillermin , starring Richard Todd , Peter Sellers , Elizabeth Sellars and Adam Faith – (U.K. )Never on Sunday Jules Dassin , starring Melina Mercouri – (Greece /United States )Never Take Sweets from a Stranger Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford – (U.K. )Night and Fog in Japan Nagisa Oshima – (Japan )The Ninth Circle Yugoslavia )North to Alaska John Wayne , Stewart Granger , Ernie Kovacs , Capucine , Fabian Forte
O
Obaltan South Korea )Ocean's 11 Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Sammy Davis, Jr. , Peter Lawford , Joey Bishop , Angie Dickinson Once More, with Feeling! Stanley Donen , starring Yul Brynner Our Last Spring Michael Cacoyannis – (Greece )
P
Parakh Bimal Roy – (India )The Party Is Over Argentina )Le Passage du Rhin Charles Aznavour – (France /Italy /West Germany )Peeping Tom Michael Powell , starring Karl Boehm , Anna Massey , Moira Shearer – (U.K. )Pepe Cantinflas Please Don't Eat the Daisies Doris Day and David Niven Pollyanna Hayley Mills Portrait in Black Lana Turner , Anthony Quinn , Sandra Dee The Private Lives of Adam and Eve Mickey Rooney and Mamie Van Doren Psycho Alfred Hitchcock , starring Anthony Perkins , Vera Miles , Janet Leigh , Martin Balsam , John Gavin The Pure Hell of St Trinian's Cecil Parker and Joyce Grenfell – (U.K. )Purple Noon Blazing Sun , directed by René Clément , starring Alain Delon – (France )
Q
R
The Rat Race Debbie Reynolds , Tony Curtis , Don Rickles The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond Budd Boetticher , starring Ray Danton and Karen Steele The River of Love Omar Sharif – (Egypt )Rocco and His Brothers Luchino Visconti , starring Alain Delon – (Italy /France )Romeo, Juliet and Darkness Czechoslovakia )The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film Richard Lester and Peter Sellers – (U.K. )
S
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Karel Reisz , starring Albert Finney , Shirley Anne Field , Rachel Roberts – (U.K.)The Savage Innocents Nicholas Ray , starring Anthony Quinn Scent of Mystery Denholm Elliott and Elizabeth Taylor School for Scoundrels Robert Hamer , starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas – (U.K. )September Storm Joanne Dru Sergeant Rutledge Jeffrey Hunter and Woody Strode Seven Days... Seven Nights Jeanne Moreau – (France )Seven Thieves Edward G. Robinson , Rod Steiger , Eli Wallach , Joan Collins Shoot the Pianist François Truffaut , starring Charles Aznavour – (France )Sink the Bismarck! Kenneth More – (U.K.)The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales Arturo de Córdova – (Mexico )Song Without End Dirk Bogarde , Capucine , Patricia Morison Sons and Lovers Jack Cardiff , starring Dean Stockwell and Trevor Howard – (U.K. )Spartacus Stanley Kubrick , starring Kirk Douglas , Laurence Olivier , Jean Simmons , Charles Laughton , John Gavin , Peter Ustinov , Tony Curtis The Spider's Web Godfrey Grayson . Based on an Agatha Christie play (U.K. )The Story of Ruth Stuart Whitman and Peggy Wood Strangers When We Meet Kim Novak , Kirk Douglas , Ernie Kovacs Struggle for Eagle Peak Norway )The Subterraneans George Peppard The Sundowners Fred Zinnemann , starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum – (US /UK /Australia )Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Season of Passion , starring Anne Baxter , Angela Lansbury , Ernest Borgnine , John Mills Sunrise at Campobello Ralph Bellamy (as Franklin D. Roosevelt ) and Greer Garson Surprise Package Stanley Donen , starring Yul Brynner , Mitzi Gaynor , Noël Coward Swiss Family Robinson John Mills and Dorothy McGuire
T
Tall Story Jane Fonda , Anthony Perkins , Ray Walston Tarzan the Magnificent Gordon Scott , Jock Mahoney , John Carradine A Terrible Beauty Tay Garnett , starring Robert Mitchum and Anne Heywood Testament of Orpheus Jean Cocteau – (France )There Was a Crooked Man Norman Wisdom – (U.K. )The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse Fritz Lang – (West Germany )The Three Worlds of Gulliver Kerwin Mathews The Time Machine Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux Too Hot to Handle Jayne Mansfield – (U.K.)The Trials of Oscar Wilde Peter Finch – (U.K.)The Truth Henri-Georges Clouzot , starring Brigitte Bardot – (France )Tunes of Glory Ronald Neame , starring Alec Guinness – (U.K. )Twelve Hours to Kill Nico Minardos and Barbara Eden Two-Way Stretch Peter Sellers – (U.K.)Two Women Vittorio De Sica , starring Sophia Loren – (Italy )
U
V
W
The Wackiest Ship in the Army Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson Watch Your Stern Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips – (U.K. )When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Mikio Naruse – (Japan )Where the Boys Are George Hamilton , Paula Prentiss , Connie Francis The White Horse Inn West Germany /Austria )Who Was That Lady? Dean Martin , Tony Curtis , Janet Leigh Wild River Elia Kazan , starring Montgomery Clift The World of Suzie Wong Nancy Kwan and William Holden – (U.K. /U.S.)
Y
Z
