Overview of the events of 1962 in film
Overview of the events of 1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director .
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1962
Rank
Title
Studio
Domestic rentals
1
The Longest Day 20th Century Fox
$17,600,000[1]
2
Lawrence of Arabia Columbia Pictures
$16,700,000[1]
3
The Music Man Warner Bros. Pictures
$8,100,000[2]
4
That Touch of Mink Universal Pictures
$7,942,000[2]
5
Mutiny on the Bounty Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
$7,410,000[2]
6
To Kill a Mockingbird Universal Pictures
$7,112,000[2]
7
Hatari! Paramount Pictures
$7,000,000[2]
8
Gypsy Warner Bros.
$6,000,000[2]
9
Bon Voyage! The Interns Walt Disney /Buena Vista Distribution $5,000,000[2]
10
In Search of the Castaways Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution
$4,900,000[3]
Notable films released in 1962
United States unless stated
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A
Abhijan Satyajit Ray – (India )Advise & Consent Otto Preminger , starring Henry Fonda , Charles Laughton , Walter Pidgeon , Don Murray , Peter Lawford Alaverdoba Giorgi Shengelaia – (Georgia )All Fall Down John Frankenheimer , starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty All Night Long Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K. )All Souls' Day Poland )The American Beauty Robert Dhéry – (France )The Amphibian Man U.S.S.R. )Appointment at the Tower Ezz El-Dine Zulficar , starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt )Asli-Naqli Dev Anand – (India )Atraco a las tres Spain )Attack of the Normans Giuseppe Vari – (Italy )An Autumn Afternoon Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan )The Awful Dr. Orloff Jesús Franco – (Spain )
B
Baat Ek Raat Ki Dev Anand – (India )Bachelor Flat Terry-Thomas , Tuesday Weld , Celeste Holm Bees Saal Baad India )The Bellboy and the Playgirls Francis Ford Coppola and Fritz Umgelter Big and Little Wong Tin Bar Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong )Billy Budd Peter Ustinov , with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K. )Billy Rose's Jumbo Doris Day and Jimmy Durante Birdman of Alcatraz John Frankenheimer , starring Burt Lancaster , Karl Malden , Telly Savalas Boccaccio '70 Federico Fellini , Mario Monicelli , Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti , starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren – (Italy )Bon Voyage! Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman The Boys Sidney J. Furie , starring Richard Todd – (U.K. )Boys' Night Out Kim Novak and James Garner The Brain That Wouldn't Die Virginia Leith The Brainiac (El baron del terror)Chano Urueta – (Mexico )The Bread of Those Early Years West Germany )The Broken Land Kent Taylor , Diana Darrin and Jack Nicholson
C
Cape Fear J. Lee Thompson , starring Gregory Peck , Robert Mitchum , Polly Bergen , Telly Savalas Captain Clegg Night Creatures in the U.S.), directed by Peter Graham Scott – (U.K. )Carnival of Souls Herk Harvey Carry On Cruising Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K. )Carry On Jack Kenneth Williams , Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills – (U.K. )Cartouche Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France /Italy )The Chapman Report George Cukor , starring Jane Fonda , Shelley Winters , Claire Bloom , Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Chased by the Dogs Egypt )Cléo from 5 to 7 Agnès Varda – (France )The Condemned of Altona Vittorio De Sica , starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell – (Italy )Convicts 4 Ben Gazzara , Stuart Whitman , Vincent Price , Ray Walston , Sammy Davis, Jr. The Counterfeit Traitor George Seaton , starring William Holden Crazy Paradise Gabriel Axel and starring Dirch Passer – (Denmark )Crooks Anonymous Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie
D
Damon and Pythias Curtis Bernhardt – (U.S./Italy )David and Lisa Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin The Day of the Triffids Howard Keel – (U.K. )Days of Wine and Roses Blake Edwards , starring Jack Lemmon , Lee Remick , Charles Bickford , Jack Klugman Dead Man's Evidence Francis Searle – (U.K. )The Devil's Agent John Paddy Carstairs – (U.K. /West Germany /Ireland )Le Doulos Jean-Pierre Melville , starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France )Dr. No James Bond film, directed by Terence Young , starring Sean Connery , Joseph Wiseman , Jack Lord , Ursula Andress – (U.K. )Dungeon of Harrow Pat Boyette
E
The Easy Life Dino Risi , starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (Italy )Eclipse Michelangelo Antonioni , starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti – (Italy/France )Eighteen in the Sun Camillo Mastrocinque – (Italy )Electra Michael Cacoyannis , starring Irene Papas – (Greece )The Elusive Corporal Jean Renoir , starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur – (France )Escape from East Berlin Robert Siodmak , starring Don Murray Escape from Zahrain Yul Brynner , Sal Mineo and Jack Warden Eva Eve ), starring Jeanne Moreau , Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi – (Italy /France )Experiment in Terror Blake Edwards , starring Glenn Ford , Lee Remick , Stefanie Powers , Ross Martin The Exterminating Angel Luis Buñuel – (Mexico )
F
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen Karel Zeman – (Czechoslovakia )Family Diary Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)The Female: Seventy Times Seven Isabel Sarli – (Argentina )Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules Five Finger Exercise Rosalind Russell Five Miles to Midnight Sophia Loren Five Weeks in a Balloon Follow That Dream Elvis Presley , Arthur O'Connell , Joanna Moore The Four Days of Naples Italy )Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Vincente Minnelli , starring Glenn Ford , Ingrid Thulin , Yvette Mimieux Freud: The Secret Passion John Huston , starring Montgomery Clift , Susannah York , Larry Parks The Fury of Hercules Gianfranco Parolini – (Italy )
G
Gay Purr-ee Judy Garland and Mel Blanc Geronimo Gigot Jackie Gleason Girls! Girls! Girls! Elvis Presley Go to Blazes Michael Truman – (U.K.)The Golden Arrow L'arciere delle mille e una notte) , directed by Antonio Margheriti – (Italy )Gorath Ishirō Honda – (Japan )The Grim Reaper Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy )Gundamma Katha N. T. Rama Rao – (India )Guns of Darkness Anthony Asquith , starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)Gypsy Mervyn LeRoy , starring Rosalind Russell , Karl Malden , Natalie Wood
H
H.M.S. Defiant Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K. )Half Ticket Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India )Hand of Death , John Agar Hands of a Stranger Newt Arnold Harakiri Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan )Hatari! Howard Hawks , starring John Wayne , Red Buttons , Hardy Krüger , Elsa Martinelli Hell Is for Heroes Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man Martin Ritt , starring Richard Beymer , Diane Baker , Corinne Calvet , Paul Newman Hero's Island James Mason and Rip Torn Hombre de la esquina rosada Argentina )The Horizontal Lieutenant Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss The Horrible Dr. Hichcock Riccardo Freda – (Italy )House of Women Shirley Knight and Constance Ford How the West Was Won James Stewart , Henry Fonda , Eli Wallach , John Wayne , Debbie Reynolds , Gregory Peck , Carroll Baker , George Peppard and moreHussar Ballad U.S.S.R. )Hussar of the Dead 1925 ) – (Chile )
I
If a Man Answers Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee In Search of the Castaways Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier In the Affirmative Claude Lelouch – (France )In the French Style Jean Seberg The Inn on the River Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany )The Inspector Lisa , directed by Mark Robson , starring Dolores Hart The Invisible Dr. Mabuse Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany )The Intruder Roger Corman , starring William Shatner The Iron Maiden Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell It Happened in Athens Jayne Mansfield – (Greece /United States )It's Only Money Frank Tashlin . starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien Ivan's Childhood Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R. )
J
K
L
The L-Shaped Room Bryan Forbes , starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell – (U.K. )Lawrence of Arabia David Lean , starring Peter O'Toole , Omar Sharif , Anthony Quinn , Alec Guinness , José Ferrer – (UK /US )The Legend of Lobo Walt Disney productionLife for Ruth Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (U.K.)Light in the Piazza Olivia de Havilland , Yvette Mimieux , George Hamilton The Lion William Holden and Trevor Howard Lisa The Inspector ), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)Lolita Stanley Kubrick , starring James Mason , Shelley Winters , Peter Sellers , Sue Lyon The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Tony Richardson , starring Tom Courtenay – (U.K. )Lonely Are the Brave Kirk Douglas , Walter Matthau , Gena Rowlands , George Kennedy , Carroll O'Connor Lonely Boy Paul Anka – (Canada )Long Day's Journey into Night Sidney Lumet , starring Katharine Hepburn The Longest Day John Wayne , Henry Fonda , Richard Burton , Sean Connery , Robert Mitchum , Rod Steiger and moreLove, Thy Name Be Sorrow (Koiya koi nasuna koi) , directed by Tomu Uchida – (Japan )Love at Twenty François Truffaut , Shintaro Ishihara , Andrzej Wajda , Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls – (International)Love on a Pillow Brigitte Bardot – (France )Lulu Rolf Thiele , starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria )
M
Madison Avenue Dana Andrews , Jeanne Crain , Eleanor Parker Mafioso Alberto Sordi – (Italy)The Magic Sword Bert I. Gordon The Magnificent Concubine Hong Kong )The Main Attraction Pat Boone Mamma Roma Pier Paolo Pasolini , starring Anna Magnani – (Italy )The Man of Gold Hungary )The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance John Ford , starring John Wayne , James Stewart , Lee Marvin , Vera Miles , Edmond O'Brien , Woody Strode The Manchurian Candidate John Frankenheimer , starring Frank Sinatra , Laurence Harvey , Janet Leigh , Leslie Parrish , Angela Lansbury March on Rome Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)Merrill's Marauders Samuel Fuller , starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin Mediterranean Holiday Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber – (West Germany )The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women Yeolnyeomun ), directed by Shin Sang-ok – (South Korea )The Miracle Worker Arthur Penn , starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol NBC -TV)Mix Me a Person Leslie Norman , starring Anne Baxter , Donald Sinden and Adam Faith – (U.K. )Mondo Cane Paolo Cavara , Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti – (Italy )A Monkey in Winter France )Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara Moon Pilot Tom Tryon The Music Man Robert Preston , Shirley Jones , Buddy Hackett , Paul Ford , Ron Howard Mutiny on the Bounty Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard My Geisha Shirley MacLaine My Life to Live Jean-Luc Godard , starring Anna Karina – (France )
N
O
P
Panic in Year Zero! Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon Period of Adjustment Jane Fonda , Jim Hutton , Anthony Franciosa , Lois Nettleton Phaedra Jules Dassin , starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins – (Greece )The Phantom of the Opera Herbert Lom – (U.K. )The Pigeon That Took Rome Charlton Heston The Pirates of Blood River John Gilling – (U.K. )Pitfall Japan )Play It Cool Billy Fury – (U.K. )Pontius Pilate Jean Marais , Jeanne Crain , Basil Rathbone Premature Burial Roger Corman , starring Ray Milland , Hazel Court , Heather Angel Pressure Point Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin Pretty Foe Esmail Koushan (Iran)Professor Shammi Kapoor – (India )The Puzzle of the Red Orchid Helmut Ashley – (West Germany )
R
Redhead West Germany /Italy )Requiem for a Heavyweight Anthony Quinn , Jackie Gleason , Mickey Rooney , Julie Harris Revenge of the Snakes Turkey )Ride the High Country Sam Peckinpah , starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott The Road to Hong Kong Norman Panama , starring Bing Crosby , Bob Hope and Joan Collins Roaring Years Nino Manfredi – (Italy )Rome Adventure Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette Der rote Rausch Klaus Kinski – (Austria )
S
Safe at Home! Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt – (India )Salvatore Giuliano Francesco Rosi – (Italy )Samar George Montgomery Sanjuro Akira Kurosawa , starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan )Satan in High Heels Meg Myles and Grayson Hall Sergeants 3 Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Sammy Davis, Jr. , Peter Lawford , Joey Bishop Seven Seas to Calais Rudolph Maté – Italy )Shaheed Musarrat Nazir , Talish , Allauddin , Ejaz , Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)She'll Have to Go Maid for Murder ), directed by Robert Asher – (U.K. )She Knows Y'Know Montgomery Tully – (U.K. )Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes (German) a Sherlock Holmes mystery directed by Terence Fisher, written by Curt Siodmak, starring Christopher Lee as Holmes and Thorley Walters as WatsonSlaughter of the Vampires Roberto Mauri – (Italy )Solo for Sparrow Gordon Flemyng – (U.K. )Some People Kenneth More – (U.K. )Something's Got to Give Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin (unfinished)The Spiral Road Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands State Fair Pat Boone , Tom Ewell , Ann-Margret , Pamela Tiffin , Bobby Darin The Suitor France )Sundays and Cybele Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel – (France )Sweet Bird of Youth Paul Newman , Geraldine Page , Shirley Knight , Ed Begley , Rip Torn Swordsman of Siena Stewart Granger – (Italy/France )A Symposium on Popular Songs Disney animation
T
The Tale of Zatoichi Kenji Misumi – (Japan )The Tale of Zatoichi Continues Shintaro Katsu – (Japan)Tales of Terror Vincent Price , Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone Taras Bulba Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis Tarzan Goes to India Jock Mahoney 's first film as Tarzan Tender Is the Night Jennifer Jones Term of Trial Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – (U.K. )The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany )That Touch of Mink Cary Grant and Doris Day Thérèse Desqueyroux Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France )The Three Stooges In Orbit Three Stooges Time to Remember Charles Jarrott – (U.K. )To Kill a Mockingbird Robert Mulligan , starring Gregory Peck Tobacco Bulgaria )Tonny ,Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe – (Norway )Too Late Blues John Cassavetes , starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens Tower of London Vincent Price Treasure of the Silver Lake Harald Reinl – (West Germany )The Cursed Palace Salah Zulfikar and Mariam Fakhr Eddine – (Egypt )The Trial Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau – (France/Italy /West Germany )The Trial of Joan of Arc Robert Bresson – (France )Tudor – (Romania )The Twelve Chairs Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – (Cuba )Two for the Seesaw Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum Two Half Times in Hell Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary )Two Weeks in Another Town Vincente Minnelli , starring Kirk Douglas , Edward G. Robinson , George Hamilton , Cyd Charisse
U
V
W
Walk on the Wild Side Laurence Harvey , Capucine , Jane Fonda Waltz of the Toreadors John Guillermin , starring Peter Sellers – (U.K. )War of the Buttons France )We Joined the Navy Kenneth More – (U.K. )What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Robert Aldrich , starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford Who's Got the Action? Dean Martin and Lana Turner The Witch's Curse Riccardo Freda – (Italy )The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom
Z
