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 winning seven 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
$15,250,000[1]
2
Lawrence of Arabia
Columbia Pictures
$15,000,000[1]
3
The Music Man
Warner Bros. Pictures
$8,000,000[1]
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 Columbia Pictures
$5,000,000[2]
10
In Search of the Castaways
Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution
$4,900,000[1]
Notable films released in 1962
United States unless stated
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Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India )
Advise & Consent , directed by Otto Preminger , starring Henry Fonda , Charles Laughton , Walter Pidgeon , Don Murray , Peter Lawford
Alaverdoba , directed by Giorgi Shengelaia – (Georgia )
All Fall Down , directed by John Frankenheimer , starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty
All Night Long , starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K. )
All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) – (Poland )
The American Beauty (La belle américaine), directed by Robert Dhéry – (France )
The Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) – (U.S.S.R. )
Appointment at the Tower , directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar , starring Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny – (Egypt )
Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand – (India )
Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) – (Spain )
Attack of the Normans (I normanni), directed by Giuseppe Vari – (Italy )
An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan )
The Awful Dr. Orloff (Gritos en la noche), directed by Jesús Franco – (Spain )
B
Baat Ek Raat Ki (A Tale of One Night), starring Dev Anand – (India )
Bachelor Flat , starring Terry-Thomas , Tuesday Weld , Celeste Holm
Bees Saal Baad – (India )
The Bellboy and the Playgirls , directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Fritz Umgelter
Big and Little Wong Tin Bar , starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong )
Billy Budd , directed by and starring Peter Ustinov , with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K. )
Billy Rose's Jumbo , starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante
Birdman of Alcatraz , directed by John Frankenheimer , starring Burt Lancaster , Karl Malden , Telly Savalas
Boccaccio '70 , directed by Federico Fellini , Mario Monicelli , Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti , starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren – (Italy )
Bon Voyage! , starring Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman
The Boys , directed by Sidney J. Furie , starring Richard Todd – (U.K. )
Boys' Night Out , starring Kim Novak and James Garner
The Brain That Wouldn't Die , starring Virginia Leith
The Brainiac (El baron del terror) , directed by Chano Urueta – (Mexico )
The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) – (West Germany )
The Broken Land , starring Kent Taylor , Diana Darrin and Jack Nicholson
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Cape Fear , directed by J. Lee Thompson , starring Gregory Peck , Robert Mitchum , Polly Bergen , Telly Savalas
Captain Clegg (released as Night Creatures in the U.S.), directed by Peter Graham Scott – (U.K. )
Carnival of Souls , directed by Herk Harvey
Carry On Cruising , starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams – (U.K. )
Carry On Jack , starring Kenneth Williams , Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills – (U.K. )
Cartouche , starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France /Italy )
The Chapman Report , directed by George Cukor , starring Jane Fonda , Shelley Winters , Claire Bloom , Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Chased by the Dogs (El less wal kilab) – (Egypt )
Cléo from 5 to 7 , directed by Agnès Varda – (France )
The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona), directed by Vittorio De Sica , starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell – (Italy )
Convicts 4 , starring Ben Gazzara , Stuart Whitman , Vincent Price , Ray Walston , Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Counterfeit Traitor , directed by George Seaton , starring William Holden
Crazy Paradise (Det tossede paradis), directed by Gabriel Axel and starring Dirch Passer – (Denmark )
Crooks Anonymous , starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie
D
Damon and Pythias (Il tiranno di Siracusa), directed by Curtis Bernhardt – (U.S./Italy )
David and Lisa , starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin
The Day of the Triffids , starring Howard Keel – (U.K. )
Days of Wine and Roses , directed by Blake Edwards , starring Jack Lemmon , Lee Remick , Charles Bickford , Jack Klugman
Dead Man's Evidence , directed by Francis Searle – (U.K. )
The Devil's Agent (Im Namen des Teufels), directed by John Paddy Carstairs – (U.K. /West Germany /Ireland )
Le Doulos (The Finger Man), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville , starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France )
Dr. No , first James Bond film, directed by Terence Young , starring Sean Connery , Joseph Wiseman , Jack Lord , Ursula Andress – (U.K. )
Dungeon of Harrow , directed by Pat Boyette
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The Easy Life (Il sorpasso), directed by Dino Risi , starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (Italy )
Eclipse (L'Eclisse), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni , starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti – (Italy/France )
Eighteen in the Sun (Diciottenni al sole), directed by Camillo Mastrocinque – (Italy )
Electra , directed by Michael Cacoyannis , starring Irene Papas – (Greece )
The Elusive Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir , starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur – (France )
Escape from East Berlin , directed by Robert Siodmak , starring Don Murray
Escape from Zahrain , starring Yul Brynner , Sal Mineo and Jack Warden
Eva (released in the U.K. as Eve ), starring Jeanne Moreau , Stanley Baker and Virna Lisi – (Italy /France )
Experiment in Terror , directed by Blake Edwards , starring Glenn Ford , Lee Remick , Stefanie Powers , Ross Martin
The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), directed by Luis Buñuel – (Mexico )
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prášil), directed by Karel Zeman – (Czechoslovakia )
Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Setenta veces siete), starring Isabel Sarli – (Argentina )
Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules
Five Finger Exercise , starring Rosalind Russell
Five Miles to Midnight , starring Sophia Loren
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Follow That Dream , starring Elvis Presley , Arthur O'Connell , Joanna Moore
The Four Days of Naples (Le Quattro giornate di Napoli) – (Italy )
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , directed by Vincente Minnelli , starring Glenn Ford , Ingrid Thulin , Yvette Mimieux
Freud: The Secret Passion , directed by John Huston , starring Montgomery Clift , Susannah York , Larry Parks
The Fury of Hercules (La furia di Ercole), written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini – (Italy )
G
Gay Purr-ee , an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
Geronimo , starring Chuck Connors
Gigot , starring Jackie Gleason
Girls! Girls! Girls! , starring Elvis Presley
Go to Blazes , directed by Michael Truman – (U.K.)
The Golden Arrow (L'arciere delle mille e una notte) , directed by Antonio Margheriti – (Italy )
Gorath , directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan )
The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy )
Gundamma Katha , starring N. T. Rama Rao – (India )
Guns of Darkness , directed by Anthony Asquith , starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice – (U.K.)
Gypsy , directed by Mervyn LeRoy , starring Rosalind Russell , Karl Malden , Natalie Wood
H
H.M.S. Defiant , starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K. )
Half Ticket , starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala – (India )
Hand of Death , starring John Agar
Hands of a Stranger , directed by Newt Arnold
Harakiri (Seppuku), directed by Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan )
Hatari! , directed by Howard Hawks , starring John Wayne , Red Buttons , Hardy Krüger , Elsa Martinelli
Hell Is for Heroes , starring Steve McQueen and Bobby Darin
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man , directed by Martin Ritt , starring Richard Beymer , Diane Baker , Corinne Calvet , Paul Newman
Hero's Island , starring James Mason and Rip Torn
Hombre de la esquina rosada (Man on Pink Corner) – (Argentina )
The Horizontal Lieutenant , starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy )
House of Women , starring Shirley Knight and Constance Ford
How the West Was Won , starring James Stewart , Henry Fonda , Eli Wallach , John Wayne , Debbie Reynolds , Gregory Peck , Carroll Baker , George Peppard and more
Hussar Ballad (Gusarskaya ballada) – (U.S.S.R. )
Hussar of the Dead (El Húsar de la Muerte), (Restored, originally released in 1925 ) – (Chile )
I
If a Man Answers , starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
In Search of the Castaways , starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier
In the Affirmative (L'Amour avec des si), directed by Claude Lelouch – (France )
In the French Style , starring Jean Seberg
The Inn on the River (Das Gasthaus an der Themse), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany )
The Inspector , aka Lisa , directed by Mark Robson , starring Dolores Hart
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany )
The Intruder , directed by Roger Corman , starring William Shatner
The Iron Maiden , starring Anne Helm and Jeff Donnell
It Happened in Athens , starring Jayne Mansfield – (Greece /United States )
It's Only Money , directed by Frank Tashlin . starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O'Brien
Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R. )
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K
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The L-Shaped Room , directed by Bryan Forbes , starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell – (U.K. )
Lawrence of Arabia , directed by David Lean , starring Peter O'Toole , Omar Sharif , Anthony Quinn , Alec Guinness , José Ferrer – (UK /US )
The Legend of Lobo , a Walt Disney production
Life for Ruth , starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig – (U.K.)
Light in the Piazza , starring Olivia de Havilland , Yvette Mimieux , George Hamilton
The Lion , starring William Holden and Trevor Howard
Lisa (aka The Inspector ), starring Stephen Boyd – (U.S./U.K.)
Lolita , directed by Stanley Kubrick , starring James Mason , Shelley Winters , Peter Sellers , Sue Lyon
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , directed by Tony Richardson , starring Tom Courtenay – (U.K. )
Lonely Are the Brave , starring Kirk Douglas , Walter Matthau , Gena Rowlands , George Kennedy , Carroll O'Connor
Lonely Boy , a documentary about Paul Anka – (Canada )
Long Day's Journey into Night , directed by Sidney Lumet , starring Katharine Hepburn
The Longest Day , starring John Wayne , Henry Fonda , Richard Burton , Sean Connery , Robert Mitchum , Rod Steiger and more
Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (Koiya koi nasuna koi) , directed by Tomu Uchida – (Japan )
Love at Twenty , a film in 5 segments directed by François Truffaut , Shintaro Ishihara , Andrzej Wajda , Renzo Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls – (International)
Love on a Pillow , starring Brigitte Bardot – (France )
Lulu , directed by Rolf Thiele , starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria )
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Madison Avenue , starring Dana Andrews , Jeanne Crain , Eleanor Parker
Mafioso , starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy)
The Magic Sword , directed by Bert I. Gordon
The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) – (Hong Kong )
The Main Attraction , starring Pat Boone
Mamma Roma , directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini , starring Anna Magnani – (Italy )
The Man of Gold (Az aranyember) – (Hungary )
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , directed by John Ford , starring John Wayne , James Stewart , Lee Marvin , Vera Miles , Edmond O'Brien , Woody Strode
The Manchurian Candidate , directed by John Frankenheimer , starring Frank Sinatra , Laurence Harvey , Janet Leigh , Leslie Parrish , Angela Lansbury
March on Rome (La marcia su Roma), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Vittorio Gassman – (Italy)
Merrill's Marauders , directed by Samuel Fuller , starring Jeff Chandler and Ty Hardin
Mediterranean Holiday (Traumreise unter weissen Segeln), a documentary directed by Hermann Leitner and Rudolf Nussgruber – (West Germany )
The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women (열녀문 – Yeolnyeomun ), directed by Shin Sang-ok – (South Korea )
The Miracle Worker , directed by Arthur Penn , starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol , (on NBC -TV)
Mix Me a Person , directed by Leslie Norman , starring Anne Baxter , Donald Sinden and Adam Faith – (U.K. )
Mondo Cane , directed by Paolo Cavara , Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti – (Italy )
A Monkey in Winter (Un singe en hiver), directed by Henri Verneuil – (France )
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation , starring James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara
Moon Pilot , starring Tom Tryon
The Music Man , starring Robert Preston , Shirley Jones , Buddy Hackett , Paul Ford , Ron Howard
Mutiny on the Bounty , starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard
My Geisha , starring Shirley MacLaine
My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie), directed by Jean-Luc Godard , starring Anna Karina – (France )
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Panic in Year Zero! , starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon
Period of Adjustment , starring Jane Fonda , Jim Hutton , Anthony Franciosa , Lois Nettleton
Phaedra , directed by Jules Dassin , starring Melina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins – (Greece )
The Phantom of the Opera , starring Herbert Lom – (U.K. )
The Pigeon That Took Rome , starring Charlton Heston
The Pirates of Blood River , directed by John Gilling – (U.K. )
Pitfall (Otoshiana) – (Japan )
Play It Cool , starring Billy Fury – (U.K. )
Pontius Pilate , starring Jean Marais , Jeanne Crain , Basil Rathbone
Premature Burial , directed by Roger Corman , starring Ray Milland , Hazel Court , Heather Angel
Pressure Point , starring Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin
Pretty Foe by Esmail Koushan (Iran)
Professor , starring Shammi Kapoor – (India )
The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (Das Rätsel der Roten Orchidee), directed by Helmut Ashley – (West Germany )
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Redhead (Die Rote or La rossa) – (West Germany /Italy )
Requiem for a Heavyweight , starring Anthony Quinn , Jackie Gleason , Mickey Rooney , Julie Harris
Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) – (Turkey )
Ride the High Country (a.k.a. Guns in the Afternoon), directed by Sam Peckinpah , starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott
The Road to Hong Kong , directed by Norman Panama , starring Bing Crosby , Bob Hope and Joan Collins
Roaring Years (Anni ruggenti), starring Nino Manfredi – (Italy )
Rome Adventure , starring Angie Dickinson and Suzanne Pleshette
Der rote Rausch (The Red Intoxication), starring Klaus Kinski – (Austria )
S
Safe at Home! , starring Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (King, Queen and Slave), starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt – (India )
Salvatore Giuliano , directed by Francesco Rosi – (Italy )
Samar , directed by and starring George Montgomery
Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa , starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan )
Satan in High Heels , starring Meg Myles and Grayson Hall
Sergeants 3 , starring Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Sammy Davis, Jr. , Peter Lawford , Joey Bishop
Seven Seas to Calais (Il dominatore dei sette mari), directed by Rudolph Maté – (Italy )
Shaheed , starring Musarrat Nazir , Talish , Allauddin , Ejaz , Saqi (Pakistani film on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict)
She'll Have to Go (released in the United States as Maid for Murder ), directed by Robert Asher – (U.K. )
She Knows Y'Know , directed by 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 Watson
Slaughter of the Vampires (La strage dei vampiri), directed by Roberto Mauri – (Italy )
Solo for Sparrow , directed by Gordon Flemyng – (U.K. )
Some People , starring Kenneth More – (U.K. )
Something's Got to Give , starring Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin (unfinished)
The Spiral Road , starring Rock Hudson and Gena Rowlands
State Fair , starring Pat Boone , Tom Ewell , Ann-Margret , Pamela Tiffin , Bobby Darin
The Suitor (Le Soupirant) – (France )
Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray), starring Hardy Krüger and Nicole Courcel – (France )
Sweet Bird of Youth , starring Paul Newman , Geraldine Page , Shirley Knight , Ed Begley , Rip Torn
Swordsman of Siena (La congiura dei dieci/Le mercenaire), starring Stewart Granger – (Italy/France )
A Symposium on Popular Songs , a Disney animation
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The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi – (Japan )
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintaro Katsu – (Japan)
Tales of Terror , starring Vincent Price , Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone
Taras Bulba , starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
Tarzan Goes to India , Jock Mahoney 's first film as Tarzan
Tender Is the Night , starring Jennifer Jones
Term of Trial , starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret – (U.K. )
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse), starring Wolfgang Preiss – (West Germany )
That Touch of Mink , starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
Thérèse Desqueyroux , starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret – (France )
The Three Stooges In Orbit , starring the Three Stooges
Time to Remember , directed by Charles Jarrott – (U.K. )
To Kill a Mockingbird , directed by Robert Mulligan , starring Gregory Peck
Tobacco (Tyutyun) – (Bulgaria )
Tonny , directed by Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe – (Norway )
Too Late Blues , directed by John Cassavetes , starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
Tower of London , starring Vincent Price
Treasure of the Silver Lake , directed by Harald Reinl – (West Germany )
The Cursed Palace , starring Salah Zulfikar and Mariam Fakhr Eddine – (Egypt )
The Trial (Le Procès), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau – (France/Italy /West Germany )
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Robert Bresson – (France )
Tudor – (Romania )
The Twelve Chairs (Las doce sillas), directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – (Cuba )
Two for the Seesaw , starring Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum
Two Half Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban), directed by Zoltán Fábri – (Hungary )
Two Weeks in Another Town , directed by Vincente Minnelli , starring Kirk Douglas , Edward G. Robinson , George Hamilton , Cyd Charisse
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Walk on the Wild Side , starring Laurence Harvey , Capucine , Jane Fonda
Waltz of the Toreadors (a.k.a. The Amorous General), directed by John Guillermin , starring Peter Sellers – (U.K. )
War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) – (France )
We Joined the Navy , starring Kenneth More – (U.K. )
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? , directed by Robert Aldrich , starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
Who's Got the Action? starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner
The Witch's Curse (Maciste all'inferno), directed by Riccardo Freda – (Italy )
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm , starring Laurence Harvey and Claire Bloom
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