Overview of the events of 1963 in film
Overview of the events of 1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World .
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1963 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1963
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Cleopatra
20th Century Fox
$26,000,000[1]
2
How the West Was Won
MGM
$20,932,883[2]
3
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
United Artists
$20,800,000[1]
4
Tom Jones
$17,070,000[3]
5
Irma la Douce
$11,921,784[3]
6
Son of Flubber
Buena Vista
$9,100,000[1]
7
Charade
Universal
$6,363,000[4]
8
Bye Bye Birdie
Columbia
$6,200,000[4]
9
Come Blow Your Horn Move Over, Darling
Paramount 20th Century Fox
$6,000,000[4]
10
The Great Escape
United Artists
$5,546,000[4]
Notable films released in 1963
United States except where noted..
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13 Assassins (十三人の刺客, Jūsan-nin no shikaku ), directed by Eiichi Kudo – (Japan )
13 Frightened Girls , directed and produced by William Castle
4 for Texas , starring Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Ursula Andress , Anita Ekberg
8½ , directed by Federico Fellini , starring Marcello Mastroianni , Claudia Cardinale , Anouk Aimée -- Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film – (Italy )
55 Days at Peking , starring Charlton Heston , Ava Gardner , David Niven
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Les abysses , directed by Nikos Papatakis – (France )
Act One , directed by Dore Schary and starring George Hamilton
An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojō Henge), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan )
Al Nasser Salah Ad-Din (Saladin), directed by Youssef Chahine – (Egypt )
All the Way Home , starring Jean Simmons , Robert Preston , Ronnie Claire Edwards
Alone on the Pacific (Taiheiyo hitori-botchi), directed by Kon Ichikawa – (Japan )
America, America (a.k.a. The Anatolian Smile) by Elia Kazan
Any Number Can Win (Mélodie en sous-sol), starring Jean Gabin and Alain Delon – (France /Italy )
Apache Gold (Winnetou – 1. Teil), directed by Harald Reinl – (West Germany /Italy /Yugoslavia )
Atragon (Kaitei gunkan), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan )
Attack Squadron! (太平洋の翼, Taiheiyō no Tsubasa), directed by Shue Matsubayashi – (Japan )
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The Bakery Girl of Monceau (La boulangère de Monceau), directed by Éric Rohmer , starring Barbet Schroeder – (France )
The Balcony , starring Shelley Winters , Peter Falk and Leonard Nimoy
Banana Peel (Peau de banane), starring Jeanne Moreau and Jean Paul Belmondo – (France /Italy /West Germany )
Bandini (Imprisoned), directed by Bimal Roy , starring Ashok Kumar – (India )
Barren Lives (Vidas Secas), directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos – (Brazil )
The Bastard (悪太郎, Akutarō), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan )
Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges), directed by Jacques Demy , starring Jeanne Moreau – (France )
Beach Party , directed by William Asher , starring Frankie Avalon , Annette Funicello , Bob Cummings , Dorothy Malone
Bébo's Girl (La ragazza di Bube), starring Claudia Cardinale and George Chakiris – (Italy )
The Big City (Mahanagar), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India )
Billy Liar , directed by John Schlesinger , starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie – (U.K. )
The Birds , directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring Tippi Hedren , Rod Taylor , Suzanne Pleshette , Jessica Tandy
Bitter Harvest , starring Janet Munro – (U.K. )
The Black Abbot (Der Schwarze Abt), directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb – (West Germany )
Black Sabbath (I tre volti della paura), starring Boris Karloff – (Italy /U.K. /France )
Blood Feast , directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Bluebeard (Landru), directed by Claude Chabrol – (France /Italy )
Il Boom , directed by Vittorio De Sica , starring Alberto Sordi – (Italy )
Bushido, Samurai Saga , directed by Tadashi Imai (Bushidô zankoku monogatari) – (Japan )
Bye Bye Birdie , starring Janet Leigh , Dick Van Dyke , Ann-Margret
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Call Me Bwana , directed by Gordon Douglas , starring Bob Hope , Anita Ekberg , Edie Adams
Captain Newman, M.D. , directed by David Miller , starring Gregory Peck , Tony Curtis , Bobby Darin , Eddie Albert , Angie Dickinson
Captain Sindbad
The Carabineers (Les Carabiniers), directed by Jean-Luc Godard – (France )
Carbide and Sorrel (Karbid und Sauerampfer) – (East Germany )
The Cardinal , directed by Otto Preminger , starring Tom Tryon , Carol Lynley , Romy Schneider , John Huston
The Caretaker , starring Alan Bates and Robert Shaw – (U.K. )
The Caretakers , starring Joan Crawford , Robert Stack , Polly Bergen
Carom Shots (Carambolages), directed by Marcel Bluwal – (France )
Carry On Cabby , starring Sid James and Hattie Jacques – (U.K. )
Carry On Jack , starring Kenneth Williams and Bernard Cribbins – (U.K. )
The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) – (Czechoslovakia )
The Ceremony , directed by Laurence Harvey
Chair de poule (a.k.a. Highway Pickup), directed by Julien Duvivier – (France )
Charade , directed by Stanley Donen , starring Cary Grant , Audrey Hepburn , Walter Matthau , George Kennedy , James Coburn
A Child Is Waiting , starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster
Cleopatra , starring Elizabeth Taylor , Rex Harrison , Richard Burton – (U.S. /U.K. /Switzerland )
Codine , directed by Henri Colpi – (France /Romania )
Come Blow Your Horn , starring Frank Sinatra , Tony Bill , Barbara Rush , Jill St. John
Come Fly With Me , starring Pamela Tiffin , Lois Nettleton , Dolores Hart
The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina), starring Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
Contempt (Le mépris), directed by Jean-Luc Godard , starring Brigitte Bardot , Jack Palance , Michel Piccoli – (France )
The Cool World , directed by Shirley Clarke
The Corrupt (Symphonie pour un massacre), directed by Jacques Deray
The Courtship of Eddie's Father , directed by Vincente Minnelli , starring Glenn Ford , Shirley Jones , Stella Stevens , Dina Merrill , Ron Howard
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment , documentary film directed by Robert Drew
Critic's Choice , starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
Crooks in Clover (Les tontons flingueurs), starring Lino Ventura – (France /Italy /West Germany )
The Cry (Křik) – (Czechoslovakia )
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The Damned , directed by Joseph Losey , starring Macdonald Carey – (U.K. )
The Day and the Hour (Le jour et l'heure), directed by René Clément , starring Simone Signoret and Stuart Whitman – (France )
Dementia 13 , directed by Francis Ford Coppola
The Devil (Il diavolo), starring Alberto Sordi , Golden Bear winner – (Italy )
Diamond Head , starring Charlton Heston , Yvette Mimieux , France Nuyen , George Chakiris , James Darren
Diary of a Madman , starring Vincent Price , Nancy Kovack , Elaine Devry
Dil Ek Mandir (The Heart Is a Temple) – (India )
Donovan's Reef , directed by John Ford , starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin
Drama of the Lark (Pacsirta) – (Hungary )
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Father Came Too! , starring James Robertson Justice and Leslie Phillips – (U.K. )
The Fiancés (I fidanzati), directed by Ermanno Olmi – (Italy )
The Fire Within (Le feu follet), directed by Louis Malle – (France )
Flaming Creatures , directed by Jack Smith
Flipper , starring Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin
Follow the Boys , starring Connie Francis , Paula Prentiss , Dany Robin , Janis Paige
For Love or Money , starring Kirk Douglas and Mitzi Gaynor
From Russia with Love , the second James Bond film, starring Sean Connery , Daniela Bianchi , Pedro Armendáriz , Robert Shaw , Lotte Lenya – (U.K. /U.S. )
Fun in Acapulco , starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress
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A Gathering of Eagles , starring Rock Hudson
Gidget Goes to Rome , starring Cindy Carol
The Girl Hunters , starring Mickey Spillane (as Mike Hammer ), with Lloyd Nolan , Shirley Eaton
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (La ragazza che sapeva troppo), directed by Mario Bava – (Italy )
Le glaive et la balance (a.k.a. Two are Guilty), starring Anthony Perkins – (France /Italy )
Gone Are the Days! , starring Ossie Davis , Ruby Dee and Godfrey Cambridge
Goryeojang (고려장), written, produced and directed by Kim Ki-young – (South Korea )
The Great Escape , directed by John Sturges , starring Steve McQueen , James Garner , Charles Bronson , Richard Attenborough , David McCallum , Donald Pleasence
The Green Years (Os Verdes Anos) – (Portugal )
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Hallelujah the Hills , directed by Adolfas Mekas
Hands over the City (Le mani sulla città), directed by Francesco Rosi , starring Rod Steiger – (Italy )
The Haunted Palace , directed by Roger Corman , starring Vincent Price
The Haunting , directed by Robert Wise , starring Julie Harris – (U.K. )
Heaven Sent (Un drôle de paroissien), starring Bourvil – (France )
Heavens Above! , directed by the Boulting brothers , starring Peter Sellers – (U.K. )
High and Low (天国と地獄), directed by Akira Kurosawa , starring Toshiro Mifune – (Japan )
The Hook , starring Kirk Douglas
The Hours of Love (Le ore dell'amore), directed by Luciano Salce – (Italy )
The Householder (Gharbar), directed by James Ivory , starring Shashi Kapoor and Leela Naidu – (India )
How to Be Loved (Jak być kochaną), starring Zbigniew Cybulski – (Poland )
Hud , directed by Martin Ritt , starring Paul Newman , Patricia Neal , Brandon deWilde , Melvyn Douglas
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I Could Go On Singing , starring Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde – (U.K. /U.S. )
Ikarie XB-1 (Icarus XB-1) – (Czechoslovakia )
L'immortelle (The Immortal) – (France /Turkey )
In the Cool of the Day , starring Peter Finch , Jane Fonda , Angela Lansbury
The Indian Scarf (Das indische Tuch), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany )
The Incredible Journey
The Insect Woman (Nippon konchūki), directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan )
Irma la Douce , directed by Billy Wilder , starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
The Iron Maiden (a.k.a. Swinging Maiden), directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Michael Craig – (U.K. )
Island of Love , starring Robert Preston and Walter Matthau
It Happened at the World's Fair , starring Elvis Presley
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World , directed by Stanley Kramer , starring Spencer Tracy , Milton Berle , Phil Silvers , Sid Caesar , Jonathan Winters , Mickey Rooney , Buddy Hackett , Ethel Merman , Dorothy Provine , Edie Adams , Dick Shawn and many more
It's All Happening (a.k.a. The Dream Maker), directed by Don Sharp – (U.K. )
Ivan's Childhood (originally Ivanovo detstvo ), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky , starring Nikolay Burlyaev , Valentin Zubkov , and Evgeniy Zharikov – (U.S.S.R. )
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Ladies Who Do , starring Harry H. Corbett , Robert Morley and Peggy Mount – (U.K. )
Ladybug Ladybug , directed by Frank Perry
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo), directed by Luchino Visconti , starring Burt Lancaster , Claudia Cardinale , Alain Delon – Palme d'Or winner – (Italy )
Like Two Drops of Water (Als twee druppels water), directed by Fons Rademakers – (Netherlands )
Lilies of the Field , directed by Ralph Nelson , starring Sidney Poitier
The List of Adrian Messenger , directed by John Huston , starring George C. Scott
The Little Soldier (Le petit soldat), directed by Jean-Luc Godard , starring Anna Karina – (France )
Lord of the Flies , directed by Peter Brook – (U.K. )
The Love Eterne (Liang Shan Bo yu Zhu Ying Tai) – (Hong Kong )
Love Is a Ball , starring Glenn Ford , Hope Lange , Charles Boyer , Ricardo Montalbán
Love with the Proper Stranger , starring Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen
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The Mad Executioners (Der Henker von London), directed by Edwin Zbonek – (West Germany )
Maigret Sees Red (Maigret voit rouge), starring Jean Gabin – (France /Italy )
The Man from the Diner's Club , directed by Frank Tashlin , starring Danny Kaye
Maniac , directed by Michael Carreras
Mary, Mary , starring Debbie Reynolds , Diane McBain and Barry Nelson
Matango (a.k.a. Attack of the Mushroom People), directed by Ishirō Honda – (Japan )
Mathias Sandorf , directed by Georges Lampin – (Italy /France/ Spain )
A Matter of Choice , directed by Vernon Sewell , starring Anthony Steel – (U.K. )
McLintock! , starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
The Mind Benders , starring Dirk Bogarde and Mary Ure – (U.K. )
Miracle of the White Stallions , starring Robert Taylor , Lilli Palmer , Eddie Albert
Monstrosity (a.k.a. The Atomic Brain), directed by Joseph V. Mascelli
Mother of the Bride (Omm el aroussa) – (Egypt )
The Mouse on the Moon , directed by Richard Lester – (U.K. )
Move Over, Darling , starring Doris Day , James Garner , Polly Bergen , Chuck Connors
Mujhe Jeene Do (Let Me Live), starring Sunil Dutt – (India )
Murder at the Gallop (1963), a Miss Marple film directed by George Pollock – (U.K. /U.S. )
Muriel (a.k.a. Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour), directed by Alain Resnais , starring Delphine Seyrig – (France )
My Six Loves , starring Debbie Reynolds , Cliff Robertson , David Janssen
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Naked Among Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen) – (East Germany )
Nartanasala , starring N. T. Rama Rao and Savitri – (India )
A New Kind of Love , starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
New Tale of Zatoichi (新・座頭市物語, Shin Zatoichi monogatari ), third film of the Zatoichi trilogy – (Japan )
Nine Hours to Rama , directed by Mark Robson , starring Horst Buchholz , Diane Baker , José Ferrer – (U.K. /U.S. )
Not on Your Life (El Verdugo), directed by Luis García Berlanga , starring Nino Manfredi – (Spain)
Nunca pasa nada (Nothing Ever Happens), directed by Juan Antonio Bardem – (Spain )
Nurse on Wheels , directed by Gerald Thomas – (U.K. )
Nutty, Naughty Chateau (Château en suède), directed by Roger Vadim – (France /Spain )
The Nutty Professor , directed by and starring Jerry Lewis , with Stella Stevens
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The Old Dark House , directed by William Castle – (U.K. /U.S. )
One Man's Way , directed by Denis Sanders and starring Don Murray
Operation Bikini , starring Tab Hunter , Frankie Avalon , Gary Crosby
Ophélia , directed by Claude Chabrol – (France )
Opiate '67 (I mostri), directed by Dino Risi – (Italy )
Optimistic Tragedy (Оптимистическая трагедия), directed by Samson Samsonov – (U.S.S.R. )
The Organizer (I compagni), directed by Mario Monicelli , starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy )
P
PT 109 , starring Cliff Robertson as John F. Kennedy
Papa's Delicate Condition , starring Jackie Gleason
The Paper Man (El hombre de papel) – (Mexico )
Paranoiac , starring Janette Scott and Oliver Reed – (U.K. )
Passenger (Pasażerka) – (Poland )
The Pink Panther , directed by Blake Edwards , starring David Niven , Peter Sellers , Robert Wagner , Capucine
Pour la suite du monde (For Those Who Will Follow) – (Canada )
The Prize , starring Paul Newman and Elke Sommer
Promises! Promises! , starring Jayne Mansfield
The Punch and Judy Man , starring Tony Hancock – (U.K. )
R
Rampage , starring Robert Mitchum and Elsa Martinelli
The Raven , directed by Roger Corman , starring Vincent Price , Peter Lorre , Boris Karloff
Raven's End (Kvarteret Korpen), directed by Bo Widerberg – (Sweden )
The Red Lanterns (Ta Kokkina fanaria) – (Greece )
The Running Man , directed by Carol Reed , starring Laurence Harvey , Alan Bates , Lee Remick – (U.K. )
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The Sadist (a.k.a. Profile of Terror or Sweet Baby Charlie), directed by James Landis
Sammy Going South (released in the U.S. as A Boy Ten Feet Tall ), directed by Alexander Mackendrick – (U.K. )
Savage Sam , a sequel to Old Yeller directed by Norman Tokar
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh , directed by James Neilson
The Scarlet Blade (released in the U.S. as The Crimson Blade ), directed by John Gilling – (U.K. )
Scum of the Earth! , directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
The Servant , directed by Joseph Losey , starring Dirk Bogarde , Sarah Miles , James Fox – (U.K. )
Shock Corridor , directed by Samuel Fuller , starring Peter Breck and Constance Towers
Showdown , starring Audie Murphy
The Silence (Tystnaden), written and directed by Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden )
The Small World of Sammy Lee , written and directed by Ken Hughes – (U.K. )
Soft Hands , directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar – (Egypt )
Sodom and Gomorrah , starring Stewart Granger , Anouk Aimée , Pier Angeli
Soldier in the Rain , starring Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason
Son of Flubber , starring Fred MacMurray
Sparrows Can't Sing , starring Barbara Windsor and Roy Kinnear – (U.K. )
Spencer's Mountain , starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara
The Squeaker (Der Zinker), directed by Alfred Vohrer – (West Germany /France )
Station Six-Sahara , directed by Seth Holt – (U.K. /West Germany )
The Stripper , starring Joanne Woodward , Richard Beymer , Claire Trevor , Gypsy Rose Lee
Stolen Hours , starring Susan Hayward and Diane Baker
The Success (Il successo), starring Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (Italy )
Summer Holiday , starring Cliff Richard , Lauri Peters and The Shadows – (U.K. )
Summer Magic , starring Dorothy McGuire , Hayley Mills , Deborah Walley
Sunday in New York , starring Jane Fonda , Rod Taylor , Cliff Robertson , Robert Culp
Sunshine in a Net (Slnko v sieti) – (Czechoslovakia )
Suzanne's Career (La carrière de Suzanne), directed by Éric Rohmer – (France )
Sweet and Sour (Dragées au poivre), directed by Jacques Baratier – (Italy /France )
Sweet Skin (Strip-tease), directed by Jacques Poitrenaud – (Italy /France )
The Sword in the Stone , an animated Disney film
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Taj Mahal – (India )
Take Her, She's Mine , starring James Stewart , Sandra Dee and Audrey Meadows
Take It All (À tout prendre, a.k.a. All Things Considered) directed by Claude Jutra – (Canada )
Tammy and the Doctor , starring Sandra Dee and Peter Fonda
Los Tarantos , directed by Francisco Rovira Beleta – (Spain )
Tarzan's Three Challenges , starring Jock Mahoney – (U.K. /U.S. )
The Terror , produced and directed by Roger Corman
That Kind of Girl , directed by Gerry O'Hara – (U.K. )
This Sporting Life , directed by Lindsay Anderson , starring Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts – (U.K. )
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze , starring the Three Stooges
The Thrill of It All , directed by Norman Jewison , starring Doris Day and James Garner
A Ticklish Affair , directed by George Sidney , starring Shirley Jones and Gig Young
To Beep or Not to Beep , written and directed by Chuck Jones , starring Wile E. Coyote and The Road runner
To Die in Madrid (Mourir à Madrid ), a documentary film directed by Frédéric Rossif – (France )
Tom Jones , directed by Tony Richardson , starring Albert Finney and Susannah York (U.K. )
Torpedo Bay , starring James Mason and Lilli Palmer – (Italy /France )
Toys in the Attic , directed by George Roy Hill , starring Dean Martin , Geraldine Page and Yvette Mimieux
Twice-Told Tales , starring Vincent Price
Twilight of Honor , starring Richard Chamberlain
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Vice and Virtue (Le vice et la vertu), starring Annie Girardot , Robert Hossein and Catherine Deneuve – (France )
The Victors , starring George Peppard , George Hamilton , Vince Edwards , Romy Schneider , Jeanne Moreau – (U.K. )
La visita (The Visitor), starring Sandra Milo – (Italy )
The V.I.P.s , starring Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton , Rod Taylor , Maggie Smith , Louis Jourdan , Margaret Rutherford , Orson Welles – (U.K. )
Voyage to the End of the Universe (Ikarie XB-1), directed by Jindřich Polák – (Czechoslovakia )
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Walking the Streets of Moscow (Ya shagayu po Moskve) – (U.S.S.R. )
Wall of Noise , directed by Richard Wilson and starring Suzanne Pleshette and Ty Hardin
What a Crazy World , directed by Michael Carreras – (U.K. )
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? , a short film directed by Martin Scorsese
The Wheeler Dealers , starring James Garner and Lee Remick
The Whip and the Body (La frusta e il corpo), directed by Mario Bava under the alias "John M. Old"
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? , starring Dean Martin , Carol Burnett , Elizabeth Montgomery , Jill St. John
Who's Minding the Store? , starring Jerry Lewis , Agnes Moorehead , Jill St. John
Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna), directed by Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden )
Wives and Lovers , starring Janet Leigh , Shelley Winters , Martha Hyer
Women of the World (La donna nel mondo), directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti , Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi – (Italy )
The Wrong Arm of the Law , starring Peter Sellers – (U.K. )
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