Overview of the events of 1964 in film
Overview of the events of 1964 in film
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, Mary Poppins ,My Fair Lady ,The Umbrellas of Cherbourg .
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1964 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1964
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Mary Poppins Buena Vista
$31,000,000[1]
2
My Fair Lady Warner Bros.
$30,000,000[2]
3
Goldfinger United Artists
$22,500,000[1]
4
The Carpetbaggers Paramount
$15,500,000[1]
5
From Russia With Love United Artists
$9,200,000[1]
6
A Shot in the Dark $6,748,000[3]
7
What a Way to Go! 20th Century Fox
$6,100,000[4]
8
The Unsinkable Molly Brown MGM
$6,040,000[3]
9
The Pink Panther United Artists
$5,935,000[3]
10
A Hard Day's Night $5,800,000[5]
Awards
Academy Awards :
Best Picture : My Fair Lady Warner Bros. Best Director : George Cukor My Fair Lady Best Actor : Rex Harrison My Fair Lady Best Actress : Julie Andrews Mary Poppins Best Supporting Actor : Peter Ustinov Topkapi Best Supporting Actress : Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek Best Foreign Language Film : Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Ieri, oggi, domani ), directed by Vittorio De Sica , ItalyGolden Globe Awards :
Drama: Best Picture : Becket Best Actor : Peter O'Toole Becket Best Actress : Anne Bancroft The Pumpkin Eater Comedy or Musical: Best Picture : My Fair Lady Best Actor : Rex Harrison My Fair Lady Best Actress : Julie Andrews Mary Poppins Other Best Supporting Actor : Edmond O'Brien Seven Days in May Best Supporting Actress : Agnes Moorehead Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Best Director : George Cukor My Fair Lady Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ), directed by Jacques Demy , FranceGolden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Il deserto rosso The Red Desert ), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni , ItalyGolden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Susuz Yaz Dry Summer ), directed by Ismail Metin , Turkey
Notable films released in 1964
United States unless stated
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A
Adobe and Mirror Ebrahim Golestan , starring Mohammad Ali Keshavarz , Jamshid Mashayekhi and Pari Saberi (Iran)Advance to the Rear George Marshall , starring Glenn Ford , Stella Stevens and Melvyn Douglas Adventures of Zatoichi Kimiyoshi Yasuda – (Japan )Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens The Alive and the Dead U.S.S.R. )All These Women Ingmar Bergman – (Sweden )The Americanization of Emily Arthur Hiller , starring James Garner and Julie Andrews Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise André Cayatte – (France )Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc André Cayatte – (France )The Ape Woman Ugo Tognazzi and Annie Girardot – (Italy /France )Assassination Japan )At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Brazil )Atentát Czechoslovakia )A Trip to the Moon Ayee Milan Ki Bela India )
B
Back Door to Hell Jimmie Rodgers and Jack Nicholson Backfire Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg – (France )Ballad in Blue Paul Henreid and starring Ray Charles Band of Outsiders Jean-Luc Godard – (France )The Bargee Harry H. Corbett and Eric Sykes – (U.K. )The Beauty Jungle Ian Hendry – (U.K.)Becket Peter Glenville , starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton – (U.K./U.S.)Bedtime Story Marlon Brando , David Niven and Shirley Jones Before the Revolution Bernardo Bertolucci – (Italy )Behold a Pale Horse Fred Zinnemann , starring Gregory Peck , Anthony Quinn , Omar Sharif Belarmino Cinema Novo docufiction – (Portugal )The Best Man Franklin J. Schaffner , written by Gore Vidal , starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson Bikini Beach Frankie Avalon , Annette Funicello , Martha Hyer and Don Rickles Black God, White Devil Brazil )Black Like Me James Whitmore and Roscoe Lee Browne Black Peter Miloš Forman – (Czechoslovakia )The Black Torment Robert Hartford-Davis – (U.K. )Blood and Black Lace Mario Bava – (Italy )Blood on the Arrow Dale Robertson and Martha Hyer La bonne soupe Robert Thomas – (Italy /France )The Brass Bottle Tony Randall , Burl Ives and Barbara Eden Bullet for a Badman Audie Murphy , Darren McGavin and Ruta Lee
C
A Carol for Another Christmas Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland The Carpetbaggers George Peppard , Carroll Baker and Elizabeth Ashley Carry On Cleo Sid James and Amanda Barrie – (U.K. )Carry On Spying Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor – (U.K.)Castle of Blood Antonio Margheriti and Sergio Corbucci – (Italy /France )Castle of the Living Dead Warren Kiefer – (Italy /France )The Chairman U.S.S.R. )The Chalk Garden Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills – (U.K.)Charulata Satyajit Ray – (India)Cheyenne Autumn John Ford , starring Carroll Baker , Richard Widmark , Edward G. Robinson and Karl Malden Circle of Love Roger Vadim and starring Jane Fonda – (France )Circus World John Wayne , Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth The Comedy Man Kenneth More and Cecil Parker – (U.K.)The Comedy of Terrors Vincent Price , Peter Lorre , Boris Karloff , Basil Rathbone Crooks in Cloisters Ronald Fraser and Barbara Windsor – (U.K. )The Curse of the Hidden Vault Franz Josef Gottlieb – (West Germany )The Curse of the Living Corpse Del Tenney The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Michael Carreras – (U.K. )
D
Dark Purpose Shirley Jones Dead Ringer Bette Davis , Peter Lawford Dear Heart Delbert Mann , starring Geraldine Page , Glenn Ford and Angela Lansbury Dear John Lars-Magnus Lindgren – (Sweden )Devil Doll Lindsay Shonteff – (U.K. )The Devil-Ship Pirates Christopher Lee and Andrew Keir Diamonds of the Night Jan Němec – (Czechoslovakia )Diary of a Bachelor Sandy Howard , starring William Traylor , Joe Silver and Dagne CraneDiary of a Chambermaid Luis Buñuel , starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli – (France )The Disorderly Orderly Frank Tashlin , starring Jerry Lewis and Susan Oliver A Distant Trumpet Troy Donahue , Suzanne Pleshette and Diane McBain Dog Eat Dog Jayne Mansfield – (West Germany /Italy /Liechtenstein )Dogora Ishirō Honda – (Japan )Dosti Satyen Bose – (India )Dr. Crippen Donald Pleasence – (U.K.)Dr. Sex Ted V. Mikels Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick , starring Peter Sellers (in three roles) and George C. Scott – (U.K. )Dry Summer Metin Erksan – (Turkey )
E
The Earth Dies Screaming Willard Parker , Virginia Field and Dennis Price – (U.K. ) East of Sudan , starring Anthony Quayle , Sylvia Syms and Jenny Agutter – (U.K.)Empire Andy Warhol Ensign Pulver Mister Roberts Robert Walker Jr. and Burl Ives El extraño viaje Fernando Fernán Gómez – (Spain )The Evil of Frankenstein Freddie Francis – (U.K. )The Evil Stairs Lee Man-hee – (South Korea )The Eyes of Annie Jones Richard Conte and Francesca Annis – (U.K.)
F
Face of the Screaming Werewolf Lon Chaney – (Mexico /U.S.)Fail-Safe Sidney Lumet , starring Henry Fonda , Dan O'Herlihy and Walter Matthau The Fall of the Roman Empire Sophia Loren , Stephen Boyd and Alec Guinness Fanny Hill Russ Meyer – (West Germany /U.S.)Fantômas Jean Marais – (France )Fate Is the Hunter Glenn Ford , Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette Father Came Too! James Robertson Justice , Leslie Phillips and Stanley Baxter – (U.K. )Father Goose Cary Grant , Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard Father of a Soldier Revaz Chkheidze – (Georgia )The Fifth Horseman Is Fear Zbyněk Brynych – (Czechoslovakia )Fight, Zatoichi, Fight Kenji Misumi – (Japan )First Men in the Moon Edward Judd and Lionel Jeffries , with special effects by Ray Harryhausen – (U.K. )A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone , starring Clint Eastwood – (Italy )The Flesh Eaters Martin Kosleck Flight from Ashiya Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark Flipper's New Adventure , starring Luke Halpin and Pamela Franklin The Flower and the Angry Waves Seijun Suzuki – (Japan )For Men Only Mahmoud Zulfikar , starring Soad Hosny and Nadia Lutfi – (Egypt )For Those Who Think Young Pamela Tiffin and James Darren Forest of the Hanged Liviu Ciulei – (Romania )Four Days in November Mel Stuart
G
Gate of Flesh Seijun Suzuki – (Japan )Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark )Get Yourself a College Girl Mary Ann Mobley and Nancy Sinatra Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster Japan )The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre Martin Landau , Judith Anderson and Diane Baker Girl with Green Eyes Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham – (U.K.)A Global Affair Bob Hope Goldfinger Sean Connery as James Bond ), with Honor Blackman , Shirley Eaton and Gert Fröbe – (U.K. )Goodbye Charlie Debbie Reynolds , Tony Curtis and Pat Boone Good Neighbor Sam Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider The Gorgon Peter Cushing , Barbara Shelley and Christopher Lee – (U.K. )The Gospel According to St. Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini – (Italy )Greed in the Sun Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France )The Guns Ruy Guerra – (Brazil /Argentina )Guns at Batasi Richard Attenborough and Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)The Guns of August Fritz Weaver
H
Hamlet Richard Burton Hamlet U.S.S.R. )Haqeeqat India )A Hard Day's Night Richard Lester , starring the Beatles – (U.K. )Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! Hanna-Barbera feature productionHide and Seek Ian Carmichael and Curd Jürgens – (U.K.)High Infidelity Nino Manfredi – (Italy )Honeymoon Hotel Robert Morse and Robert Goulet The Horror of Party Beach Del Tenney Hot Enough for June Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina – (U.K. )A House Is Not a Home Shelley Winters and Robert Taylor Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte Robert Aldrich , starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland
I
I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov – (Cuba /U.S.S.R.)iams The Incredible Mr. Limpet Don Knotts , Jack Weston and Andrew Duggan Intentions of Murder Shōhei Imamura – (Japan )Invitation to a Gunfighter Yul Brynner , George Segal , Janice Rule It's Not Just You, Murray! short film directed by Martin Scorsese Italiani brava gente Giuseppe De Santis – (Italy )
J
K
The Killers Don Siegel , starring Lee Marvin , Angie Dickinson , John Cassavetes and, in his final film, Ronald Reagan King & Country Joseph Losey , starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay – (U.K. )Kiss Me Quick! Althea Currier Kiss Me, Stupid Billy Wilder , starring Dean Martin and Kim Novak Kisses for My President Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray Kissin' Cousins Elvis Presley and Yvonne Craig Kitten with a Whip Ann-Margret and John Forsythe Kwaidan Masaki Kobayashi – (Japan )
L
Lady General Hua Mu-lan Hong Kong )Lady in a Cage Walter Grauman , starring Olivia de Havilland and James Caan Lana, Queen of the Amazons Catherine Schell – (West Germany /Brazil )The Last Gun Sergio Bergonzelli – (Italy )The Last Man on Earth Vincent Price – (United States /Italy )The Last Steps Michèle Morgan and Jean-Louis Trintignant – (France )Leader Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala – (India )The Leather Boys Sidney J. Furie , starring Rita Tushingham – (U.K. )Lemonade Joe Oldřich Lipský – (Czechoslovakia )Let's Talk About Women Ettore Scola – (Italy )Lilith Robert Rossen , starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg The Lively Set James Darren , Pamela Tiffin and Doug McClure London in the Raw U.K. )The Lonely Wife Satyajit Ray – (India )The Long Hair of Death Antonio Margheriti – (Italy )The Long Ships Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier – (U.K. /Yugoslavia )Looking for Love Connie Francis Lorna Russ Meyer Love in 4 Dimensions (Amore in 4 dimensioni), directed by Mino Guerrini – (Italy )Loving Couples Mai Zetterling – (Sweden )The Luck of Ginger Coffey Irvin Kershner , starring Robert Shaw
M
Madu Tiga P. Ramlee – (Malaysia )The Magnificent Cuckold Italy )Mail Order Bride Burt Kennedy , starring Buddy Ebsen and Lois Nettleton Male Companion Philippe de Broca – (France )Male Hunt Jean-Paul Belmondo – (France /Italy )Man in the Middle Robert Mitchum Man's Favorite Sport? Howard Hawks , starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss Marnie Alfred Hitchcock , starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery Marriage Italian Style Vittorio De Sica , starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy )A Married Woman Jean-Luc Godard – (France )Mary Poppins Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke The Masque of the Red Death Vincent Price , Hazel Court and Jane Asher – (U.K. )McHale's Navy Ernest Borgnine Men and Women Walter Hugo Khouri – (Brazil )The Misadventures of Merlin Jones Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk The Moon-Spinners Hayley Mills Mothra vs. Godzilla Ishirō Honda – (Japan )Murder Ahoy! Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries Murder Most Foul Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody My Fair Lady George Cukor , starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison My Friend Lefterakis Greece )
N
The Naked Kiss Samuel Fuller , starring Constance Towers The New Interns Dean Jones and Michael Callan Night Must Fall Albert Finney , Mona Washbourne and Susan Hampshire – (U.K. )The Night of the Iguana John Huston , starring Richard Burton , Ava Gardner , Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon Night Train to Paris Leslie Nielsen , Aliza Gur and Dorinda Stevens – (U.S./U.K. )The Night Walker Barbara Stanwyck (her last film) and Robert Taylor Nightmare Freddie Francis – (U.K. )Nobody Waved Good-bye Don Owen – (Canada )Nothing But a Man Ivan Dixon , Abbey Lincoln and Yaphet Kotto Nothing But the Best Alan Bates and Millicent Martin – (U.K. )
O
Of Human Bondage Kim Novak , Laurence Harvey and Siobhán McKenna – (U.K.)One Potato, Two Potato Barbara Barrie , Bernie Hamilton and Richard Mulligan Onibaba Kaneto Shindo – (Japan )The Outrage Martin Ritt , starring Paul Newman , Laurence Harvey , Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson
P
Pajama Party Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk Pale Flower Japan )Panic Button Jayne Mansfield and Maurice Chevalier Paris When It Sizzles William Holden and Audrey Hepburn The Patsy Jerry Lewis The Pawnbroker Sidney Lumet , starring Rod Steiger , Geraldine Fitzgerald and Brock Peters The Pleasure Seekers Pamela Tiffin , Carol Lynley , Brian Keith , Tony Franciosa and Ann-Margret Point of Order! Emile de Antonio Psyche 59 Alexander Singer – (U.K. )The Pumpkin Eater Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch – (U.K. )
Q
R
Raiders from Beneath the Sea Ken Scott and Merry Anders Rattle of a Simple Man Muriel Box , starring Diane Cilento and Harry H. Corbett – (U.K. )The Ravishing Idiot Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins – (France )Red Desert Michelangelo Antonioni , starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris – (Italy )Rhino! Robert Culp Ride the Wild Surf Tab Hunter , Fabian Forte , Shelley Fabares and Barbara Eden Ring of Spies Bernard Lee – (U.K. )Rio Conchos Stuart Whitman , Tony Franciosa , Richard Boone and Wende Wagner Robin and the 7 Hoods Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Sammy Davis, Jr. and Bing Crosby Robinson Crusoe on Mars Byron Haskin , starring Paul Mantee , Vic Lundin and Adam West Room 13 Harald Reinl – (Denmark /France /West Germany )Roustabout Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rankin/Bass Productions
S
Sallah Shabati Chaim Topol – (Israel )Sangam Vyjayanthimala , Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar – (India )Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Nicholas Webster Séance on a Wet Afternoon Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough – (U.K. )The Secret Invasion Stewart Granger and Mickey Rooney Seduced and Abandoned Stefania Sandrelli – (Italy )Send Me No Flowers Doris Day and Rock Hudson Seven Days in May John Frankenheimer , starring Kirk Douglas , Burt Lancaster , Fredric March and Ava Gardner Seven Up! Paul Almond – (U.K. )Sex and the Single Girl Natalie Wood , Tony Curtis , Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall Shehar Aur Sapna Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – (India )A Shot in the Dark Pink Panther film, directed by Blake Edwards . starring Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer – (U.K. /U.S.)Sleep Andy Warhol Smokescreen Yvonne Romain The Soft Skin François Truffaut , starring Françoise Dorléac – (France )Strait-Jacket William Castle , starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker Swedish Wedding Night Åke Falck – (Sweden )The System Oliver Reed
T
T.A.M.I. Show , a concert film filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium That Man from Rio Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac – (France )The Thin Red Line Keir Dullea and Jack Warden This Is My Street Sidney Hayers – (U.K. )The Three Lives of Thomasina Patrick McGoohan and Susan Hampshire – (UK /US )The Third Secret Stephen Boyd and Pamela Franklin – (U.K.)Those Calloways Walt Disney and directed by Norman Tokar [6] Three Outlaw Samurai Japan )La Tía Tula Spain )A Tiger Walks Brian Keith and Vera Miles Time of Indifference Claudia Cardinale , Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters – (Italy )The Time Travelers Preston Foster and Merry Anders Tintin and the Blue Oranges Jean-Pierre Talbot – (France )To the Moon and Beyond 1964 New York World's Fair The Tomb of Ligeia Roger Corman , starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd Topkapi Melina Mercouri , Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov The Train John Frankenheimer , starring Burt Lancaster , Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau – (U.S./France/Italy )The Troops of Saint-Tropez Jean Girault – (France )Troubled Waters Tab Hunter – (U.K. )Two Stage Sisters Xie Jin – (China )Two Thousand Maniacs! Herschell Gordon Lewis
U
V
W
Weekend at Dunkirk Henri Verneuil – (Italy /France )Welcome, or No Trespassing Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchyon Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev – (U.S.S.R. )What a Way to Go! Shirley MacLaine , Paul Newman , Robert Mitchum , Dean Martin , Gene Kelly , Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke Where Love Has Gone Bette Davis and Susan Hayward Whirlwind Hiroshi Inagaki – (Japan )White Voices Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa – (Italy )Wild and Wonderful Tony Curtis and Christine Kaufmann Wild West Story starring Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt , Lena Granhagen and Gerald Mohr Witchcraft Lon Chaney and Jack Hedley – (U.K. )Woh Kaun Thi? India )Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara – (Japan )Woman of Straw Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery – (U.K. )World Without Sun Le monde sans soleil Jacques-Yves Cousteau – (France )The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers France )Wonderful Life [7] Cliff Richard and the Shadows – (U.K. )The World of Henry Orient George Roy Hill , starring Peter Sellers , Paula Prentiss and Angela Lansbury
Y
Z
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan )Zatoichi's Flashing Sword Kazuo Ikehiro – (Japan )Zhavoronok Gennadi Yukhtin – (U.S.S.R. )Zindagi Vyjayanthimala , Rajendra Kumar , Raaj Kumar and Prithviraj Kapoor – (India )Zogue fe Agaza Salah Zulfikar and Laila Taher – (Egypt )Zorba the Greek Michael Cacoyannis , starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates – (Greece /U.K. )Zulu Cy Endfield , starring Stanley Baker , Michael Caine and Jack Hawkins – (U.K.)