1962 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1962

Notable Films Released in 1962

U.S.A. unless stated

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• The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker

A

• Abhijan (The Expedition), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Advise and Consent, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon, Don Murray, Peter Lawford
• 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 Amphibian Man (Chelovek-amfibiya) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Asli-Naqli (Real and Fake), starring Dev Anand - (India)
• Atraco a las tres (Robbery at 3 O'Clock) - (Spain)
• An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)

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)
• 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 Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) - (West Germany)

C

• Os Cafajestes (The Unscrupulous Ones) - (Brazil)
• Cape Fear, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas
• Carnival of Souls, directed by Herk Harvey
• Carry On Cruising, starring Sid James and Kenneth Williams - (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)
• Cleo 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
• Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

D

• 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
• 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.)

E

• 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)
• Elektra, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas - (Greece)
• Escape from East Berlin, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Don Murray
• 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)

F

• Family Diary (Cronaca familiare), starring Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Five Finger Exercise, starring Rosalind Russell
• 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, directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks

G

• Gay Purr-ee, an animated musical with the voices of Judy Garland and Mel Blanc
• Gigot, starring Jackie Gleason
• Girls! Girls! Girls!, starring Elvis Presley
• Gorath, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• The Grim Reaper (La commare secca), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - (Italy)
• Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood
• Gundamma Katha, starring N. T. Rama Rao - (India)
• Guns of Darkness, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring David Niven and James Robertson Justice - (U.K.)

H

• H.M.S. Defiant, starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde - (U.K.)
• Half Ticket, starring Kishore Kumar and Madhubala - (India)
• Harakiri (Seppuku), directed by Masaki Kobayashi - (Japan)
• Hatari!, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Kruger, 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
• Hombre de la esquina rosada (Man on Pink Corner) - (Argentina)
• The Horizontal Lieutenant, starring Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss
• 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)
• The Inspector, aka Lisa, directed by Mark Robson, starring Dolores Hart
• 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/U.S.A.)
• 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.)

J

• Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
• La jetée, directed by Chris Marker - (France)
• Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner - (U.K.)
• Jules et Jim, directed by François Truffaut, starring Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner - (France)

K

• Kanchanjangha, directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
• Kid Galahad, starring Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson
• A Kind of Loving, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Alan Bates - (U.K.)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
• Knife in the Water (Nóż w wodzie), directed by Roman Polanski - (Poland)

L

• 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 - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Light in the Piazza, starring Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton
• Lisa (aka The Inspector), starring Stephen Boyd - (U.S./U.K.)
• Life for Ruth, starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Craig - (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 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)

M

• Madison Avenue, starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Eleanor Parker
• Mafioso, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)
• The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) - (Hong Kong)
• 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
• The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, (on NBC-TV)
• 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)
• My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)

N

• Nine Days in One Year (9 dney odnogo goda) - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Notorious Landlady, starring Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire

O

• On the Beat, starring Norman Wisdom - (U.K.)

P

• O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte - (Brazil)
• 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
• Pitfall (Otoshiana) - (Japan)
• 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
• Professor, starring Shammi Kapoor - (India)

R

• 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)
• Der rote Rausch (The Red Intoxication), starring Klaus Kinski - (Austria)

S

• Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (King, Queen and Slave), starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt - (India)
• Salvatore Giuliano, directed by Francesco Rosi - (Italy)
• Sanjuru (Tsubaki Sanjûrô), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune - (Japan)
• Sergeants 3, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop
• 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
• A Symposium on Popular Songs, a Disney animation

T

• The Tale of Zatoichi (Zatōichi monogatari), directed by Kenji Misumi - (Japan)
• The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatōichi Monogatari), starring Shintarō Katsu - (Japan)
• Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis
• Tender Is the Night, starring Jennifer Jones
• Term of Trial, starring Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret - (U.K.)
• That Touch of Mink, starring Cary Grant and Doris Day
• Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Philippe Noiret - (France)
• To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck
• Tobacco (Tyutyun) - (Bulgaria)
• Too Late Blues, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens
• Tower of London, starring Vincent Price
• 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)
• 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

V

• The Vanishing Corporal (Le Caporal épinglé), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claude Brasseur - (France)
• A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot - (France)

W

• Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
• Waltz of the Toreadors, directed by John Guillerman, starring Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, Prunella Scales
• War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) - (France)
• 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
• Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna), directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, starring Lawrence Harvey and Claire Bloom

XYZ

• Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston