Cinema 1962: You Must Remember This—Stars, Movies, Events

Cineliteracy: What You Need to Know about 1962 as a Movie Year

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia – Horizon-Spiegel-Lean, Columbia

Best Director: David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
Best Actor: Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker
Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley – Sweet Bird of Youth
Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker
Best Foreign Language Film: Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d’Avray), directed by Serge Bourguignon, France
Golden Globe Awards:

Palme d’Or (Cannes Film Festival): Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas), directed by Anselmo Duarte, Brazil
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

My Name is Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo), directed by Tarkovsky, USSR
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Top-Grossing Films of 1962

Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals
1 The Longest Day 20th Century Fox $15,250,000
2 Lawrence of Arabia Columbia $15,000,000
3 The Music Man, Warner $8,000,000
4 That Touch of Mink Universal $7,942,000
5 Mutiny on the Bounty, MGM $7,410,000
6 To Kill a Mockingbird, Universal $7,112,000
7 Hatari! Paramount, $7,000,000
8 Gypsy Warner Bros. $6,000,000
9 Bon Voyage! The Interns Buena Vista, Columbia $5,000,000
10 In Search of the Castaways, Buena Vista $4,900,000

Events
February –

Warner Bros. buy film rights for My Fair Lady for the unprecedented $5.5 million plus 47¼% of the gross over $20 million.
May –

The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are founded by the Taiwanese government.

June 18 –

MCA Inc. finalize their merger with Decca-Universal.
July 25 – Darryl F. Zanuck, one of founders of 20th Century Fox, becomes president, replacing Spyros Skouras. Skouras becomes chair of the board.

August 5 –

Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe is found dead of drug overdose.

September 7 –

Filming of Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace begins and will continue for another 5 years.

October 5 –

Dr. No launches the James Bond series, the second longest-running film franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), still running 63 years later (No Time to Die, 2021). It launches the career of Sean Connery as global star.

Film releases of 1962:

1 January

Sanjuro (Japan)
9 January
The Nun and the Sergeant
11 January
Only Two Can Play
12 January
Bachelor Flat
14 January
I Thank a Fool
17 January
The Intruder
18 January
My Geisha
19 January
Tender Is the Night
A View from the Bridge
26 January
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
February 1962
7 February
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Light in the Piazza
10 February
Sergeants 3
12 February
The Bellboy and the Playgirls
15 February
Pontius Pilate
21 February
The Couch
Walk on the Wild Side
28 February
Too Late Blues
March 1962
1 March
Posse from Hell
5 March
Rome Adventure
7 March
The Premature Burial
9 March
State Fair
10 March
Journey to the Seventh Planet
14 March
The Road to Hong Kong
21 March
Hitler
Sweet Bird of Youth
Gorath (Japan)
23 March
Satan in High Heels
Satan Never Sleeps
28 March
Hand of Death
The Manster (U.S./Japan)
Six Black Horses
April–June
April 1962
2 April
The Broken Land
5 April
Moon Pilot
6 April
Ivan’s Childhood (U.S.S.R)
11 April
All Fall Down
Follow That Dream
House of Women
The Magic Sword
12 April
Cape Fear
13 April
Experiment in Terror
17 April
The Counterfeit Traitor

19 April
Five Finger Exercise
22 April

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford, John Wayne
23 April
Escape from Zahrain
25 April
Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (Italy)
May 1962

3 May
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Invasion of the Star Creatures

9 May

War Hunt
17 May
Bon Voyage!

24 May
The Inspector
Lonely Are the Brave

25 May
The Cabinet of Caligari

29 May

Hatari! Hawks, John Wayne

June 1962
6 June
13 West Street
Big Red
Lad, A Dog

9 June
Eegah

13 June
It Happened in Athens
Lolita
Merrill’s Marauders

14 June
That Touch of Mink
15 June
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

19 June
The Music Man
20 June
Confessions of an Opium Eater
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Ride the High Country

21 June
Boys’ Night Out
26 June
Hell Is for Heroes

27 June
Safe at Home!
29 June
Beauty and the Beast

July 1962
3 July
Birdman of Alcatraz
The Creation of the Humanoids
Tarzan Goes to India

4 July
Tales of Terror
The Three Stooges in Orbit
5 July
Panic in Year Zero!
7 July
Advise & Consent

16 July
Jack the Giant Killer
17 July
Air Patrol
21 July
Black Gold

25 July
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

26 July
The Lion
The Notorious Landlady

28 July
The Miracle Worker
August 1962

1 August
Kid Galahad

3 August
The Spiral Road

7 August
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
8 August
The Interns
11 August
King Kong vs. Godzilla (Japan)

17 August
Two Weeks in Another Town, Minnelli

29 August
The 300 Spartans

September 1962
15 September
Convicts 4

16 September

Harakiri (Japan)
Billy Budd

25 September

The Longest Day

26 September
Carnival of Souls

3 October
Zotz!
4 October
Sodom and Gomorrah

5 October
The Chapman Report, Cukor

Dr. No – (U.K.)

10 October

Long Day’s Journey into Night
16 October
Requiem for a Heavyweight
18 October
Phaedra
22 October
Escape from East Berlin

24 October
The Manchurian Candidate
Tower of London
25 October
Tonight for Sure
The War Lover

31 October
Period of Adjustment
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1 November
How the West Was Won
Gypsy
2 November
The Reluctant Saint
8 November
Mutiny on the Bounty
14 November
In Search of the Castaways

27 November

The Main Attraction

6 December
Billy Rose’s Jumbo

10 December
Lawrence of Arabia

12 December
Five Miles to Midnight
Freud: The Secret Passion

17 December
Gay Purr-ee

19 December
Taras Bulba

22 December
The Trial

25 December

To Kill a Mockingbird

26 December

David and Lisa
Days of Wine and Roses

Notable films released in 1962
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The 300 Spartans, starring Ralph Richardson, Richard Egan, Diane Baker
40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, and Larry Storch

Advise & Consent, Preminger, starring Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon

All Fall Down, John Frankenheimer, starring Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty

All Night Long, starring Patrick McGoohan and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)

An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)

The Bellboy and the Playgirls, Coppola and Fritz Umgelter
Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)

Billy Budd, Peter Ustinov, with Robert Ryan and Terence Stamp – (U.K.)

Billy Rose’s Jumbo, starring Doris Day and Jimmy Durante

Birdman of Alcatraz, John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas

Boccaccio ’70, Fellini, Monicelli, De Sica, Visconti, starring Anita Ekberg and Sophia Loren – (Italy)

Cape Fear, J. Lee Thompson, starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
Captain Clegg (released as Night Creatures in the U.S.), directed by Peter Graham Scott – (U.K.)
Carnival of Souls, Herk Harvey

Carry On Jack, starring Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills – (U.K.)
Cartouche, Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale – (France/Italy)

The Chapman Report, 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, Agnès Varda – (France)
The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona), De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell – (Italy)

The Counterfeit Traitor, George Seaton, starring William Holden

Crooks Anonymous, starring Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie

Damon and Pythias, Bernhardt – (U.S./Italy)

David and Lisa, starring Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin

Days of Wine and Roses, Blake Edwards, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick

Le Doulos (The Finger Man), Jean-Pierre Melville, Belmondo – (France)

Dr. No, first James Bond film, Terence Young, 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)
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)

F
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/US)

It’s Only Money, Tashlin. starring Jerry Lewis and Joan O’Brien

Ivan’s Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), Tarkovsky – (U.S.S.R.)

J
Jack the Giant Killer, starring Kerwin Mathews
Jessica, starring Angie Dickinson
La Jetée, directed by Chris Marker – (France)
Jigsaw, starring Jack Warner – (U.K.)
Journey to the Seventh Planet, directed by Sid Pink – (Denmark)
Jules and 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 – (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, 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 Truffaut, Shintaro Ishihara, Andrzej Wajda,Rossellini and Marcel Ophüls – (International)

Love on a Pillow, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)

Lulu, directed by Rolf Thiele, starring Nadja Tiller – (Austria)

M
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, 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)
N
Night of the Eagle (retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! in the U.S.), starring Janet Blair
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.)
Only Two Can Play, starring Peter Sellers
Operation Snatch, directed by Robert Day and starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders – (U.K.)
O Pagador de Promessas (The Keeper of Promises), directed by Anselmo Duarte – (Brazil)
P
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)

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)
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, 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, Roberto Mauri – (Italy)
Solo for Sparrow, directed by Gordon Flemyng – (U.K.)
Some People, starring Kenneth More – (U.K.)

Something’s Got to Give, Cukor, 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

T
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

U
The Unscrupulous Ones (Os Cafajestes), directed by Ruy Guerra – (Brazil)

V
A Very Private Affair, starring Brigitte Bardot – (France)
A View from the Bridge (Vu du Pont), directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Raf Vallone – (France/Italy)

Vive le Tour, documentary by Louis Malle – (France)
W
Walk on the Wild Side, starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck
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
Z
Zorro the Avenger[clarification needed]
Zotz!, directed by William Castle, starring Tom Poston

Short film series
Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
Terrytoons (1930–1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
Bugs Bunny (1940–1964)
Yosemite Sam (1945–1963)
Speedy Gonzales (1953–1968)

Deaths
January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, 42, American comedian, actor, North to Alaska, Bell, Book and Candle
January 28 – Hermann Wlach, 77, Austrian actor, The Pearl Maker of Madrid
February 1 – Carey Wilson, American screenwriter, Mutiny on the Bounty
February 19 – James Barton, American actor, Here Comes the Groom, Yellow Sky
February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, 84, British actor, Gaslight, That Hamilton Woman
February 27 – Willie Best, 48, American actor, Nothing but the Truth, The Red Dragon
February 28 – Chic Johnson, 70, American comedian, actor, Hellzapoppin’
March 17 – Frank Orth, 82, American actor, Nancy Drew… Detective, Here Come the Girls
April 10 – Michael Curtiz, 75, Hungarian-born director, Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood
April 15 – Clara Blandick, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer
April 17 – Louise Fazenda, 66, American actress, Tillie’s Punctured Romance, Alice in Wonderland
April 22
Angus MacPhail, 59, British screenwriter, Spellbound, The Wrong Man
Vera Reynolds, 62, American actress, The Night Club, Feet of Clay
May 14 – Florence Auer, 82, American actress, The Bishop’s Wife, State of the Union
June 2 – Aeneas MacKenzie, 72, Scottish screenwriter, The Ten Commandments, Ivanhoe
June 6 – Guinn “Big Boy” Williams, 63, American actor, Nevada, Southwest Passage
June 19
Frank Borzage, 69, American director, actor, A Farewell to Arms, 7th Heaven
Will Wright, 68, American actor, Quantrill’s Raiders, Alias Jesse James
June 24 – Lucile Watson, 83, Canadian actress, Waterloo Bridge, Made for Each Other
July 2 – Valeska Suratt, 80, American stage and screen actress, The Immigrant
July 4 – Rex Bell, 58, American actor, Broadway to Cheyenne, Law and Lead
July 13 – Jerry Wald, 50, American screenwriter and producer, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place
July 23 – Victor Moore, 86, American actor, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Louisiana Purchase
July 30 – Myron McCormick, 54, American actor, The Hustler, No Time for Sergeants
August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, 36, American actress, Hollywood icon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot
August 23 – Hoot Gibson, 70, American actor, Action, The Horse Soldiers
September 7 – Louis King, 64, American director, Typhoon, Green Grass of Wyoming
October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, 50, US actor, The Hitch-Hiker, Goodbye, My Fancy
October 6 – Tod Browning, 82, American director, Dracula, Freaks
October 26 – Louise Beavers, 60, American actress, Holiday Inn, The Jackie Robinson Story
November 15 – Irene, American costume designer, Shall We Dance, Midnight Lace
December 15 – Charles Laughton, 63, British actor, Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution
December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, 70, American actor, It’s a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind
December 21 – Syd Saylor, 67, American actor, The Lost Jungle, The Three Mesquiteers
December 23 – Luis Alberni, 76, Spanish actor, Svengali, Count of Monte Cristo
December 28 – Kathleen Clifford, 75, American actress, When the Clouds Roll By, Richard the Lion-Hearted
December 29 – Hugh Sinclair, 59, British actor, The Saint’s Vacation, Judgment Deferred
Film debuts
Erick Avari – Kanchenjungha
Bernardo Bertolucci (director) – The Grim Reaper
Peter Bowles – Live Now, Pay Later
Jackie Chan – Big and Little Wong Tin Bar
Julie Christie – Crooks Anonymous
Tom Courtenay – Private Potter
Charles Durning – The Password Is Courage
Robert Duvall – To Kill a Mockingbird
Samantha Eggar – Dr. Crippen
Sally Field – Moon Pilot
Edward Fox – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Paul Gleason – Panic in Year Zero!
Sid Haig – The Firebrand
John Hurt – The Wild and the Willing
Ian McShane – The Wild and the Willing
Arthur Malet – Convicts 4
Bill McKinney – Secret File: Hollywood
Sarah Miles – Term of Trial
Franco Nero – Pelle viva
Sydney Pollack (actor) – War Hunt
Jack Riley – Days of Wine and Roses
W. Morgan Sheppard – Strongroom
Tom Skerritt – War Hunt
Terence Stamp – Term of Trial
David Warner – We Joined the Navy
William Windom – To Kill a Mockingbird