Mild-mannered aeronautical engineer Walt Sherill (Alan Ladd) is brutally attacked and injured by a gang of well-dressed teenage thugs but is unable to supply sufficient…
Browsing: Movies 1962
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Twenty-something Berry-Berry Willart (Warren Beatty) has left his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, to get away from his overbearing mother Annabell (Angela Lansbury) and alcoholic intellectual…
A boy from the wrong side of the tracks wants to join the team, gets hazed by the upper class, but finally wins their respect.…
Joan Greenwood plays the general’s wife who converts her husband’s Scottish military headquarters into a hotel in his absence to fleece visiting Americans and raise…
Seven of the prisoners at Gaunstone Gaol have been encouraged to take up Trad jazz by a music-mad governor and have formed a jazz band…
Set aboard the HMS Avenger, an 18th-century British frigate, Herman Melville’s last novel is both a realistic drama and morality play depicting a head-on clash…
At the turn of the 20th century, Anthony ‘Pop’ Wonder (Jimmy Durante) and his travelling circus often face financial difficulties due to his gambling addiction…
Burt Lancaster played the famous ‘Bird Man’ Robert Stroud, a man serving a life sentence at Alcatraz who takes comfort from birds (the feathered kind).…
Four working-class British teenage lads – Stan Coulter (Dudley Sutton), Barney Lee (Jess Conrad), Ginger Thompson (Tony Garnett) and Billy Herne (Roland Lacey) – are…
The “boys” in this first film to come from Kim Novak’s own production company are George, Doug, Howie and Fred, who all live in suburban…
In Mexico in 1661, Baron Vitelius d’Estera (Abel Salazar) is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of New Spain for witchcraft, necromancy,…
Despite the title, this is not a remake of the classic German silent movie, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. According to director Roger Kay, it…
A grim thriller about Max Cady, an ex-convict who seeks revenge on Sam Bowden – the meek lawyer he believes responsible for his eight-year prison…
In 18th-century England, the Royal Crown sends Royal Navy Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) and his crew to investigate reports of illegal smuggling and bootlegging in…
Two cars are drag racing in the American countryside when one of them – containing three young women – crashes off the side of a…
The first Carry On movie to be filmed in colour and the last written by Norman Hudis, Carry On Cruising is arguably the most charming in…
The Chapman Report was a book that seared America like a rocket blast from Cape Canaveral that people said could never be filmed. Warners went ahead…
The Counterfeit Traitor recounts one of the most exciting true stories of World War II. It opens in 1942 with Eric Erickson (William Holden), an American-born…
Set on Earth in the near future, the survivors of a nuclear war have created cyborgs to assist in the rebuilding of civilisation. The robots…
Playing a stripper was hardly the most auspicious start to Julie Christie’s career, but she managed to cover herself in some glory in this amiable…