Predating Straw Dogs by nine years, Crosstrap sees Geoff (Gary Cockrell) and his new wife Sally (Jill Adams) rent an isolated countryside cottage to enable Geoff to…
Browsing: Movies 1962
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When her undercover CID officer brother is run down and killed by a car while investigating a diamond smuggling racket, his sister, Lynne (Maureen Connell),…
Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) is a very successful San Francisco Public Relations man. Unfortunately, a big part of his job entails drinking booze – and…
Fashion model Carol Halston (Mercy Haystead) learns that her sister Moira withdrew £7,000 from the bank the day before she died from a supposed overdose…
This British thriller is full to the brim with suspense and black comedy. Respectable music teacher Harry Barnes (Peter Halliday) returns home from the school…
A “dock brief” is a privilege granted in certain circumstances in the High Court, enabling an accused person to choose his own defence counsel from…
An effort by Columbia Pictures to capitalise on the Twist dance craze, produced by notorious cost-cutter Sam Katzman as a virtual remake of Don’t Knock The Rock (1956). The…
Teenage dreamer Jean Painter (Christiana Gregg) is waiting one evening for the bus home from the country pub (“The Chequers”) run by her older sister…
It is doubtful that anyone involved with Dr No in 1962 could have had any inkling that the Bond movie machine would still be rolling in the…
One night while driving home, hapless Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) almost runs down a giant caveman who has survived in a cave in the Californian…
Originally titled Diciottenni al sole (and also known as Beach Party-Italian Style in some markets), this Italian film follows Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak, niece of Belgian…
Escape From Zahrain is the story of a small group of people fighting for survival and their ideals under physical and emotional stress. It is also…
Stanley Baker is Tyvian Jones, a successful Welsh novelist living the fast life in Italy, whose burgeoning career and marriage unravel when he becomes infatuated…
Ruthless criminal Red Lynch (Ross Martin) launches a campaign of terror against bank teller Kelly Sherwood (Lee Remick) and her younger sister, Toby (Stefanie Powers)…
Naive Scotsman Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter), an enthusiastic member of the local cycling club, is involved in an accident with wealthy and arrogant businessman Commander…
This easy-going rustic drama sees Elvis Presley cast as wide-eyed country boy Toby Kwimper in a film adapted by His Girl Friday screenwriter Charles Lederer…
Upon its release in 1962, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was heavily panned. Glenn Ford was no Rudolph Valentino (the star of the original silent…
This low-rent British thriller by AR Rawlinson was co-produced by Francis Searle and Ronnie Liles for Butchers Films at Twickenham, with Searle also directing. Suave…
This full-length colour animated film was produced for Warner Bros by UPA, the American cartoon makers who for years were renowned for their stylish one-reelers,…
One of the key films of the British New Wave, Girl on Approval is an intimate, emotionally honest portrayal of a lonely and troubled teenage…