Genre: ScienceFiction
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1961
Synopsis: Lost in the African jungles for over a year, Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough, Horror Hospital) has returned to England with Konga, a baby chimpanzee. Disappearing into his lab, the mad botanist begins work on what he believes will be his greatest achievement. Having witnessed a Baganda witchdoctor's use of a rare carnivorous plant to produce accelerated animal growth, Decker injects Konga with the same serum. Using the gorilla-sized chimp to brutally murder his enemies, Decker himself soon becomes victim to Konga's uncontrollable rage. Grabbing the scientist, the berserk chimp - who's grown to monstrous size - breaks out of the lab and rampages through London, a city's whose salvation rests with the military, who's been ordered to destroy Konga at all costs.
Genre: ScienceFiction
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1961
Synopsis: An astronaut crash lands on an asteroid named Rheton where the inhabitants are six inches tall. He too is reduced in size by the planet's atmosphere, aflls in love with a beautiful mute girl and helps the inhabitants fight their ancient enemies - the Solaries - giant dog-faced monsters.
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 04, 1961
Synopsis: Wilbur Post is a young architect who moves to a country home with his wife, only to discover that it comes with a horse that talks...but only to him! Mister Ed gets Wilbur into lots of trouble, but occasionally comes to the rescue as well.
Genre: War
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 07, 1961
Synopsis: Paul Newman delivers an inspiring performance as a resistance fighter who helps rescue 600 Jews from detention camps which results in the rebirth of an entire nation. Co-starring Eva Marie Saint.
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 07, 1961
Synopsis: Sophisticated comedy with Bob and Lucy leaving their spouses for an interlude together.
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release Date: Feb 04, 1961
Synopsis: Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe -- in their last screen roles -- star with Montgomery Clift in this piercing drama about contrasting attitudes and lifestyles set against the brawling backdrop of a Reno rodeo.
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release Date: Mar 18, 1961
Synopsis: Don Murray delivers a passionate performance in his role as a tough- minded Jesuit priest who establishes a halfway house to help ex-cons rebuild their lives.
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release Date: May 27, 1961
Synopsis: An ambitious assistant prosecutor (Burt Lancaster) himself a child of the slums, prosecutes three white gang members for knifing a blind Puerto Rican youth. He discovers that justice in the case is not "open and shut" and that moral truth is elusive.
Genre: Action
Theatrical Release Date: Jun 03, 1961
Synopsis: During the later years of the Roman Empire, the daughter of a wealthy patrician falls in love with a Christian slave.
Genre: ScienceFiction
Theatrical Release Date: Jun 28, 1961
Synopsis: Based on a story by Jules Verne, Vincent Price stars as Robur the Conqueror, a 19th century inventor who plans to end war by destroying all warships and armies all over the world from his own flying airship.