Genre: Thriller
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1962
Synopsis: Eerie, shocking, daring, thrilling and mesmerizing, The Manchurian Candidate "will leave you breathless" (People)! Featuring an all-star cast, including Angela Lansbury in an Oscar-nominated performance, this "chilling and controversial" (Leonard Maltin) film "may be the most sophisticated political satire ever made" (Pauline Kael).
When a platoon of Korean War G.I.s is captured, they somehow end up at a ladies' garden club party. Or do they? Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) can't remember. As he searches for the answer, he discovers threads of a diabolical plot orchestrated by the utterly ruthless Mrs. Iselin (Lansbury) and involving her war hero son (Laurence Harvey), her senator husband (James Gregory) and a secret cabal of enemy leaders.
Genre: Horror
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1962
Synopsis:
The Haunted Palace: In an 18th century New England village and evil warlock (Vincent Price) is burned at the stake. A century later his great-grandson arrives in the village to reopen the ancestral home along with his wife. Soon the grandson (Price in a dual role), is taken over by the spirit of his ancestors, and aided by warlocks, plans to sacrifice his wife.
The Tower of London: Horror movie king Vincent Price in this chilling tale based on the story of King Richard III, a disfigured man who tortured his way to the British throne.
Genre: Action
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1962
Synopsis:
Dr. No
In the first James Bond spy classic, Sean Connery is the ever-suave and fearless secret agent 007 on a mission in Jamaica to thwart a fanatical scientist's world-threatening scheme.
You Only Live Twice
James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Japan to foil an evil plot by SPECTRE and his arch nemesis, Blofled (Donald Pleasence), to start a nuclear war between the Russians and Americans.
Moonraker
James Bond (Roger Moore) teams with beautiful CIA agent Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) to protect the world from an evil industrialist who would destroy the earth with his fleet of space shuttles in an out-of-this-world adventure.
Octopussy
James Bond (Roger Moore) is lured to the Indian palace of Octopussy (Maud Adams) where he learns of a plot by a diabolical villain (Louis Jourdan) that could destroy the world.
Tomorrow Never Dies
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and Chinese agent Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh)are pitted against a powerful media mogul, Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) and his wife, Paris (Teri Hatcher), who has a secret past with Bond.
Genre: Horror
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1962
Synopsis:
Tales of Terror
This triple treat of terror is a three-episode treat dripping with murder, necrophilia, dementia, live burials, zombies and the terrifying performances of some of horror's greatest spooks - Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone - resulting in nothing less than "juicy entertainment" and "spine-chilling cinema" (Cue)!
Twice Told Tales
It's spine-tingling terror... in triplicate! "Virtuoso of horror" (Los Angeles Times) Vincent Price dials up the depravity in this spellbinding trilogy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "all-chiller" (LA Herald-Examiner) classics! Featuring "a demented genius! Poisonous plants! Oozing blood! [And] a corpse in a wedding gown" (The Film Daily), Twice Told Tales spins three diabolical nightmares of madness, mayhem and murder most foul!
Genre: ScienceFiction
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1962
Synopsis:
Panic in Year Zero
"This movie will scare the daylights out of you," warned the LA Herald-Examiner upon the picture's premiere - and with good reason. Released just before the Cuban Missile Crisis, this chiller-thriller realistically details what might happen to the survivors of a nuclear attack. Academy Award winner Ray Milland leads a superb cast, including Jean Hagen and teen star Frankie Avalon.
The Last Man on Earth
Master of the Midnite Movie Vincent Price delivers a tour-de-force performance while his walking-dead co-stars literally chew up the scenery behind him! Price plays the sole survivor of a lethal virus that transforms all other humans into vampire-like zombies. He fights them nightly, until, desperately lonely and at the end of his rope, he makes a startling discovery...
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 13, 1962
Synopsis: Foreign affairs were never funnier as a high-powered cola executive (James Cagney) turns West Berlin upside down in search of his boss' hare-brained daughter in Billy Wilder's riotous comedy of international hijinks.
Genre: Drama
Theatrical Release Date: Mar 31, 1962
Synopsis: In this provocatively daring film, an attention-seeking schoolgirl vengefully spreads rumors that her teachers (Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine) are lesbians.
Genre: ScienceFantasyHorror
Theatrical Release Date: Mar 31, 1962
Synopsis: Mythical monsters and noble knights come to colorful life in this enchanting and engaging adventure. Filled with "special effects sure to amuse and horrify" (LA Herald-Examiner), The Magic Sword is an "all-out children's fairy tale" (Motion Picture Herald) and a "rousing good time" (The Film Daily)!
When the evil sorcerer Lodac (Basil Rathbone) kidnaps the beautiful Princess Helene (Anne Helm), the brave young George (Gary Lockwood) makes it his mission to save her... and earn her royal hand in marriage. But George must first survive the seven curses that plague the way to Lodac's castle. Though he has a speedy horse, invincible armor and a magic sword, will George's weapons and resolve be enough to defeat Lodac's ghastly ghouls and deadly demons?!?
Genre: Musical
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 21, 1962
Synopsis: In this light-hearted romp, Elvis Presley flashes his musical prowess and comical theatrics as a naive yet sexy country boy amongst a wacky hillbilly family homesteading in Florida.
Genre: ScienceFiction
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 25, 1962
Synopsis: A university professor discovers that his wife is using voodoo to further his career. Being a rational man, he destroys all her spider skulls and dolls - and his life falls apart. A student accuses him of rape, he almost dies in a car crash and he finds his wife nearly dead in a graveyard.