Taras Bulba
Movie / 1962-11-21 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Franz Waxman
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Movie / 1962-11-08 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bronislau Kaper
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie / 1962-10-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Movie / 1962-10-16 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Laurence Rosenthal
After suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to find a new direction in life
Sodom and Gomorrah
Movie / 1962-10-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Television / 1962-09-20 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
The Virginian
Television / 1962-09-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jack Marshall
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
Saints and Sinners
Television / 1962-09-17 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Kingu Kongu tai Gojira
Movie / 1962-08-11 / Japan / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Akira Ifukube
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie / 1962-08-07 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Leigh Harline
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
The Spiral Road
Movie / 1962-08-03 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
Panic in Year Zero
Movie / 1962-07-05 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Les Baxter
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be the first casualties.
Birdman of Alcatraz
Movie / 1962-07-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Hell Is for Heroes
Movie / 1962-06-26 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Leonard Rosenman
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
Hatari!
Movie / 1962-06-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Henry Mancini
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Movie / 1962-06-15 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Henry Mancini
Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.
Lonely Are the Brave
Movie / 1962-05-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
The Miracle Worker
Movie / 1962-05-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Laurence Rosenthal
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
Jack the Giant Killer
Movie / 1962-05-18 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bert Shefter
The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning.
General Electric Theater (10x28): The Troubled Heart
Episode / 1962-04-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
After eight years of marriage, a woman is happy to finally become pregnant. Her doctors discover she has a heart defect that could kill her if she goes through childbirth.
Rome Adventure
Movie / 1962-04-21 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Max Steiner
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.
Jessica
Movie / 1962-04-19 / France / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Mario Nascimbene
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.
All Fall Down
Movie / 1962-04-06 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alex North
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O’Brien, he really gets his parents at each others’ throats.
General Electric Theater (10x26): Hercule Poirot
Episode / 1962-04-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
Detective Hercule Poirot investigates the disappearance of Mr. Davenheim.
General Electric Theater (10x25): My Dark Days (2)
Episode / 1962-03-25 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
After Marion Miller testifies before a Congressional committee concerning her years as an anti-communists spy, she looks forward to a peaceful life as a housewife. But it seems the Communists have other ideas.