Premature Burial
Movie / 1962-03-07 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.
Walk on the Wild Side
Movie / 1962-02-21 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young woman he travelled with, who is now the Doll House's newest employee.
Tender Is the Night
Movie / 1962-01-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older, married Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all.
The Outsider
Movie / 1961-12-27 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Leonard Rosenman
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
Mysterious Island
Movie / 1961-12-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
The Comancheros
Movie / 1961-12-16 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Bachelor Flat
Movie / 1961-12-07 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by John Williams
Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 17-year-old daughter. Having never been told by Helen of this daughter, Bruce assumes she's another student. During her stay, Libby is noticed by an amorous neighbor, Mike.
Summer and Smoke
Movie / 1961-11-16 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
El Cid
Movie / 1961-10-24 / United States / Releases: 5 / Recordings: 4
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
King of Kings
Movie / 1961-10-11 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 4
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo
Movie / 1961-10-07 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Movie / 1961-10-06 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Henry Mancini
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Le Cave se rebiffe
Movie / 1961-09-27 / France / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
Ada
Movie / 1961-08-25 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bronislau Kaper
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.
The Young Doctors
Movie / 1961-08-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
The Honeymoon Machine
Movie / 1961-08-16 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Leigh Harline
Lt. Fergie Howard teams up with Lt. Beau Gilliam and Navy scientist Jason Eldridge to turn a supercomputer with missile-tracking capabilities into a tool to predict where a roulette ball will land. They dock in Venice, Italy, and begin making a killing at the casino, but their shore-to-ship signals get misinterpreted as signs of attack by Adm. Fitch, putting a serious crimp in the officers' get-rich-quick scheme.
The Big Gamble
Movie / 1961-07-25 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Maurice Jarre
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.
By Love Possessed
Movie / 1961-07-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Movie / 1961-07-12 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Il Colosso di Rodi
Movie / 1961-06-15 / Spain / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
The Last Sunset
Movie / 1961-06-08 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Ernest Gold
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
A Raisin in the Sun
Movie / 1961-05-28 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Laurence Rosenthal
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
The Young Savages
Movie / 1961-05-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by David Amram
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Two Loves
Movie / 1961-05-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bronislau Kaper
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
Goodbye Again
Movie / 1961-05-23 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Georges Auric
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.