Return to Peyton Place
Movie / 1961-05-05 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Franz Waxman
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Parrish
Movie / 1961-05-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Max Steiner
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Atlantis, the Lost Continent
Movie / 1961-05-03 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Russell Garcia
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that can fire a heat ray to destroy whatever it touches.
Master of the World
Movie / 1961-05-01 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Les Baxter
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
One-Eyed Jacks
Movie / 1961-03-30 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Hugo Friedhofer
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
General Electric Theater (9x20): The Legend That Walks Like a Man
Episode / 1961-02-12 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
The Misfits
Movie / 1961-02-01 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alex North
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
Flaming Star
Movie / 1960-12-20 / United States / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
Exodus
Movie / 1960-12-15 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Ernest Gold
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
The World of Suzie Wong
Movie / 1960-11-10 / United Kingdom / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by George Duning
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
BUtterfield 8
Movie / 1960-11-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bronislau Kaper
Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.
Spartacus
Movie / 1960-10-13 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alex North
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
The Magnificent Seven
Movie / 1960-10-12 / United States / Releases: 5 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Le Voyage en ballon
Movie / 1960-09-14 / France / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jean Prodromidès
A small child, fascinated by a lighter-than-air balloon, clambers aboard. The balloon takes flight, lifting the child upward to an amazing adventure. The land-bound adults have conniptions as the balloon wafts by; the child has nothing more than a great time.
Les Vieux de la vieille
Movie / 1960-09-02 / France / Releases: 0 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Studs Lonigan
Movie / 1960-09-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Movie / 1960-07-21 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerome Moross
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
House of Usher
Movie / 1960-07-20 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Les Baxter
Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.
From the Terrace
Movie / 1960-07-15 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.
The Rat Race
Movie / 1960-07-10 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
Elmer Gantry
Movie / 1960-07-07 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by André Previn
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Psycho
Movie / 1960-06-22 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
The Apartment
Movie / 1960-06-21 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Adolph Deutsch
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
The Time Machine
Movie / 1960-05-25 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Russell Garcia
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
The Little Shop of Horrors
Movie / 1960-05-04 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Fred Katz
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.