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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Lost World
Movie / 1960-07-13 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bert Shefter, Paul Sawtell
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
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.