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
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.
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.
The Unforgiven
Movie / 1960-04-06 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Dimitri Tiomkin
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
General Electric Theater (8x18): Lear vs. the Committeeman
Episode / 1960-01-17 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Jerry Goldsmith
A tailor has a dream of becoming a committeeman, but because he's Italian-American he feels his chances are slight.
Scent of Mystery
Movie / 1960-01-12 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Mario Nascimbene
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
General Electric Theater (8x16): Sarah's Laughter
Episode / 1960-01-03 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Jerry Goldsmith
Uchu daisenso
Movie / 1959-12-26 / Japan / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Movie / 1959-12-15 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Bernard Herrmann
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
The Story on Page One
Movie / 1959-12-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Elmer Bernstein
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Take a Giant Step
Movie / 1959-12-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Jack Marshall
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.
General Electric Theater (8x10): The Last Dance
Episode / 1959-11-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Jerry Goldsmith
Ben-Hur
Movie / 1959-11-18 / United States / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 3
Composed by
Miklós Rózsa
In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
A Summer Place
Movie / 1959-11-18 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by
Max Steiner
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.