Saints and Sinners
Television / 1962-09-17 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Elmer Bernstein
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Movie / 1962-08-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Paul Sawtell
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
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.
The Cabinet of Caligari
Movie / 1962-05-25 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by
Gerald Fried
A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman.
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.
Premature Burial
Movie / 1962-03-07 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
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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' .