Days of Wine and Roses
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Charles Bickford, Jack Albertson, Jack Klugman, Lee Remick, Jack Lemmon, Ken Lynch, Alan Hewitt
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Joe Clay is a top-notch public relations man. Anything a client wants Joe can arrange for them, whether it be dancing girls or an article in a prominent magazine. Part of the job however is drinking and Joe's ability to consume alcohol seems boundless. When he meets the very pretty Kirsten Arnasen, she prefers chocolate to alcohol but Joe has a solution to that in the form of a Brandy Alexander (made up of brandy and creme de cocoa). They eventually marry but their love is insufficient to prevent them from the downward spiral that alcohol brings to them. They try desperately to break the habit but continually relapse until only one of them ma...
The Legend of Lobo
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Rex Allen
Available Quality: DivX
The Legend of Lobo is a 1962 American film that follows the life and adventures of Lobo, a wolf born and raised in southwestern North America. Neither time period nor precise location are specified in the film, in part because the story is told as much from a wolf's point of view as from a human's. There is no dialogue in the film; the only interpretation is through a story-song composed and sung by the Sons of the Pioneers, and narration by Rex Allen. Filming took place in Sedona, AZ.Lobo is based upon Lobo the King of Currumpaw, an 1890s wolf described in a non-fictional account by naturalist Ernest Seton, who was the bounty hunter in the r...
Window Water Baby Moving
Genres: Documentary, Short
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage
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The Premature Burial
Genres: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Ray Milland, Dick Miller, Heather Angel, Alan Napier, John Dierkes, Hazel Court, Brendan Dillon
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Emily Gault arrives at the Carrell mansion determined to rekindle an old relationship with Guy Carrell, despite the disapproval of his sister, Kate. Guy overcomes his all-consuming fear of being buried alive long enough to marry Emily but soon becomes obsessed again, building a crypt designed to guarantee that he will not fall prey to his most dreaded nightmare. Trying to prove that he has been cured of his phobia, he opens his father's tomb and is shocked into a catatonic state. His worst fears are realized as he is lowered into a grave and covered over, apparently never to learn that the treachery of someone very dear to him was directly re...
Gypsy
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Karl Malden, Parley Baer, Morgan Brittany, Natalie Wood, Harry Shannon, Rosalind Russell, Jean Willes
Available Quality: Hi Def
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Irwin Allen
Starring: Reginald Owen, Billy Gilbert, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke, Raymond Bailey, Mike Mazurki, Richard Haydn
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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.
Harakiri
Genres: Drama
Year: 1962
Country: Japan
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri (self-inflicted disembowelment). An elder warrior, Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) seeks admittance to the house of a feudal lord to commit the act. There, he learns of the fate of his son-in-law, a young samurai who sought work at the house but was instead barbarically forced to commit traditional hara-kiri in an excruciating manner with a dull bamboo blade. In flashbacks the samurai tells the tragic story of his son-in-...
My Life ti Live
Genres: Drama
Year: 1962
Country: France
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Sady Rebbot, Anna Karina, Gilles Quéant, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine
Available Quality: Hi Def
This film explores a Parisian woman's descent into prostitution. The movie is comprised of a series of 12 "tableaux"-- scenes which are basically unconnected episodes, each presented with a worded introduction.
Cape Fear (1962)
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Will Wright, Telly Savalas, Martin Balsam, Robert Mitchum, Paul Comi, Gregory Peck, Jack Kruschen
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Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden and his family, particularly targeting Bowden's daughter, Nancy. Initially, Cady uses his newfound knowledge of the law (learned in prison) to annoy the Bowdens, then poisons the family dog... Who's next ?
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Jane Brakhage
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time.
How the West Was Won
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: John Ford, Henry Hathaway
Starring: Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, James Stewart, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark
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Sprawling epic which follows the Prescotts, an emigrant family through four generations, from the Erie Canal in the 1830's to their settled home in the West a half a century later. On the way they encounter river pirates, and escape with the help of fur trapper Linus Rawlings, who subsequently marries one of their daughters, Eve. The parents are drowned on a foundering raft, and the other daughter Lilith becomes a riverboat singer and catches the eye of a genteel adventurer Cleve Van Valen. They cross the plains together in a wagon train and make and lose a fortune in California; meanwhile Linus has turned farmer and, comes the Civil War, joi...
Adventures of the Road-Runner
Genres: Comedy, Animation, Short
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble
Starring: Mel Blanc, Dick Beals, Nancy Wible
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The Road Runner opens a dawn on the desert, pursued by longtime enemy Wile E. Coyote. Witnessing this lengthy chase on television are two young boys, one an impresionable youth who feels sympathy for the Coyote, the other a more cynical lad who is studying psychiatry. The psychiatry student tests his knowledge on his impressionable friend, and then both return to watch the Road Runner, and in the process Wile E. Coyote explains to them his motivation for pursuing the fleet-footed bird.
Crows' Feat
Genres: Comedy, Family, Animation
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt
Starring: Mel Blanc
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Two Mexican crows, flying to Guadalajara on the wings of an airplane, spot a corn field on the ground below and dive into it. The corn field is guarded by a rifle-toting Elmer Fudd, whom the two lame-brained crows unsuccessfully try to outwit.
Dog Star Man: Part I
Genres: Short
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an ax, and he's accompanied by a dog. His labors continue. There is no soundtrack. Images rush past - water, trees, and surfaces too close up to distinguish. He struggles. A fire burns. Nature, in long shots and magnified, is formidable and silent. It's tough going; he carries on. In a capillary, blood flows.
Women of Devil's Island
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1962
Country: Italy, France
Director: Domenico Paolella
Starring: Paul Muller, Michèle Mercier, Guy Madison, Federica Ranchi, Marisa Belli, Tullio Altamura, Antonella Della Porta
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A new warden arrives on Devil's Island to take over the women's prison at the infamous French penal colony. Surrounded by alligator-infested waters and mistreated by wardens, the women spend their days being forced to collect gold. But while the new reforms are being poorly-received by the old-school guards accustomed to having their way with the female prisoners, all is not as it seems, for a clever gold thief resides in their midst. Guy Madison stars in this Italian-made cult/costume favorite, which also remains one of the earliest entries to the genre of women-in-prison movies.
If a Man Answers
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Henry Levin
Starring: Stefanie Powers, Cesar Romero, Micheline Presle, Sandra Dee, Christopher Knight, John Bleifer, Dani Lynn
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Rich socialite, Sandra Dee meets and marries photographer Bobby Darin and attempts to "train" him to be the perfect husband. Look for a very young Stephanie Powers as the devious friend .
War Hunt
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Denis Sanders
Starring: Robert Redford, Tom Skerritt, Sydney Pollack, John Saxon, William Challee, Gavin MacLeod, Charles Aidman
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Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy who comes between them is examined. The Cease-Fire brings the three to a final resolution.
Lolita
Year: 1962
Country: UK
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Lois Maxwell, James Mason, Sue Lyon, John Harrison, Cec Linder, Shelley Winters, Diana Decker
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Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.
Carnival Of Crime
Year: 1962
Country: Brazil, Argentina
Director: George Cahan
Starring: Luis Dávila, Alberto Dalbés, Alix Talton, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Tônia Carrero, Nathán Pinzón, Jardel Filho
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Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.
The Beverly Hillbillies - Season One
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Paul Henning
Starring: Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas, Irene Ryan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr..