List of American films of 1962

American films released in 1962

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A list of American films released in 1962.
Lawrence of Arabia won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance starring John Wayne and James Stewart.

## Top-grossing films (U.S.)

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1962
Rank | Title | Studio | Gross

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1\.  | Lawrence of Arabia | Columbia  | $20,311,000
2. | The Longest Day | 20th Century Fox  | $17,600,000
3. | In Search of the Castaways | Disney  | $9,975,000
4. | The Music Man | Warner Brothers  | $8,100,000
5. | That Touch of Mink | Universal  | $7,942,000
6. | Mutiny on the Bounty | MGM  | $7,410,000
7. | To Kill a Mockingbird | Universal  | $7,112,000
8. | Hatari! | Paramount  | $7,000,000
9. | Gypsy | Warner Brothers  | $6,000,000
10. | Bon Voyage!
The Interns | Disney
Columbia  | $5,000,000

source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080907071824/http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1962.shtml

## A-B

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13 West Street | Philip Leacock | Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger, Dolores Dorn | Drama | Columbia
The 300 Spartans | Rudolph Maté | Richard Egan, Diane Baker | Adventure | Fox
40 Pounds of Trouble | Norman Jewison | Tony Curtis, Suzanne Pleshette, Phil Silvers | Comedy | Universal
Advise & Consent | Otto Preminger | Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon | Drama | Columbia; from novel by Allen Drury
Air Patrol | Maury Dexter | Willard Parker, Merry Anders, Robert Dix | Drama | 20th Century Fox
All Fall Down | John Frankenheimer | Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty | Drama | MGM
Bachelor Flat | Frank Tashlin | Terry-Thomas, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm | Comedy | Fox
Beauty and the Beast | Edward L. Cahn | Joyce Taylor, Mark Damon, Merry Anders | Romance | United Artists
The Bellboy and the Playgirls | Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Umgelter | June Wilkinson | Comedy |
Big Red | Norman Tokar | Walter Pidgeon, Janette Bertrand | Family | Disney
Billy Rose's Jumbo | Charles Walters | Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye | Musical | MGM
Birdman of Alcatraz | John Frankenheimer | Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas | Drama | United Artists; four Oscar nominations
Black Gold | Leslie H. Martinson | Diane McBain, Fay Spain, Philip Carey | Adventure | Warner Bros.
Bon Voyage! | James Neilson | Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman | Family | Disney
Boys' Night Out | Michael Gordon | James Garner, Kim Novak, Tony Randall | Comedy | MGM
The Brain That Wouldn't Die | Joseph Green | Jason Evers, Virginia Leith | Science fiction | A.I.P.
The Broken Land | John A. Bushelman | Kent Taylor, Diana Darrin, Jody McCrea | Western | 20th Century Fox
Brushfire | Jack Warner, Jr. | John Ireland, Jo Morrow | Drama | Paramount

## C-G

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The Cabinet of Caligari | Roger Kay | Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy | Horror | 20th Century Fox
Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas, Martin Balsam, Lori Martin, Barrie Chase | Film noir | Universal; remade in 1991
The Captive City | Joseph Anthony | David Niven, Ben Gazzara, Martin Balsam, Lea Massari | Drama | A.I.P
Carnival of Souls | Herk Harvey | Candace Hilligoss, Art Ellison | Horror | Harcourt Productions
The Chapman Report | George Cukor | Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom | Drama | Warner Bros.
Confessions of an Opium Eater | Albert Zugsmith | Vincent Price, Philip Ahn | Crime | Allied Artists
Convicts 4 | Millard Kaufman | Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Sammy Davis Jr. | Drama | United Artists
The Couch | Owen Crump | Grant Williams, Shirley Knight | Horror | Warner Bros.
The Counterfeit Traitor | George Seaton | William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith | War | Paramount
The Creation of the Humanoids | Wesley Barry | Don Megowan, Dudley Manlove | Science fiction |
David and Lisa | Frank Perry | Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin | Drama | Vision Associates Productions; two Oscar nominations
Days of Wine and Roses | Blake Edwards | Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Jack Klugman | Drama | Warner Bros.; Oscar for Best Song; five nominations
Deadly Duo | Reginald Le Borg | Marcia Henderson, Irene Tedrow | Drama | United Artists
Don't Knock the Twist | Oscar Rudolph | Chubby Checker, Lang Jeffries | Musical | Columbia
Dr. No | Terence Young | Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman | Spy | United Artists
Escape from East Berlin | Robert Siodmak | Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer | Drama | MGM
Escape from Zahrain | Ronald Neame | Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden | Adventure | Paramount
Experiment in Terror | Blake Edwards | Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin | Film noir | Columbia
FBI Code 98 | Leslie H. Martinson | Jack Kelly, Ray Danton | Crime | Warner Bros.
The Firebrand | Maury Dexter | Kent Taylor, Valentin de Vargas, Lisa Montell | Western | 20th Century Fox
Five Finger Exercise | Daniel Mann | Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins | Drama | Columbia
Five Miles to Midnight | Anatole Litvak | Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins | Suspense | United Artists
Five Weeks in a Balloon | Irwin Allen | Red Buttons, Barbara Eden | Adventure | 20th Century Fox
Follow That Dream | Gordon Douglas | Elvis Presley, Anne Helm, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore, Simon Oakland, Roland Winters | Musical | United Artists
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Vincente Minnelli | Glenn Ford, Lee J. Cobb, Charles Boyer | Drama | MGM
Freud: The Secret Passion | John Huston | Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks | Biography | Universal
Gay Purr-ee | Abe Levitow | (voices of) Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons | Animated Musical | Warner Bros.
Geronimo | Arnold Laven | Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi | Western | United Artists
Gigot | Gene Kelly | Jackie Gleason | Comedy | Fox
A Girl Named Tamiko | John Sturges | Laurence Harvey, France Nuyen | Drama | Paramount
Girls! Girls! Girls! | Norman Taurog | Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin | Musical | Paramount
Gypsy | Mervyn LeRoy | Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood | Musical | Warner Bros.; story of Gypsy Rose Lee; Golden Globe for Russell

## H-M

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Hand of Death | Gene Nelson | John Agar, Paula Raymond | Horror | 20th Century Fox
Hands of a Stranger | Newt Arnold | Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey | Horror | Allied Artists
Hatari! | Howard Hawks | John Wayne, Red Buttons, Elsa Martinelli | Action, Comedy | Paramount
Heaven and Earth Magic | Harry Everett Smith |  | Animated |
Hell Is for Heroes | Don Siegel | Steve McQueen, Fess Parker, James Coburn, Bobby Darin | War | Paramount
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | Martin Ritt | Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet | Drama | 20th Century Fox
Hero's Island | Leslie Stevens | James Mason, Rip Torn | Adventure | United Artists
Hitler | Stuart Heisler | Richard Basehart, Maria Emo, Cordula Trantow | Biopic | Allied Artists
The Horizontal Lieutenant | Richard Thorpe | Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Carter, Miyoshi Umeki | Comedy | MGM
House of Women | Crane Wilbur | Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford | Drama | Warner Bros.
How the West Was Won | John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall | James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden | Western | MGM; nominated for 8 Academy Awards
If a Man Answers | Henry Levin | Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee, Cesar Romero | Comedy | Universal
In Search of the Castaways | Robert Stevenson | Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders | Family | Disney
Incident in an Alley | Edward L. Cahn | Harp McGuire, Virginia Christine | Crime | United Artists
The Inspector | Philip Dunne | Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern | Drama | 20th Century Fox
The Interns | David Swift | Cliff Robertson, Stefanie Powers, Telly Savalas, Michael Callan | Drama | Columbia; sequel in 1964
The Intruder | Roger Corman | William Shatner, Beverly Lunsford | Drama | Filmgroup
Invasion of the Star Creatures | Bruno VeSota | Frank Ray Perilli, Gloria Victor | Comedy | American International Pictures
I Thank a Fool | Robert Stevens | Susan Hayward, Peter Finch | Drama | MGM
It Happened In Athens | Andrew Marton | Jayne Mansfield, Trax Colton | Comedy | Fox
It's Only Money | Frank Tashlin | Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott, Joan O'Brien | Comedy | Paramount
Jack the Giant Killer | Nathan H. Juran | Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher | Fantasy | United Artists
Jessica | Jean Negulesco | Angie Dickinson, Maurice Chevalier, Sylva Koscina, Agnes Moorehead | Drama | United Artists; filmed in Italy
Journey to the Seventh Planet | Sidney W. Pink | John Agar, Greta Thyssen | Science Fiction | American International Pictures
Kid Galahad | Phil Karlson | Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Charles Bronson, Joan Blackman, Edward Asner | Musical | United Artists; remake of 1937 film
Lad, A Dog | Leslie H. Martinson, Aram Avakian | Peter Breck, Peggy McCay, Carroll O'Connor | Drama | Warner Bros.
Light in the Piazza | Guy Green | Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Barry Sullivan, Yvette Mimieux | Drama | MGM; from novel by Elizabeth Spencer
The Lion | Jack Cardiff | William Holden, Trevor Howard | Drama | 20th Century Fox; filmed in Kenya
Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers | Drama | MGM; from Vladimir Nabokov novel
Lonely Are the Brave | David Miller | Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands, Carroll O'Connor | Western | Universal; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo
Long Day's Journey Into Night | Sidney Lumet | Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell | Drama | Embassy; based on Eugene O'Neill play
The Longest Day | Ken Annakin | John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton | War drama | Fox; nominated for 5 Academy Awards
The Magic Sword | Bert I. Gordon | Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Anne Helm | Fantasy | United Artists
The Main Attraction | Daniel Petrie | Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan | Drama | MGM
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John Ford | James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles | Western | Paramount; Academy Award nomination for Costume Design
The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, Henry Silva, John McGiver | Drama | United Artists; Richard Condon novel; Golden Globe for Lansbury; remade in 2004
The Manster | George Breakston | Peter Dyneley, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Jane Hylton | Horror | U.S./Japan
Mermaids of Tiburon | John Lamb | George Rowe, Diane Webber | Fantasy | Filmgroup
Merrill's Marauders | Samuel Fuller | Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Claude Akins | War | Warner Bros.
The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn | Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory | Drama | United Artists; Helen Keller bio; Oscars for Bancroft and Duke
Moon Pilot | James Neilson | Tom Tryon, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval | Comedy | Disney
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Henry Koster | James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, Reginald Gardiner, Marie Wilson, John McGiver | Comedy | Fox
The Music Man | Morton DaCosta | Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard | Musical | Warner Bros.; from Meredith Willson play; five Oscar nominations; Remake of 2003 film
Mutiny on the Bounty | Lewis Milestone | Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Richard Haydn, Hugh Griffith | Adventure | MGM; remake of 1935 film; seven Oscar nominations
My Geisha | Jack Cardiff | Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson | Comedy | Paramount

## N-S

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Night of Evil | Richard Galbreath | Lisa Gaye, William Campbell | Drama | Astor Pictures
No Exit | Tad Danielewski | Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam | Drama | American/Argentinian coproduction; based on Sartre play
No Man Is an Island | Richard Goldstone | Jeffrey Hunter | Drama | Universal
The Notorious Landlady | Richard Quine | Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak, Fred Astaire | Comedy | Columbia
The Nun and the Sergeant | Franklin Adreon | Robert Webber, Anna Sten | War | United Artists
Panic in Year Zero! | Ray Milland | Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon | Sci-Fi | A.I.P.
Paradise Alley | Hugo Haas | Hugo Haas, Carol Morris, Marie Windsor | Comedy Drama | Astor Pictures
Period of Adjustment | George Roy Hill | Jane Fonda, Tony Franciosa, Jim Hutton | Comedy | MGM; from Tennessee Williams play
Phaedra | Jules Dassin | Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone | Drama | American/French/Greek coproduction
The Pigeon That Took Rome | Melville Shavelson | Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Guardino | Comedy | Paramount
Premature Burial | Roger Corman | Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Alan Napier | Horror | A.I.P.
Pressure Point | Hubert Cornfield | Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk | Drama | United Artists
The Reluctant Saint | Edward Dmytryk | Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalbán | Drama |
Requiem for a Heavyweight | Ralph Nelson | Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris | Sports, Drama | Columbia; written by Rod Serling
Ride the High Country | Sam Peckinpah | Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, James Drury, Warren Oates, R. G. Armstrong, L. Q. Jones | Western | MGM; Scott's final film
Rider on a Dead Horse | Herbert L. Strock | John Vivyan, Bruce Gordon, Kevin Hagen | Western | Allied Artists
The Ring of Terror | Clark L. Paylow |  | Horror |
The Road to Hong Kong | Norman Panama | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan Collins | Comedy | United Artists; final Road picture
Rome Adventure | Delmer Daves | Angie Dickinson, Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette | Romance | Warner Bros.
Safe at Home! | Walter Doniger | Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, William Frawley | Family | Columbia
Saintly Sinners | Jean Yarbrough | Don Beddoe, Ellen Corby | Comedy Drama | United Artists
Samar | George Montgomery | Gilbert Roland, Ziva Rodann | Adventure | Warner Bros.
Satan in High Heels | Jerald Intrator | Grayson Hall, Meg Myles | Drama |
Satan Never Sleeps | Leo McCarey | William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen | Drama | 20th Century Fox
Secret File: Hollywood | Rudolph Cusumano | Robert Clarke, Francine York | Crime | Crown International Pictures
Sergeants 3 | John Sturges | Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop | Western | United Artists; Rat Pack
Six Black Horses | Harry Keller | Audie Murphy, Joan O'Brien | Western | Universal
Something's Got to Give | George Cukor | Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin | Comedy | Unfinished
The Spiral Road | Robert Mulligan | Rock Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Burl Ives, Neva Patterson | Adventure | Universal; based on Jan de Hartog novel
Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock | Earl Bellamy | Martin Landau, Warren Stevens, Judy Dan | Western | 20th Century Fox
Stark Fear | Ned Hochman | Skip Homeier, Beverly Garland | Thriller | Independent
State Fair | José Ferrer | Tom Ewell, Pat Boone, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Alice Faye, Bobby Darin | Musical | 20th Century Fox; remake of 1933, 1945 films
Sweet Bird of Youth | Richard Brooks | Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnock, Shirley Knight | Drama | MGM; from Tennessee Williams play; Oscar for Begley

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Tales of Terror | Roger Corman | Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone | Horror | American International Pictures; anthology
Taras Bulba | J. Lee Thompson | Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker, Christine Kaufmann, Brad Dexter | Adventure | United Artists
Tarzan Goes to India | John Guillermin | Jock Mahoney | Adventure | MGM/UK
Tender Is the Night | Henry King | Jennifer Jones, Joan Fontaine, Jason Robards | Drama | 20th Century Fox; from F. Scott Fitzgerald novel; King's final film
That Touch of Mink | Delbert Mann | Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, John Astin | Comedy | Universal
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules | Edward Bernds | The Three Stooges, Vicki Trickett | Comedy | Columbia
The Three Stooges in Orbit | Edward Bernds | The Three Stooges | Comedy | Columbia
To Kill a Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, Brock Peters, William Windom, Frank Overton, Paul Fix | Drama | Universal; based on novel by Harper Lee; nominated for eight Oscars
Tonight for Sure | Francis Ford Coppola | Karl Schanzer | Western |
Tower of London | Roger Corman | Vincent Price | Horror | United Artists; remake of 1939 film
Trauma | Robert M. Young | John Conte, Lynn Bari | Horror | Parade Releasing Organization
Two for the Seesaw | Robert Wise | Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine | Drama | United Artists; from William Gibson play
Two Tickets to Paris | Greg Garrison | Joey Dee, Gary Crosby, Kay Medford | Musical | Columbia
Two Weeks in Another Town | Vincente Minnelli | Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, Claire Trevor, George Hamilton | Drama | MGM
The Underwater City | Frank McDonald | William Lundigan, Julie Adams | Science fiction | Columbia
Walk on the Wild Side | Edward Dmytryk | Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Laurence Harvey, Capucine | Drama | Columbia; based on Nelson Algren novel
War Hunt | Denis Sanders | John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Robert Redford | War | United Artists
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Robert Aldrich | Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono | Thriller | Warner Bros.; five Oscar nominations
When the Girls Take Over | Russell Hayden | Marvin Miller, Jackie Coogan | Comedy |
Who's Got the Action? | Daniel Mann | Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Walter Matthau | Comedy | Paramount
Wild Guitar | Ray Dennis Steckler | Arch Hall Jr. | Musical |
The Wild Westerners | Oscar Rudolph | James Philbrook, Nancy Kovack, Duane Eddy, Guy Mitchell | Western | Columbia
Womanhunt | Maury Dexter | Lisa Lu, Berry Kroeger | Crime | 20th Century Fox
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Henry Levin | Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Barbara Eden | Biography | MGM; four Oscar nominations
The World's Greatest Sinner | Timothy Carey |  | Drama | Never released
Young Guns of Texas | Maury Dexter | James Mitchum, Jody McCrea | Western | 20th Century Fox
Zotz! | William Castle | Tom Poston, Jim Backus, Margaret Dumont | Comedy | Columbia

## See also

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* 1962 in the United States

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1962 films of the United States.

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* List of 1962 box office number-one films in the United States

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