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A list of American films released in 1962.
Lawrence of Arabia won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Lawrence of Arabia |
Columbia |
$20,310,000 |
| 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: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1962.shtml
A-B
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| 1962 |
| The 300 Spartans |
Rudolph Maté |
Richard Egan, Diane Baker |
Adventure |
Fox |
| Advise and Consent |
Otto Preminger |
Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Gene Tierney, Peter Lawford |
Drama |
Columbia |
| All Fall Down |
John Frankenheimer |
Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty |
Drama |
MGM |
| The Bellboy and the Playgirls |
Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Umgelter |
June Wilkinson |
Comedy |
|
| Big Red |
Norman Tokar |
Walter Pidgeon |
Family adventure |
Disney |
| Billy Rose's Jumbo |
Charles Walters |
Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye |
Musical comedy |
MGM |
| Birdman of Alcatraz |
John Frankenheimer |
Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas |
Drama |
U.A. |
| Bon Voyage! |
James Neilsen |
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 |
Sci-Fi |
A.I. |
| Buddies Thicker Than Water |
Gene Deitch |
Tom and Jerry |
Animated |
MGM |
C-G
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Cape Fear |
J. Lee Thompson |
Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Telly Savalas |
Film noir |
Universal |
| Carmen Get It! |
Gene Deitch |
Tom and Jerry |
Animated short |
MGM |
| Carnival of Souls |
Herk Harvey |
Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison |
Horror |
|
| The Chapman Report |
George Cukor |
Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda |
Drama |
Warner |
| The Commies Are Coming, the Commies Are Coming |
George Waggner |
Jack Kelly, Jeanne Cooper |
War short |
Warner |
| Convicts 4 |
Millard Kaufman |
Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Sammy Davis Jr. |
Drama |
U.A. |
| The Creation of the Humanoids |
Wesley Barry |
Don Megowan |
Sci-Fi |
|
| David and Lisa |
Frank Perry |
Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin |
Drama |
|
| Days of Wine and Roses |
Blake Edwards |
Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick |
Drama |
Warner |
| Experiment in Terror |
Blake Edwards |
Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin |
Film noir |
Columbia |
| Five Finger Exercise |
Daniel Mann |
Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins |
Drama |
Columbia |
| Follow that Dream |
Gordon Douglas |
Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Joanna Moore |
Musical comedy |
U.A. |
| Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
Vincente Minnelli |
Glenn Ford, Lee J. Cobb, Charles Boyer |
Drama |
MGM |
| Gay Purr-ee |
Abe Levitow |
(voices of) Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons |
Animated musical |
Warner |
| Gigot |
Gene Kelly |
Jackie Gleason |
Comedy |
Fox |
| Girls! Girls! Girls! |
Norman Taurog |
Elvis Presley |
Musical comedy |
Paramount |
| Gypsy |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood |
Musical |
Warner |
H-M
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Heaven and Earth Magic |
Harry Everett Smith |
|
Animation |
|
| Hell Is for Heroes |
Don Siegel |
Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin |
War drama |
Paramount |
| High Steaks |
Gene Deitch |
Tom and Jerry |
Animated short |
MGM |
| How the West Was Won |
John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe |
James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, George Peppard, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, John Wayne |
Epic western |
MGM |
| I Thank a Fool |
Robert Stevens |
Susan Hayward, Peter Finch |
Crime drama |
MGM |
| The Intruder |
Roger Corman |
William Shatner |
Drama |
|
| It Happened In Athens |
Andrew Marton |
Jayne Mansfield |
Comedy |
Fox |
| It's Only Money |
Frank Tashlin |
Jerry Lewis |
Comedy |
Paramount |
| Jack the Giant Killer |
Nathan H. Juran |
Kerwin Matthews, Torin Thatcher |
Family/fantasy |
|
| The Jet Cage |
Friz Freleng |
Looney Tunes |
Animated short |
Warner |
| Kid Galahad |
Phil Karlson |
Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Charles Bronson |
Musical drama |
|
| The L-Shaped Room |
Bryan Forbes |
Leslie Caron, Tom Bell |
Drama |
Columbia/UK |
| Lolita |
Stanley Kubrick |
James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers |
Comedy, drama |
MGM |
| Lonely Are the Brave |
David Miller |
Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Gena Rowlands |
Western |
|
| Long Day's Journey Into Night |
Sidney Lumet |
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards |
Drama |
Embassy |
| The Longest Day |
Ken Annakin |
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton |
War drama |
Fox |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
John Ford |
James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, Andy Devine |
Western |
Paramount |
| The Manchurian Candidate |
John Frankenheimer |
Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury |
Political thriller |
|
| The Manster |
George Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane |
Peter Dyneley, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Jane Hylton |
Horror |
U.A./Japan |
| The Miracle Worker |
Arthur Penn |
Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory |
Drama |
U.A. |
| Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol |
Abe Levitow |
voices of Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano, Paul Frees |
Animated |
|
| Mouse Into Space |
Gene Deitch |
Tom and Jerry |
Animated short |
MGM |
| Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation |
Henry Koster |
James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian |
Comedy |
Fox |
| The Music Man |
Morton DaCosta |
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard |
Musical |
Warner |
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
Lewis Milestone |
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris |
Drama |
MGM |
| My Geisha |
Jack Cardiff |
Shirley MacLaine |
Comedy |
Paramount |
N-S
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Panic in Year Zero! |
Ray Milland |
Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon |
Sci-Fi |
A.I. |
| Period of Adjustment |
George Roy Hill |
Jane Fonda, Tony Franciosa, Jim Hutton |
Comedy |
MGM |
| Red Nightmare |
George Waggner |
Jack Webb, Jack Kelly |
Cold War |
Paramount |
| The Reluctant Saint |
Edward Dmytryk |
Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban |
Drama |
|
| Requiem for a Heavyweight |
Ralph Nelson |
Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney |
Drama |
Columbia |
| Ride the High Country |
Sam Peckinpah |
Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott |
Western |
MGM |
| The Ring of Terror |
Clark L. Paylow |
|
Horror |
|
| The Road to Hong Kong |
Norman Panama |
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan Collins |
Comedy |
U.A. |
| Rome Adventure |
Delmer Daves |
Angie Dickinson, Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette |
Romance |
Warner |
| Savage Sam |
|
Tommy Kirk, Brian Keith |
Family western |
Disney |
| Sergeants 3 |
John Sturges |
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop |
Comedy |
Rat Pack |
| 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 |
Drama |
|
| State Fair |
José Ferrer |
Tom Ewell, Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, Bobby Darin |
Musical |
Fox |
| Sweet Bird of Youth |
Richard Brooks |
Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Rip Torn |
Drama |
MGM |
| A Symposium on Popular Songs |
|
|
|
Disney |
T-Z
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Tales of Terror |
Roger Corman |
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone |
Horror anthology |
MGM |
| Tarzan Goes to India |
John Guillermin |
Jock Mahoney |
Action adventure |
MGM/UK |
| Tender Is the Night |
Henry King |
Jennifer Jones, Joan Fontaine, Jason Robards |
Drama |
Fox |
| That Touch of Mink |
Delbert Mann |
Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young |
Romantic comedy |
|
| The Three Stooges Meet Hercules |
Edward Bernds |
Three Stooges |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| The Three Stooges in Orbit |
Edward Bernds |
Three Stooges |
Comedy, Sci-Fi |
Columbia |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
Robert Mulligan |
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall |
Drama |
Universal |
| Tonight for Sure |
Francis Ford Coppola |
|
Western |
|
| Tower of London |
Roger Corman |
Vincent Price |
Horror, drama |
|
| The Trial |
Orson Welles |
Anthony Perkins |
Drama |
|
| Two for the Seesaw |
Robert Wise |
Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine |
Drama |
U.A. |
| Walk on the Wild Side |
Edward Dmytryk |
Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Laurence Harvey, Capucine |
Drama |
Columbia |
| War Hunt |
Denis Sanders |
John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Robert Redford |
War drama |
U.A. |
| The War Lover |
Philip Leacock |
Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner |
War drama |
Columbia |
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
Robert Aldrich |
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono |
Thriller |
Warner |
| 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 Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm |
Henry Levin |
Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom |
Biopic |
MGM |
| The World's Greatest Sinner |
Timothy Carey |
|
Drama |
|
| Zotz! |
William Castle |
Tom Poston |
Horror comedy |
Columbia |
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