Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Freud (1962)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks…
- John Huston once again proves his mastery of adaptation and biography, here depicting the famous psychoanalyst's clash with conservative Viennese…
Geronimo (1962)
- Dir. Arnold Laven
Feat. Chuck Connors, Adam West
- Despite the ridiculous casting of blue–eyed Connors as the legendary renegade Apache, this is a half decent B movie, loosely following the…
Gigot (1962)
- Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath
- Splendidly poignant comedy made in part as a tribute to Charlie Chaplin, about a mute vagabond who befriends the little daughter of a prostitute.…
Grim Reaper, The (La Commare Secca) (1962)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Carlotta Barilli, Lorenza Benedetti, Clorinda Celani
- Dir. Bertolucci's first film – with trademark technical virtuosity already in evidence – is a whodunnit about a prostitute murdered in a…
Gypsy (1962)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
- Eye–catching musical comedy–drama based on the memoir of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, whose career was driven by her aggressive…
Harakiri (Seppuku) (1962)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama…
- Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) set at the beginning of the Edo period, following a masterless samurai (ronin) who wishes to commit suicide…
Hatari (1962)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne
- Tremendous, good–natured adventure with John Wayne on safari in the great African wilderness. Memorable score by Henri Mancini.
Hell Is For Heroes (1962)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker…
- An expertly written and delivered WWII adventure, where a small squad of US soldiers, headed by Steve McQueen, must hold off an advancing German…
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Richard Beymer, Diane Baker
- Drama from director Martin Ritt (HUD), based on Ernest Hemingway's semi–autobiographical character Nick Adams, a restless young man who leaves…
How the West Was Won (1962)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
Feat. James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Fonda…
- The history of the West through three generations, with three directors each contributing an instalment. Headed by a cast to match its ambitions and…