Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Music Man, The (1962)
- Dir. Morton DaCosta
Feat. Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett…
- A lively and delightful Broadway musical adaptation with conman Robert Preston (reprising his stage role) diddling a small Iowa town in 1912. Full of…
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris…
- The story of Captain Bligh and mutineer Fletcher Christian is orchestrated here with a star cast and many a visual flourish.
Marred, though not…
Night Creatures (Captain Clegg) (1962)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen…
- Hammer horror set in 18th–century England, where a captain of the Royal Navy is sent to investigate reports of illegal activity in a coastal…
Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn) (1962)
- Dir. Sydney Hayers
Feat. Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston
- A successful academic (Peter Wyngarde) plumbs a prime teaching post at an English village idyll, causing a flurry of petty jealousies among the…
Panic in Year Zero (1962)
- Dir. Ray Milland
Feat. Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon
- Eerily filmed in black–and–white, this is a minimalist yet vividly detailed post–apocalyptic survival thriller directed by Ray…
Pity Me Not! (Without Each Other) (1962)
- Dir. Saul Swimmer
Feat. Tony Anthony, Anne Hegiba, Saul Swimmer
- A trapeze artist has the unfortunate duty of informing the wife of a fellow performer that her husband has been crushed by an elephant.
Planeta Bur: The Planet of Storms (1962)
- Dir. Pavel Klushantsev
Feat. Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Yuri Sarantsev
- Cult science–fiction with Russian cosmonauts landing on a Venus teeming with flesh–eating plants, lizard men and dinosaurs! Ingeniously…
Premature Burial (1962)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Hazel Court
- The third of Corman's eight Poe adaptations, with Ray Milland cast instead of Vincent Price as a paranoid med student. Tape includes bonus Milland…
Ride the High Country (1962)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea
- Perhaps the last hoorah of a great western tradition, directed with supreme artistry by Sam Peckinpah. Scott and McCrea play retiring lawmen who…
Road to Hong Kong, The (1962)
- Dir. Norman Panama
Feat. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins…
- Last in the series of 'Road' movies starring Hope and Crosby, this time the mad–cap duo play a pair of con–men who accidentally learn of…