# List of American films of 1962

A list of American films released in 1962. Lawrence of Arabia won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures that celebrated their 50th Anniversaries.

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

| 1962 Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
| 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

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| 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

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| 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

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| 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

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| 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 |

## T-Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
| 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 | Comedy | |
| 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 |