Category Archives: 1962

The Miracle Worker

IMDB Rating: 8.00
5167 votes

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The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan is summoned by the family to help the girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal prison forever.
Actors
Annie SullivanAnne Bancroft
Captain Arthur KellerVictor Jory
Kate KellerInga Swenson
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The Miracle Worker

IMDB Rating: 8.00
4712 votes

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Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.
Actors
Annie SullivanAnne Bancroft
Captain Arthur KellerVictor Jory
Kate KellerInga Swenson
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Light in the Piazza

IMDB Rating: 6.70
378 votes

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A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?
Actors
Meg JohnsonOlivia de Havilland
Signor NaccarelliRossano Brazzi
Clara Johnson NaccarelliYvette Mimieux
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

IMDB Rating: 6.80
1267 votes

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Mr Hobbs longs for a vacation alone with his wife, away from his long commute into work and his disfunctional family. His wife longs for a family get-together. Of course the wife wins and off to the beach with the family they go.
Actors
Roger HobbsJames Stewart
Peggy HobbsMaureen O'Hara
JoeFabian
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Birdman of Alcatraz

IMDB Rating: 7.90
4686 votes

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As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.
Actors
Robert StroudBurt Lancaster
Harvey ShoemakerKarl Malden
Elizabeth StroudThelma Ritter
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Kid Galahad

IMDB Rating: 5.70
662 votes

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When he completes his military service Walter Gulick returns to his birthplace, Cream Valley, New York. He was orphaned as an infant and grew up elsewhere but always wanted to return to where he was from. He hopes to be a mechanic but soon after his arrival finds himself working as a sparring partner at a boxing camp. Having lost all of his money in a crap game, Walter is happy to take any kind of work but a devastating right hook sends him down a different path. Willy Grogan thinks he has a winner in Walter who, after helping a lady out, is dubbed Kid Galahad. Willy is a likable man but gambles too much and may have been a witness to a mobster's conversation that would best be forgotten. As Walter gains more success, and falls in love with Willy's sister Rose, Willy Grogan finds himself coming under pressure from mobsters to make Walter takes a dive at his next big fight.
Actors
Walter GulickElvis Presley
Willy GroganGig Young
Dolly FletcherLola Albright
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

IMDB Rating: 6.40
559 votes

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Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Whatever happens later they will always preserve a strong family feeling. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS. During WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France. Heinrich would come and go. Julio was a playboy. Chichi joined the resistance and was eventually tortured to death by Gestapo. Julio has a relation to a woman whose husband is a POW, and who will after release become a district leader within the resistance movement. Julio eventually feels that it is his duty to fight the Nazis. With a firm reputation as a superficial playboy, he can attend the nightclub favoured by German officers and gather much important information. Finally he and another partisan (posing as his chauffeur) accept a highly important suicidal task involving a courtesy call to Heinrich.
Actors
Julio DesnoyersGlenn Ford
Marguerite LaurierIngrid Thulin
Marcelo DesnoyersCharles Boyer
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Lonely Are the Brave

IMDB Rating: 7.70
1807 votes

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In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased by sheriff Johnson with helicopters and jeeps.
Actors
John W. "Jack" BurnsKirk Douglas
Jerry BondiGena Rowlands
Sheriff Morey JohnsonWalter Matthau
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To Kill a Mockingbird

IMDB Rating: 8.50
64498 votes

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In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand against intolerance.
Actors
Atticus FinchGregory Peck
Charles Baker 'Dill' HarrisJohn Megna
Sheriff Heck TateFrank Overton
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Lawrence of Arabia

IMDB Rating: 8.60
36024 votes

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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.
Actors
T.E. LawrencePeter O'Toole
Prince FeisalAlec Guinness
Auda abu TayiAnthony Quinn
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