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Cape Fear (Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: J Lee Thompson; Writer: John D MacDonald, James R. Webb; Stars: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Barrie Chase, Paul Comi, John McKee, Page Slattery, Ward Ramsey, Edward Platt, Will Wright, Joan Staley)
A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.
Cleo From 5 To 7 (Cléo De 5 À 7) (Country: France, Italy; Year: 1961; Director: Agnes Varda; Writer: Agnes Varda; Stars: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Boursellier, Dominique Davray, Michel Legrand)
A young French singer wanders the streets of Paris while waiting for the results of a cancer screening test.
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Days Of Wine And Roses (Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: Blake Edwards; Writer: JP Morgan; Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt)
An alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his passion.
Dr No (James Bond) (Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: Terence Young; Writer: Ian Fleming, Johanna Harwood, Richard Maibaum, Berkely Mather, Terence Young; Stars: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Anthony Dawson, Zena Marshall, John Kitzmiller, Eunice Gayson, Lois Maxwell)
When a fellow agent is killed in Jamaica, the super-spy finds himself pitting wits against a mysterious new adversary.
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Lawrence Of Arabia (Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: David Lean; Writer: Robert Bolt, based on Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T E Lawrence; Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quale, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit)
A biopic of TE Lawrence focused on role in the Arab/Turkish conflict during the First World War.
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Lonely Are The Brave (Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: David Miller; Writer: Dalton Trumbo, based on a book by Edward Abbey; Stars: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane)
A fiercely independent cowboy gets himself locked up in prison to escape with an old friend.
The Manchurian Candidate (Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: John Frankenheimer; Writer: George Axelrod and John Frankenheimer, based on the book by Richard Condon; Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory)
An American PoW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: John Ford; Writer: James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck, based on the short story by Dorothy M Johnson; Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine)
A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
The Miracle Worker (Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: Arthur Penn; Writer: William Gibson, based on the book by Helen Keller; Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine)
The story of how Anne Sullivan's taught the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
To Kill A Mockingbird (Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: Robert Mulligan; Writer: Horton Foote, based on the novel by Harper Lee; Stars: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, the voice of Kim Stanley)
Gregory Peck plays the iconic role of Atticus Finch, a small town lawyer who defends a negro in the lynch mob years before civil rights.
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