# Favorite Movies of 1962? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 26, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394 "2021-09-26T19:54:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/1 "2021-09-26T19:54:19Z")
Birdman of Alcatraz An Autumn Afternoon The Loneliness Of A Long-Distance Runner Il Sorpasso The Sign Of The Leo David And Lisa His Days Are Numbered Knife In The Water Mamma Roma Pitfall Lonely Are The Brave Lolita L’Eclisse Hara-kiri Sundays And Cybele To Kill A Mockingbird Ride The High Country The Manchurian Candidate All Fall Down ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/2 "2021-09-26T19:58:21Z")
As “To Kill A Mockingbird” is one of the best movies ever, it takes 1st for me. You missed two of my favorites from 1962: **The Longest Day** and **Lawrence of Arabia**. I’ll give a shout-out to **Gypsy** and **Dr. No**. Most of your list wouldn’t be movies I would want to see. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/3 "2021-09-26T20:04:17Z")
Lawrence of Arabia Day of the Triffids Dr. No The Music Man The Man who Shot Liberty Valance Mondo Cane Carnival of Souls ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/4 "2021-09-26T20:32:12Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Carnival of Souls That one really messed with 4 year old me when I saw it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/5 "2021-09-26T20:38:14Z")
The Three Stooges in Orbit. Wait, I’ll go with To Kill a Mockingbird instead. mmm ---
**Author:** ![CorpusNeptune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corpusneptune/32/17561_2.png) [@CorpusNeptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorpusNeptune)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/6 "2021-09-26T20:38:58Z")
_Advise & Consent_ is easily my favourite from the era. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/7 "2021-09-26T20:57:59Z")
_The Brainiac_ a.k.a. _El barón del terror_ _The Brain that Wouldn’t Die_ _Cape Fear_ _The Creation of the Humanoids_ _Dr. No_ _The Exterminating Angel_ _The Fabulous Baron Munchausen_ _The Graceful Brute_ _Journey to the Seventh Planet_ _The Magic Sword_ _The Manchurian Candidate_ _The Testament of Dr. Mabuse_ _Walk on the Wild Side_ ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/8 "2021-09-26T22:29:53Z")
> [@CorpusNeptune](#): > > _Advise & Consent_ is easily my favourite from the era. It’s a movie that I wish, for personal reasons, would disappear from all space and time, and the novel with it. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/9 "2021-09-26T23:16:54Z")
Lonely Are The Brave Lawrence Of Arabia ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/10 "2021-09-26T23:22:20Z")
_What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?_ ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/11 "2021-09-26T23:31:38Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Lonely Are The Brave I took my wife to see this at a revival theater and she still hasn’t forgiven me. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/12 "2021-09-26T23:47:08Z")
To Kill a Mockingbird Cape Fear Hell is for Heroes The Manchurian Candidate Dr. No Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/13 "2021-09-27T03:47:36Z")
Days of Wine and Roses The Music Man The Manchurian Candidate The Loneliness of the Long-DIstance Runner David and Lisa would make the cut if there was a way to filter out the horrendous musical score. Baby Jane is half of a good movie: I would have preferred it to be more like Misery, with no outside world. And apologies if I’ve told this one before. A few years ago, I listened to Blake Edwards’ commentary on Days of Wine and Roses. He was talking about how it was a tough year for Oscars: Lee Remick lost Best Actress to Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker, and Jack Lemmon lost Best Actor to Gregory Peck for To Kill A Mockingbird, when in another year, they might both have won. Skip ahead to a very powerful and scary scene in which Lemmon tears a greenhouse apart looking for a hidden bottle. Edwards was silent throughout, and when the next scene started, remarked “I think that killed three mockingbirds!” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/14 "2021-09-27T15:16:07Z")
**Jack the Giant Killer** was my favorite at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/15 "2021-09-27T16:28:55Z")
_Cape Fear_ _How the West Was Won_ _Lolita_ _The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence_ _To Kill a Mockingbird_ _What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?_ ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/16 "2021-09-27T17:13:52Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > > > Lonely Are The Brave > > I took my wife to see this at a revival theater and she still hasn’t forgiven me. Why?? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/17 "2021-09-27T18:55:47Z")
She dreaded the fate of Whisky before the opening titles even ended. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/18 "2021-09-27T19:41:01Z")
Ah. Just like Mrs. Cretin. Give a dog, cat, horse, more than one second of screen time and she spends the rest of the movie dreading the critter’s fate. Sad to say her fears are justified more often than not. And don’t even think about saying “It’s only a movie” - but I bet you already know that. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/19 "2021-09-27T20:23:05Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > _The Magic Sword_ Oh, God, _ **The Magic Sword** _! I saw this back in the '70s and have never forgotten it. What a romp! 😆 _ **Lonely Are the Brave** _ was Kirk Douglas’s favorite film, and my pick of the list. _ **Lolita** _ is great for the performances of James Mason and Shelly Winters, but Sue Lyons was just too old to play the titular (so to speak) character. I also didn’t care much for the liberties Kubrick took with the story. I still think it lost the mood of the novel. I liked _ **The Manchurian Candidate** _, but I still don’t understand why a John Bircher would cooperate with the Red Chinese, or why the Red Chinese would want to see a right-wing dictatorship in the United States. _ **To Kill a Mockingbird** _ is a very powerful film, but such a downer! ☹ _ **Dr No** _ deserves to be on the list simply for “Bond. James Bond.” _ **Journey to the Seventh Planet** _ both freaked me out and turned me on when I was seven. I spent the next five years playing Army after I saw _ **Hell Is for Heroes** _ with my dad. I always thought _ **The Longest Day** _ came out in 1964, because that’s when I first saw it. (I spent hours listening to the soundtrack album afterwards.) Not on the list is _ **The Pink Panther** _, which I always thought was a sequel to _ **A Shot in the Dark** _ because I didn’t see it until 1967! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-of-1962/951394/20 "2021-09-28T09:49:01Z")
Plenty of movies [I agree should be listed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1982-a-great-year-for-movies/688467/3) have already been listed, leaving me with just this to say about that: > [@Rilchiam](#): > > David and Lisa would make the cut if there was a way to filter out the horrendous musical score. Baby Jane is half of a good movie: I would have preferred it to be more like Misery, with no outside world. I’d argue that **Sweet Bird Of Youth** , considered on its own, is a terrific enough film for you to see why it racked up award nominations for the lead actor and the lead actress and the supporting actor and the supporting actress — unless you start playing the Might Have Been game by comparing it to the Broadway version that so many of the castmembers were in beforehand.