1962
Carnival of Souls
(1962)
John Clifford
N/A
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two friends. When challenged to a drag, the women accept, but are forced off of a bridge. It appears that all are drowned, until Mary, quite some time later, amazingly emerges from the river. After recovering, Mary accepts a job in a new town as a church organist, only to be dogged by a mysterious phantom figure that seems to reside in an old run-down pavilion. It is here that Mary must confront the personal demons of her spiritual insouciance.
The Manchurian Candidate
(1962)
Richard Condon (based upon a novel by), George Axelrod (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations.
A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him.
To Kill a Mockingbird
(1962)
Harper Lee (based on her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"), Horton Foote (screenplay)
Won 3 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 16 nominations.
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1961. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama a racially divided Alabama town, set in the early 1930s, and modeled after Monroeville where Harper Lee grew up. Finch agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it effect any changes in racial attitudes in Maycomb?