1963
Dementia 13
(1963)
Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hill (second unit written by)
N/A
Whilst out on a rowboat with his wife Louise, John Haloran has a heart attack and dies. She casts his body overboard and hides his death telling the family he left on an urgent business trip. Louise's main concern is that she can only hope to inherit part of his family fortune if he's still alive. The Halorans are a strange family. They are still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter, Kathleen, who drowned in a pond when she was a young child. The family hold an annual ceremony of remembrance, on the anniversary of her death. But this year someone is wielding an ax...intent on murder.
The Birds
(1963)
Daphne Du Maurier (from the story by), Evan Hunter (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.
The Great Escape
(1963)
Paul Brickhill (book), James Clavell (screenplay), W.R. Burnett (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations.
Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
The Raven
(1963)
Richard Matheson (screenplay), Edgar Allan Poe (poem)
1 win.
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help in this film loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem.