1962 Movies, Best to Worst

A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.

An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.

After suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to find a new direction in life.

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind, deaf and mute child Helen Keller how to understand and communicate.

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti, but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by first officer Fletcher Christian.

A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.

A young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.

A Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

An alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together.

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.

A family leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before hydrogen bombs destroy the city. In the midst of the chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive along the highway.

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

Bank robbery goes awry, manager and cashier locked in vault. Robbers return after failed rescue attempt, race against time to free hostages before police arrive.

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.

A charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control.

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.