The Big Gamble
Theatrical Release Date: 09/01/1961
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Fleischer, Elmo Williams
Actors: Stephen Boyd, Juliette Gréco, David Wayne, Gregory Ratoff, Sybil Thorndike, Fernand Ledoux
Purple Noon ( Plein soleil )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/31/1961
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: René Clément
Actors: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns
Plot: Tom Ripley is master conman, and is sent on assignement by Mr. Greeenleaf
to bring back his playboy son Phillipe from Europe to back the U.S. Yet as
Phillipe toys with Tom, he is eventually cut off from funding and, in
desperation, murders Phillipe. Seeing opportunity, he uses all his skills
and talents to become Phillipe, though fooling both the police and friends
may prove his greatest con yet.
Great War, The ( grande guerra, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/30/1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mario Monicelli
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, Folco Lulli, Bernard Blier, Romolo Valli
Taste of Violence, The ( goût de la violence, Le )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/30/1961
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Hossein
Actors: Robert Hossein, Giovanna Ralli, Mario Adorf, Hans H. Neubert, Madeleine Robinson, Dany Jacquet
Viridiana
Theatrical Release Date: 08/28/1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano, Victoria Zinny
Plot: A novice visits her uncle shortly before taking her vows. Events lead her
to refuse her vows, and instead to stay on at her (now deceased) uncle's
manor with his son. The virtuous woman takes in beggars at the manor
until things get out of hand in Luis Bunuel's brilliant satire of
bourgeois values and the Catholic church.
Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass, The ( Tôge o wataru wakai kaze )
Theatrical Release Date: 08/27/1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Actors: Kôji Wada, Mayumi Shimizu, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin Morikawa, Arihiro Fujimura, Hideko Kariya
