Spartacus
Theatrical Release Date: 10/07/1960
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Nina Foch, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Gavin
Plot: A slave by the name of Spartacus is trained like a gladiator only to escape to lead a revolt against the Romans.
Key Witness
Theatrical Release Date: 10/06/1960
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Phil Karlson
Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Pat Crowley, Dennis Hopper, Joby Baker, Susan Harrison, Johnny Nash
Captain Blood ( capitan, Le )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/05/1960
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: André Hunebelle
Actors: Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli, Pierrette Bruno, Lise Delamare, Annie Anderson
Weddings and Babies
Theatrical Release Date: 10/05/1960
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Morris Engel
Actors: Viveca Lindfors, John Myhers, Chiarina Barile, Leonard Elliott, Joanna Merlin, Mary Faranda
World of Apu , The ( Apur Sansar )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/04/1960
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Alok Chakravarty, Sharmila Tagore, Dhiresh Majumdar
Plot: Apu is an aimless young man is invited to a wedding by an old college friend. This is a life-altering event, for after arriving and finding the bridegroom to be quite mad, Apu is offered as a substitute. Although not so keen on the idea, he accepts and takes his beautiful bride with him to Calcutta. But the bliss is not to last, as she dies in childbirth and, in a fit of grief, Apu leaves his child, and much of the world, behind. It takes years before he is able to face worldly responsibilities again.
The Entertainer
Theatrical Release Date: 10/03/1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tony Richardson
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Albert Finney, Alan Bates
Plot: Archie Rice has seen much better days. With his career fading and debts piling, nothing is below him, as he cajoles and manipulates everyone around him - from his gin-soaked wife to his retired father - all to better himself.
The Hand
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Cass
Actors: Derek Bond, Reed De Rouen, Bryan Coleman, Walter Randall, Tony Hilton, Harold Scott
Indian Tomb, The ( indische Grabmal, Das )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Valéry Inkijinoff, Sabine Bethmann
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Philip Leacock
Actors: Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren, Jean Seberg, Ricardo Montalban, Ella Fitzgerald
Plot: The sequel to Humprey Bogart's "Knock on Any Door." The film follows the
widow of a notorious hoodlum trying to raise her son in a Chicago tenement
while struggling with a drug habit.
Never on Sunday ( Pote tin Kyriaki )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Greek
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas, Titos Vandis, Mitsos Ligizos, Despo Diamantidou
Plot: Homer Thrace, a Connecticut amateur philosopher, arrives in Greece to try
to understand how the city fell from ancient greatness. He decides that
popular (and independent) local prostitute Illia represents everything
wrong with modern Greece and sets about "saving" the poor lass. Local vice
boss Mr. No Face is happy to fund the project, as he views Illia as a bad
influence on the other prostitutes in the city.
Santa Claus
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1960
Overall Rating: 1.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Family/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: René Cardona
Actors: José Elías Moreno, Cesáreo Quezadas 'Pulgarcito', José Luis Aguirre 'Trotsky', Armando Arriola, Lupita Quezadas, Antonio Díaz Conde hijo
Tiger of Eschnapur, The ( Tiger von Eschnapur, Der )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Adventure/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Luciana Paluzzi, Valéry Inkijinoff
