Domestic Release Schedule for 1961

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1961.

See also: Top 1961 Worldwide - Most Popular 1961

Current Release Schedule 1962 →
Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
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January, 1961
January 13 The Dead One (Limited)    
 
January 22 Cimarron (Limited) 20th Century Fox    
 
January 24 The Flesh and the Fiends (Limited) Valiant Films    
 
January 25 101 Dalmatians (Wide) Walt Disney $153,000,000  
February, 1961
February 1 The Misfits (Wide) United Artists $8,200,000  
 
February 7 Breathless (Limited) Films Around the World $425,941  
 
February 18 Gold of the Seven Saints (Wide) Warner Bros.    
March, 1961
March 10 Gone with the Wind (Wide, re-release) MGM $198,680,470  
 
March 16 The Absent Minded Professor (Wide) Walt Disney $25,381,407  
 
March 30 One-Eyed Jacks (Limited)    
April, 1961
April 2 The Sins of Rachel Cade (Wide) Warner Bros.    
 
April 19 La Dolce Vita (Wide) $19,500,000  
 
April 30 The Secret Ways (Limited) Universal    
May, 1961
May 3 Atlantis, The Lost Continent (Limited)    
 
May 5 Return to Peyton Place (Wide) $9,996,178  
 
May 24 The Young Savages (Limited)    
 
May 29 A Raisin in the Sun (Limited) Columbia    
June, 1961
June 7 The Curse of the Werewolf (Limited) Universal    
 
June 10 Elevator to the Gallows (Limited) Rialto Pictures $373,597  
 
June 19 The Ballad of Narayama (Limited)    
 
June 21 The Parent Trap (Wide) $25,150,385  
 
June 22 The Guns of Naverone (Wide) $28,900,000  
 
June 26 The Truth (Limited)    
 
June 28 Fanny (Wide) $9,996,178  
Two Rode Together (Limited) Columbia    
 
 
June TBD The Revolt of the Slaves (Limited) United Artists    
July, 1961
July 12 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Limited)    
 
July 13 The Exiles (Limited) Pathe Contemporary Films $26,516  
 
 
July TBD You Have to Run Fast (Limited)    
August, 1961
August 9 Come September (Wide) Universal $12,710,696  
 
August 25 Splendor in the Grass (Limited)    
 
August 31 Purple Noon (Exclusive) Miramax $618,090  
September, 1961
September 13 Yojimbo the Bodyguard (Wide) Seneca International    
 
September 25 The Hustler (Wide) $7,600,000  
 
September 26 A Thunder of Drums (Limited) MGM    
October, 1961
October 5 Breakfast at Tiffany's (Wide) Paramount Pictures $9,551,904  
 
October 12 Back Street (Limited) Universal    
 
October 18 West Side Story (Wide) $43,700,000  
 
October 30 King of Kings (Wide) MGM $14,483,352  
November, 1961
November 1 Bachelor in Paradise (Limited) MGM    
 
November 9 Flower Drum Song (Wide) Universal $10,738,117  
 
November 22 Blue Hawaii (Wide) Paramount Pictures $10,440,453  
December, 1961
December 13 The Colossus of Rhodes (Limited) MGM    
The Wonders of Aladdin (Limited) MGM    
 
December 14 Babes in Toyland (Wide) Walt Disney $10,218,316  
El Cid (Wide) $26,600,000  
 
December 15 One, Two, Three (Limited)    
 
December 19 Judgment at Nuremberg (Wide) $10,000,000  
Pocketful of Miracles (Wide) United Artists $5,000,000  
 
December 20 Lover Come Back (Wide) Universal $16,937,969  
Aquamania (Limited)    
Something Wild (Limited)    
 
December 25 The Innocents (Limited)