Domestic Release Schedule for 1962

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1962.

See also: Top 1962 Worldwide - Most Popular 1962

Current Release Schedule 1963 →
Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
Trailer
February, 1962
February 21 Walk on the Wild Side (Limited) Columbia    
March, 1962
March 7 Last Year at Marienbad (Wide) Rialto Pictures $209,979  
The Premature Burial (Wide) $1,200,000  
 
March 9 State Fair (Wide) $3,500,000  
 
March 10 Journey to the Seventh Planet (Limited)    
 
March 14 The Long and the Short and the Tall (Limited) Continental Distributing    
 
March 15 The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Limited) Universal    
 
March 19 Viridiana (Limited)    
 
March 21 Sweet Bird of Youth (Limited) MGM    
 
March 27 Forever My Love (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
 
March 28 The Manster (Limited)    
 
 
March TBD Horrors of Spider Island (Limited) Pacemaker Pictures    
April, 1962
April 17 Eegah (Limited) Fairway International Pictures    
 
April 22 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Wide) $8,000,000  
 
April 25 Night of the Eagle (Limited)    
 
April 30 A Taste of Honey (Limited)    
May, 1962
May 10 Mothra (Limited) Columbia    
 
May 15 Doctor Blood’s Coffin (Limited) United Artists    
 
May 17 Bon Voyage! (Wide) Walt Disney $9,230,769  
 
May 23 The Miracle Worker (Limited) United Artists    
 
May 24 Gypsy (Wide) $11,076,923  
Hatari! (Wide) $12,923,077  
 
May 25 Lonely Are the Brave (Limited) Universal    
June, 1962
June 13 Jack the Giant Killer (Limited) Samuel Goldwyn Films    
Lolita (1962) (Limited) $9,250,000  
Merrill’s Marauders (Limited) Warner Bros.    
 
June 14 That Touch of Mink (Wide) Universal $17,648,927  
 
June 19 The Music Man (Wide) $14,953,846  
 
June 20 Ride the High Country (Limited)    
 
June 21 Boys' Night Out (Limited)    
 
June 27 The Notorious Landlady (Limited) Columbia    
July, 1962
July 4 Birdman of Alcatraz (Limited)    
Tales of Terror (Limited)    
 
July 5 Panic in Year Zero! (Limited)    
 
 
July TBD Tarzan Goes to India (Limited) MGM    
August, 1962
August 7 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (Wide) MGM $8,920,615  
 
August 8 The Interns (Wide) Sony Pictures $9,230,769  
 
August 10 The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Limited)    
 
August 17 2 Weeks in Another Town (Limited) MGM    
 
August 29 Kid Galahad (Wide) $1,800,000  
The 300 Spartans (Limited)    
September, 1962
September 4 Cleo From 5 to 7 (Limited)    
 
September 26 Carnival of Souls (Limited)    
 
 
September TBD I Like Money (Limited) 20th Century Fox    
October, 1962
October 1 Stagecoach to Dancers’ Rock (Limited)    
 
October 4 The Longest Day (Wide) 20th Century Fox $39,100,000  
 
October 18 Phaedra (Limited)    
 
October 24 The Manchurian Candidate (Wide) MGM $7,716,923  
Gay Purr-ee (Limited)    
 
October 30 Billy Budd (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures    
 
October 31 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Limited)    
November, 1962
November 8 Mutiny on The Bounty (Wide) MGM $13,680,000  
 
November 21 Girls! Girls! Girls! (Wide) $2,600,000  
December, 1962
December 16 Lawrence of Arabia (Wide) Sony Pictures $37,495,385  
 
December 19 Taras Bulba (Wide) $4,000,000  
 
December 21 In Search of Castaways (Wide) $18,415,385  
 
December 25 To Kill A Mockingbird (Wide) Universal $13,129,846  
 
December 26 Days of Wine and Roses (Wide) $8,123,077  
 
December 31 Eyes Without a Face (Wide) $52,709  
 
During 1962 Jane (Limited)