21. The Comancheros
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Elam, Stuart Whitman, Nehemiah Persoff, Ina Balin
Plot: A Texas Ranger must join forces with a gambler he just arrested in order to infiltrated and bring down a deadly gang known as the Comancheros.
22. The Parent Trap
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: David Swift
Actors: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Cathleen Nesbitt, Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel
Plot: A set of twins who have never met swap places when they meet at summer camp. When their parents find out and try to swap them back, the twins create various schemes to try and get their parents back together.
23. Devil's Eye, The ( Djävulens öga )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Bibi Andersson, Jarl Kulle, Stig Järrel, Nils Poppe, Gertrud Fridh, Sture Lagerwall
Plot: The devil is suffereing from a stye in his eye - brought on by the virtue of a vicar's daughter. In order to gain reprieve, he releases Don Juan from hell in order to steal the maiden's virginity and ruin her outlook on love. Things don't go as planned, however, as it is Don Juan who finds himself falling love - why the pure virgin rejects him.
24. The League of Gentlemen
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Basil Dearden
Actors: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore
Plot: Colonel Hyde finds himself forcibly retired from the military and, feeling disgruntled, recruits seven similarly dissatisfied ex-servicemen and plans a military-precision bank heist. But the best laid plans rarely go right.
25. Splendor in the Grass
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert
26. The Misfits
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Huston
Actors: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, James Barton
Plot: This is a story of some cowboys, an aging one, an emotionally fragile one and one who thinks he has it all together, plus a scared divorcee. They all come together and try to discover a sense of purpose in the new west, and in their damaged lives.
27. Violent Summer ( Estate violenta )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Actors: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Cathia Caro, Lilla Brignone, Raf Mattioli
28. Ice Cold in Alex ( Desert Attack )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Diane Clare, Richard Leech
29. Blast of Silence
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Allen Baron
Actors: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter H. Clune, Danny Meehan, Dean Sheldon
Plot: A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.
30. One, Two, Three
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin, Howard St. John
