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Payroll is a 1961 British neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, and Billie Whitelaw. [1] The screenplay by George Baxt was adapted from Derek Bickerton's 1959 novel of the same name. The film revolves around a group of criminals who plan and execute a wages robbery, which ...
12 April 1961 () (Melbourne) [1] The Abduction from the Seraglio is a 1961 Australian TV version of Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail and sung in English. It was one of a number of operas broadcast by the ABC in the early days of Australian television.
Battle at Bloody Beach, (aka Battle on the Beach in the UK and Australia), [3] is a 1961 American CinemaScope drama war film directed by Herbert Coleman and starring Audie Murphy who had previously worked together in Posse from Hell. The film also features Gary Crosby and introduces Alejandro Rey.
May 13 – Legendary actor Gary Cooper dies at the age of 60 in Los Angeles from colon and prostate cancer. Best known for his appearances in classic films such as Wings, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Sergeant York, The Pride of the Yankees and High Noon, Cooper was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age and won two Academy Awards for Best Actor.
The film premiered on 5 April 1961 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End. Reviews were positive. [7] Variety called it a "leisurely, romantic drama." [8] Gilbert said the film "got extraordinarily good notices" but "didn't do what it should have" at the box office although "it didn't do badly."
April (Georgian: აპრილი, romanized: ap'rili; Russian: Апрель, romanized: Aprel) is a short romance-drama film written and directed by Otar Iosseliani. The film was produced in 1961 in Iosseliani's early period while still in his native Georgia. The film was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. [1]
The film premiered in the US on 26 April 1961 in Los Angeles. [9] One source says that the UK release date was in May 1961 [10] while another indicates that it was released in the UK sometime in 1962. [11] It was shown in West Germany in May 1961 and in Finland, Austria and Italy at unspecified dates.
The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins became the first Best Director co-winners for West Side Story .