APPENDIX:
Films Listed in Monthly Film Bulletin Critics’ Charts, April-September 1962
Average rating scores (* indicates one or more four-star ratings):
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILMS (24 films; average score: 3.353)
*The Lady with the Little Dog (USSR): 4.888
*Viridiana (Spain/Mexico): 4.888
*La notte (Italy/France): 4.444
*The Music Room (India): 4.375
*Il posto (Italy): 4.333
*Jules et Jim (France): 4.25
*Ugetsu monogatari (Japan): 4.222
*Last Year in Marienbad (France/Italy): 4.0
*Léon Morin, prêtre (France/Italy): 3.888
Innocent Sorcerers (Poland): 3.714
*Fires on the Plain (Japan): 3.666
The Devil and the Nun (Poland): 3.6
*Paris nous appartient (France): 3.375
*Chronique d’un été (France): 3.333
Les liaisons dangereuses (France): 3.0
The Girl with the Golden Eyes (France): 3.0
Snobs (France/Switzerland): 2.888
Le baron de l’écluse (France/Italy): 2.6
Thou Shalt Not Kill (Italy/Yugoslavia): 2.6
Woman in the Window (Italy/France): 2.25
Girl on the Road (France): 2.0
Hungry for Love (Italy): 2.0
The Last Goal (Hungary): 2.0
I Love, You Love (Italy/France): 1.166
AMERICAN FILMS (40 films; average score: 2.318)
*Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy: 4.0
Rear Window (reissue): 3.625
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: 3.25
West Side Story: 3.16
All Fall Down: 3.143
Guns in the Afternoon (aka Ride the High Country): 3.0
The Miracle Worker: 3.0
A View from the Bridge (France): 3.0
Lonely Are the Brave: 2.875
Sweet Bird of Youth: 2.857
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation: 2.777
Follow That Dream: 2.75
*The Music Man: 2.625
Summer and Smoke: 2.625
Pal Joey (reissue): 2.571
High Society (reissue): 2.5
State Fair: 2.5
Hell Is for Heroes: 2.4
Big Red: 2.25
Bon Voyage: 2.25
Escape from Zahrain: 2.25
That Touch of Mink: 2.25
The Counterfeit Traitor: 2.2
13 West Street: 2.166
Boys’ Night Out: 2.166
Reprieve: 2.166
Barabbas (Italy): 2.0
Geronimo: 2.0
A Majority of One: 2.0
The Power and the Glory: 2.0
Sergeants 3: 2.0
Walk on the Wild Side: 1.833
Flower Drum Song: 1.8
Five Finger Exercise: 1.777
Moon Pilot: 1.75
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (aka The Cabinet of Caligari): 1.666
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: 1.625
The Spiral Road: 1.4
Born to Sing: 1.333
Lovers Must Learn (aka Rome Adventure): 1.333
BRITISH FILMS (21 films; average score: 2.037)
*A Kind of Loving: 4.0
Strongroom: 3.0
Some People: 2.75
H.M.S. Defiant (aka Damn the Defiant!): 2.5
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone: 2.5
Tiara Tahiti: 2.375
Waltz of the Toreadors: 2.375
The Pot Carriers: 2.333
It’s Trad, Dad! (aka Ring-a-ding Rhythm): 2.166
Guns of Darkness: 2.0
Light in the Piazza: 2.0
The Lion: 1.857
The Phantom of the Opera: 1.833
The Prince and the Pauper: 1.75
Captain Clegg (aka Night Creatures): 1.6
I Thank a Fool: 1.571
The Inspector (aka Lisa): 1.5
Carry on Cruising: 1.25
Hand in Hand: 1.25
Mix Me a Person: 1.166
Village of Daughters: 1.0