1960 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner
![Elmer Gantry](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/elmer-gantry-richard-brooks-image.jpg)
Elmer Gantry
A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.
![Home from the Hill](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/home-from-the-hill-vincente-minnelli-image.jpg)
Home from the Hill
Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
![Inherit the Wind](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/inherit-the-wind-stanley-kramer-image.jpg)
Inherit the Wind
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
![Sons and Lovers](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sons-and-lovers-jack-cardiff-image.jpg)
Sons and Lovers
In the early twentieth century, an artistically talented young man living in an English coal mining town is inhibited by his domineering and emotionally manipulative mother.
![Sunrise at Campobello](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sunrise-at-campobello-vincent-j.-donehue-image.jpg)
Sunrise at Campobello
In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.
![The Alamo](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-alamo-john-wayne-image.jpg)
The Alamo
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
![The Apartment](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-apartment-billy-wilder-image.jpg)
The Apartment
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
![The Dark at the Top of the Stairs](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-dark-at-the-top-of-the-stairs-delbert-mann-image.jpg)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to …
![The Sundowners](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sundowners-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
The Sundowners
In Australia’s Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.
![Wild River](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wild-river-elia-kazan-image.jpg)
Wild River
A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do – evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.