This film was made to capitalise on the tremendous success of the BBC pop music TV show, Six-Five Special. It had a slender plot designed…
Browsing: Movies 1958
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad brought the legendary sailor into combat with a variety of creatures, all brought to life by the stop-motion magic of special…
Though it’s no more than a barely competent example of low-budget 1950s sci-fi, this poverty row cheapie directed by Nathan Hertz (more usually known as…
Eccentric doll manufacturer Mr Franz (John Hoyt) of Dolls, Inc. gets lonely and starts reducing people to marionette size so they’ll be his obedient “friends”…
This witty and heart-warming Technicolor comedy was based on the phenomenally successful novel and Broadway and London plays concerning a batty Bohemian who, following the…
Young German exchange student Wolf Hauser (Hardy Kruger) comes to university at Cambridge to study maths and has trouble dealing with amusing stereotypes of the…
Based on John Van Druten’s hit play, this adroit romantic comedy stars Kim Novak as Gil Holroyd – a witch living in modern Manhattan. Gil wants…
Fresh out of college, John Randall (William Reynolds) tries to persuade his father – the owner of a conservative record company – into releasing rock…
William Wyler’s last Western was filmed on a grand scale, in widescreen and almost three hours long. James McKay (Gregory Peck) is the mild-mannered easterner,…
The face of drive-in horror turned gooey in 1958’s The Blob. Actually, the title creature had no face at all – or arms, legs or any…
Rider Kelly Cobb (Jeff Richards) travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land to set up home. At…
This Hammer production presented a story of Japanese cruelty to Allied prisoners of war during World War II. While it was based on a true…
The immense success of the first Carry On film came as a huge surprise to most of the people concerned. Once it became clear that their first…
Carry On Sergeant was the beginning of the long-running Carry On series. Producer Peter Rogers’ main coup was his casting of William Hartnell in the title role,…
Bafta-nominated Virginia McKenna gives an understated but well-pitched performance as Violette Szabo, a glamorous young woman whose life in London is barely affected by the Second…
Director Richard Brooks also wrote the screenplay for this film version of Tennessee Williams’ powerful play about a patriarchal Southern family. The film is somewhat…
Kim Prescott (Anne Baxter) is a South African diamond heiress who, on returning to her remote villa on the Costa Brava after a nervous breakdown…
Just out of reform school, Bennie Saul (Scott Marlowe) starts turning on his classmates at high school. Eddie the Pusher gives Bennie the weed, and…
Dr Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff) is one of the finest surgeons of the early 19th century – at least with him, the patient has a…
17-year-old Jimmy Wallace (Jack Nicholson in his film debut) is brutally beaten by Manny Cole (Brett Halsey) and two of his teenage punk friends, Joey…
