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…
In London in 1944, beautiful American newspaper columnist Sara Scott (Lana Turner) falls in love with BBC war correspondent Mark Trevor (Sean Connery), who is…
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. The film took five months to shoot and cost…
Anthony Quinn plays good-natured widower Frank Valente with an about-to-be-married daughter, Mary (Ina Balin). Mary was perfectly content to think of marrying Noble (Mark Richman)…
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…
This Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) production stars a very young Michael Crawford (the future Phantom of the Opera and star of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave…
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…
“‘Out of 24 men, I’m lumbered with one hypochondriac, one natural-born candidate for the glass house, a rock and roller, a shadow of a man…
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…