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…
Browsing: Movies 1958
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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…
This 1958 film set in the Ranelagh House for Deprived Children provides a fascinating look at social work and how different things were in the…
Veteran director William Wellman brings a little bit of romance, a touch of comedy, and then an awful lot of war to the story of…
Davy Morgan (Harry Secombe) is the most important (and most talented) member of a third-rate family knockabout music-hall comedy act called The Mad Morgans who…
When Alan Ladd turned producer/star through his Jaguar company just after his career peaked with Shane (1953), he stuck to formula film-making with old cronies. The…
A self-avowed “message” picture, Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones deploys a potent symbol of American race relations: two convicts, one white and one black (Tony Curtis and…
Hammer Films’ revision of Bram Stoker’s famous novel is one of the great horror films and one of the most memorable British films. Director Terence…
This is the story of teenage youths who live as fast as their hot rods will carry them. The newcomer to the gang, Rick Martin (Gary…
When an aristocratic family hits hard times, they encourage their son Tony (Tommy Steele) to marry a Ruritarian princess (June Laverick) to get them out…
The most ambitious Ealing film during the MGM period was Dunkirk, directed by Leslie Norman, with a script which fused a factual account by Ewan Butler…
A scientist’s thoughts materialise as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters – complete with spinal-cord tails – who terrorise an American military base in Canada…
In this briskly efficient B-movie from the golden era of British science fiction, brash US Navy test pilot Dan Prescott (Bill Edwards), hungry for fame,…
A series of successful experiments convinces the brilliant and obsessive scientist André Delambre (David Hedison) that he has finally perfected a machine capable of transmitting…
This RKO-Warner Brothers film in Technicolor is based on the 1865 novel by Jules Verne (one of his lesser-known works) and set in 1868, shortly…
Up The Creek proved such a success that this sequel was rushed into production by Hammer and debuted in the same year. Val Guest remained…
Jerry Lewis’s frantic, jerk-around comedy style here got its most suitable director, who saw him simply as a cartoon with no connection to real life.…
Finally breaking the record number of Academy Awards won by Gone With The Wind, Vincente Minnelli’s scrumptious MGM musical took home nine Oscars, including Best Picture…
Young pop composer Harry Blair (Canadian Lee Patterson) and singer Joan Farmer (Mary Steele, who was married to director Don Sharp) open a coffee bar,…