Mingling Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with the exploits of Jack The Ripper, this literate horror thriller brought Boris Karloff – who was approaching 70…
Browsing: Movies 1958
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High School Confidential concerns the efforts of a young undercover agent (Russ Tamblyn) to crack a high school dope-ring. He enrols in the school as a…
Gulley Jimson (Alce Guinness, who also wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of a novel by Joyce Cary) is a rascally and wayward artist with…
Smalltime teenage hoods Duke (Richard Bakalyan) and Freddy (John Brinkley) steal parts from cars and sell them to a junk dealer to make money. Duke’s…
Clearly made for the drive-in movie crowd of the day, the AIP film Hot Rod Gang – released in the UK as Fury Unleashed -…
Watson Pritchard’s 100-year-old haunted mansion has already been the scene of seven murders when Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) and his wife, Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), rent the home…
After the sudden accidental death of his estranged wife, State Department attorney Tom Winters (Cary Grant) returns to America from Europe to take care of…
This pathological thriller from American International Pictures deals with veteran studio make-up man Pete Dumond (Robert H Harris), the eccentric chief makeup artist at a…
Businessman Robert Kraft (Richard Boone) takes over for a year as the trustee manager of the Immortal Hills cemetery as part of his community duties.…
A distraught Marge Farrell (Gloria Talbott) is growing increasingly alarmed over the changes in her new husband Bill (Tom Tryon), who’s been acting strangely ever…
Marshall “Mickey” Briggs (George Gobel) of the Sutton Advertising Agency, is hard-pressed to come up with an idea to follow his successful “Miss Luxenberg” beauty…
This Hammer Films big-screen spin-off from the popular Granada TV series The Army Game found Private “Popeye” Popplewell (Bernard Bresslaw) – all gormless 6′ 5″…
A true story of soldier and former jobbing actor Meyrick Edward Clifton “Jimmy” James who ended up impersonating Field Marshal Montgomery in a real-life mission…
One of the great British WWII films of the 1950s, J. Lee Thompson’s Ice Cold in Alex is a gripping thriller about Captain Anson (John…
The true story of English servant girl Gladys Aylward (Ingrid Bergman) who becomes a missionary in China during World War II and leads a group…
Based on the 1955 novel An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden, Innocent Sinners introduced a little wisp of Cockneydom called Lovejoy (beautifully played by June…
So you thought Alien was an original? Well here’s its prototype, complete with a spaceship whose crew includes two women, an alien that looks like…
This adaptation of an Ellery Queen story begins with Paul (James Westmoreland, billed here as Rad Fulton) and three other teenage punks – Arnie (Nicholas…
Teenage thugs Monte (Joe Di Reda) and Tic-Tac (Richard Bakalyan) lead their gang of beach bum punks through a series of petty criminal acts interspersed…
“It was a lovely day . . . for a little while.” Casablanca director Michael Curtiz was originally slated to make this film with James…