Years before he played Butch Cassidy, Paul Newman was Billy the Kid in this 1958 film. When Billy is an 11-year-old kid, his mother is…
Browsing: Movies 1958
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Julius LaRosa had a mild career in the 1950s, and here he plays popular teenage ballad singer Tommy Adano, who refuses to sing rock ‘n’…
Rich college fraternity boy Russ Lippincott (Mark Damon) tries to get small-town beauty contest winner Elaine Peck (Dorothy Johnson) to fall for him by making…
Sisters Kim and Jill Winters live in a dysfunctional family with a drunken, unemployed father. Mum had left town with a travelling salesman. The elder…
Blue-eyed heartthrob Paul Newman first came to prominence in Martin Ritt’s The Long Hot Summer, an adaptation of three short stories by William Faulkner, one of…
After making a series of exemplary Westerns starring James Stewart during the 1950s, Anthony Mann cast an aging Gary Cooper as a man forced to…
This vigorous outdoor melodrama – presented in “Naturama” – is about a roving hombre who picks up a gun in the desert, becomes a dead-shot…
Nightclub owner Harry Drayson (John Le Mesurier) makes a £20,000 insurance claim after one of his premises is destroyed by fire. Claims investigator Mike Davies…
Shy and unassuming planning engineer David Webb (Kenneth More) must negotiate an important loan for his company with wealthy industrialist Sir Godfrey Cowan (Roland Culver)…
This version of the story of the ill-fated Titanic, the world’s largest ship which sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912, is an unforgettable…
Taken prisoner in the Libyan desert, Sergeant David Thatcher (Victor Mature) – an American serving with the British Royal Tank Corps in North Africa during…
This rumbunctious naval comedy from Warner Bros. hoped to capitalise on Andy Griffith’s huge success in No Time For Sergeants (1958). Sadly, the film was such…
Captain Gene Summers (Canadian Paul Massie making his film debut) is a gallant young American bomber pilot who has completed his wartime tour of duty…
Diana Dors is at her Marilyn Monroe-esque voluptuous peak in this 1958 film drama about prostitution in London. Poured into bum-hugging skirts and Frederick’s of…
To pacify 104 sex-starved American soldiers who have been building a radar base at the North Pole for seven long months, Army psychologist Lt. Vicki…
Producer Samuel Goldwyn, one of the men who shaped Hollywood, bowed out at the age of 75 with this film version of the George and…
En route to Earth’s orbiting space station in 1985, a spaceship carrying four astronauts, led by Captain Patterson (Eric Fleming), is attacked, and they awaken…
Grace and Harry Bannerman (Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) are very happy living in Putnam’s Landing, Connecticut – a typical New England hamlet an hour…
It’s “the season” in London, and amid the swirl of coming-out balls, Lord Jimmy Broadbent (Rex Harrison) and his new wife, the second Lady Broadbent,…
With his monster killed in a vat of acid, this direct sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) has Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) escaping…