Everything in Candy Rock is owned by coldhearted businessman Raven Rossiter (Gale Gordon) except for the rubbish collection run by amateur inventor Artie Pinsetter (Lou…
Browsing: Movies 1959
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Originally titled Les Quatre Cents Coups, this French film – the directorial debut by François Truffaut – tells the story of 14-year-old Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre…
Research scientist Scott Nelson (Robert Lansing) discovers the secret of passing through solid matter when he accidentally opens a fourth dimension thanks to an electric…
1919, Chicago. A young scar-faced hoodlum joins one of the underworld gangs terrorising the city. Surrounded by corruption and murder, only the most ruthless will survive…
Told entirely in flashback, Jane Marvin (Beverly Garland) remembers her troubled past for two psychiatrists (Bruce Bennett and Douglas Kennedy) during an extended hypnosis session…
James Stewart plays Paul ‘Polly’ Biegler, an easygoing country lawyer in this courtroom drama adapted from the novel by Robert Traver – in fact, a…
A mission to Mars returns with crew members missing and comatose, and only Dr Iris Ryan (Nora Hayden) can be made conscious to tell the…
In the distant future of 1968 (!) many ships and planes are crossing the North pole to transport passengers and cargo. But lately, several ships…
In a Florida community, a local trapper sees a couple of giant monsters in the swamp, but nobody believes him. Later, general store owner Dave…
There’s nothing like an old dark house for raising the goose pimples. If it happens to be haunted by a killer who calls himself “The…
In 1950, at the onset of the Korean War, the US Marines land on an enemy-controlled beach. Among the American units is a platoon commanded…
In 1965 bizarre phenomena cause disasters all over the world. The United Nations traces the destructive acts to alien forces called Natalians. At the Japanese…
Despite the title, this is a POW picture rather than a war picture. The actual naval battle is merely tacked on to the final 5…
Psycho Steve Hess (Ray Danton) spends his time raping chicks until cop Dave Culloran (Steve Cochran) catches on and tracks him down. Hess’s modus operandi…
The monster with the biblical name took the form of a Palaeosaurus as tall as Big Ben and nearly 200 ft long – and not…
This vast $15 million epic was the most expensive film ever made at the time. Shot in 70mm, the script was based on a 19th-century…
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, this restaging by Marcel Camus of the myth…
Shy bespectacled Christian dressmaker Dorothy Atwater (Carol Morris, who had been Miss Universe 1956) and elderly Jewish singing teacher Professor Brauner (Hugo Haas, who also…
Believing his hard-drinking father (Liam Redmond) has killed a man and thinking the police will come looking for him to put him in a children’s…
After decapitating his fiancée, Jan (Virginia Leith) in a car crash, demented surgeon Bill Cortner (Herb Evers) decides to transplant her still living head onto…