Out-of-work sailor Frankie Martin (singing star Frankie Vaughan) meets Bud (Peter Sinclair), an eccentric tramp who claims he is a millionaire. Bud gives Frankie a…
Browsing: Movies 1959
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Marv (Tom Pittman) is a bright and nice young man – but he needs money . . . His widowed and unemployed dad (Malcolm Atterbury)…
Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra) is a Miami Beach hotel owner and widower. To save his business – the Garden of Eden – he needs $5,000.…
Crippled crime journalist and pulp novelist Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) delights in accusing Scotland Yard – particularly Superintendent Graham (Geoffrey Keen) – of incompetence in…
Based on the true story of Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson, who, in the Spring of 1863, left bases in northern Mississippi, taking 1,700 troopers with…
This 20th Century Fox production was set in the backwoods around 1912 and presented the adventures of young Clint Kinney (16-year-old rock ‘n’ roll singer…
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson solve the mystery surrounding the death of a baronet on bleak, forbidding Dartmoor and save the victim’s heir from a…
Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) – first seen in Private’s Progress (1956) – is an enthusiastic young man who has just graduated from Oxford and now…
Idle on Parade (also known as Idol on Parade) featured the adventures and misadventures of rock ‘n’ roll idol “Jeep” Jackson (Anthony Newley), who is drafted into the…
Scientist Doctor Wyman (John Carradine) invents a deep-sea diving bell, and experts Craig Randall (Robert Clarke), Paul Whitmore (Allen Windsor) and Laura Talbott (Sheila Noonan)…
While flying to an international news conference in Melbourne (Australia), American radio commentator Mark Bradley (Jeff Richards) and his pilot, Joe Walker (John Smith), encounter…
Small-town lobster dealer Jane Osgood (Doris Day) has a large shipment completely ruined by the neglect of the railroad owned by Harry Foster Malone (Ernie…
Air Force sergeant Joe Fitzpatrick (Glenn Ford) meets and marries wacky knockout model Maggie Putnam (Debbie Reynolds) on the eve of getting shipped out to…
Cy Endfield’s prototypical airborne disaster movie revolves around a threat to blow up a London-to-New York-bound flight from one of the passengers aboard, Ernest Tilley…
As any fan of science fiction can tell you, Jules Verne wrote many exciting novels. These epic tales usually focused on a journey to an…
Set in Hungary during the 1956 uprising, The Journey introduces a group of tired and dispirited international travellers at Budapest airport. Their only desire is…
This cut-price poppycock begins with husky seaman Thorne Sherman (James Best) arriving with supplies for Doctor Craigis (Baruch Lumet), a scientist working on an isolated…
La Dolce Vita (“The Sweet Life”) is a study of crippling boredom, leading to artistic paralysis and loose sexual morals, played out against the decadence of…
Herbert Wilcox directs his wife Anna Neagle and their favourite singing star Frankie Vaughan in this lightweight but charming musical comedy. Socialite widow Frances Baring…
Based on the newspaper comic strip by Al Capp, the stage musical production of Li’l Abner opened on Broadway in November 1956 and ran for…