Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Danger Within (1959)
- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Richard Attenborough
- In an Italian POW camp in WW2, 400 plan to escape but one plans to betray. Can you spot the traitor? Richard Attenborough leads the cast of suspects.
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Albert Sharpe, Sean Connery, Jack MacGowran…
- Sharpe plays an Irish caretaker who befriends the King of the Leprechauns. This live–action classic from Uncle Walt, mixes whimsy, humour and…
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
- Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise…
- Bleak snowbound western has a gang of outlaws terrorizing the inhabitants of a small farming town.
Shot in stark black and white this is a…
Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters…
- Absorbing film version of the play based on the experience of a Jewish girl who was forced to live within the confines of a tiny attic, under…
Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill
- Comedy with Jerry Lewis playing a Junior Navy Officer whose ship mysteriously goes missing years after WWII, and he is called upon to find it right…
FBI Story, The (1959)
- Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton…
- This official ‘biopic’ of the FBI, seen through the eyes of career agent James Stewart from 1924 to the late 1950s, has sturdy…
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Curt Jurgens
- Maritime adventure in which Orson Welles portrays a reluctant sea captain forced to take a shady rogue deportee from Hong Kong onboard his vessel…
Five Pennies, The (1959)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong…
- Cheery Red Nichols biopic with Danny Kaye turning in a heartfelt performance as the famed jazz trumpter.
Contains many soapy moments between Kaye…
Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura
- An aging actor who returns with his troupe to his provincial town, and becomes caught between his long–lost family and his jealous…
Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Henry Daniell
- Beware–the–family–curse is the theme in this low–budget take on Orville H. Hampton's tale about a family whose members are…