Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
- Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans…
- Considered Audie Murphy's strongest Western, he plays a gun–for–hire who rides into a town where the leading citizens are justifiably…
North by Northwest (1959)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason…
- Cary Grant becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is chased across America by enemy agents, in one stylish set piece after another. One of Hitch's…
North West Frontier (1959)
- Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More
- Colonial adventure in which a British army captain must venture into India to rescue a prince and his governess who are being hunted by rebels…
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters…
- Injecting race problems into a surefire thriller formula, this has an unstable criminal trio – ex–convict (Ryan), crooked cop (Begley)…
On the Beach (1959)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire…
- 50's cold war paranoia piece set in post–WW2 Melbourne, the only place in the world yet untouched by creeping radiation. Based on Nevil Shute's…
One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959)
- Feat. John Newland
- Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
Operation Amsterdam (1959)
- Dir. Michael McCarthy
Feat. Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton
- Gripping wartime drama tracking two gem specialists attempting to remove a valuable horde of diamonds from Amsterdam in 14 hours before the nasty…
Operation Petticoat (1959)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Cary Grant, Tony Curtis
- Submarine Capt. Cary Grant and First Mate Tony Curtis excel in this seaborne comedy.
Pillow Talk (1959)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall
- Party–line adversaries Rock Hudson and Doris Day conduct a hilarious romance of deception in this imaginative sex comedy. With Rock as the…
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn…
- Given a gritty believability by Dir. Milestone ('All Quiet on the Western Front'), this recounts the bloody, meaningless conquest of a lowly hill…