Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Rawhide (TV Series) (1959- 1966)
- Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Clint Eastwood steals the show as Rowdy Yates in this 60's cattle–driving TV show.
Ride Lonesome (1959)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, James Best, Lee Van Cleef…
- Randolph Scott stars as a bounty hunter tasked with escorting a killer back to the gallows, all the while using him as bait to lure his murderous…
Rio Bravo (1959)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson…
- John Wayne plays a sheriff who has captured a high profile bandit. With the state Marshall many days away and a gang of thugs planning a raid from…
Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (TV Series) (1959)
- The classic family cartoon series. Join the titular reindeer and chipmunk, plus Snidley, Horse, Nell, Dudley, Mr Peabody, Sherman and the rest for…
Sapphire (1959)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig…
- Scandalous subject–wise for post–war Britain, where a murdered black woman is discovered to have been posing as white. Obviously dated…
Serious Charge (1959)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Anthony Quayle, Cliff Richard, Sarah Churchill…
- Cliff Richard's film debut is a slight melodrama about a parish priest attempting to tame a young petty criminal. Cliff sings "Living Doll" in a…
Shaggy Dog, The (1959)
- Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk…
- Fred MacMurray excels in this Disney live–actioner, playing a postman whose son accidentally transforms himself into a talking sheepdog with…
Smiley Gets A Gun (1959)
- Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Sybil Thorndike, Chips Rafferty, Keith Calvert…
- Sequel to the 1956 Aussie family movie, with Archer and Rafferty again appearing, as young hero and local constable respectively. Likeable,…
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida
- Colourful biblical epic with Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida as the noble rulers of Israel.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe
- One of the great comedies, in which Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon dress as women and join an all–girl travelling jazz band in order to escape the…