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Subgenre Sampler
Square Peg, The (1959)- Dir. John Paddy Carstairs
Feat. Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman… - Chaotic comedy with Wisdom as an an inept council workman whose road mending gets him into conflict with the Army. Arguably Wisdom's best film with…
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift - A kitsch classic in which Elizabeth Taylor is in finest neurotic form as a young woman trying to fight her vindictive aunt's will to have her…
Summer Place, A (1959)- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue… - Lush melodrama set on a remote isle with the two couples of different generations trapped in romantic asides and anxieties.
Tiger Bay (1959)- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz - Haley Mills’ breakthrough is a memorable and mature British thriller; she plays witness to a murder by a Polish sailor, who she subsequent…
Tingler, The (1959)- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman - B–movie classic in which mad doctor Vincent Price conjures the 'physical form of fear itself', and lets the damned thing run amok! With bizzaro…
Too Many Crooks (1959)- Dir. Mario Zampi
Feat. Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Sid James… - Four incompetent, would–be criminals make a meal of a kidnapping–ransom plot in this farcical crime caper from the Rank Organisation.
Torchy The Battery Boy (TV Series) (1959)- Children's TV series from the late 1950's with string puppets depicting the adventures of a boy doll who has a battery inside him and a lamp on his…
Umberto D. (1959)- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari - A pensioner struggles to make ends meet in post–war Italy. Gloomy neo–realist piece wrenches the heart through a compassionate lead…
Untouchables, The (TV Series) (1959-1963)
- Feat. Robert Stack, Paul Picerni
- An iconic crime series that once baited controversy for its escalation of television violence, this pulled out the stops to authentically…
Warlock (1959)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn… - A–grade western set in the lawless town of Warlock where the citizens hire a notorious gunman to keep the peace who brings with him his own set…
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