Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
World of Apu, The (1959)
- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty - Final installment of the 'Apu trilogy' sees the complexities of adulthood painfully and euphorically realised for Apu through ambition, marriage and…
Young Philadelphians, The (1959)- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Paul Newman, Barbara Rush - Engaging drama with Paul Newman as an attorney of dubious background who defends an affluent friend in a murder trial while hussling his way into the…
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. John Gavin, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore… - Bittersweet WWII melodrama finds Douglas Sirk at his gravest; John Gavin plays a returning German solider who falls in love under the shadow of war.…
Another Time, Another Place (1958)- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns… - Though a vehicle for Lana Turner, this enjoyable romantic melodrama is remembered for introducing Sean Connery to a wider audience, as a married BBC…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney… - One of the earliest depictions of the creepy puppet master, this low budget sci–fi horror follows a doll maker with abandonment issues who…
Auntie Mame (1958)- Dir. Morton DaCosta
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Peggy Cass, Coral Browne - Classic Oscar–nominated showcase for Rosalind Russell, as a colourful, high–living rouser who educates her 10yr old nephew in the ways of…
Ballad of Narayama, The (Narayama bushiko) (1958)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka - Sombre but stylised retelling of a Japanese legend, about a poverty–stricken village and its eldest resident who, in accordance with tradition,…
Barbarian and the Geisha, The (1958)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. John Wayne, Sam Jaffe, Eiko Ando - Uncharacteristic John Wayne vehicle has the big lug play an ambassador to Japan following the US intervention in 1863. Eiko Ando plays the titular…
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon - Enchanting romantic comedy adapted from the Broadway play stars Kim Novak as a witch who casts a spell on her neighbour, played by James Stewart.
Big Country, The (1958)- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston - A big Western – where feuding families with rival patriarchs fight it out to the bitter end.
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