Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Giants and Toys (1958)
- Dir. Yasuzo Masumura
Feat. Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe
- Japanese satirical comedy about an advertising war between three candy production companies, and a teenage girl who becomes a celebrity after one of…
Gigi (1958)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan…
- This cheerful musical odyssey of a Parisian girl trained to be a courtesan was the Oscar–winner of its year.
Hidden Fortress (1958)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune
- Toshiro Mifune displays astounding skill with horse and sword as the ultimate warrior in this innovative amalgam of fairy–tale and Samurai…
Hitchcock Collection Volume 2 (The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot, Vertigo) (1958-1976)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Excellently–presented box–set with eight of Hitch's best later suspensers.
Horror of Dracula (1958)
- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
- Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
Horse's Mouth, The (1958)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston
- This impressively subtle portrait of a tortured artist stars Alec Guinness as a deteriorating painter whose pursuit of creative perfection has him on…
House On Haunted Hill (1958)
- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
- Vincent Price is in full ham here, offering patrons $10,000 each to endure a night in the titular spooky mansion. Good fun, if a bit slight.…
Houseboat (1958)
- Dir. Melville Shavelson
Feat. Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer…
- Fortunes change for widower and father–of–three Cary Grant when he takes up residence on a floating home, and employs Sophia Loren as his…
How To Make A Monster (1958)
- Dir. Herbert Strock
Feat. Robert Harris
- A Hollywood make–up artirst (Harris) is sacked by his studio and decides to enact brutal revenge on the management layer with the help of two…
Hunters, The (1958)
- Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan
- Robert Mitchum portrays an aging fighter pilot in the Korean War who falls for the wife of a fellow squadron member in this aviation–romance.