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Law and Jake Wade, TheLaw and Jake Wade, The (1958)
Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens
Western from director John Sturges (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) about a reformed town marshal whose old criminal partner starts stalking him while he's on…
Le Beau Serge Le Beau Serge (1958)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain
Accepted as the first film of the French New Wave, this Claude Chabrol drama tells the story of a man returning to his hometown only to discover his…
Left Handed Gun, TheLeft Handed Gun, The (1958) Recommended
Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Paul Newman
Influential version of the Billy the Kid story, with Paul Newman portraying the Kid in an ambiguous light, unstable and homosexually repressed. Has…
Long Hot Summer, The (1958)
Dir. Martin Ritt
Feat. Orson Welles, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman
The steam rises in this William Faulkner adaptation about sex and sin in the small–town South. With a tyrannical Orson Welles, and Joanne…
Look Back in AngerLook Back in Anger (1958)
Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure
Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
Machine Gun KellyMachine Gun Kelly (1958) Recommended
Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot
A baby–faced Bronson gives an exciting edge to this superior B–movie biopic, based around the criminal career of the Depression–era…
Magician, TheMagician, The (The Face) (1958)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow
Bergman's allegorical self–portrait of a controversial travelling magician who exacts revenge on a cynical doctor, but becomes trapped in his…
Man of the WestMan of the West (1958)
Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
Gary Cooper stars in this battle of nerves as a former gunman forced by his old gang to engage in their criminal activity. Solid, intelligent film…
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Dir. Irving Capper
Feat. Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood
Would–be actress Natalie Wood gives up her Jewishness and independence to get ahead in this mild adaptation of Herbert Wouk's novel.
Matchmaker, TheMatchmaker, The (1958)
Dir. Joseph Anthony
Feat. Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley Maclaine
Farcical adaptation of the Broadway play about a meddling madam who prides herself on playing cupid to the young folk around town until one day…

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