Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Left Handed Gun, The (1958)
- 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 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 Kelly (1958)
- 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, 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 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, 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…
Me and the Colonel (1958)
- Dir. Peter Glenville
Feat. Danny Kaye, Nicole Maurey, Curt Jurgens
- Danny Kaye plays a Jewish refugee being comically resourceful in his efforts to evade the Nazi's before WWII, in this charming comedy.
Men in War (1958)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Vic Morrow…
- Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray play the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division over a…