Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
- Dir. Jesse Hibbs
Feat. Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau…
- Routine western with Murphy as a bank robber mistaken for a famed U.S Marshall and going along with the ruse. Some nice comedic touches and location…
Road Racers (1958)
- Dir. Arthur Swerdloff
Feat. Joel Lawrence, Marian Collier, Skip Ward
- Utterly obscure, but this B–grade runs with a full tank of gas! Set around a melodramatic race–track plot, it features some classic 50s…
Rock-A-Bye-Baby (1958)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell
- A stooging Jerry Lewis must babysit the triplets of starlet Marilyn Maxwell, who wants to keep them a secret from her public.
Room at the Top (1958)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret
- Matters sexual are treated with rare maturity in this stunning, landmark British drama about an ambitious, working–class cad who falls in love…
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster
- One of the best WWII submarine movies, this pits Commander Clark Gable against rebel Lt. Burt Lancaster as together they patrol the deeps.
Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) (1958)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Michael Craig…
- Brit war thriller about an army team sent to destroy a German petrol dump in preparation for an attack who are confronted by their enemies in the…
Separate Tables (1958)
- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven…
- Fascinating melodrama contrasts individuals in a tea house at an English seaside resort. Sharp script gives the A–list talent much to chew…
Sheepman, The (Stranger with a Gun) (1958)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Leslie Nielsen…
- Lighthearted western with Glenn Ford as a hard–bitten sheep farmer duking it out with cattle baron Nielsen and Shirley Maclaine as the object…
Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, The (1958)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Jayne Mansfield, Kenneth More, Henry Hull…
- In this goofy western, Jayne Mansfield plays a buxom saloon proprietor who lassos a clueless Englishman when he becomes the sheriff of the titular…
Some Came Running (1958)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley Maclaine…
- Frank Sinatra gives an affecting, lowkey performance as soldier returning from WW2 to pick up his writing career again.
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