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Last Days of Pompeii / City of MetropolisLast Days of Pompeii / City of Metropolis (1959-1961)
Dir. Mario Bonnard, Umberto Scarpelli
Feat. Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey
Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the 1950s and 1960s: The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) Directed by Mario Bonnard –…
Last Train from Gun HillLast Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones
Underrated American Western telling the tale of a U.S. Marshal seeking revenge in the town of 'Gun Hill' after the racially charged rape and murder…
Les Cousins Les Cousins (1959)
Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Gerard Blain
Claude Chabrol continues his city / country theme from LE BEAU SERGE with this estranging drama following a country boy who ends up in a despicable…
ManiaMania (The Flesh and the Fiends) (1959)
Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose
An old–fashioned but sometimes ghoulishly nasty horror film in which an experimenting doctor in Edinburgh must harvest fresh corpses to…
Mouse That Roared, TheMouse That Roared, The (1959)
Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Peter Sellers
Slapstick/satire combo in which Peter Sellers inhabits three roles, primarily as the head of a tiny state that declares war on the U.S. on the…
Mummy, TheMummy, The (1959)
Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
No Name on the BulletNo Name on the Bullet (1959)
Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans
Considered Audie Murphy's strongest Western, he plays a gun–for–hire who rides into a town where the leading citizens are justifiably…
North by NorthwestNorth by Northwest (1959) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Cary Grant becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is chased across America by enemy agents, in one stylish set piece after another. One of Hitch's…
North West FrontierNorth West Frontier (1959)
Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More
Colonial adventure in which a British army captain must venture into India to rescue a prince and his governess who are being hunted by rebels…
Odds Against TomorrowOdds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
Injecting race problems into a surefire thriller formula, this has an unstable criminal trio – ex–convict (Ryan), crooked cop (Begley)…

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