Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Ballad of Narayama, The (Narayama bushiko) (1958)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka - Sombre but stylised retelling of a Japanese legend, about a poverty–stricken village and its eldest resident who, in accordance with tradition,…
Barbarian and the Geisha, The (1958)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. John Wayne, Sam Jaffe, Eiko Ando - Uncharacteristic John Wayne vehicle has the big lug play an ambassador to Japan following the US intervention in 1863. Eiko Ando plays the titular…
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon - Enchanting romantic comedy adapted from the Broadway play stars Kim Novak as a witch who casts a spell on her neighbour, played by James Stewart.
Big Country, The (1958)- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston - A big Western – where feuding families with rival patriarchs fight it out to the bitter end.
Blob, The (1958)
- Dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth
Feat. Steve McQueen - Steve McQueen's first film sees him as a teenager trying to save his home town from a hostile hunk of red protoplasm. Camp fun as only the 50's could…
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg - Ripe for rediscovery is this lush Francoise Sagan adaptation, centred around a tawdry love triangle between a father, daughter and…
Bonnie Parker Story, The (1958)- Dir. William Witney
Feat. Dorothy Provine, Dick Bakalyan, Jack Hogan - Dorothy Provine is sensational in this low–budget telling the story of the tommy–gun toting 1930s gangster Bonnie Parker,…
Brain Eaters, The (1958)- Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Cornelius Keefe… - Shoestring drive–in fare about brain creatures from the Earth's core that go about turning humans into mindless zombies.
Bravados, The (1958)- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Lee Van Cleef… - Peck sets out on the grim task of annihilating the rapists and killers of his wife in this taut, if occasionally obvious Western. As Peck works his…
Brink of Life (Nara Livet) (1958)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson… - Minor, but accomplished Bergman potboiler concerns three women in a maternity ward, who must each decide whether to give up their babies for…
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