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Jazz On a Summer's DayJazz On a Summer's Day (1959) Recommended
Dir. Bert Stern
The definitive jazz concert film, shot at the Newport Festival in 1958 captures the sights and sounds and buzz of another time and place as well as…
Journey to the Centre of the EarthJourney to the Centre of the Earth (1959)
Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. James Mason, Pat Boone
James Mason and Pat Boone head an intrepid earth–burrowing expedition in good, old fashioned adventure based on Jules Verne's novel.
Killer Shrews, TheKiller Shrews, The (1959)
Dir. Ray Kellogg
Feat. James Best, Ken Curtis
Low–budget B–movie set on an isolated island where a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a…
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…
Manster, TheManster, The (1959)
Dir. George P. Breakson
Feat. Peter Dyneley
An American correspondent in Japan becomes an unwitting human guinea pig while trying to get the scoop on the work of a reclusive scientist. His…
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.

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