Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas… - Brilliant satire of labour and class relations, makes a glorious mockery of unions and management alike as upperclass twit Ian Carmichael joins the…
Imitation of Life (1959)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee… - Douglas Sirk's famed melodrama of American ambition and racism is justly renowned for the surprisingly bitter commentary buried within its involving…
It Happened to Jane (1959)- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs - Ordinary folk take on corporate bullying in this under–rated rom–com starring Doris Day as a widowed small–business woman and…
Jazz On a Summer's Day (1959)- 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 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, 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 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 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 (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…
Mania (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…
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