Subgenre Sampler
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Pork Chop Hill (1959)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn…
- Given a gritty believability by Dir. Milestone ('All Quiet on the Western Front'), this recounts the bloody, meaningless conquest of a lowly hill…
Rawhide (TV Series) (1959- 1966)
- Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Clint Eastwood steals the show as Rowdy Yates in this 60's cattle–driving TV show.
Ride Lonesome (1959)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, James Best, Lee Van Cleef…
- Randolph Scott stars as a bounty hunter tasked with escorting a killer back to the gallows, all the while using him as bait to lure his murderous…
Rio Bravo (1959)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson…
- John Wayne plays a sheriff who has captured a high profile bandit. With the state Marshall many days away and a gang of thugs planning a raid from…
Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (TV Series) (1959)
- The classic family cartoon series. Join the titular reindeer and chipmunk, plus Snidley, Horse, Nell, Dudley, Mr Peabody, Sherman and the rest for…
Samurai Saga (Aru kengo no shogai) (1959)
- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa
- Feudal Japanese retelling of Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac', with the charismatic Toshiro Mifune as the shogun–poet with a…
Sapphire (1959)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig…
- Scandalous subject–wise for post–war Britain, where a murdered black woman is discovered to have been posing as white. Obviously dated…
Serious Charge (1959)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Anthony Quayle, Cliff Richard, Sarah Churchill…
- Cliff Richard's film debut is a slight melodrama about a parish priest attempting to tame a young petty criminal. Cliff sings "Living Doll" in a…
Shadows (1959)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Lelia Goldoni
- Cassavetes' influential debut explores inter–racial relationships with improvised dialogue, gitanes, ray–bans and Charlie Mingus…
Shaggy Dog, The (1959)
- Dir. Charles Barton
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk…
- Fred MacMurray excels in this Disney live–actioner, playing a postman whose son accidentally transforms himself into a talking sheepdog with…