Subgenre Sampler
: 25144 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Manster, 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, 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, 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 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…