Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Long and the Short and the Tall, The (1960)- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris… - A taut WW2 drama, based on a stageplay, set around a dysfunctional British patrol caught out behind enemy lines in Burma. Hinging on the treatment…
Sink the Bismarck (1960)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith… - A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck. Conveying both the allied…
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Curt Jurgens - Maritime adventure in which Orson Welles portrays a reluctant sea captain forced to take a shady rogue deportee from Hong Kong onboard his vessel…
Great St Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959)- Feat. Steve McQueen, David Clarke
- A little known noir gem starring a young Steve McQueen as a getaway driver for a group of criminals plotting to rob a bank in St Louis. Based on…
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 –…
North West Frontier (1959)- Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More - Colonial adventure in which a British army captain must venture into India to rescue a prince and his governess who are being hunted by rebels…
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…
Hidden Fortress (1958)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - Toshiro Mifune displays astounding skill with horse and sword as the ultimate warrior in this innovative amalgam of fairy–tale and Samurai…
Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
- Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Anthony Quayle - After a hurried retreat from the siege of Tobruk, a band of medics and nurses in an ambulance, attempt an arduous crossing of the Libyan Sahara…
Machine Gun Kelly (1958)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot - A baby–faced Bronson gives an exciting edge to this superior B–movie biopic, based around the criminal career of the Depression–era…
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