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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Tiger Bay (1959)- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz - Haley Mills’ breakthrough is a memorable and mature British thriller; she plays witness to a murder by a Polish sailor, who she subsequent…
Untouchables, The (TV Series) (1959-1963)
- Feat. Robert Stack, Paul Picerni
- An iconic crime series that once baited controversy for its escalation of television violence, this pulled out the stops to authentically…
Bonnie Parker Story, The (1958)- Dir. William Witney
Feat. Dorothy Provine, Dick Bakalyan, Jack Hogan - Dorothy Provine is sensational in this low–budget telling the story of the tommy–gun toting 1930s gangster Bonnie Parker,…
Cry Terror! (1958)- Dir. Andrew L. Stone
Feat. James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger… - Crime thriller with Rod Steiger as a mad extortionist who forces a New York shop owner (James Mason) to collect a ransom after threatening to blow up…
Defiant Ones, The (1958)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier - That well known image of race–hatred – escaped black and white prisoners unwillingly handcuffed together – originated here, with…
Party Girl (1958)- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb… - Delicious Nicholas Ray–directed potboiler finds bum–legged Robert Taylor trying to cut ties with the mob. A slinky Cyd Charisse (tearing…
Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) (1958)- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Michael Craig… - Brit war thriller about an army team sent to destroy a German petrol dump in preparation for an attack who are confronted by their enemies in the…
Thunder Road (1958)- Dir. Arthur Ripley
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon… - Effective, gritty road movie about a mountain man moonshiner at war with both authorities and big–city competitors. An unusually personal…
Vertigo (1958)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes… - Hitchcock at his most daring and surreal weaves a complex tale of neurosis when Jimmy Stewart's detective begins trailing a mysterious woman (Novak).…
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