Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters… - Injecting race problems into a surefire thriller formula, this has an unstable criminal trio – ex–convict (Ryan), crooked cop (Begley)…
One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959)- Feat. John Newland
- Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
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…
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Spalding, Shawn Smith - 50's sci–fi horror set in a future 1973. A hostile martian life form stows away on a rescue ship heading to Mars to recover survivors of an…
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…
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