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Subgenre Sampler
Look Back in Anger (1958)- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure - Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
Magician, The (The Face) (1958)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow - Bergman's allegorical self–portrait of a controversial travelling magician who exacts revenge on a cynical doctor, but becomes trapped in his…
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)- Dir. Irving Capper
Feat. Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood - Would–be actress Natalie Wood gives up her Jewishness and independence to get ahead in this mild adaptation of Herbert Wouk's novel.
Night to Remember, A (1958)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres… - Vivid re–enactment of events that led to the sinking of the Titanic, with careful attention payed to the human drama. Kenneth More leads a…
Quiet American, The (1958)- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Audie Murphy - This early screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s cautionary novel was the first major film to address to thorny issue of Vietnam, although loses…
Room at the Top (1958)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret - Matters sexual are treated with rare maturity in this stunning, landmark British drama about an ambitious, working–class cad who falls in love…
Separate Tables (1958)- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven… - Fascinating melodrama contrasts individuals in a tea house at an English seaside resort. Sharp script gives the A–list talent much to chew…
Some Came Running (1958)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley Maclaine… - Frank Sinatra gives an affecting, lowkey performance as soldier returning from WW2 to pick up his writing career again. Effective representation…
Tale of Two Cities, A (1958)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence… - An intrepid Dirk Bogarde negotiates the rough and tumble of the French Revolution, in this, the version most faithful to the Charles Dickens novel.…
Tarnished Angels, The (1958)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone - WRITTEN ON THE WIND's tawdry trio (Stack, Malone, Hudson) reunite in this soaring melodrama about an exiled, enigmatic WWI pilot whose debonair…
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