Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Another Time, Another Place (1958)- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns… - Though a vehicle for Lana Turner, this enjoyable romantic melodrama is remembered for introducing Sean Connery to a wider audience, as a married BBC…
Ballad of Narayama, The (Narayama bushiko) (1958)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka - Sombre but stylised retelling of a Japanese legend, about a poverty–stricken village and its eldest resident who, in accordance with tradition,…
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg - Ripe for rediscovery is this lush Francoise Sagan adaptation, centred around a tawdry love triangle between a father, daughter and…
Brink of Life (Nara Livet) (1958)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson… - Minor, but accomplished Bergman potboiler concerns three women in a maternity ward, who must each decide whether to give up their babies for…
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman - Compelling melodrama based on Tennessee Williams' play of greed, lust and impotence in a wealthly Southern family. Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor…
Christine (1958)- Dir. Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Feat. Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Micheline Presle - Vienna set classic love triangle between an unfaithful man, his current love interest (played by darling French actress Romy Schneider) and an…
Dunkirk (1958)- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Mills, Bernard Lee… - British war film set during the 1940 evacuation of French and British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, following the contrasting perspectives of a…
Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly… - A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
Horse's Mouth, The (1958)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston - This impressively subtle portrait of a tortured artist stars Alec Guinness as a deteriorating painter whose pursuit of creative perfection has him on…
Hunters, The (1958)- Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan - Robert Mitchum portrays an aging fighter pilot in the Korean War who falls for the wife of a fellow squadron member in this aviation–romance.
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