Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Brothers Karamazov, The (1957)- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom… - A sumptuous Hollywood version of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of Czarist Russia. Centred around Karamazov (Cobb) and his four disparate offspring,…
Cranes are Flying, The (Letyat Zhuravli) (1957)- Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
Feat. Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev - A Russian classic which conveys homefront anxieties during WW2 for a young bride whose original fiance has gone to the front. Pursued by his…
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee - The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…
Delinquents, The (1957)- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Tom Laughlin, Peter Miller, Dick Bakalyan - Future luminary Robert Altman's debut feature, an "expose" of juvenile delinquency in the rock'n'roll era. Filmed in Kansas City in a…
Face in the Crowd, A (1957)- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau… - Pungent social commentary on American mass culture outlays the rags–to–riches trajectory of a hick nobody (Griffith) whose rapid rise to…
Farewell to Arms, A (1957)- Dir. Charles Vidor, John Huston
Feat. Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica… - Expensive, though wooden adaptation of the Hemingway classic set around a love story on the Italian Front in WWI. Despite a Ben Hecht script, the…
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