Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
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…
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