Subgenre Sampler
Pork Chop Hill (1959)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn… - Given a gritty believability by Dir. Milestone ('All Quiet on the Western Front'), this recounts the bloody, meaningless conquest of a lowly hill…
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. John Gavin, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore… - Bittersweet WWII melodrama finds Douglas Sirk at his gravest; John Gavin plays a returning German solider who falls in love under the shadow of war.…
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzanowksa - Set on the day after WWII, the striking–looking Zbigniew Cybulski plays a Polish freedom fighter torn between wartime duties and peacetime…
Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner… - Brit war–time romance centred on a lady living in London during WW2 who marries and has a child with a French soldier. Upon hearing of his…
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…
Hidden Fortress (1958)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - Toshiro Mifune displays astounding skill with horse and sword as the ultimate warrior in this innovative amalgam of fairy–tale and Samurai…
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.
I Was Monty's Double (1958)- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Clifton James, John Mills, Leslie Phillips… - Absorbing war drama based on the true story of a man hired to imitate General Montgomery in order to hoodwink the Germans before the North Africa…
Ice Cold In Alex (1958)- Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Anthony Quayle - After a hurried retreat from the siege of Tobruk, a band of medics and nurses in an ambulance, attempt an arduous crossing of the Libyan Sahara…
Key, The (1958)- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard - Captivating WW2 drama set around a Londonite lady (played with restrained elegance by Sophia Loren) whose liaisons with war sea captains over the…
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