Search results for "United States of America"
The Long Hot Summer (1958)
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Fort Massacre (1958)
New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been relentlessly decimated by the Apaches, attempt to reach Fort Crain. On their way through…
Violent Road (1958)
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged…
The Very Eye of Night (1958)
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield…
Showdown at Boot Hill (1958)
Bounty hunter Luke Welsh arrives looking for a wanted man. When that man draws on him he has to kill him. To collect his reward he needs a statement identifying…
Quantrill’s Raiders (1958)
A Civil War guerilla gang plans an attack on a Kansas arsenal.
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is…
Free Radicals (1958)
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched “white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches” on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to…
Fort Dobbs (1958)
An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas’ 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richard Eyer, Brian Keith, Michael Dante and Russ…
Hell’s Five Hours (1958)
The manager (Stephen McNally) of a rocket-fuel plant deals with a worker (Vic Morrow) threatening to blow himself up.
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.
Cole Younger Gunfighter (1958)
An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded…
Saddle the Wind (1958)
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride…
Merry Andrew (1958)
When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to an ancient statue’s burial site. But…
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two…
Ambush at Cimarron Pass (1958)
A small Army patrol unit and a couple of former Confederates reluctantly throw in their lot together after being attacked by a band of Native Americans.
Lafayette Escadrille (1958)
A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I.
Suicide Battalion (1958)
Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy…
The Narcotics Story (1958)
Semi-documentary on how marijuana dealers lure small-town teenagers into heroin use and prostitution and how the police help to fight it.
The Bride and the Beast (1958)
When Laura and Dan get married, she’s more interested in Dan’s gorilla. It’s revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant…
The Gift of Love (1958)
Fearing she will die, a physicist’s wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.
Man from God’s Country (1958)
Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in the town of Sundown. At first mistaken for a railroad…
The Quiet American (1958)
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs…
The Girl Most Likely (1958)
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live ‘the life’. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He…
Day of the Badman (1958)
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he’s about to sentence…and his unfaithful fiancee.
Teenage Monster (1958)
In a little Western town, a boy is subjected to rays from a meteor. As a result, he grows into a teenaged, hairy, psychopathic killer. His mother hides him in…
Giant from the Unknown (1958)
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor’s pretty daughter,…
Appalachian Spring (1958)
A filmed version of Aaron Copland’s most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos. A twist is thrown into the plot when Schroeder’s…
The World Was His Jury (1958)
A sea captain stands trial for manslaughter after 162 people are killed in a fire aboard his cruise ship. Director Fred F. Sears’ 1958 drama stars Edmond O’Brien, Robert McQueeney,…
Oregon Passage (1957)
A cavalry lieutenant becomes a hated enemy of a Shoshone chief, Black Eagle, when he rescues an Indian maid from a ceremonial camp in this action-packed Western.
The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Old Yeller (1957)
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s….
Up In Smoke (1957)
In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
Raintree County (1957)
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This…
Peyton Place (1957)
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion — which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison —…
Johnny Gunman (1957)
Set over the course of one night in New York, Johnny Gunman follows a tense battle between two mob boss hopefuls.
The Dalton Girls (1957)
Female relatives of the infamous Dalton gang carry on the family tradition.