1959 movies

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Grant, Cary | Curtis, Tony | O'Brien, Joan | Merrill, Dina | Evans, Gene | Sargent, Dick | Gregg, Virginia | Simon, Robert F. | Gist, Robert | MacLeod, Gavin | Dunn, George | Crockett, Dick | Rhue, Madlyn | Ross, Marion | Lung, Clarence
Directors: Edwards, Blake
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A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of Army nurses and must take them aboard. How bad can it get? Trying to get a primer coat on the sub, they have to mix white and red in order to have enough. When forced to flee the dock during an air attack, they find themselves with the world’s only Pink submarine, still with 5 women in the tight quarters of a submarine.

A Summer Place (1959)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Egan, Richard | McGuire, Dorothy | Dee, Sandra | Kennedy, Arthur | Donahue, Troy | Ford, Constance | Bondi, Beulah | Richardson, Jack | Eric, Martin | Bradford, Marshall | Chambers, Phil | Constanti, Peter | Deacon, Richard | Glass, Everett | Griffin, Robert
Directors: Daves, Delmer
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Self-made millionaire Ken Jorgenson vacations with his wife and teenage daughter on Pine Island, Maine, where — some 20 years earlier — he’d worked as a lifeguard. Jorgenson now resumes a romance with island resident Sylvia Hunter who is trapped in a marriage as loveless as Jorgenson’s. Scandal erupts when word of this romance becomes public, but it serves to draw together Jorgenson’s daughter and Sylvia’s teenage son who are appalled by their parents’ mistakes and determined not to repeat them.

The 39 Steps (1959)

Friday, November 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: More, Kenneth | Elg, Taina | De Banzie, Brenda | Jones, Barry | Beckwith, Reginald | Brook, Faith | Goodliffe, Michael | Hayter, James | Lamont, Duncan | Clark, Jameson | Cruickshank, Andrew | Dwyer, Leslie | Henderson, Betty | Hickson, Joan | James, Sid
Directors: Thomas, Ralph
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A remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s film of the same name. A man meets a woman and goes home with her, only to find her murdered. When he finds out that she was a secret agent and that he’s now mixed up in the matter, he must try to solve the mystery.

Ben-Hur (1959)

Friday, November 13th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Heston, Charlton | Hawkins, Jack | Harareet, Haya | Boyd, Stephen | Griffith, Hugh | Scott, Martha | O'Donnell, Cathy | Jaffe, Sam | Currie, Finlay | Thring, Frank | Longdon, Terence | Relph, George | Morell, André | Berber, Ady | Billingsley, Hugh
Directors: Wyler, William
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When Prince Judah Ben-Hur hears that his childhood friend Messala has been named to command the Roman garrison of Jerusalem, he is thrilled. He soon finds however that his friend has changed and has become an arrogant conqueror, full of the grandeur of Rome. When Judah refuses to divulge the names of Jews who oppose Roman rule, Messala decides to make an example of him and sends him off as a galley slave. Through fate and good fortune, Judah survives the galleys and manages to return to Jerusalem in the hopes of finding his mother and sister, who were also imprisoned, and to seek revenge against his one-time friend.

Up Periscope (1959)

Friday, November 13th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Garner, James | O'Brien, Edmond | Martin, Andra | Hale Jr., Alan | Carpenter, Carleton | Gifford, Frank | Leslie, William | Bakalyan, Richard | Byrnes, Edd | Garrison, Sean | Kulky, Henry | Aiken, Robert | Blau Jr., Fred C. | Christian, Carl | Crise, George
Directors: Douglas, Gordon
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Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he’s been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Remick, Lee | Gazzara, Ben | O'Connell, Arthur | Arden, Eve | Grant, Kathryn | Scott, George C. | Bean, Orson | Brown, Russ | Hamilton, Murray | West, Brooks | Lynch, Ken | Qualen, John | McNear, Howard | Campbell, Alexander
Directors: Preminger, Otto
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Laura Manion returns home to tell her husband she’s been raped. Lt. Manion kills the rapist and then claims crime of passion as a defense. At least that’s his story. Paul Biegler agrees to defend him and must unravel a case in which the motivations of the murderer, his wife, and the victim are all in question.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Friday, July 24th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rick Schroder | Fonda, Peter | Grayhm, Steven | Dopud, Mike | Brewer, Jonathan | Baker, Simon | Ken Kirzinger | Puckler, Damien | Side, Richard
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Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Monroe, Marilyn | Curtis, Tony | Lemmon, Jack | Raft, George | O'Brien, Pat | Brown, Joe E. | Persoff, Nehemiah | Shawlee, Joan | Gray, Billy | Stone, George E. | Barry, Dave | Mazurki, Mike | Wilson, Harry | Wills, Beverly
Directors: Wilder, Billy
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Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane’s dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn’t have. But he can use Osgood Fielding’s yacht if Jerry — as Daphne — will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sharpe, Albert | Munro, Janet | Connery, Sean | O'Dea, Jimmy | Moore, Kieron | Winwood, Estelle | Fitzgerald, Walter | O'Dea, Denis | Devlin, J.G. | MacGowran, Jack | Pelly, Farrell | O'Mahoney, Nora | Burke, Patrick Sullivan | Halligan, Maureen
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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A frisky old storyteller named Darby O’Gill is desperately seeking the proverbial pot of gold. There’s just one tiny thing standing in his way: a 21-inch leprechaun named King Brian. In order to get the gold, Darby must match his wits against the shrewd little trickster- which proves no small task indeed!

Day of the Outlaw (1959)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Robert | Ives, Burl | Louise, Tina | Marshal, Alan | Stevenson, Venetia | Nelson, David | Persoff, Nehemiah | Lambert, Jack | DeKova, Frank | Fuller, Lance | Cook Jr., Elisha | Greer, Dabbs | Jones-Moreland, Betsy | Westcott, Helen | Elson, Donald
Directors: De Toth, André
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Cowboys and ranchers have to put their differences aside when a gang of outlaws, led by army captain Jack Bruhn, decide to spend the night in a little Western town.