Archive for the ‘1959’ Category
North by Northwest
New York advertising executive Roger Thornhill is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believe Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder it is believed he committed....
Operation Petticoat
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....
Ballad of a Soldier (B...
During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a few days leave to visit his mother and repair the roof of their home. On the train eastwards he meets Shura who...
Ben-Hur
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after...
A Summer Place
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...
The 39 Steps
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.
Up Periscope
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...
Anatomy of a Murder
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...
Some Like It Hot
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...
Darby O'Gill and the L...
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...
Day of the Outlaw
Cowboys and ranchers have to set aside their differences, the part outside the law, in which the head of the army captain Jack Bruhn decided to spend the night in a small Western town. Kovbojové a ranchers muset dát stranou jejich rozdíly, kdy partu...
Tingler, The
The coroner and the scientist Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) explores the effect of shiver of fright with its helper David Morris (Darryl Hickman). Dr. Warren is introduced to Ollie Higgins (Philip Coolidge), the parent of a criminal condemned for...
Sleeping Beauty
If a new princess king Stefan & his wife is born, the complete kingdom is pleased. In a ceremony three good fairies - flora, fauna & Merryweather - give presents of the magic on the child. But a bad magician called evil shows, and because of a...
Mouse That Roared, The
The best arranged plans of mice and men. A cold war satire accenting the new surfaced the use of American Superpower of the foreign help of friends bought and to be preserved then far from the influence of the USSR. Peter Sellers, like the Prime minister...
