Category Archives: 1958

The Fly

IMDB Rating: 7.00
4701 votes

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Scientist Andre Delambre becomes obsessed with his latest creation, a matter transporter. He has varying degrees of success with it. He eventually decides to use a human subject, himself, with tragic consequences. During the transferance, his atoms become merged with a fly, which was accidentally let into the machine. He winds up with the fly's head and one of it's arms and the fly winds up with Andre's head and arm. Eventually, Andre's wife, Helene discovers his secret and must make a decision whether to let him continue to live like that or to do the unthinkable and euthanize him to end his suffering.
Actors
Andre DelambreDavid Hedison
Helene DelambrePatricia Owens
François DelambreVincent Price
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Vertigo

IMDB Rating: 8.60
70622 votes

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John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.
Actors
Det. John 'Scottie' FergusonJames Stewart
Madeleine ElsterKim Novak
Judy BartonKim Novak
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Houseboat

IMDB Rating: 6.50
2322 votes

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Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.
Actors
Tom WintersCary Grant
Cinzia ZaccardiSophia Loren
Carolyn GibsonMartha Hyer
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The Defiant Ones

IMDB Rating: 7.70
3077 votes

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Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they're chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.
Actors
John 'Joker' JacksonTony Curtis
Noah CullenSidney Poitier
Sheriff Max MullerTheodore Bikel
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War of the Satellites

IMDB Rating: 4.10
83 votes

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An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
Actors
Dr. Pol Van PonderRichard Devon
Dave BoyerDick Miller
Sybil CarringtonSusan Cabot
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Bell Book and Candle

IMDB Rating: 6.80
2654 votes

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Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York apartment with her Siamese familiar, Pyewacket. But one day a handsome publisher, Shep Henderson walks into her building and Gillian decides she wants him—especially as it turns out he's marrying Merle Kittridge, an old poison penpal from Gillian's college days. So, Gillian casts a spell over Shep. But her powers are in danger of being exorcised by something stronger than the bell-book-and-candle routine: Love.
Actors
Shepherd 'Shep' HendersonJames Stewart
Gillian 'Gil' HolroydKim Novak
Nicky HolroydJack Lemmon
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Bonjour tristesse

IMDB Rating: 6.70
837 votes

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In the French Riviera, the spoiled and futile seventeen years old girl Cecile (Jean Seberg) is spending the summer vacation with her father, the widow playboy and bon-vivant Raymond (David Niven), and his girlfriend Elsa (Mylène Demongeot). Cecile has a serious Complex of Oedipus with her father, and they have a quite incestuous relationship. The successful designer and former friend of her mother Anne Larson (Deborah Kerr) arrives in their seaside house invited by Raymond to spend a couple of days with them, and the life of Cecile changes when Raymond proposes Anne to marry him. Full of jealousy, Cecile plots with Elsa to separate Anne from Raymond.
Actors
Anne LarsonDeborah Kerr
Anne LarsonDeborah Kerr
RaymondDavid Niven
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The Square Peg

IMDB Rating: 6.30
193 votes

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Norman and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Norman takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero.
Actors
Norman Pitkin/Gen. SchreiberNorman Wisdom
Lesley CartlandHonor Blackman
Mr. GrimsdaleEdward Chapman
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The Vikings

IMDB Rating: 7.00
1686 votes

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Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives - both involving the princess Morgana, however.
Actors
EinarKirk Douglas
EricTony Curtis
RagnarErnest Borgnine
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