Project 1958
Movies watched during my father's trip to Europe in 1958
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- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsVirginia McKennaPaul ScofieldJack WarnerDuring World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsTommy SteeleJune LaverickMichael MedwinA cockney lad pretends to be a nobleman in order to woo a South American princess.
- DirectorJack ConwayRobert Z. LeonardStarsRonald ColmanElizabeth AllanEdna May OliverA pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsRobin BaileySusan ShawLiam RedmondLondon police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.
- DirectorJean LoubignacStarsRobert DhéryColette BrossetRaymond BussièresA small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
- DirectorWilliam FairchildStarsLaurence HarveyDawn AddamsMichael CraigDuring WW2, Italian Navy divers use underwater chariots to mine the keels of British warships, forcing the British to send underwater demolition expert Lionel Crabbe and his team to counter these enemy actions.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsRita HayworthFrank SinatraKim NovakJoey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.
- DirectorOliver DrakeStarsAnthony DexterSonny TuftsMarie WindsorBilly the Kid tries to live in peace, under a new name and in a frontier town, but is approached by a preacher who asks for his help in freeing the town from a ruthless man and his gunman.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAnthony QuinnAnna MagnaniAnthony FranciosaAn immigrant Nevada rancher brings a woman from Italy to be his second wife, but when he neglects her she becomes involved with his trusted assistant.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsRosemary ClooneyJack CarsonGuy MitchellA man visits a frontier town seeking to avenge his brother's murder.
- DirectorMichael RelphStarsHarry SecombeRon RandellGeorge RelphThe Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British music halls. Young Davy is the star of the act, but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own?
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsBrigitte BardotAlida ValliStephen BoydUrsula leaves the convent where she was educated, to start living with her uncle, the count Ribera, and her aunt Florentine. When she arrives, she is confronted with a local drama: a youngman from the village, Lambert, whose sister took her own life, accuses the count of being responsible for his sister's death, for having sexually assaulted her. The two men have a duel of honour, in which Lambert is severely wounded, and the count's honour is saved. Ursula acts as a nurse to Lambert, and falls in love with him, only to find out that Lambert is secretly her aunt's lover. One night, the count too, finds out his wife's affair, and again the two men fight, this time Lambert kills the count. Ursula helps him to escape. Florence, mad with jealousy and hatred for her niece, sets the police after him.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJeff ChandlerJeanne CrainJack CarsonAfter top lawyer James Blane gets an acquittal for Michael Reston who killed another man for sexually roughing up his trophy wife, the murderous town sheriff frames him for bribing a juror in the case.
- DirectorRoger VadimStarsBrigitte BardotCurd JürgensJean-Louis TrintignantIn sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsWilliam HoldenSophia LorenTrevor HowardDuring World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsRichard WidmarkLauren BacallCharles BoyerAt a private psychiatric clinic, the daily dramas and interactions between the doctors, nurses, administrators, benefactors and patients are accentuated by the personal and family crises of these individuals.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsKenneth MoreRonald AllenRobert AyresOn her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsDirk BogardeYôko TaniRonald LewisDuring World War II, Flight Lieutenant Michael Quinn (Sir Dirk Bogarde), a British officer stationed in Asia, is recruited by Army Intelligence, is tasked with learning Japanese to interrogate Japanese P.O.W.s and he falls in love with his pretty Japanese teacher "Sabby" (Suzuki San) (Yôko Tani).
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsAndy GriffithMyron McCormickNick AdamsWill Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
- DirectorDaniel MannGeorge CukorStarsShirley BoothAnthony QuinnShirley MacLaineA housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
- DirectorCornel WildeStarsCornel WildeJean WallaceAbbe LaneIn Venezuela during the 1950s, a vacationing Texas oilman is asked to help extinguish an oil derrick fire and he succumbs to the charms of a visiting New York novelist.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsYul BrynnerMaria SchellClaire BloomDrama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
- DirectorWerner KunzStarsE.V.H. EmmettA documentary on the island off the French Riviera where 'bathing in the buff' isn't just practiced, it's highly encouraged!
- DirectorPhilip DunneStarsGary CooperDiane VarsiSuzy ParkerAfter her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife, eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that he had in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsNat 'King' ColeEartha KittCab CallowayThe story of W. C. Handy, the undisputed father of the blues.