Middle of the Night (1959)
Synopsis: A 56-year-old widower businessman (Fredric March, William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives) shocks family and friends when he starts dating a 24-year-old divorcee (Kim Novak, Alfred Hitchcock’s […]
Category Archives: 1959
The Best of Everything (1959)
Synopsis: This is the story of three young and ambitious women working at a New York publishing company in the late 1950s. The career-oriented women deal with, among other things, […]
Beloved Infidel (1959)
Synopsis: This is the true story of Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham (Deborah Kerr, The End of the Affair) and her turbulent relationship with American author F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gregory Peck, To […]
The Scapegoat (1959)
Synopsis: A lonely British scholar, John Barrett (Sir Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai), meets a French nobleman, Jacques De Gué, (also played by Guinness), who is his […]
John Paul Jones (1959)
Synopsis: The life and times of John Paul Jones, played by actor Robert Stack (Written on the Wind and Airplaine!), the father of the United States Navy: from his humble […]
The Gazebo (1959)
Synopsis: Glenn Ford (Blackboard Jungle) plays a TV writer and director who kills a blackmailer and buries him under a gazebo. Reaction & Thoughts: Odd black comedy only works sporadically. […]
The Bat (1959)
Synopsis: A mystery writer (Agnes Moorehead, Citizen Kane) rents a mansion in a small town, unaware that there is a killer on the loose. When the bodies start piling up, […]
Li’l Abner (1959)
Synopsis: The Federal Government of the United States determines that a small rural town, Dogpatch, is the most useless territory of the country. Because of its worthlessness, the town is […]
Room at the Top (1959)
Synopsis: An ambitious young man, Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey, The Manchurian Candidate), has finally landed a good job far away from his rickety hometown. Joe realizes quickly that this “9 […]
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