The Best of Everything (1959)
Synopsis: This is the story of three ambitious women working at a New York publishing company in the late 1950s. The young women deal with, among other things, love entanglements […]
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Beloved Infidel (1959)
Synopsis: This is the true story of British Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham (Deborah Kerr, The End of the Affair) and her turbulent relationship with American author F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gregory Peck, […]
The Bette Davis Project: 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 exact lookalike. […]
The Bette Davis Project: John Paul Jones (1959)
Synopsis: The life and times of the father of the U.S. Navy: from his humble beginnings in Scotland, to his instrumental role in the American Revolution and beyond. Reaction & […]
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 famous mystery writer, Cornelia van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons), rents a mansion in a small town unaware that there is a killer on the loose. When […]
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 selected […]
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 a “9 […]
