21. The Horse Soldiers
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt, Hoot Gibson, Ken Curtis
22. Last Train from Gun Hill
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brad Dexter, Brian G. Hutton
Plot: Two best friends become bitter enemies after the son of a rich land baron
brutally rapes and murders the other’s wife.
23. Magician, The ( Ansiktet )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Naima Wifstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson
24. Al Capone
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Wilson
Actors: Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Gist
Plot: A quite accurate portrayal of the life of prohibition era criminal kingpin Al Capone - from his days as a small-time Chicago hood to his rise as Chicago's most notorious gangster - ultimately leading to his ignoble end.
25. The Tingler
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Castle
Actors: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge
Plot: A scientist (Price) discovers a strange creature that latches on to people's spines when they are afraid and causes a tingling sensation. A person must scream to get rid of the tingler; otherwise, he or she will die. When the film was first released in theaters, buzzers were attached to some audience members' seats to replicate the tingling sensation at key points in the movie.
26. Ivan the Terrible, Part II ( Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Mikhail Nazvanov
27. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, André Morell, Marla Landi, David Oxley, Francis De Wolff
Plot: Sherlock Holmes is hired by the newest heir of the Baskerville estate to
investigate a curse where the family is stalked and killed by a
supernatural hound.
28. Pork Chop Hill
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, Carl Benton Reid, James Edwards
Plot: Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying to bring the conflict to a negotiated end, Lt. Joe Clemons is ordered to launch an attack and retake Pork Cop Hill. It's tough on the soldiers who know that the negotiations are under way and no one wants to die when they think it will all soon be over. The hill is of no particular strategic military value but all part of showing resolve during the negotiations. Under the impression that the battle has been won, battalion headquarters orders some of the men withdrawn when in fact they are in dire need of reinforcements and supplies. As the Chinese prepare to counterattack and broadcast propaganda over loudspeakers, the men prepare for what may be their last battle.
29. Nazarin ( Nazarín )
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo, Jesús Fernández
30. Pillow Talk
Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Gordon
Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Julia Meade
Plot: A man and woman share the same phone line and can't stand each other: Brad Allen spends all day talking to various women which drives Jan Morrow up the wall. Yet when Brad spies Jan one day, he decides to add her to his list, but in order to play this game he changes his persona to that of a innocent Texan, Rex Stetson.
