Movies from 1958

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

88 mins     Action , Family, Fantasy      

When I was growing up the age of the computer effects was beckoning and the use of stop motion was pretty much over, those old movies which featured stop-motion monsters were shown on TV but compared to the early CGI they loo...

A Cry from the Streets (1958)

99 mins     Drama, Romance      

Movie Review - A Cry from the Streets (1958) Barbara Murray stars as Ann, a welfare worker, who will do anything to help the children she is involved with whilst becoming involved with Bill (Max Bygraves) a good-hearted elect...

A Night to Remember (1958)

123 mins     Action , Drama      

Watching "A Night to Remember" now it becomes almost impossible to not compare it to James Cameron's "Titanic". Whilst both re-enact the night of 14th April 1912 when the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank they are different...

A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

117 mins     Drama, Romance      

A Tale of Two Cities (1958): Dirk Bogarde stars in this by the book adaptation of the Charles Dickens story, directed by Ralph Thomas...

Apache Territory (1958)

77 mins     Western      

As a child I had little Cowboy & Indian figures and typically acted out make believe western battles where the cowboys were pinned down and had to fight their way out of trouble. Well "Apache Territory" is just a big screen v...

The Badlanders (1958)

85 mins     Western      

To my shame I have never watched John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" so although I know that "The Badlanders" is a western remake I can't say how much of a remake it is or which one is better. Although having watched "The Badl...

The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)

105 mins     Drama      

As John Wayne movies go "The Barbarian and the Geisha" is a bit of a misfit because to put it simply it's not what you expect from a John Wayne movie. Oh there is a scene where he gets into a bit of a fist fight which leads t...

Battle of the V-1 (1958)

104 mins     Drama, War      

"The incidents depicted in this film are in all essentials true", those are the words which greet you at the stat of "Battle of the V-1". Now being the sceptical movie fan that I am I take that to mean what we see are a colle...

Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

106 mins     Comedy, Romance      

6 years before Elizabeth Montgomery gave us Samantha Stephens the loveable witch in the TV series "Bewitched", Kim Novak gave us another loveable witch in "Bell Book and Candle". Based upon John Van Druten's play, "Bell Book ...

The Big Country (1958)

165 mins     Western      

There is a wonderful irony to "The Big Country", the title mentions big, the movie is big in scale with vast landscapes and at 165 minutes it's not a small movie. Basically everything about "The Big Country" screams big excep...

Blind Spot (1958)

72 mins     Drama      

"Blind Spot" is one of those movies which draws you in with a decent set up, watching the blind Dan Adams get dropped off at the wrong house, trip on a body and then have an encounter with the killers is intriguing. It also h...

The Blob (1958)

86 mins     Horror      

The Blob - classic b-movie from 1958 starring Steve McQueen as a teen trying to save his town from this blob from out of space....

The Bravados (1958)

98 mins     Western      

"The Bravados" is a very good western which could have been great if it wasn't for one piece of casting and that is of Joan Collins as a Latino love interest. It's a stereotypical element to a western but Collins just looks o...

Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

78 mins     Western      

Everything about "Buchanan Rides Alone" screams western B-movie, from the cheerful lone cowboy through to the corrupt and devious brothers who run the town of Agry. In fact whilst the story maybe full of back stabbing between...

Bullwhip (1958)

80 mins     Action , Romance, Western      

By today's standards "Bullwhip" is very wrong, it is sexist, racist and to be honest quite cheesy but this convoluted western which sees Rhonda Fleming playing a tough trail boss being tamed by a man she marries to inherit he...

Carry on Sergeant (1958)

84 mins     Comedy      

"Carry on Sergeant" was the first of the "Carry On" movies which turned into one of Britain's most popular movie franchises, spanning 2 decades if you ignore the less than impressive "Carry on Columbus" from the 90s. Unlike t...

Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)

119 mins     Biography, Drama, War      

I have sat here for half an hour trying to come up with the words to start this review of "Carve Her Name with Pride" based upon the true story of SOE Violette Szabo and I have been lost for words. The reason is because first...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

108 mins     Drama      

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is one of a few movies which makes me wish I had been born earlier so that I could have seen it on the big screen when it originally came out. The reason for this is that I am sure it came across as ed...

Cattle Empire (1958)

83 mins     Western      

"Cattle Empire" starts in an impressive manner as we watch a beaten and blooded Cord being dragged behind a horse whilst the town cheer on. It isn't brutal but certainly has the desired impact of not only establishing the tow...

Corridors of Blood (1958)

86 mins     Crime, Horror, Thriller      

I have to admit that when ever I come across a movie starring Boris Karloff my immediate thoughts are of it most likely being a horror movie. Yet Karloff was such a strong actor that he was just at home in more straight forwa...