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Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/vertigo-1958 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:28:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/vertigo-1958
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-naked-and-the-dead-1958 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:24:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-naked-and-the-dead-1958
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cinematographer: Joseph LaShelle
Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-buccaneer-1958 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:23:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-buccaneer-1958
Director: Anthony Quinn
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
During the war of 1812, Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gigi-1958 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:41:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gigi-1958
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg, Georges Barsky, Ray June
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-inn-of-the-sixth-happiness-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:51:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-inn-of-the-sixth-happiness-1958
Director: Mark Robson
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-young-lions-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:03:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-young-lions-1958
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
WW2 drama that follows the lives of three young men, one German and two Americans, during wartime. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/south-pacific-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:32:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/south-pacific-1958
Director: Joshua Logan
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-long-hot-summer-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:58:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-long-hot-summer-1958
Director: Martin Ritt
Cinematographer: Joseph LaShelle
Accused barn burner and con man Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-geisha-boy-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:18:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-geisha-boy-1958
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cinematographer: Haskell B. Boggs
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rally-round-the-flag-boys-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:56:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rally-round-the-flag-boys-1958
Director: Leo McCarey
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
All about the citizens of Putnam's Landing and their reactions to an army missile base in their back yard. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-tunnel-of-love-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:59:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-tunnel-of-love-1958
Director: Gene Kelly
Cinematographer: Robert J. Bronner
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife's surrogate. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-hunters-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:18:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-hunters-1958
Director: Dick Powell
Cinematographer: Charles G. Clarke
In 1952, during the Korean War, two American pilots become bitter enemies over the same woman but must shelf their personal feud when confronted by deadly Chinese MIG fighter jets in battle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-barbarian-and-the-geisha-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:36:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-barbarian-and-the-geisha-1958
Director: John Huston
Cinematographer: Charles G. Clarke
In 1856, the first U.S. Consul General to Japan encounters the hostility of the local authorities and the love of a young geisha. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-bravados-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:16:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-bravados-1958
Director: Henry King
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town's jail but they escape to Mexico. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/son-of-robin-hood-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:08:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/son-of-robin-hood-1958
Director: George Sherman
Cinematographer: Arthur Grant
Robin Hood's dead and an English nobleman wants to rule England. So, it's up to his surviving merrymen to save England. However, they need a leader and learn that Robin had a son and is ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bonjour-tristesse-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:15:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bonjour-tristesse-1958
Director: Otto Preminger
Cinematographer: Georges Périnal
Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-lovers-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:39:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-lovers-1958
Director: Louis Malle
Cinematographer: Henri Decaë
Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/harry-black-and-the-tiger-1958 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:11:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/harry-black-and-the-tiger-1958
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Cinematographer: John Wilcox
During a hunt for a ferocious tiger terrorizing an Indian village,ex-army Major Harry Black comes across his former wife Chris and her new husband, Desmond Tanner, who met Black in a German POW camp in WW2. ]]>