https://shotonwhat.com/1959 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:27:48 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/rawhide-1959 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:49:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rawhide-1959
Director: Thomas Carr, Ted Post, Christian Nyby, Harmon Jones, Jesse Hibbs, Justus Addiss, Don McDougall, R.G. Springsteen, George Templeton, Andrew V. McLaglen, Stuart Heisler, Joseph Kane, Sobey Martin, Charles Marquis Warren, Michael O'Herlihy, Jack Arnold, Anton Leader, Harry Harris, Richard Whorf, Robert L. Friend, Tay Garnett, Bernard L. Kowalski, Vincent McEveety, George Sherman, Gerd Oswald, Gene Fowler Jr., Murray Golden, Herschel Daugherty, Philip Leacock, Bernard McEveety, Sutton Roley, Buzz Kulik, Robert D. Webb, William F. Claxton, Perry Lafferty, Allen Reisner, Laslo Benedek, James P. Yarbrough, Earl Bellamy, Alan Crosland Jr., Bernard Girard, James Goldstone, Charles F. Haas, Herman Hoffman, Charles R. Rondeau, Stuart Rosenberg
Cinematographer: John M. Nickolaus Jr., Jack Swain, Howard Schwartz, Neal Beckner, Philip H. Lathrop, Brydon Baker, Gordon Avil
Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-fisherman-1959 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:54:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-fisherman-1959
Director: Frank Borzage
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes
Exploring the life of Peter, from being a successful fisherman to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ and being dependent on Jesus Christ. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/agi-murad-il-diavolo-bianco-1959 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:25:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/agi-murad-il-diavolo-bianco-1959
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cinematographer: Mario Bava
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/porgy-and-bess-1959 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:12:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/porgy-and-bess-1959
Director: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rio-bravo-1959 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:05:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rio-bravo-1959
Director: Howard Hawks
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-400-blows-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:57:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-400-blows-1959
Director: François Truffaut
Cinematographer: Henri Decaë
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-hole-in-the-head-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:30:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-hole-in-the-head-1959
Director: Frank Capra
Cinematographer: William H. Daniels
Widower Tony is trying to keep a small Miami hotel afloat while raising a 12-year-old son. He's forced to ask his harried brother Mario for help, but he'll only bail Tony out if he quits his bohemian lifestyle and marries a sensible woman. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-story-on-page-one-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:11:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-story-on-page-one-1959
Director: Clifford Odets
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
Courtroom drama about an adulterous pair who is charged with murdering the outraged husband of the cheating woman. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-alligator-people-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:09:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-alligator-people-1959
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cinematographer: Karl Struss
A woman in a hypnotic state recounts to two doctors the details of a horrific experience from her past life that began with the mysterious and sudden disappearance of her husband. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/invasion-of-the-animal-people-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:47:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/invasion-of-the-animal-people-1959
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Cinematographer: Hilding Bladh
Aliens release a furry critter in the wilds of Lapland where it takes a woman captive and threatens a group of scientists. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-best-of-everything-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:40:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-best-of-everything-1959
Director: Jean Negulesco
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/they-came-to-cordura-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:08:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/they-came-to-cordura-1959
Director: Robert Rossen
Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey
An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dont-give-up-the-ship-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:19:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dont-give-up-the-ship-1959
Director: Norman Taurog
Cinematographer: Haskell B. Boggs
John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Now years latter, no one ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ben-hur-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:15:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ben-hur-1959
Director: William Wyler
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/holiday-for-lovers-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:55:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/holiday-for-lovers-1959
Director: Henry Levin
Cinematographer: Charles G. Clarke
When the oldest daughter decides to stay in South America while on a school tour, her father decides to take the rest of the family there for vacation to find out why. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:46:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-1959
Director: Henry Levin
Cinematographer: Leo Tover
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-diary-of-anne-frank-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:11:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-diary-of-anne-frank-1959
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/north-by-northwest-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:43:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/north-by-northwest-1959
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/warlock-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:27:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/warlock-1959
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who wants to follow only legal methods. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-remarkable-mr-pennypacker-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:14:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-remarkable-mr-pennypacker-1959
Director: Henry Levin
Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shadows-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:30:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shadows-1959
Director: John Cassavetes
Cinematographer: Erich Kollmar
Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hannibal-2-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:41:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hannibal-2-1959
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar G. Ulmer
Cinematographer: Raffaele Masciocchi
During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-wreck-of-the-mary-deare-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:59:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-wreck-of-the-mary-deare-1959
Director: Michael Anderson
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ask-any-girl-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:55:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ask-any-girl-1959
Director: Charles Walters
Cinematographer: Robert J. Bronner
Sales girl falls for the younger of a company run by two brothers. The elder falls for her but plans to help her get his brother because he doesn't know he's in love. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/green-mansions-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:51:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/green-mansions-1959
Director: Mel Ferrer
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/these-thousand-hills-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:19:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/these-thousand-hills-1959
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cinematographer: Charles G. Clarke
An ambitious cowboy will stop at nothing to get what he wants, including using the affections of two women. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/teenagers-from-outer-space-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:02:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/teenagers-from-outer-space-1959
Director: Tom Graeff
Cinematographer: Tom Graeff
A young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/compulsion-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:58:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/compulsion-1959
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/le-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-1959 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:38:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/le-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-1959
Director: Jean Renoir
Cinematographer: Georges Leclerc
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. His wealthy household (... ]]>