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The Fraeon Archive · The 1950s
19571959

1958

Widescreen spectacle at the movies, quiet revolutions in Japan and Europe, and television arriving to change everything.

The films everyone saw

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Vertigo

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

4.1

Vertigo

1958

The Fly

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

3.5

The Fly

1958

The Vikings

Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.

3.5

The Vikings

1958

Touch of Evil

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.

3.9

Touch of Evil

1958

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

3.5

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

1958

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

4.0

The Hidden Fortress

1958

The Big Country

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.

3.8

The Big Country

1958

A Night to Remember

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

3.8

A Night to Remember

1958

The Blob

A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

3.1

The Blob

1958

Dracula

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

3.6

Dracula

1958

The Long, Hot Summer

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

3.5

The Long, Hot Summer

1958

Gigi

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

3.1

Gigi

1958

Elevator to the Gallows

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

3.8

Elevator to the Gallows

1958

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

3.6

Les Misérables

1958

Separate Tables

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.

3.6

Separate Tables

1958

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

3.8

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958

The Young Lions

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

3.4

The Young Lions

1958

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

3.4

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

1958

What the critics kept

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Big Deal on Madonna Street

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

4.0

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

Mon Oncle

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

3.7

Mon Oncle

1958

The Defiant Ones

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

3.6

The Defiant Ones

1958

Hidden gems of 1958loved by the few who found them

The Music Room

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the opulent music room of his younger, richer neighbour.

3.8

The Music Room

1958

The Ballad of Narayama

In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.

3.8

The Ballad of Narayama

1958

Brink of Life

This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with motherhood.

3.7

Brink of Life

1958

Equinox Flower

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

3.7

Equinox Flower

1958

Ashes and Diamonds

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

3.7

Ashes and Diamonds

1958

It Happened in Broad Daylight

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

3.7

It Happened in Broad Daylight

1958

Cairo Station

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.

3.7

Cairo Station

1958

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.

3.7

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1958

The Magician

A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.

3.7

The Magician

1958

Ice Cold in Alex

A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.

3.6

Ice Cold in Alex

1958

The Law Is the Law

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.

3.6

The Law Is the Law

1958

Knighty Knight Bugs

King Arthur's kingdom and the knights of the Round Table are in the doldrums since the Dark Knight stole the Singing Sword and put it under the protection of a fire-breathing dragon. The king's jester, Bugs Bunny, says only a fool would try to steal it back, so the king orders him to try. The jester boldly enters the Dark Knight's castle, initially catching his adversaries napping, but when the Singing Sword wakes the knight and the dragon, can Bugs complete his mission? He's a clever fool. A moat, portcullis, and catapult all figure in the face off.

3.6

Knighty Knight Bugs

1958

On the small screen

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The Rifleman

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.

3.6

The Rifleman

1958

The Huckleberry Hound Show

The Huckleberry Hound Show is a 1958 syndicated animated series and the second from Hanna-Barbera following The Ruff & Reddy Show, sponsored by Kellogg's. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound; another starring Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo; and a third with Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr. Jinks.

3.4

The Huckleberry Hound Show

1958

Felix the Cat

Felix the Cat follows the offbeat adventures of that curious feline, Felix. Although he was quickly overshadowed by Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, America's favorite cat still remains a classic.

3.8

Felix the Cat

1958

Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks

Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that featured as a regular segment of the television series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1961.

3.7

Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks

1958

On the page

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Goldfinger

Fiction · Fiction in English

Goldfinger

Ian Fleming

1958

Osage Indians · Land tenure

Expert testimony before the Indian Claims Commission

United States. Indian Claims Commission

1958

Doctor No

Detective and mystery stories · Fiction

Doctor No

Ian Fleming

1958

Ordeal by Innocence

Detectives · Fiction

Ordeal by Innocence

Agatha Christie

1958

Things Fall Apart

20th century literature · Christianity

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

1958

The Time Traders

Time travel in fiction · Time travel

The Time Traders

Andre Norton

1958

Our Man in Havana

Fiction · Intelligence service

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

1958

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Fiction · Artists

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Irving Stone

1958

Emil Nolde

Watercolor painting, German · Religion in art

Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde

1958

A Raisin in the Sun

Drama · African American families

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

1958

The Ugly American

International relations · American Short stories

The Ugly American

William J. Lederer

1958

Hornblower in the West Indies

Fiction · Naval History

Hornblower in the West Indies

C. S. Forester

1958

The Tell-Tale Heart

Asesinato · Cuentos de terror estadounidenses

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

1958

Jean Dubuffet

Aesthetics · Exhibitions

Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet

1958

The Bell

Fiction · Married women

The Bell

Iris Murdoch

1958

Mountolive

Fiction · Diplomats

Mountolive

Lawrence Durrell

1958

Vril

Fiction, general · Fiction, fantasy, general

Vril

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

1958

Brave New World Revisited

Brainwashing · Science Fiction & Fantasy

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

1958

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