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Onionhead
Onionhead (1958)
, 1h51
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Joe Mantell, Erin O'Brien, Erin O'Brien

In the spring of 1941, Al Woods quits an Oklahoma college to join the armed forces after a quarrel with his co-ed sweetheart, Jo. He joins the Coast Guard, partly by chance due to the flip of a coin. After boot training, Al is assigned to a buoy tender in Boston, the Periwinkle, as a ship's cook. He encounters immediate hostility from the chief of the galley, Red Wildoe, from new crew mates and cooks' helpers Gutsell and Poznicki, and from his arrogant department head, Lieutenant (junior grade) Higgins.
The Night Heaven Fell
The Night Heaven Fell (1958)
, 1h35
Directed by Roger Vadim, Jean Dewever
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd, Alida Valli, Fernando Rey, José Nieto, Maruchi Fresno

Set in rural Spain, Bardot plays Ursula, a young girl who has just left a convent and has moved in with her aunt Florentine and her violent husband, the count Ribera. Ribera wants to see Lambert, a young man from the village, dead. Ursula quickly falls in love with Lambert. In a confrontation between the two, Lambert kills Ribera in self-defence.
Nowhere to Go
Nowhere to Go (1958)
, 1h29
Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Bessie Love, Harry H. Corbett

Paul Gregory (Nader), a Canadian confidence trickster operating in London targets a wealthy Canadian woman in Britain to sell her collection of valuable coins. After meeting her at an ice hockey match, he sets about winning her confidence until she is prepared to give him legal control over the sale. He then completes the deal without her knowledge, puts the money from the sale in a safe deposit box, and then deliberately waits to be caught by the police. Gregory plans on getting a five-year sentence, with time off for good behaviour, and then collecting his loot when he is released.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
, 1h26
Directed by Henry King, Fred Zinnemann, John Sturges, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Vieillesse, Mise en scène d'un poisson
Actors Spencer Tracy, Harry Bellaver, Don Diamond, Don Alvarado, Tony Rosato, Mauritz Hugo

Spencer Tracy is the Old Man, a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish that he catches far from shore.
Orders to Kill
Orders to Kill (1958)
, 1h52
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Irene Worth, Philip Bond, Leslie French

A young American bomber pilot Gene Summers (Paul Massie) is selected by Maj. Kimball (John Crawford) to go on a mission to Nazi-occupied Paris and there kill a man believed to be a double agent working in the French Resistance. He is picked because of his fluency in French and military experience. Summers receives rigorous training by his handler Maj. MacMahon (Eddie Albert) and a British Naval Commander (James Robertson Justice). Summers is enthusiastic, and remembers all of the information he needs by setting his instructions to melodies of childhood songs.
Parosh Pathar
Parosh Pathar (1958)
, 1h51
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Kali Banerjee, Chhabi Biswas, Pahari Sanyal, Tulsi Chakraborty, Jahar Ray, Santosh Dutta

Paresh Chandra Dutt (Tulsi Chakrabarti), a middle-class bank clerk in Kolkata, attends a charity match on a rainy day rather reluctantly. At Curzon Park (modern-day Surendranath Park), where the match is apparently to be held, he finds a small, round stone. Thinking it is a marble, he gives it to his nephew. The child discovers that it turns metal into gold (i.e. it is the Philosopher's stone).
A Question of Adultery
A Question of Adultery (1958)
, 1h26
Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Julie London, Anthony Steel, Basil Sydney, Donald Houston, Anton Diffring, Andrew Cruickshank

Racing car driver Mark Loring, the heir to the Loring fortune complements his competitive spirit with jealousy of his wife Mary. Enraged by the attention shown to her by a pit crew mechanic who returns Mary's glove to her, Mark makes love to her on a beach in Spain, impregnating her.
Rabies
Rabies (1958)
, 1h29
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Genres Drama
Actors Bibi Andersson, Axel Düberg, Åke Fridell, Tor Isedal, Gunnel Lindblom, Dagny Lind

Une course de relais de "scènes de la vie humaine" qui dépeint la bassesse des traits de caractères humains qui se propagent comme une maladie : la personne qui se fait rejeter / humilier / opprimer s'en prend à quelqu'un d'autre.
Raw Wind in Eden
Raw Wind in Eden (1958)
, 1h33
Directed by Richard Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jeff Chandler, Esther Williams, Carlos Thompson, Eduardo De Filippo, Rossana Podestà, Rik Battaglia

Laura est un jeune mannequin qui travaille à Rome, et qui un jour accepte l'offre d'un play-boy, Wally Drucker, de se joindre à lui sur un vol charter au-dessus de la Méditerranée ; mais l'avion a une avarie et échoue sur une petite île de la Méditerranée...
The Year Long Road
The Year Long Road (1958)
, 2h42
Directed by Giuseppe De Santis
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Silvana Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Massimo Girotti, Bert Sotlar, Milivoje Živanović, Hermina Pipinić

Dans une région éloignée et pauvre d'un pays fictif, les habitants essaient pendant une année de construire, tant bien que mal, une route goudronnée en dépit de l'attitude peu empressée, voire hostile des autorités gouvernementales.