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Onionhead (1958) on 25 october 1958
, 1h51Directed 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
Rating59%
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.
Wolf Larsen (1958) on 26 october 1958
Directed by Harmon Jones
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Barry Sullivan, Peter Graves, Thayer David, Robert Gist
Rating61%
Torpedo Run (1958) on 24 october 1958
, 1h38Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Robert Hardy, Paul Picerni, Dean Jones
Rating63%
The American submarine Grayfish, under Lieutenant Commander/Commander Barney Doyle (Glenn Ford), searches for the Shinaru, one of the Japanese aircraft carriers that led the attack on Pearl Harbor. Doyle receives word that the target has an escort, including a transport ship carrying his wife and child, who were captured in the Philippines.
Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter (1953) on 24 october 1958
, 1h27Directed by Willy Rozier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Jean-François Calvé, Howard Vernon, Espanita Cortez, Raymond Cordy, Robert Arnoux
Rating54%
A 25-year-old Parisian student, Gérard Morere (Calvé), hears a lecture about a treasure Troilus lost at sea after the Peloponnesian War, and thinks he knows where it is, thanks to a discovery he made five years earlier when diving near the island of Levezzi, in Corsica. He gets friends and an innkeeper to invest in his dream, enough to get him to Tangiers where he convinces a cigarette smuggler, Eric (Vernon), to take him to the island.
The Last Hurrah (1958) on 24 october 1958
, 2h1Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Basil Rathbone, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien, Donald Crisp
Rating72%
In "a New England city," Frank Skeffington (Spencer Tracy) plans to run for a fifth term. Skeffington rose from poverty in an Irish ghetto to become mayor and former governor, and is skilled at using the power of his office and an enormous political machine of ward heelers to receive support from his Irish Catholic base and other demographics. Rumors of graft and abuse of power are widespread, however, and the Protestant bishop, newspaper publisher Amos Force (John Carradine), banker Norman Cass (Basil Rathbone), and other members of the city's traditional elite the Irish Catholics replaced oppose Skeffington; so does Martin Burke (Donald Crisp), Catholic cardinal, Skeffington's childhood friend. They support the candidacy of Kevin McCluskey (Charles B. Fitzsimons), a young Catholic lawyer and war veteran with no political experience.