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Say One for Me
Say One for Me (1959) on 19 june 1959
, 2h
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, Ray Walston, Les Tremayne, Connie Gilchrist
Rating55% 2.758982.758982.758982.758982.75898
In the middle of New York's theater district sits Father Conroy's parish, where entertainers often attend his services. His parishioners include Holly LeMaise, whose dad Harry was an old vaudevillian.
Nor the Moon by Night
Nor the Moon by Night (1958) on 19 june 1959
, 1h30
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Belinda Lee, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Craig, Anna Gaylor, Eric Pohlmann, Joan Brickhill
Rating59% 2.955462.955462.955462.955462.95546
Andrew Miller est gardien dans un parc animalier en Afrique. Cela fait des années qu'il correspond avec Alice Lang, restée au chevet de sa mère en Angleterre, sans l'avoir jamais rencontrée. À la mort de sa mère, Alice se rend en Afrique pour épouser Andrew. Malheureusement, Andrew se voit obligé de partir en expédition dans le bush, et c'est son frère Rusty qui accueille la jeune femme. Lorsqu'Andrew, grièvement blessé par des lions, arrive enfin, est tombé amoureuse de Rusty.
The Five Pennies
The Five Pennies (1959) on 18 june 1959
, 1h57
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Tuesday Weld, Bobby Troup
Rating70% 3.5444053.5444053.5444053.5444053.544405
Red Nichols (Kaye) is a small-town cornet player who moves to New York City in the 1920s and finds work in a band led by Wil Paradise (Crosby). He meets and marries singer Willia Stutsman, a.k.a. "Bobbie Meredith" (Bel Geddes), and the two form their own Dixieland band called "The Five Pennies" (a play on Nichols' name, since a nickel equals five pennies). As their popularity peaks, their young daughter Dorothy (Susan Gordon) contracts polio and the family leaves the music business, moving to Los Angeles. When Dorothy becomes a teen (Tuesday Weld) she learns of her father's music career and persuades him go on a comeback tour. The tour borders on failure until several notable musicians from Nichols' past appear to save the day.
The Hangman
The Hangman (1959) on 17 june 1959
, 1h27
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Robert Taylor, Tina Louise, Fess Parker, Jack Lord, Mickey Shaughnessy, Gene Evans
Rating65% 3.2917753.2917753.2917753.2917753.291775
Marshal Mac Bovard, known as the Hangman for his success at seeing guilty men die for their crimes, rounds up three of four outlaws suspected in a robbery that resulted in the murder of his brother. Two are hanged. The third is needed to identify John Butterfield, whose face Mac has never seen.
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (1959) on 16 june 1959
, 2h6
Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Robert Stack, Bette Davis, Marisa Pavan, Peter Cushing, Erin O'Brien, Charles Coburn
Rating62% 3.14833.14833.14833.14833.1483
The film begins with a United States Navy officer, telling sailors the story of John Paul Jones.
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) on 15 june 1959
, 1h23
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Delphi Lawrence, Francis De Wolff, Ronald Adam
Rating61% 3.0941453.0941453.0941453.0941453.094145
In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet (Diffring) is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly murdering women and using their parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss (Arnold Marlé) to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard (Lee) into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois (Hazel Court), a young lady in whom both Bonnet and Gerard are romantically interested.
Middle of the Night
Middle of the Night (1959) on 17 june 1959
, 1h58
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Fredric March, Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, Albert Dekker, Martin Balsam, Lee Grant
Rating70% 3.543373.543373.543373.543373.54337
A 24-year-old divorcee, Betty Preisser, a receptionist for a clothing manufacturer, takes some office work home. Her boss, widower Jerry Kingsley, a man of 56, drops by to pick up the documents.
The Nun's Story
The Nun's Story (1959) on 18 june 1959
, 2h29
Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Sergio Leone, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Mildred Dunnock, Dean Jagger
Rating74% 3.746173.746173.746173.746173.74617
Gabrielle "Gaby" Van Der Mal (Audrey Hepburn), whose father Hubert (Dean Jagger) is a famous surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s in the hopes of eventually becoming a missionary nursing sister in the Belgian Congo. After being given the name of Sister Luke and undergoing a postulancy and novitiate which foreshadow her future difficulties with the vow of obedience, she takes her first vows and is sent to a school of tropical medicine.
Eyes in Outer Space
Eyes in Outer Space (1959) on 17 june 1959
, 25minutes
Directed by Ward Kimball
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Children's films
Actors Paul Frees
Rating66% 3.327283.327283.327283.327283.32728
Walt Disney, avec la collaboration du Département de la Défense des États-Unis, utilise la musique et de l'animation de spéculer sur l'utilisation de la technologie par satellite spatiale (avec un réseau de défense coordonné) comme un moyen de modifier la météo.