Movies 1958 Page 44

Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.

The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of...

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

Use of a helicopter to transport an oil-drilling rig to a prospecting site deep in the New Guinea jungle.

This is a story about World War II. The adultery of her husband didn't wreck her life because she could stand all difficulties with a little help of...

Effendi (Kamsul), a songwriter, experiences bad luck. His songs are almost always rejected by record companies. One day Effendi is driven to make an...

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future...

Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor",...

The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.

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

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know...

The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker...

Young widow Li Jingqin is struggling to put her son Du Shaoxiong through school with her meagre income. Bullied by the landlady, Du spends his days...

In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until...

Short animation

The 14th Dalai Lama during his final Geshe (Doctor of Divinity) examinations in Lhasa, Tibet which took place from the summer of 1958 to February...

Brilliant application demonstrations. The goofy world of fifties' education. Explains what flannel boards are, how they are made and how they may be...

When the pet shop owner goes home at night, one of the monkeys gets loose and releases some of the others. Mischief and mishaps ensue until the owner...

It's Peter's birthday and Mum wakes him with cards and presents. After breakfast he goes off to school, with his toy locomotive, but fails to return...

A celebration of transatlantic commercial jet travel: 6.5 hours from New York to London. Columbus took two months, Lindbergh took 33 hours, but by...

Short documentary about the processing of tobacco.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

How to handle promotions in the workplace. One of a series on "Office Supervisor's Problems".

General views of Edinburgh Royal Mile and Princes Street.

The Salvation Army in action. Band rehearsals, personal reminiscences of an Army officer, and an unrehearsed "coming to Christ" in the Army Citadel...

To avoid making travelers walk excessive distances through a large airport, Washington, D.C.'s new airport is to use mobile departure lounges to...

multi-colored circular lights swivel, refract, bleed

Adaptation of Martin Armstrong's poem about an elderly lady who becomes perturbed by something we can't see. It becomes apparent that she is looking...

A day in the life of Joe, a chainmaker from Cradley Heath near Birmingham, UK in the late 1950s

Casting real doctors instead of actors, this film uses scripted scenarios and interviews to see the National Health Service through their eyes. The...

This travel film was made by amateur filmmakers Mel and Ethel Ross about their expedition to the Nahanni National Park Reserve in Northwest...

Zippy the Chimp wants to go to the beach with his family, but he is not allowed. He makes it there anyway, and saves a life.

Film by Ángel Hurtado, which premieres today at the Cine-club Universitaire, Paris.