Movies 1959 Page 36

Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

A film version of the Greek myth about a hero who, having suffered misfortunes on Earth and accomplished extraordinary deeds, sets out to fight the...

A cowardly king becomes dependent on an evil prince who desires the king's daughter as his wife. As the princess does not want to marry, she is...

Based on the short story by the American novelist O. Henry.

Rahim's older brother Mokhi refuses to take him to Kabul's big bouzkachi game. Rahim decides to go there on his own. Guided by the angel of death,...

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.

The young Monika Dahlhoff returns from the USA after two years. As soon as she arrives, she learns that her father wants to sell his traditional stud...

A naughty worker bee goes against the hive's warnings.

A documentary about the life of sailors in the Soviet Navy.

A photographer tries to make his customer smile for the photo.

A story about a government clerk who has his precious new overcoat stolen. No-one seems willing to help him retrieve his prized possession, a fact...

A pastiche of three episodes from the 1958 TV series Northwest Passage, stitched together as a feature and released theatrically in Europe.

Waiting to get their lucky break, three penniless musicians, who are already five months behind in the rent, resort to a reckless fabrication to...

The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands...

Spring is here, and the cuckoo leads the children to fly to the mountain village as in previous years, calling "cuckoo", "cuckoo", wanting to remind...

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...

A romantic tale depicting the beautiful and tragic love between a young man and woman from aristocratic families who are caught in the crossfire of...

Katnip is the surprised guest on a "This Is Your Life" type of TV show, "This Was Your Life." Buzzy the Crow; Rueben, Dueben and Louie (three mice);...

Training film for the Canadian Department of National Defence.

A litter basket muses on the failure of people to feed it at a busy mainline railway station.

After receiving a call stating that Mr. Flamboyant will be arriving at the apartment for inspection, Clint tries to clean the place up. During the...

A double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

We're off to Australia in the shortest of the short films found on this volume. There's lots of cute little baby animals to be found, but there's a...

A French shopkeeper's life is disrupted by a daily parade. The parade consists of "ze king, ze premier, all ze lords and ministers, army, navy,...

One of the few short films shot in the three strip Cinerama process, this promotional film is essentially an ad for Renault’s “new” car, the...

Clint Clobber, superintendent of the Flamboyant Arms, is watching the fights on an old-fashioned TV set.

Scotland Yard detectives pursue the murderers of a Hungarian girl found dead on an amusement park ride. Their inquiries lead them to a rooming house...

Two children fight with wooden blades while standing beneath a pendulum.

Both this film and The Passion and Resurrection introduce the new technique of painting directly on film—a technique that provides images of unique...

Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza...

"Racism, jealousy and Machiavellianism run riot in this searing television play, with a commanding central performance from Errol John as a black man...

A nature short presenting one year in the life of a chipmunk family.

Short documentary about the march from Aldermaston to London in 1959, and the perils of nuclear weapons.

Katnip teaches his little nephew Kitnip how to catch a mouse. Kitnip goes into Herman's mousehole and gets stuck under a pipe. Herman rescues Kitnip....

Because of the film's choices of text and illustration were made so well – and because the natural anatomy of memory is so like that of cinema...

(1959) Color, Sound, 25 min.

An exploration of the contrast between modern civilization and isolated groups of people, often referred to as “primitive”, whose way of life is...