Ray Harryhausen
Sony Pictures | 1958 | 87 min | Rated G | Region free
| Oct 07, 2008
This colorful adventure is the screen version of one of the classic tales from “1001 Arabian
Nights.” It tells the story of Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) and Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant).
When they unexpectedly stop on the...
A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the...
Warner Bros. | 1958 | 116 min | Rated G | Region free
| Mar 31, 2009
Set in Paris at the turn of the century, this delightful Lerner and Loewe musical, based on a story by Collette, follows a
precocious French girl as she is groomed into a would-be courtesan, blossoming into a stunning woman....
Olive Films | 1958 | 119 min | Unrated | Region A (B, C untested) | Feb 28, 2012
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1958 | 165 min | Not rated | Region free
| Nov 01, 2011
A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land. Filmed in Technirama.
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit...
Blu-ray + DVD
20th Century Fox | 1958 | 105 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Nov 13, 2012
Townsend Harris (John Wayne) is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
After teaming memorably in Alfred Hitchcock's haunting Vertigo, James Stewart and Kim Novak are together again in the whimsical Bell Book and Candle (1958), a spellbinding romantic comedy directed by Richard Quine and based on...
Dr. Vogler is a mid-nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test by a small town’s cruel, eminently rational minister of health, Dr. Vergerus. The result is a diabolically clever...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1958 | 123 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Mar 27, 2012
Based on Walter Lord's popular book, A Night to Remember recounts the sailing of the Titanic, billed as the "unsinkable ship," and its inevitable voyage toward the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and doom.
Olive Films | 1958 | 103 min | Not rated | Region A, B (C untested) | Feb 14, 2012
Clayton Poole is a small town TV repairman who is still in love with his former hometown sweetheart, Carla Naples, who is now a famous movie queen. When Carla becomes pregnant due to a hasty marriage in Mexico, which she has...
Olive Films | 1958 | 70 min | Not rated | Region A (B, C untested) | Jun 19, 2012
A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try...
Olive Films | 1958 | 98 min | Not rated | Region A, B (C untested) | Feb 14, 2012
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. During his time in Japan he becomes attached to a little orphan boy.
Biswambhar Roy is a zamindar (landlord) and the last of his kind. With the title, he has none of the perquisites, inheriting diminishing lands that are being eroded by the neighbouring river. But he must maintain the lifestyle of...
