Vertigo
Movie / 1958-05-28 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Ten North Frederick
Movie / 1958-05-22 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Leigh Harline
After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife, eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that he had in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.
The Return of Dracula
Movie / 1958-05-21 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Gerald Fried
After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
Hot Spell
Movie / 1958-05-21 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alex North
Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart. Meanwhile, daughter Virginia is dumped by her boyfriend because she cannot help him with his career. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
Thunder Road
Movie / 1958-05-10 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jack Marshall
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.
The Sheepman
Movie / 1958-05-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
The Young Lions
Movie / 1958-04-02 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Hugo Friedhofer
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Touch of Evil
Movie / 1958-03-30 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Henry Mancini
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
Desire Under the Elms
Movie / 1958-03-12 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned most of the farm, and who feels who should be sole heir. When the old man brings home a new wife, Anna, she becomes a fierce contender to inherit the farm. Two of the sons leave when Eben gives them the fare in return for their shares of the farm. Meanwhile, Anna tries to cause some sparks by rubbing up against Eben.
The Three Faces of Eve
Movie / 1957-12-19 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Robert Emmett Dolan
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Legend of the Lost
Movie / 1957-12-17 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
Peyton Place
Movie / 1957-12-13 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Franz Waxman
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
Wild Is the Wind
Movie / 1957-12-11 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Dimitri Tiomkin
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marriage together.
The Tin Star
Movie / 1957-11-06 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Movie / 1957-10-11 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Malcolm Arnold
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Until They Sail
Movie / 1957-10-08 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by David Raksin
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Search for Paradise
Movie / 1957-09-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Dimitri Tiomkin
Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.
Wagon Train
Television / 1957-09-18 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jack Marshall
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
Black Patch
Movie / 1957-09-15 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil War, takes his job seriously, especially after an old friend, Hank Danner, arrives in ...
Tip on a Dead Jockey
Movie / 1957-09-06 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
Night Passage
Movie / 1957-07-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Dimitri Tiomkin
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
A Hatful of Rain
Movie / 1957-07-17 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Sweet Smell of Success
Movie / 1957-07-04 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.
The Seventh Sin
Movie / 1957-06-28 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Miklós Rózsa
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets booze-soaked Tim. He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character. Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.
The Lonely Man
Movie / 1957-06-21 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Nathan van Cleave
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...