Film & TV Productions

Johnny Staccato

Television / 1959-09-10 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1

Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring performances by the Pete Candoli jazz combo which included Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell, Red Norvo and Johnny Williams. The theme was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

La cento chilometri

Movie / 1959-09-09 / Italy / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Armando Trovajoli

During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations

Cast a Long Shadow

Movie / 1959-08-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Gerald Fried

A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.

Caltiki il mostro immortale

Movie / 1959-08-07 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Roberto Nicolosi

Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.

North By Northwest

Movie / 1959-08-06 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2

Composed by Bernard Herrmann

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Blue Denim

Movie / 1959-07-30 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Bernard Herrmann

Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.

Il terrore dei barbari

Movie / 1959-06-30 / Italy / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Les Baxter

When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

Shake Hands with the Devil

Movie / 1959-06-24 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by William Alwyn

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

John Paul Jones

Movie / 1959-06-16 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Max Steiner

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

The Horse Soldiers

Movie / 1959-06-11 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by David Buttolph

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.

The Rabbit Trap

Movie / 1959-06-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Jack Marshall

A man must choose between work or his family after he is called back to work during a family vacation. He and his son have set a harmless rabbit trap in the woods near the cabin they are vacationing in. When the family returns home they realize that they forget to retrieve the trap and the son fears that a rabbit will be captured and die a slow death from starvation. The man is in line for a promotion, yet feels that he is under appreciated by his boss. He must choose whether or not to follow his instincts and do the right thing or possibly lose the promotion he has worked long and hard for.

Woman Obsessed

Movie / 1959-05-27 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Hugo Friedhofer

After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

Warlock

Movie / 1959-05-15 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Leigh Harline

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.

These Thousand Hills

Movie / 1959-05-07 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Leigh Harline

A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.

Face of a Fugitive

Movie / 1959-05-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Jerry Goldsmith

A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him.

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Movie / 1959-05-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Miklós Rózsa

Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.

Horrors of the Black Museum

Movie / 1959-04-29 / United Kingdom / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0

Composer tba

A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.

Il marito bello: Il nemico di mia moglie

Movie / 1959-03-28 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Lelio Luttazzi

Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.

Some Like It Hot

Movie / 1959-03-19 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Adolph Deutsch

Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as the gangsters close in.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Movie / 1959-03-18 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Alfred Newman

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Rio Bravo

Movie / 1959-03-08 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Dimitri Tiomkin

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Sleeping Beauty

Movie / 1959-02-17 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1

Composed by George Bruns

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.

Soledad

Movie / 1959-02-07 / Italy / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1

Composed by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Soledad and Miguel are two young people in a romantic relationship. Don Ramón, a wealthy stranger, arrives in their small town and marries Soledad. Miguel leaves town and wanders aimlessly throughout the region with a peddler.

City of Fear

Movie / 1959-02-01 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1