Comedy Movies
Desert Mice (1959)
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to…
The Doctor’s Dilemma (1959)
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
Don’t Panic Chaps! (1959)
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits…
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
Bell Book and Candle (1958)
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead… only to fall in love with him for real.
Rally ‘Round the Flag Boys! (1958)
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in…
Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
Auntie Mame (1958)
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the…
Oil’s Well That Ends Well (1958)
The stooges need money for their father’s operation, so they head for the country to prospect for uranium. Instead of uranium, they discover oil on their father’s property and all…
The Perfect Furlough (1958)
A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsense military psychologist is ordered to accompany him as chaperone to keep him out…
Taxi Trailer and Bullfight (1958)
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
A series of misunderstandings leaves a married man believing he has impregnated the owner of an adoption agency, and that she will be his and his wife’s surrogate.
Houseboat (1958)
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
The Horse’s Mouth (1958)
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the…
The Geisha Boy (1958)
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.
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to…
Onionhead (1958)
An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.
Girls at Sea (1958)
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill Eaton, a charming American…
Damn Yankees (1958)
Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant.
God’s Little Acre (1958)
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity,…
Carry On Sergeant (1958)
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch…
Legs of Gold (1958)
Imitation General (1958)
An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final “Debutante Season.”
Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.
The Matchmaker (1958)
Thornton Wilder’s tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she’s supposed to be pairing with another woman.
Indiscreet (1958)
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while…
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Georgia farm boy Will Stockdale is about to bust with pride. He’s been drafted. Will’s ready. But is Uncle Sam ready for Will?
Wonderful Things (1958)
Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée,…
The High Cost of Loving (1958)
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn’t receive an invitation to an important…
Gigi (1958)
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who’s gone from girlish gawkishness to…
Up the Creek (1958)
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm’s way. But together with Chief…
The Sheepman (1958)
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…