11. Ballad of Narayama ( Narayama bushikô - 1958 )
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Seiji Miyaguchi, Keiko Ogasawara
12. Separate Tables
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Delbert Mann
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper
Plot: Follows a group of residents, and unexpected visitors, at the off-season at the Beauregard Hotel as old flames and new are kindled and secrets uncovered.
13. Auntie Mame
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Morton DaCosta
Actors: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles
Plot: An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.
14. The Vikings
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Plot: Two men, one a viking the other a slave, vie for the attention of a welsh princess.
15. The Young Lions
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Actors: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, Maximilian Schell
16. Mon oncle
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tati
Actors: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider, Jean-François Martial
Plot: Monsieur Hulot visits his sister's family - and enters a world driven by technology. it's a world that he doesn't quite fit into - and as he starts to influence his nephew away from this automated world - his brother-in-law decides to employ him at his factory to keep him occupied.
17. Dracula ( Horror of Dracula )
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh
Plot: After Dr. Van Helsing's partner, Jonathan Harker, fails to kill Dracula at his castle. Dracula seeks revenge on Jonathan's fiancé Lucy and her family.
18. Damn Yankees!
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Actors: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Jean Stapleton, Nathaniel Frey
Plot: The classic stage musical comes to the big screen as a major fan of the Washington Senators makes a pact with the devil in order to make sure his team wins the league pennant.
19. The Fly
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kurt Neumann
Actors: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson
Plot: The plot involves a scientist who is working on a a method of instantly transporting people across space. When he chooses to conduct his first human test on himself, there is literally a fly in the ointment. The transporter mixes up the scientist and a fly that is stowing away in the chamber, creating a monster mash-up: a human with the head and arm of a fly and a fly with the head and arm of a human! Can either survive without the other? Can the scientist find the fly in time to correct the error?
20. Indiscreet
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff, Megs Jenkins
