31. Gigi
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Eva Gabor, Hermione Gingold, Jacques Bergerac
Plot: A playboy and rich groomed "up and comer" spend time together in a love afair while singing and dancing
32. Night of the Demon ( Curse of the Demon )
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond
Plot: An American psychologist, and occult skeptic, finds himself pitted against a British cult leader over the existence of true evil.
33. Les misérables
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Actors: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, René Fleur, Julienne Paroli, Fernand Ledoux, Edmond Ardisson
Plot: In this French version of Victor Hugo's classic, Jean Gabin portrays Jean Valjean, a minor criminal who escapes his past only to have the determined policeman Javert dog him every step of the way.
34. Eroica
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrzej Munk
Actors: Edward Dziewonski, Kazimierz Rudzki, Barbara Polomska, Henryk Bak, Leon Niemczyk, Mariusz Dmochowski
Plot: BBC television film that dramatises the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica. It carries the tagline ‘The day that changed music forever’.
35. Carve Her Name with Pride
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Actors: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey, Alain Saury, Maurice Ronet
Plot: Violette Szabo is a young woman whose father is English and mother is French, living in London during WWII. She meets a French Army officer, Etienne Szabo stationed in the city, and within three days they become engaged to be married. They have a daughter together; a young girl named Tania, but Etienne never sees her as he is killed fighting in North Africa.
Because of her linguistic skills, the widowed Violette is employed as a spy by the British government. On her first mission, she travels to Rouen to discover how many of the French Resistance movement have survived, but is forced to flee back to England when a Nazi officer discovers her identity.
36. Houseboat
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Melville Shavelson
Actors: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Werner Klemperer, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli
Plot: Cary Grant, a widower with three wound-up children, hires Sophia Loren has a maid/housekeeper. Old school romcom.
37. The Blob
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Actors: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase, John Benson
Plot: A meteoroite delivers a gelatinous creature to earth, which promptly begins devouring the citizens of a nearby small town. The growing "blob" tries its best to terrorize the town, but the ultra-cool Steve McQueen gives the "blob" the cold-shoulder and saves the day!
38. Gunman's Walk
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Phil Karlson
Actors: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edward Platt
Plot: A widowed ranger, with the spirit of the old west inside of him, endeavors to raise his sons in the same manner. But one son, Ed, has a wild streak and he and his brother, Davy find themselves fighting over the same woman. When she chooses Davy, Ed becomes a gunfighter, and wants nothing more than to shine brighter than his brother and father. In the end, it will lead to a deadly confrontation.
39. Bitter Victory
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Christopher Lee, Ruth Roman, Raymond Pellegrin, Anthony Bushell
40. St. Louis Blues
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Allen Reisner
Actors: Nat 'King' Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Ruby Dee, Mahalia Jackson
