1958
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1. Violent Playground (1958)
108 min | Drama, Crime
The struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a dangerous young pyromaniac.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum, Peter Cushing
Votes: 842
"Violent Playground" (engl.) ===> K153
2. The Screaming Skull (1958)
Unrated | 68 min | Horror, Thriller
A newly married couple arrives at the home of the husband's late wife, where the gardens have been maintained by a gardener faithful to the dead woman's memory. Soon, eerie events lead the new wife to think she's losing her mind.
Director: Alex Nicol | Stars: John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, Tony Johnson
Votes: 3,957
===> "The Screaming Skull" (engl.) (on Box "The Dead Walk")
3. The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
Approved | 81 min | Action, Drama, History
Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp. Knowing that ... See full summary »
Director: Val Guest | Stars: André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Edward Underdown
Votes: 747
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"The Camp on Blood Island" (engl.) (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
4. The Return of Dracula (1958)
PG | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
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.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Francis Lederer, Norma Eberhardt, Ray Stricklyn, John Wengraf
Votes: 1,554
===> K154
5. Horror of Dracula (1958)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror
When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling
Votes: 27,971
DVD: Dracula (german) (Warner Bros. Pictures) ===> K155 BluRay: Lionsgate 3fach box (engl.) ===> Special Edition MediaBook: Dracula (german) (Anolis / Cover A)
6. Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
Unrated | 80 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The criminal exploits of Public Enemy number 1, George 'Machine-Gun' Kelly, during the 1930s.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam, Richard Devon
Votes: 1,979
===> K156
7. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 6,121
DVD: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment ===> K157 MediaBook: Frankensteins Rache (Anolis Mediabook)
8. From Hell to Texas (1958)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Romance, Western
After ranch hand Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher, he panics and flees, but the rancher and his vengeful crew hunt Tod down.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 1,148
===> Koch Media / Koch Media's Western Legenden # 06
9. War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin, Russ Bender
Votes: 2,614
===> Die Rückkehr der Galerie des Grauens 06 / Anolis
10. How to Make a Monster (1958)
Unrated | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke
Votes: 1,518
===> Rückkehr der Galerie des Grauens 03 / Anolis
11. The Haunted Strangler (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Horror
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson, Derek Birch, Dorothy Gordon
Votes: 2,039
engl. ===> K158
12. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Gil Winfield
Votes: 4,801
===> Anolis: Die Galerie des Grauens #5
13. The Snorkel (1958)
Not Rated | 74 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Although the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 1,794
===> "The Snorkel" (engl.) on Box: The Icons of Suspense Collection - Hammer Films / Columbia Pictures
14. The Fly (1958)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall
Votes: 25,658 | Gross: $3.00M
===> 20th Century Fox: Grosse Film-Klassiker
15. Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Needing money, the last member of the Frankenstein family leases his family's castle out to a film company as he tries to continue his ancestor's gruesome experiments to create life.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
Votes: 1,544
===> "Frankenstein - 1970" (engl.) on Box "Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics"
16. I Bury the Living (1958)
Approved | 77 min | Horror
Cemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.
Director: Albert Band | Stars: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer, Howard Smith
Votes: 3,193
(engl.) ===> K159
17. Blood of the Vampire (1958)
Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In 1870s Transylvania, scientist Dr. Callistratus is put to death by villagers who wrongly believe he's a vampire. However, his horribly disfigured henchman, Carl is on hand to orchestrate a life-saving heart transplant.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Donald Wolfit, Vincent Ball, Barbara Shelley, Victor Maddern
Votes: 1,478
DVD1: german: Der phantastische Film 02 / e-m-s DVD2: "Blood of the Vampire" (engl.) Drive In Double Feature-Box
18. Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
An irresistible temptress causes trouble between two brothers when the more handsome charismatic ones turns up, leading to robbery and death.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Diana Dors, George Baker, Terence Morgan, Patrick Allen
Votes: 553
===> "Tread Softly Stranger" (engl.) The Best Of British Collection
19. It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran
Votes: 6,267
===> Anolis: Der Fluch der Galerie des Grauens #1
20. The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)
Approved | 82 min | Western
On a mission to find a missing man in Mexico, gunfighter Brad Ellison learns that life is not as simple as it used to be.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Gilbert Roland, Linda Cristal, Eduard Franz
Votes: 511
===> Koch Media Western Legenden / George Sherman Western-Box
21. Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Not Rated | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer, Ed Nelson
Votes: 2,270
===> Die Rückkehr der Galerie des Grauens 09
22. Carry on Sergeant (1958)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, War
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 what a motley bunch they turn out to be.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 3,005
===> on Box: "Ist ja irre - Carry on Vol. 1" / Studiocanal
23. She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
Approved | 63 min | Adventure
Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell, Jeanne Gerson
Votes: 1,116
===> K160
24. The Brain Eaters (1958)
Approved | 61 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
The inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.
Director: Bruno VeSota | Stars: Ed Nelson, Alan Jay Factor, Cornelius Keefe, Joanna Lee
Votes: 1,804
engl. with german UT ===> K161
25. The Spider (1958)
Passed | 73 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Eugene Persson, Gene Roth
Votes: 3,411
===> Rückkehr der Galerie des Grauens 02 / Anolis
26. Missile to the Moon (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Escaped cons stowaway on a flight to the moon and discover alien women ruled by a sadistic queen.
Director: Richard E. Cunha | Stars: Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens, Tommy Cook
Votes: 1,495
===> Die Rückkehr der Galerie des Grauens / Anolis
27. Frankenstein's Daughter (1958)
Approved | 85 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern-day L.A.
Director: Richard E. Cunha | Stars: John Ashley, Sandra Knight, Donald Murphy, Sally Todd
Votes: 1,254
===> Anolis: Die Galerie des Grauens #8
28. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
G | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Family
When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 14,756 | Gross: $6.98M
===> on "The Best Of Harryhausen Box"
29. The Solitary Child (1958)
64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman's marriage to a gentleman farmer, acquitted of murdering his first wife, nearly leads to her own untimely end.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Philip Friend, Barbara Shelley, Sarah Lawson, Rona Anderson
Votes: 101
===> The British Film / Network
30. Monster on the Campus (1958)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters
Votes: 2,076
===> K162
31. Corridors of Blood (1958)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee, Finlay Currie
Votes: 2,272
engl. Classic Horror // DD Home Entertainment ===> K163
32. Tales of Frankenstein (1958 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 28 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife.
Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: Anton Diffring, Helen Westcott, Don Megowan, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 350
===> engl. on Double Feature with "The Terror" / Alpha Video
33. Teenage Cave Man (1958)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young man defies tribal laws and searches for answers. The result of his quest yields knowledge of past generations.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Darah Marshall, Leslie Bradley, Frank DeKova
Votes: 1,723
===> seen on yoitube (engl.)
34. The Blob (1958)
Approved | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr. | Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland
Votes: 29,372
===> K164
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