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The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959 . The film Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture , among winning a record-setting eleven Oscars .
A-B
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
4D Man
Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.
Robert Lansing , Lee Meriwether
Science fiction
Produced, written by Jack H. Harris
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
Sidney Miller
Lou Costello , Dorothy Provine
Comedy
Released after Costello's death
Al Capone
Richard Wilson
Rod Steiger , Nehemiah Persoff , James Gregory , Fay Spain
Biography
Allied Artists
Alias Jesse James
Norman Z. McLeod
Bob Hope , Rhonda Fleming
Western comedy
United Artists
The Alligator People
Roy Del Ruth
Beverly Garland , Bruce Bennett
Horror
Fox
Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger
James Stewart , Lee Remick , George C. Scott , Ben Gazzara , Arthur O'Connell , Eve Arden , Joseph N. Welch , Kathryn Grant
Crime drama
Columbia Pictures ; based on a book by Robert Traver ; 7 Oscar nominations
The Angry Hills
Robert Aldrich
Robert Mitchum , Stanley Baker , Gia Scala
War
MGM
The Angry Red Planet
Ib Melchior
Gerald Mohr , Naura Hayden
Science fiction
American-International
The Atomic Submarine
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Arthur Franz , Dick Foran
Science fiction
Allied Artists
Ask Any Girl
Charles Walters
David Niven , Shirley MacLaine , Gig Young , Rod Taylor
Comedy
MGM
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Bernard L. Kowalski
Ken Clarke , Yvette Vickers
Science fiction
American-International
The Bat
Crane Wilbur
Vincent Price , Agnes Moorehead , Darla Hood
Science fiction
Hood's final screen appearance
Battle of the Coral Sea
Paul Wendkos
Cliff Robertson , Gia Scala
Adventure
Columbia
Beast from Haunted Cave
Monte Hellman
Michael Forest , Frank Wolff
Science fiction
The Beat Generation
Charles F. Haas
Mamie Van Doren , Ray Danton , Fay Spain
Drama
MGM
Behemoth, the Sea Monster
Eugène Lourié
Gene Evans , André Morell
Science fiction
Allied Artists
Beloved Infidel
Henry King
Gregory Peck , Deborah Kerr
Biography
Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ben-Hur
William Wyler
Charlton Heston , Stephen Boyd , Jack Hawkins , Martha Scott , Hugh Griffith , Cathy O'Donnell , Sam Jaffe
Drama, Epic
MGM ; won a record 11 Academy Awards ; remake of 1925 silent film
The Best of Everything
Jean Negulesco
Diane Baker , Stephen Boyd , Hope Lange , Louis Jourdan , Suzy Parker
Drama
20th Century Fox ; 2 Oscar nominations
The Big Circus
Joseph M. Newman
Victor Mature , Red Buttons , Rhonda Fleming , David Nelson , Kathryn Grant
Drama
Allied Artists
The Big Fisherman
Frank Borzage
Howard Keel , Susan Kohner , John Saxon
Drama
Buena Vista
The Big Operator
Charles F. Haas
Mickey Rooney , Steve Cochran , Mamie Van Doren
Crime drama
MGM
Blue Denim
Philip Dunne
Carol Lynley , Macdonald Carey , Brandon deWilde
Drama
20th Century Fox
Bonanza Bunny
Bugs Bunny
Animated
Born to Be Loved
Hugo Haas
Carol Morris , Dick Kallman
Drama
A Bucket of Blood
Roger Corman
Dick Miller , Ed Nelson
Horror
But Not for Me
Walter Lang
Clark Gable , Carroll Baker , Lilli Palmer , Lee J. Cobb
Romantic comedy
Paramount
C-D
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
Career
Joseph Anthony
Dean Martin , Tony Franciosa , Carolyn Jones , Shirley MacLaine
Drama
Paramount ; written by Dalton Trumbo ; 3 Oscar nominations
Compulsion
Richard Fleischer
Bradford Dillman , Dean Stockwell , Diane Varsi , Orson Welles
Crime drama
based on Leopold and Loeb
Count Your Blessings
Jean Negulesco
Deborah Kerr , Rossano Brazzi
Drama
MGM
Crime and Punishment U.S.A.
Denis Sanders
George Hamilton , Mary Murphy , Marian Seldes
Crime
Allied Artists
The Crimson Kimono
Samuel Fuller
Victoria Shaw , Glenn Corbett , James Shigeta
Film noir
Columbia
Cuban Rebel Girls
Barry Mahon
Errol Flynn , Beverly Aadland
Drama
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Robert Stevenson
Albert Sharpe , Janet Munro , Sean Connery
Fantasy
Walt Disney
Date with Death
Harold Daniels
Gerald Mohr , Liz Renay
Crime
Day of the Outlaw
André de Toth
Robert Ryan , Burl Ives , Tina Louise
Western
United Artists
The Devil's Disciple
Guy Hamilton
Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas , Laurence Olivier
Drama
United Artists ; based on George Bernard Shaw play
The Diary of Anne Frank
George Stevens
Joseph Schildkraut , Ed Wynn , Shelley Winters , Millie Perkins , Richard Beymer , Diane Baker
Biography
20th Century Fox ; won 3 Academy Awards
Don't Give Up the Ship
Norman Taurog
Jerry Lewis , Dina Merrill , Gale Gordon
Comedy
Paramount
Donald in Mathmagic Land
Clarence Nash
Animation
E-H
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
Edge of Eternity
Don Siegel
Cornel Wilde , Victoria Shaw
Drama
Columbia
The FBI Story
Mervyn LeRoy
James Stewart , Vera Miles
Drama
Warner Bros.
Face of a Fugitive
Paul Wendkos
Fred MacMurray , Myrna Fahey , James Coburn
Western
Columbia
First Man into Space
Robert Day
Marshall Thompson
Science fiction
MGM
The Five Pennies
Melville Shavelson
Danny Kaye , Louis Armstrong
Biography, Musical
story of musician Red Nichols ; 4 Oscar nominations
For the First Time
Rudolph Mate
Mario Lanza , Johanna von Koczian , Zsa Zsa Gabor
Musical
MGM
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Edward L. Cahn
Eduard Franz , Valerie French
Science fiction
United Artists
The Fugitive Kind
Sidney Lumet
Marlon Brando , Joanne Woodward , Anna Magnani
Drama
United Artists
Gangster Story
Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau , Carol Grace
Crime drama
The Gazebo
George Marshall
Glenn Ford , Debbie Reynolds , Carl Reiner
Black comedy
MGM ; based on the play
The Gene Krupa Story
Don Weis
Sal Mineo , Susan Oliver , James Darren
Biography
story of drummer Gene Krupa
The Giant Gila Monster
Ray Kellogg
Don Sullivan, Fred Graham
Science fiction
Gidget
Paul Wendkos
Sandra Dee , Cliff Robertson , James Darren
Comedy
4 film sequels; 2 TV series
Girls Town
Charles F. Haas
Mamie van Doren , Paul Anka
Drama
Anka sings Lonely Boy
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
Charles Guggenheim
Steve McQueen
Drama
United Artists
Green Mansions
Mel Ferrer
Audrey Hepburn , Anthony Perkins
Drama
Based on W. H. Hudson novel
The Gunfight at Dodge City
Joseph M. Newman
Joel McCrea , Julie Adams , John McIntire
Western
United Artists
The Hanging Tree
Delmer Daves
Gary Cooper , Maria Schell , Karl Malden , George C. Scott
Drama
Scott's first film
The Hangman
Michael Curtiz
Robert Taylor , Tina Louise , Fess Parker
Western
Paramount
Happy Anniversary
David Miller
David Niven , Mitzi Gaynor
Comedy
United Artists
Have Rocket, Will Travel
David Lowell Rich
Three Stooges
Science fiction
Columbia
A Hole in the Head
Frank Capra
Frank Sinatra , Edward G. Robinson , Eleanor Parker , Carolyn Jones , Eddie Hodges
Drama
United Artists ; Oscar for song High Hopes
Holiday for Lovers
Henry Levin
Clifton Webb , Jane Wyman , Jill St. John
Comedy
20th Century Fox
The Horse Soldiers
John Ford
John Wayne , William Holden
Western
United Artists
House on Haunted Hill
William Castle
Vincent Price , Elisha Cook, Jr.
Horror
remade in 1999
I-N
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
Imitation of Life
Douglas Sirk
Lana Turner , John Gavin , Sandra Dee , Juanita Moore , Susan Kohner
Drama
2 Oscar nominations; Sirk's final film
The Immoral Mr. Teas
Russ Meyer
Sex comedy
Invisible Invaders
Edward L. Cahn
John Agar
Science fiction
Island of Lost Women
Frank Tuttle
Jeff Richards , Venetia Stevenson
Science fiction
Warner Bros.
It Happened to Jane
Richard Quine
Doris Day , Jack Lemmon , Ernie Kovacs
Comedy
Columbia
It Started with a Kiss
George Marshall
Glenn Ford , Debbie Reynolds
Romantic comedy
MGM
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Bert Stern
Documentary
Newport jazz festival
The Jazz Singer
Ralph Nelson
Jerry Lewis , Anna Maria Alberghetti
Drama
TV film
Jet Over the Atlantic
Byron Haskin
Guy Madison , Virginia Mayo , George Raft
Drama
Inter-Continent Films
Jet Storm
Cy Endfield
Richard Attenborough , Stanley Baker
Drama
John Paul Jones
John Farrow
Robert Stack , Bette Davis , Marisa Pavan
Biography
Warner Bros.
The Journey
Anatole Litvak
Yul Brynner , Deborah Kerr , Robert Morley
Drama
MGM
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Henry Levin
James Mason , Pat Boone , Diane Baker
Science fiction
20th Century Fox ; from novel by Jules Verne
The Killer Shrews
Ray Kellogg
Ken Curtis , James Best
Science fiction
The Last Angry Man
Daniel Mann
Paul Muni , David Wayne
Drama
2 Oscar nominations
Last Train from Gun Hill
John Sturges
Kirk Douglas , Anthony Quinn , Carolyn Jones
Western
Paramount
The Legend of Tom Dooley
Ted Post
Michael Landon , Jo Morrow
Western
Li'l Abner
Melvin Frank
Peter Palmer , Leslie Parrish , Stella Stevens , Howard St. John , Stubby Kaye , Julie Newmar
Musical comedy
based on Al Capp comic strip and stage musical
The Man in the Net
Michael Curtiz
Alan Ladd , Carolyn Jones , Diane Brewster
Film noir
United Artists
The Mating Game
George Marshall
Debbie Reynolds , Tony Randall
Comedy
MGM
The Miracle
Irving Rapper
Carroll Baker , Roger Moore
Drama
Miracle on 34th Street
Ed Wynn , Orson Bean
Fantasy
Made for TV
Muscle Up a Little Closer
Jules White
Three Stooges
Short subject
Never So Few
John Sturges
Frank Sinatra , Steve McQueen , Peter Lawford , Gina Lollobrigida
War drama
MGM
Night of the Ghouls
Ed Wood
Kenne Duncan , Duke Moore
Horror
Night of the Quarter Moon
Hugo Haas
Julie London , Dean Jones
Drama
MGM
No Name on the Bullet
Jack Arnold
Audie Murphy , Joan Evans
Western
Universal
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant , Eva Marie Saint , James Mason , Martin Landau , Leo G. Carroll , Jessie Royce Landis
Suspense
MGM ; 3 Oscar nominations
The Nun's Story
Fred Zinnemann
Audrey Hepburn , Peter Finch , Edith Evans , Peggy Ashcroft
Drama
Warner Bros. ; 8 Oscar nominations
O-S
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
Odds Against Tomorrow
Robert Wise
Harry Belafonte , Shelley Winters
Film noir
United Artists
On the Beach
Stanley Kramer
Gregory Peck , Ava Gardner , Fred Astaire , Anthony Perkins
Science fiction
2 Oscar nominations; BAFTA award for Kramer
Operation Petticoat
Blake Edwards
Cary Grant , Tony Curtis
Comedy
Universal
Pillow Talk
Michael Gordon
Doris Day , Rock Hudson , Tony Randall
Comedy
Universal ; Oscar for screenplay, 5 nominations
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Ed Wood
Bela Lugosi , Vampira , Tor Johnson
Science fiction
influenced film Ed Wood
Porgy and Bess
Otto Preminger
Sidney Poitier , Dorothy Dandridge , Sammy Davis, Jr. , Pearl Bailey , Diahann Carroll , Brock Peters
Musical
music by George Gershwin
Pork Chop Hill
Lewis Milestone
Gregory Peck , Woody Strode , Rip Torn , George Peppard
War
United Artists
Prisoner of the Volga
Victor Tourjansky
John Derek , Elsa Martinelli
Drama
Pull My Daisy
Short subject
Return of the Fly
Edward Bernds
Vincent Price , Brett Halsey
Science fiction
sequel to The Fly
Ride Lonesome
Budd Boetticher
Randolph Scott
Western
Columbia
Rio Bravo
Howard Hawks
John Wayne , Dean Martin , Ricky Nelson , Angie Dickinson , Walter Brennan , Ward Bond
Western
Warner Bros.
The Rookie
George O'Hanlon
Tommy Noonan , Julie Newmar , Peter Marshall
Comedy
20th Century Fox
Say One for Me
Frank Tashlin
Bing Crosby , Debbie Reynolds , Robert Wagner , Ray Walston
Musical
20th Century Fox
The Scapegoat
Robert Hamer
Alec Guinness , Bette Davis
Drama
MGM
Shadows
John Cassavetes
Ben Carruthers , Lelia Goldoni
Drama
The Shaggy Dog
Charles Barton
Fred MacMurray , Tommy Kirk
Comedy
Disney
Shake Hands with the Devil
Michael Anderson
James Cagney , Don Murray , Dana Wynter
Drama
United Artists ; filmed in Ireland
Sleeping Beauty
Clyde Geronimi
Eleanor Audley , Mary Costa
Animated film
Disney
Solomon and Sheba
King Vidor
Yul Brynner , Gina Lollobrigida
Drama
United Artists
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder
Marilyn Monroe , Jack Lemmon , Tony Curtis , George Raft , Pat O'Brien , Joe E. Brown
Comedy
won 3 Golden Globes ; nominated for 6 Oscars
The Sound and the Fury
Martin Ritt
Yul Brynner , Joanne Woodward , Margaret Leighton , Stuart Whitman , Jack Warden
Drama
20th Century Fox ; from book by William Faulkner
Space Invasion of Lapland
Virgil W. Vogel
Barbara Wilson , Robert Burton
Science fiction
A Stranger in My Arms
Helmut Käutner
Jeff Chandler , June Allyson , Mary Astor
War drama
Universal
Suddenly, Last Summer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Katharine Hepburn , Elizabeth Taylor , Montgomery Clift
Drama
Columbia ; written by Tennessee Williams ; Golden Globe for Taylor
A Summer Place
Delmer Daves
Richard Egan , Sandra Dee , Troy Donahue
Drama
based on the novel
T-Z
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
John Guillerman
Gordon Scott , Sean Connery
Adventure
Paramount
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Joseph M. Newman
Denny Miller , Joanna Barnes
Adventure
MGM
Teenage Zombies
Jerry Warren
Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor
Horror
Teenagers from Outer Space
Tom Graeff
Dawn Bender , Bryan Grant
Science fiction
Ten Seconds to Hell
Robert Aldrich
Jack Palance , Jeff Chandler
War
United Artists
Terror Is a Man
Gerardo de Leon
Francis Lederer , Greta Thyssen
Horror
U.S./Philippines production
That Kind of Woman
Sidney Lumet
Sophia Loren , Tab Hunter , Jack Warden
Drama
Paramount
These Thousand Hills
Richard Fleischer
Don Murray , Richard Egan , Lee Remick , Patricia Owens
Western
20th Century Fox
They Came to Cordura
Robert Rossen
Gary Cooper , Rita Hayworth , Van Heflin , Richard Conte , Dick York , Tab Hunter
Western
Columbia
Third Man on the Mountain
Ken Annakin
Michael Rennie , James MacArthur , Janet Munro
Family
Disney
Thunder in the Sun
Russell Rouse
Susan Hayward , Jeff Chandler
Western
Paramount
The Tingler
William Castle
Vincent Price , Judith Evelyn
Science fiction
Columbia
The Trap
Norman Panama
Richard Widmark , Lee J. Cobb , Earl Holliman , Tina Louise
Crime
20th Century Fox
Up Periscope
Gordon Douglas
James Garner , Edmund O'Brien , Andra Martin , Alan Hale, Jr.
War
Warner Bros.
Warlock
Edward Dmytryk
Richard Widmark , Henry Fonda , Anthony Quinn , Dorothy Malone
Western
20th Century Fox
The Wasp Woman
Roger Corman
Susan Cabot , Anthony Eisley
Horror
Westbound
Budd Boetticher
Randolph Scott , Virginia Mayo , Karen Steele
Western
Warner Bros.
The Wild and the Innocent
Jack Sher
Audie Murphy , Joanne Dru , Gilbert Roland
Western
Window Water Baby Moving
Stan Brakhage
Experimental
Woman Obsessed
Henry Hathaway
Susan Hayward , Stephen Boyd
Drama
The Wonderful Country
Robert Parrish
Robert Mitchum , Julie London , Pedro Armendáriz , Albert Dekker , Satchel Paige
Western
United Artists
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Ranald MacDougall
Harry Belafonte , Inger Stevens
Science fiction
MGM
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Michael Anderson
Gary Cooper , Charlton Heston , Michael Redgrave
Thriller
MGM
Yellowstone Kelly
Gordon Douglas
Clint Walker , Edd Byrnes , Ray Danton
Western
Warner Bros.
The Young Captives
Irvin Kershner
Steven Marlo, Luana Patten
Drama
The Young Land
Ted Tetzlaff
Dennis Hopper , Patrick Wayne
Western
The Young Philadelphians
Vincent Sherman
Paul Newman , Barbara Rush , Robert Vaughn , Brian Keith , Alexis Smith
Drama
Warner Bros.
See also
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