All Films

Eight Brave Brothers 2

1959 • 57 min • Japan

2nd film in the Eight Brave Brothers trilogy

おヤエのもぐり医者

1959 • 56 min • Japan

Gun Number Zero

1959 • 53 min • Japan

Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immediately sold it to Matsuko - another pauper. Soon, the weapon that moves from hand to hand, becomes a tool of many crimes.

Bee Bopped

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

After a short history on bees and bee-keeping, we find Windy the bear's attempts to steal honey from a bee hive (he is teaching his son the "right" way to get honey) only to be attacked by the bee inside. Windy tries a number of attempts to outsmart the bee. He floods the hive, dresses as a queen bee, uses a bathroom plunger to trap the bee (only to get it stuck to various parts of his body) and finally tries to dynamite it, only succeeding in blowing himself up. At the hospital, he is served honey and hotcakes in bed... by a male nurse who looks suspiciously like the bee he just tangled with!

おヤエの女中と幽霊

1959 • 52 min • Japan

おヤエの身替り女中

1959 • 54 min • Japan

A Christmas Carol

1959 • 25 min

Another version of the Dickens classic. Originally an episode of Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens. Later released on home video on it's own.

Oyae no hatsukoi sensei

1959 • 56 min • Japan

A hilarious comedy where newly appointed teacher Oyae shows off her unusual plays as she fights alone against a group of five bad boys.

Eight Brave Brothers

1959 • 58 min • Japan

One day, Yoshimi Satomi, the castle owner of Takita Castle in the country of Anbo, and his confidant Daisuke Kinba, on the way to hunt wild boars, felt sorry for a small dog that was about to be swallowed by a giant snake like a giant tree, and killed the serpent in a fierce battle and saved the puppy. Yoshimi decided to keep the puppy, naming it Hachibo. Now the Serpent Demon is determined to destroy Takita Castle, while Hachibo defends it with his life. His spirit is split into eight, and eight brave warriors must unite to defeat the demoness snake.

Secrets of Fuji

1959 • 60 min • Japan

Early film directed by Eiichi Kudô.

Police Precinct: Car 108

1959 • 54 min • Japan

Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the policeman investigates he is shot and the truck makes its getaway.

おヤエのあんま天國

1959 • 57 min • Japan

Destination Space

1959 • 51 min • United States of America

1959 television science fiction

おヤエのママさん女中

1959 • 52 min • Japan

The Golden Fish

1959 • 19 min • France

The story of a boy who has a goldfish as a pet, and the family cat has other plans for the goldfish, and a canary protects it by distracting the cat.

Dogface

1959 • 26 min • United States of America

This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller’s relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war.

Love Letter

1959 • 40 min • Japan

A nightclub manager is in love with his pianist. However, she has a ranger boyfriend who's been permanently stationed in the mountain wilderness. Their only communication is by letter. As time passes the correspondence slows to a trickle. Then nothing. The manager persuades the girl to visit the boy. She does, but she's totally unprepared for her bizarre discovery.

Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla

1959 • 60 min • Japan

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Tears

1959 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental film.

Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil

1959 • 59 min • Japan

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

Satsujinhan nanatsu no kao

1959 • 51 min • Japan

Japanese crime film

Hijo tehai

1959 • 54 min • Japan

Glenn Gould: On the Record

1959 • 30 min • Canada

This short documentary (the second of two parts) follows Glenn Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist kidding the cab driver, bantering with sound engineers at Columbia Records, and then, alone with the piano, fastidiously recording Bach's Italian Concerto.

The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra

1959 • 60 min

At the beginning of the program, Peter Lawford explains that Frank Sinatra's plans to film his TV special outdoors in sunny Palm Springs have foundered because an extended rainstorm has turned their desert location into a morass of mud. The company is forced to move inside a stark studio instead and delivers their songs with a minimum of props but a maximum of verve.