List of British films of 1959

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1959 (see 1959 in film):

## 1959

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Title  | Director  | Cast  | Genre  | Notes

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The 39 Steps | Ralph Thomas | Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Barry Jones | Thriller | Remake of the 1935 film
Alive and Kicking | Cyril Frankel | Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Stanley Holloway | Comedy |
The Bandit of Zhobe | John Gilling | Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey, Anthony Newley | Adventure |
The Battle of the Sexes | Charles Crichton | Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings | Comedy |
Behemoth, the Sea Monster | Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox | Gene Evans, André Morell, Jack MacGowran | Sci-fi |
Blind Date | Joseph Losey | Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle | Crime |
Bobbikins | Robert Day | Shirley Jones, Max Bygraves, Billie Whitelaw | Comedy |
The Boy and the Bridge | Kevin McClory | Ian Maclaine, Liam Redmond | Drama |
Breakout | Peter Graham Scott | Lee Patterson, Hazel Court | Drama |
The Bridal Path | Frank Launder | Bill Travers, George Cole | Comedy |
The Captain's Table | Jack Lee | John Gregson, Peggy Cummins | Comedy |
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. | Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell | Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers | Comedy |
Carry On Nurse | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims | Comedy |
Carry On Teacher | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor | Comedy |
The Cat Gang | Darrell Catling | Francesca Annis, John Pike | Family/adventure |
Crash Drive | Max Varnel | Dermot Walsh, Wendy Williams | Drama |
The Crowning Touch | David Eady | Ted Ray, Greta Gynt | Comedy |
Danger List | Leslie Arliss | Philip Friend, Honor Blackman | Drama | Short film
Danger Within | Don Chaffey | Richard Todd, Bernard Lee | World War II |
The Dawn Killer | Donald Taylor | Jeremy Bulloch, Sally Bulloch | Thriller |
Deadly Record | Lawrence Huntington | Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley | Mystery | [1]
Desert Mice | Michael Relph | Alfred Marks, Sid James | World War II comedy |
The Desperate Man | Peter Maxwell | Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland | Crime |
Devil's Bait | Peter Graham Scott | Geoffrey Keen, Jane Hylton, Gordon Jackson | Drama | [2]
The Devil's Disciple | Guy Hamilton | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier | Drama | Adaption of the play by George Bernard Shaw
Don't Panic Chaps! | George Pollock | Dennis Price, George Cole | Comedy |
Express Bongo | Val Guest | Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard | Musical |
Ferry to Hong Kong | Lewis Gilbert | Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms | Adventure |
First Man into Space | Robert Day | Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi | Sci Fi/Horror |
Floods of Fear | Charles Crichton | Howard Keel, Anne Heywood | Thriller |
Follow a Star | Robert Asher | Norman Wisdom, June Laverick | Comedy/musical |
Friends and Neighbours | Gordon Parry | Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins | Comedy |
The Heart of a Man | Herbert Wilcox | Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood | Drama |
Hidden Homicide | Tony Young | Griffith Jones, Patricia Laffan | Mystery | [3]
Honeymoon | Michael Powell | Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina | Drama |
Horrors of the Black Museum | Arthur Crabtree | Michael Gough, June Cunningham | Horror |
The Hound of the Baskervilles | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, André Morell | Mystery |
The House of the Seven Hawks | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey | Mystery |
Idol on Parade | John Gilling | Anthony Newley, Sid James | Comedy |
I'm All Right Jack | John Boulting | Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough | Comedy | Number 47 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
In the Wake of a Stranger | David Eady | Tony Wright, Shirley Eaton | Thriller |
Jack the Ripper | Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne | Crime |
Jet Storm | Cy Endfield | Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Diane Cilento | Thriller |
Killers of Kilimanjaro | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey | African Adventure |
The Lady Is a Square | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott | Musical/romance |
Left Right and Centre | Sidney Gilliat | Ian Carmichael | Comedy/romance |
Libel | Anthony Asquith | Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland | Drama |
Life in Danger | Terry Bishop | Derren Nesbitt, Julie Hopkins | Crime | [4]
Life in Emergency Ward 10 | Robert Day | Michael Craig, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Drama |
Look Back in Anger | Tony Richardson | Richard Burton, Claire Bloom | Drama |
Make Mine a Million | Lance Comfort | Arthur Askey, Sid James | Comedy |
The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Terence Fisher | Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee | Horror |
The Man Who Liked Funerals | David Eady | Leslie Phillips, Susan Beaumont | Comedy |
Model for Murder | Terry Bishop | Keith Andes, Hazel Court | Crime |
The Mouse That Roared | Jack Arnold | Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, Leo McKern | Comedy |
The Mummy | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee | Horror | Universal; Remake of 1932 film
Naked Fury | Charles Saunders | Reed De Rouen, Kenneth Cope | Crime |
The Navy Lark | Gordon Parry | Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips | Comedy |
The Night We Dropped a Clanger | Darcy Conyers | Brian Rix, Cecil Parker | Comedy |
No Trees in the Street | J. Lee Thompson | Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom | Thriller |
North West Frontier | J. Lee Thompson | Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall | Adventure |
Operation Amsterdam | Michael McCarthy | Peter Finch, Eva Bartok | World War II Action |
Operation Bullshine | Gilbert Gunn | Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray | World War II Comedy |
Our Man in Havana | Carol Reed | Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara | Spy/comedy |
Please Turn Over | Gerald Thomas | Ted Ray, Leslie Phillips, Julia Lockwood | Comedy |
The Price of Silence | Montgomery Tully | Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn | Crime |
Room at the Top | Jack Clayton | Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit | Drama | Number 32 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of two Academy Awards, three BAFTAs and an award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival
The Rough and the Smooth | Robert Siodmak | Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton | Drama |
Sapphire | Basil Dearden | Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell | Drama |
The Scapegoat | Robert Hamer | Alec Guinness, Bette Davis | Crime |
Serious Charge | Terence Young | Anthony Quayle, Sarah Churchill | Drama |
The Shakedown | John Lemont | Terence Morgan, Hazel Court | Crime |
The Siege of Pinchgut | Harry Watt | Aldo Ray, Heather Sears | Action | Filmed in Australia; entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival
SOS Pacific | Guy Green | Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough | Thriller |
The Square Peg | John Paddy Carstairs | Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman | World War II Comedy |
Strictly Confidential | Charles Saunders | Richard Murdoch, William Kendall | Comedy |
Subway in the Sky | Muriel Box | Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef | Crime |
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Leslie Norman | Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter | Comedy/drama | Co-production with Australia
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | John Guillermin | Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane | African adventure |
Tiger Bay | J. Lee Thompson | John Mills, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz | Crime/Thriller |
Tommy the Toreador | John Paddy Carstairs | Tommy Steele, Janet Munro | Musical comedy |
Too Many Crooks | Mario Zampi | Terry-Thomas, George Cole | Comedy |
Top Floor Girl | Max Varnel | Kay Callard, Neil Hallett | Drama |
A Touch of Larceny | Guy Hamilton | James Mason, George Sanders | Comedy |
The Treasure of San Teresa | Alvin Rakoff | Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams | Thriller | Also known as Hot Money Girl
The Ugly Duckling | Lance Comfort | Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee | Comedy |
Upstairs and Downstairs | Ralph Thomas | Michael Craig, Anne Heywood | Comedy |
Violent Moment | Sidney Hayers | Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton | Drama |
Web of Evidence | Jack Cardiff | Van Johnson, Vera Miles | Thriller |
Whirlpool | Lewis Allen | Juliette Gréco, Muriel Pavlow, Marius Goring | Drama | [5]
The Witness | Geoffrey Muller | Dermot Walsh, Greta Gynt | Crime | [6]
Woman's Temptation | Godfrey Grayson | Patricia Driscoll, Robert Ayres, Neil Hallett | Crime |
The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Michael Anderson | Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave | Thriller |
Wrong Number | Vernon Sewell | Peter Reynolds, Lisa Gastoni, Olive Sloane | Crime |
Yesterday's Enemy | Val Guest | Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern | World War II |

## See also

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* 1959 in British music
* 1959 in British television
* 1959 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Deadly Record". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on February 22, 2019.
2. ^ "Devil's Bait". IMDb.com.
3. ^ "Hidden Homicide (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on March 20, 2018.
4. ^ "Life in Danger (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on February 22, 2019.
5. ^ "Whirlpool (1959)". Film Affinity.com.
6. ^ "Witness, The (1959) - Overview". Turner Classic Movies.

## External links

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* British films of 1959 at IMDb

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* Aardman Animations
* Arborfield Studios
* BBC Film
* Big Talk Studios
* British Lion Films
* DNA Films
* DNEG
* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
* Film4 Productions
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* Goldcrest Films
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* Thin Man Films
* Vertigo Films
* Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
* Warp Films
* Wimbledon Studios
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* Amicus Productions
* Associated British Picture Corporation
* Astra Films
* British and Dominions
* British Instructional Films
* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Eros Films
* Esher Studios
* G. B. Samuelson Productions
* Gainsborough Pictures
* Gate Studios
* General Film Distributors
* Halas and Batchelor
* Hemdale Film Corporation
* Hepworth Pictures
* Holmfirth Studios
* Ideal Film Company
* Jellyfish Pictures
* Kensington Studios
* London Film Company
* Mancunian Films
* MGM-British Studios
* Merton Park Studios
* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
* Stoll Pictures
* Surbiton Studios
* Tempean Films
* Tigon British Film Productions
* Warwick Films
* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

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* British New Wave
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* Gainsborough melodramas

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