"Hayley Mills Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film ""Tiger Bay"" (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's ""Pollyanna"" (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt"
"shock value, and influenced many films to come."" He further argued that Louis and Veronique were an important precursor to the controversial young couple of Jean-Luc Godard's better-known ""Breathless"" (1960). Calef's novel has been filmed twice since Malle's version: one by Japanese filmmaker Akira Ogata in 2010 as well as a Russian adaptation by Stanislav Govorukhin titled ""Weekend"" in 2013. Elevator to the Gallows Elevator to the Gallows (; previously known as ""Frantic"" in the US), also known as Lift to the Scaffold (UK), is a 1958 French crime film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet"
"claiming he is not interested in the truth. Bovard, however, wants to quit being a lawman and go west to become a lawyer instead. Bishop breaks out of jail, but Mac lets him go. Buck wants to marry Selah, but she is beholden now to Mac. The Hangman (1959 film) The Hangman is a 1959 film directed by Michael Curtiz. It stars Robert Taylor and Tina Louise. The film is based on the short story of the same name by Luke Short. Marshal Mac Bovard, known as the Hangman for his success at seeing guilty men die for their crimes,"
"necklace in a gift shop while on vacation with his family, director/screenwriter David Swift called the studio to have the item recalled immediately, as it was not a quote from Lincoln, but actually a paraphrasing of a line from Eleanor Porter's original 1913 novel that was written for the film. Pollyanna (1960 film) Pollyanna is a 1960 live action drama Walt Disney Productions feature film, starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan, in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. Based on the novel ""Pollyanna"" (1913) by Eleanor H."
"The Hangman (1959 film) The Hangman is a 1959 film directed by Michael Curtiz. It stars Robert Taylor and Tina Louise. The film is based on the short story of the same name by Luke Short. Marshal Mac Bovard, known as the Hangman for his success at seeing guilty men die for their crimes, rounds up three of four outlaws suspected in a robbery that resulted in the murder of his brother. Two are hanged. The third is needed to identify John Butterfield, whose face Mac has never seen. Butterfield's former girlfriend, Selah Jennison, works at Fort Kenton doing laundry."
"1959 Cannes Film Festival The 12th Cannes Film Festival was held from 30 April to 15 May 1959. The Palme d'Or went to the ""Orfeu Negro"" by Marcel Camus. The festival opened with ""Les Quatre Cents Coups"", directed by François Truffaut and closed with ""The Diary of Anne Frank"", directed by George Stevens. In 1959, the Marché du Film (lit. Film Market) was established as the business counterpart of the Cannes Film Festival, with the aim of helping meet the needs of film industry professionals. Before this year the market was held unofficially in the cinemas of the rue d'Antibes"
"genre was ""Tiger Bay"" (1959), starring John Mills; it introduced cinema audiences to Mills' daughter Hayley and German actor Horst Buchholz. Hayley Mills also earned a BAFTA for Most Promising Newcomer portraying a 12-year-old girl who refuses to betray a sailor accused of murder. Thompson followed this with ""I Aim at the Stars"" (1960). Thompson vaulted to international fame with ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1961) as a last-minute replacement for director Alexander Mackendrick. His take-charge attitude during its production earned him the nickname 'Mighty Mouse' from lead actor Gregory Peck. ""The Guns of Navarone"", a Second World War epic filmed"
"Elevator to the Gallows Elevator to the Gallows (; previously known as ""Frantic"" in the US), also known as Lift to the Scaffold (UK), is a 1958 French crime film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as criminal lovers whose perfect crime begins to unravel when Ronet is trapped in an elevator. The scenario was adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by Noël Calef. Associated by some critics with the film noir style, and introducing new narrative and editing techniques, the film is considered an important work in establishing the Nouvelle Vague and"
"the set was tense, and he threw frequent tantrums. At the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, Dillman, Stockwell, and Welles won the Best Actor Award. The film was nominated for the BAFTA best picture of the year, Richard Fleischer was nominated for best director by Directors Guild of America, and Richard Murphy was nominated for best screenplay by the Writers Guild of America. Compulsion (1959 film) Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which in turn was a fictionalized account of"
"Libel (film) Libel is a 1959 British drama filmstarring Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley. The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll. The film's location shots included Longleat House, Wiltshire (fictionalised as ""Ingworth House"") and London. While traveling in London, Jeffrey Buckenham (Paul Massie), a World War II pilot veteran from Canada, sees Baronet Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon (Dirk Bogarde) on television, leading a tour of his ancestral home in England. Buckenham recalls that he was held in"
"Pollyanna (1960 film) Pollyanna is a 1960 live action drama Walt Disney Productions feature film, starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan, in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. Based on the novel ""Pollyanna"" (1913) by Eleanor H. Porter, the film was written and directed by David Swift. The film marks Mills's first of six films for Disney, and it won the actress an Academy Juvenile Award. Pollyanna, a 12-year-old orphaned daughter of missionaries, arrives in the small town of Harrington to live with her rich and strict"
"Compulsion (1959 film) Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which in turn was a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial. It was the first film produced by Richard D. Zanuck. Although the principal roles are played by Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman, top billing went to Orson Welles. Close friends Judd Steiner (based on Nathan Leopold and played by Dean Stockwell) and Artie Strauss (based on Richard Loeb and played by Bradford Dillman) kill a boy"
"Coral Reefs (film) Coral Reefs (French title: Le Récif de corail) is a 1939 French language motion picture adventure drama directed by Maurice Gleize. The screenplay was written by Charles Spaak, based on novel by Jean Martet. The film stars Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Renoir and Gina Manès. It tells the story of a charged innocent Mexican sailor who escapes to a lagoon in the Pacific Ocean. He meets with a lonely girl in the woods, having an affair. However his current gunrunning operation is noticed by an earnest detective. In the atmosphere fascinating of the southern continent, all"
"non-history buffs who would make up a large part of the audience."" The Horse Soldiers The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, a fictionalized version of Grierson's Raid in Mississippi. The film was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, which in turn was based on the historic 17-day Grierson's Raid and Battle of Newton's"
"Purple Noon Purple Noon (Original: Plein soleil) (Italian: Delitto in pieno sole) (a. k. a. Full Sun, Blazing Sun, Lust for Evil, and Talented Mr. Ripley) is a 1960 French-Italian film directed by René Clément, loosely based on the 1955 novel ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" by Patricia Highsmith. The film stars Alain Delon in his first major film, along with Maurice Ronet (as Philippe Greenleaf) and Marie Laforêt (as Marge); Romy Schneider appears briefly in an uncredited role as Freddie Miles' companion, and (an expatriate American actor well liked in France) plays Greenleaf's friend Freddy Miles. The film, principally in"
"Whirlpool (1959 film) Whirlpool is a 1959 British crime film directed by Lewis Allen. The score from Ron Goodwin established him as a film composer. A beautiful girl Lora (Juliette Gréco) asks Rolph (O. W. Fischer) if she can travel on his barge down the Rhine. Rolph agrees to this and helps her to escape the clutches of murderer Herman (William Sylvester), who is obsessed with Lora. The local police approach Rolph and ask him to work together with them to lure Herman on board the barge using Lora as bait. Herman manages to hide on board and then takes"
"Whistle Down the Wind (film) Whistle Down the Wind is a 1961 British film, directed by Bryan Forbes and with screenplay by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. The film is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Mary Hayley Bell and stars her daughter, Hayley Mills. Mills was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. In 2005 the British Film Institute included it in their list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. The plot follows the lives of three Lancashire farm children who discover a fugitive hiding in their"
"The Little Soldier The Little Soldier () is a 1960 French film, written and directed by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, but not released until 1963. It was Godard's first film with Anna Karina, who starred as Véronica Dreyer alongside Michel Subor (as Bruno Forestier). During the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier lives in Geneva to escape the enlistment in France. Working for French intelligence, he is ordered to kill Palivoda, who is pro-FLN (National Liberation Front of Algeria), to prove he is not a double agent. Refusal and hesitation keep him from carrying out the assassination. Meanwhile, he meets and falls"
"Paris"" released Henri Crolla's album ""Le Long des Rues Compilation"" which included two soundtracks from this film, ""Lotterie"" (Lottery) and ""Usine"" (Factory). The Golden Fish (film) The Golden Fish () is a 1959 French short film directed by Edmond Séchan. It won an Academy Award in 1960 for Best Short Subject. The film, which has a musical score but no dialogue tells of a boy, a golden fish, and a black cat. The boy leaves school, comes home to his apartment, feeds his bird, and goes out with a glass bottle and two coins. The boy sees his mother walking"
"Jules and Jim Jules and Jim ( ) is a 1962 French New Wave romantic drama film, directed, produced and written by François Truffaut. Set around the time of World War I, it describes a tragic love triangle involving French Bohemian Jim (Henri Serre), his shy Austrian friend Jules (Oskar Werner), and Jules's girlfriend and later wife Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). The film is based on Henri-Pierre Roché's 1953 semi-autobiographical novel describing his relationship with young writer Franz Hessel and Helen Grund, whom Hessel married. Truffaut came across the book in the mid-1950s whilst browsing through some secondhand books at a"
"Wilde 1955: ""The White Sheep of the Family"" by L. duGarde Peach and Ian Hay, ""Accent on Youth"" by Samson Raphaelson, ""Sabrina Fair"" by Samuel A. Taylor"" 1954: ""The Merchant of Venice"" by William Shakespeare 1952: ""Hay Fever"" by Noël Coward 1951: ""The Silver Whistle"" by Robert E. MacEnroe Oct 1949: ""The Madwoman of Chaillot"" by Jean Giraudoux, directed by Norman Earl Thomson May 1949: ""Night Must Fall"" by Emlyn Williams Apr 1949: ""Miss Fingernail"" by Beryl Kent, directed by George Mackie + ""Hecuba"" by Euripides, directed by Burton Crane Nov 1896: ""A Lesson in Love"" by Charles Smith Cheltnam"
"John Guillermin and ""The Vicious Circle"" (1957). More popular with the public were the war films: ""Dunkirk"" (1958), the second most popular film of the year in Britain; ""Ice Cold in Alex"" (1958), directed by J. Lee Thompson; and ""I Was Monty's Double""'(1958), directed by Guillermin. In the 1959 crime drama ""Tiger Bay"", directed by Thompson, Mills played a police detective investigating a murder that a young girl has witnessed. His daughter Hayley was cast, and earned excellent reviews. Mills went to Australia to play a cane cutter in the Hollywood financed ""Summer of the Seventeenth Doll"" (1959). Better received"
"shorter and free to the over-12s. Bel Ami (1939 film) Bel Ami is a 1939 German film directed by Willi Forst. It is loosely based on Guy de Maupassant's novel ""Bel Ami"", with considerable changes to the original plot. In Paris, in about 1900, George Duroy, just returned from Morocco, spends a night with the singer Rachel, who is rehearsing the song ""Bel Ami"". Later at a party he tells the newspaper editor Forestier about Morocco. At the request of the ladies present Duroy is engaged by Walter, proprietor of ""La Vie Française"", as a journalist. Forestier's wife Madeleine, who"
"a gun battle Catalan and Bibi are killed. The police, who had been alerted by Lisette, take the lightly wounded Henri back to headquarters, where the whole drug ring from Paul downwards has been arrested. Revealing himself to be an undercover police inspector, Henri looks forward to interrogating them. Razzia sur la chnouf Razzia sur la chnouf (French for ""Raid on the Dope"") is a 1955 French gangster film directed by Henri Decoin that stars Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Lila Kedrova and Magali Noël. The screenplay, based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton, explores the contemporary drug scene in"
"Story (28 September 1958) <br> Black Ivory (5 October 1958) <br> The Robbery (12 October 1958) <br> No Place To Hide (26 October 1958) <br> The Mortimer Touch (2 November 1958) <br> Shadowed Light (16 November 1958) <br> Ghost Country (30 November 1958) <br> The Sickness (14 December 1958) <br> Snake in the Grass (28 December 1958) <br> The Speculator (11 January 1959) <br> Hell Hath No Fury (25 January 1959)<br> The Trek (8 February 1959) <br> Knave of Diamonds (22 February 1959) <br> Witness to Murder (8 March 1959) <br> The Deadly 20 Minutes (22 March 1959) African Patrol"
"The Horse Soldiers The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, a fictionalized version of Grierson's Raid in Mississippi. The film was loosely based on Harold Sinclair's 1956 novel of the same name, which in turn was based on the historic 17-day Grierson's Raid and Battle of Newton's Station in Mississippi during the Civil War. In April 1863, Colonel Benjamin"
"at the sleeping Paul's head, only to hear just an empty click. Later, Paul, not realizing that the pistol has a bullet in it, points it playfully at Charles, whose panic-stricken gesticulations are not enough to dissuade Paul from pulling the trigger, thereby killing Charles. The doorbell rings and Paul goes to open it with the gun in his hand. The movie ends before Paul reaches the door. Les Cousins (film) Les Cousins is a 1959 French New Wave drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It tells the story of two cousins, the decadent Paul and the naive Charles. Charles"
"Enid Bagnold, directed by Val Stavridi Oct 1960: ""The Seven Year Itch"" by George Axelrod May 1960: ""Breath of Spring"" by Peter Coke Feb 1960: ""Witness for the Prosecution"" by Agatha Christie Dec 1959: ""The Rainmaker"" by N. Richard Nash Oct 1959: ""The Lady's Not for Burning"" by Christopher Fry"" May 1959: ""The Playboy of the Western World"" by John Millington Synge Mar 1959: ""And Then There Were None"" by Agatha Christie Dec 1958: ""Our Town"" by Thornton Wilder Oct 1958: ""The Waltz of the Toreadors"" by Jean Anouilh, directed by George Furness May 1958: ""The Tiger at the Gate"""
"Age"" (1949) directed by Edmond T. Gréville, ""Only Two Can Play"" (1962) co-starring Peter Sellers and directed by Sidney Gilliat, and ""The Witches"" (1990), an adaptation of Roald Dahl's book directed by Nicolas Roeg. Having gained a reputation as a sex symbol in dramas and thrillers, she was equally effective in comedies, and also was very active in British television in the 50s and 60s. She began directing in the early 1960s, starting with political documentaries and a short film called ""The War Game"" (1962), which was nominated for a BAFTA award, and won a Silver Lion at Venice. Her"
"a cinematographer on Truffaut's short film ""Une Visite"" (1954) and Rohmer's short ""Bérénice"" (1954). Eager to make a feature film, he talked about elaborate adaptions of works by André Gide, Raymond Radiguet and Ernst Jünger. With financial support from Chabrol and producer Pierre Braunberger, Rivette made the 35mm short film ""Le Coup du Berger"" (1956). Written by Rivette, Chabrol and Bitsch, the film is about a young girl who receives a mink coat from her lover and must hide it from her husband; spoken commentary by Rivette describes the action like moves in a chess game. Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Jean-Claude"
"""Philippe Greenleaf"" in the French adaptation of ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (""Plein soleil"", René Clément, 1960). Ronet's defining role reunited him with Malle and Jeanne Moreau, in their finest collaboration: ""Le feu follet"" (""The Fire Within"", 1963). Playing an alcoholic writer, his indelible portrayal of depression and suicide garnered him the highest acclaim of his prolific career. He was awarded France's Étoile de Cristal (Crystal Star) and the prize for Best Actor at the 1965 São Paulo Film Festival; the film also won a Special Jury Prize at the 1963 Venice Film Festival. He was also a collaborator of Claude"
"hardship because of the heat. The Female (1959 film) The Female (, ), released in the United Kingdom as A Woman Like Satan, is a 1959 French-Italian drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It is the third adaptation of the novel ""La Femme et le pantin"" by Pierre Louÿs. Mateo Diaz is a wealthy gentleman who loves and respects his wife but doesn't find her attractive any longer because she is paralysed. He already has a certain reputation among women. Accordingly, he doesn't hesitate to get close to Eva Marchand as soon as he has realised her beauty. But to"
"Richebé; ""Voice of Silence"" (1953), an Italian film from G. W. Pabst; ""Inside a Girls' Dormitory"" (1953); ""Julietta"" (1953) for Marc Allegret with Dany Robin and Jeanne Moreau; the all-star ""Boum sur Paris"" (1953); and ""The Faith Healer"" (1954). Marais starred in a version of ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" (1954) that was hugely popular He did ""Princess of Cleves"" (1961) for Delannoy with Marina Vlady based on a script by Cocteau. It was back to swashbuckling with ""Captain Fracasse"" (1961) for director Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and ""Blood on His Sword"" (1961) for Hunebelle. Marais has a support role in ""Napoléon"