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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 .
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Il Generale della Rovere ( General della Rovere ), directed by Roberto Rossellini , Italy / France La grande guerra ( The Great War ), directed by Mario Monicelli , Italy / France
A scene from the movie. Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film [1] directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
The film stars Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman as the perpetrators (called 'Judd Steiner' and 'Artie Straus' in the film), and Orson Welles as their defense attorney (based on Clarence Darrow). Diane Varsi, E. G. Marshall, and Martin Milner play supporting roles. The film was released by 20th Century-Fox on April 1, 1959. It received ...
Operation Petticoat was a huge box office hit, earning over $9.3 million in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada, [1] which made it the third highest-grossing film of 1959, the highest-domestic-grossing comedy of all-time up to that point, [13] as well as the most financially successful film of Cary Grant's career.
1959 in American cinema (8 P) 1959 film awards (11 P) B. ... Pages in category "1959 in film" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 American adventure war film set during the American Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. ...
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1959 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.