Product Tag - 1959

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    Bleak House

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    Bleak House

    Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959.

    It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson and Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone. The complete series still exists.

    $45.00
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    Noggin the Nog

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    Noggin the Nog

    Noggin the Nog is a popular British children’s character. Noggin himself is a simple, kind and unassuming King of the Northmen in a roughly Viking-age setting, with various fantastic elements such as dragons, flying machines and talking birds.

    $25.00
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    Five Fingers

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    Five Fingers

    Five Fingers is an NBC adventure/drama series set in Europe during the Cold War loosely based on the 1952 film 5 Fingers, starring James Mason and Danielle Darrieux. It ran from October 3, 1959, to January 9, 1960.

    David Hedison starred as 32-year-old Victor Sebastian, an American counterintelligence officer with the code name “Five Fingers”. Luciana Paluzzi played Simone Genet, Sebastian’s secretary and romantic interest. Paul Burke played Robertson, Sebastian’s contact man.

    Five Fingers itself was based on the book Operation Cicero by L.C. Moyzisch and on the memoirs of Elyesa Bazna. Bazna was something of an antihero in real life; the television series transformed the character from a World War II-era mercenary Albanian into a Cold War era heroic American. Sebastian posed as a Communist to gain information on party activities. His public cover was that of a theatrical booking agent for clubs and cafes throughout Europe.

    $64.00
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    13 Demon Street

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    13 Demon Street

    13 Demon Street is a Swedish horror television series that aired between 1959 and 1960 in American syndication. Thirteen 25-minute episodes were produced.

    Lon Chaney Jr. was the host, introducing each episode from his ‘home’ at 13 Demon Street. Condemned for some shockingly atrocious crime, Chaney’s purpose in relating the series’ stories was to convince viewers that the crimes presented in them were worse than his, thus freeing him from his purgatory. This was hard for audiences to judge, however, because Chaney’s original crime was never specified.

    Three episodes of the series were edited together to make a theatrical feature called The Devil’s Messenger, in which Chaney’s character was reconfigured as Satan himself. Chaney filmed new wraparound segments to link the chosen episodes, which were ‘The Photograph’, ‘The Girl in the Glacier’ and ‘Condemned in Crystal’.

    $60.00
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    Lock Up

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    Lock Up

    Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.

    $56.00
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    The Man and the Challenge

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    The Man and the Challenge

    The Man and the Challenge is a 36-segment half-hour television adventure/science fiction series which ran new episodes on NBC from September 12, 1959, to June 11, 1960. It starred George Nader as Dr. Glenn Barton, a research scientist for the Institute of Human Factors, an agency that conducted experiments designed to measure human endurance for the United States government. The series was produced by Ivan Tors.

    Nader’s costars included Jack Ging as Dan Wright, Michael Masters as Bill Locke, the Canadian-born Joyce Meadows as Lynn Allen, and Michael Keith as Matt Adams. The episodes focused on various individuals setting world records of strength, endurance, and mastery of various difficult skills.

    The program also featured appearances by Bethel Leslie as Eleanor Beck in “The Early Warning”, Ted Knight, as Dr. Herter in the episode “Daredevils”, and Raymond Bailey, in the role of Dr. Kramer on the series opener “The Sphere of No Return”. Joining Knight in that segment was Paul Burke.

    $48.00
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    Our Man in Havana (1959)

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    Our Man in Havana (1959)

    Is a light hearted and satirical tale of political espionage and intrigue in pre-Castro Cuba.

    $15.00
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    Nujum Pa' Blalang (1959)

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    Nujum Pa’ Blalang (1959)

    Pak Belalang was the laziest person in Pohon Beringin village. He has a son named Belalang. It all started when Belalang managed to trick two thieves, Badan and Nyawa, who had just stolen two cows and two goats. Not knowing who the rightful owners are, Belalang asked his father to be an astrologer. When the rightful owners complained to the village headman of their missing animals, Belalang told them to seek his father’s help. Naturally Belalang and his father knew the exact locations of the missing animals. Soon the village people recognized him as a great astrologer. When the Sultan Shahrul Nizam’s treasures were stolen by Badan and Nyawa, the village headman suggested to the Sultan to consult Pak Belalang the astrologer not realizing that Pak Belalang was a fake. Pak Belalang panicked and hid himself in a cave.

    $15.00
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    Ben-Hur (1959)

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    Ben-Hur (1959)

    Ben-Hur is a 1959 epic film directed by William Wyler, the third film version of Civil War vet Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It premiered at Loew’s State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959. The movie’s reputation as a classic is primarily based on two spectacular action sequences: the great chariot race and a Roman naval battle, along with lavish production values and strong performances. The plot of Ben Hur revolves around a Jewish prince who is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend and how he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. However, instead he finds redemption in Christ, the theme is ultimately about being saved in the Christian sense. The film went on to win a record of eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Charlton Heston as Ben Hur). This record-setting Oscars sweep has since been equaled by Titanic in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004, but never broken.

    $15.00
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    Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)

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    Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)

    Errol Flynn, playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Batista. The film was shot, with Castro’s cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista.

    $15.00
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    Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

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    Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

    The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.

    $15.00
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    Please Turn Over (1959)

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    Please Turn Over (1959)

    The orderly suburban life of a 1950’s English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.

    $15.00
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