Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Forever Darling (1956)- Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Lucille Ball, James Mason, Desi Arnaz - The unique talents of Lucille Ball is the strongest aspect of this 'dysfunctional marriage' comedy, starring James Mason as her Guardian Angel. Ball…
Naughty Girl (Cette Sacree Gamine) (1956)- Dir. Michel Boisrond
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Francoise Fabian - A con–artist father leaves his devious minx of a daughter in the hands of a performer who discovers the girl is bent on disrupting his life the…
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead… - Middle–aged widow Jane Wyman fights for the respect of her family and upscale community when she conducts an affair with her ‘gardener’…
Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing (1955)- Dir. Henry King
Feat. William Holden, Jennifer Jones - Romantic splendour set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean war about a married US war correspondent who embarks on a forbidden love affair.
Summertime (Summer Madness) (1955)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda - Katharine Hepburn, middle–aged spinster, flees to Venice on vacation, only for the romance of the city – and a dark, handsome Italian catch…
To Paris with Love (1955)- Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray… - Widowed aristocrat Guinness takes his estranged son to Paris where romantic entanglements await. Tepid romantic comedy fails to rise to the standard…
3 Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain) (1954)- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters… - Likeable, but modest classic in which three women throw coins into the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, to try their romantic luck. Great tourist locales…
Beachcomber, The (1954)- Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden… - Entertaining and deeply silly romantic yarn with prim missionary Johns falling for slovenly Newton as they team up to fight a cholera outbreak on a…
Elephant Walk (1954)- Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch… - Love–triangle melodrama set on Ceylon tea plantation is a tad overblown, with thunder stolen from the good cast by a climactic elephant…
End of the Affair, The (1954)- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills - Original screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s tale of unrequited wartime love, with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson entangled in a brief but illicit…
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