Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3626 Films to Buy & Rent
Abominable Snowman (1957)
- Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis
- Hammer Horror's version of the 'yeti' legend has Cushing and Tucker journey to the roof of the world to hunt out the elusive creature. From a…
Across the Bridge (1957)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Marla Landi, Noel Willman…
- An underrated and little–known thriller with Steiger playing a shady accountant on the run from the FBI and Scotland Yard, who tries to make…
Admirable Crichton, The (1957)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes
- Comedy about an impeccable butler (Kenneth More) who becomes the ruler of an aristocratic family when social order is flipped after they all become…
An Affair to Remember (1957)
- Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr
- Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet and decide they're engaged to the wrong people, but their future liaison proves kind of awkward if not dangerous.
Bitter Victory (1957)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens, Ruth Roman…
- Superior war drama is set around a WW2 mission by British commandos in North Africa, trying to retrieve vital papers from a German HQ before…
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Alastair Sim…
- Particularly raucous installment of the popular naughty schoolgirl series; this time their behaviour gets the headmistress thrown in jail and the…
Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Alan Ladd, Sophia Loren, Clifton Webb…
- Greek picaresque with Sophia Loren as a diver who catches the scent of ancient sunken treasure. Mainly memorable for the actress's drenched figure…
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
- Another rousing, grand scale production from director Lean, about a group of British POW's employed by the Japanese to build a bridge, while their…
Brothers Karamazov, The (1957)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom…
- A sumptuous Hollywood version of Dostoyevsky's classic novel of Czarist Russia.
Centred around Karamazov (Cobb) and his four disparate offspring,…
China Gate (1957)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson
- In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy…