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Subgenre Sampler
Throne of Blood (1957)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura - Kurosawa transposes MacBeth into a Samurai setting and the result justifies his reputation. Nothing short of an awesome spectacle Shakespeare himself…
Conqueror, The (1956)- Dir. Dick Powell
Feat. John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz… - Notorious Howard Hughes produced flop with John Wayne woefully miscast as Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. Filmed downwind from a nuclear test site many of…
D-Day - The Sixth of June (1956)- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Edmond O'Brien… - Well–executed enactment of the Normandy landings in WW2, with some extravagent action scenes and solid dramatics.
Fastest Gun Alive, The (1956)- Dir. Russell Rouse
Feat. Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Jeanne Crain… - Modest–scale Western with Ford playing a reformed gunfighter who is not allowed to leave his past behind.
Helen of Troy (1956)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Rossana Podesta, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Niall MacGinnis… - Homer's epic of the Trojan War is treated with Hollywood gloves in this above–average adaptation. Centering around the the ambiguous figure of…
Lone Ranger, The (1956)- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger… - Modest but proficient movie spinoff from the popular 1950s TV series, with the masked one (Moore) and Tonto (Silverheels) taking on a rancher who is…
Seven Men From Now (1956)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin… - Revered, obscure Western from iconoclast Budd Boetticher: Randolph Scott plays a lone rider charged with bringing seven ruthless bank robbers to…
Battle Cry (1955)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Aldo Ray… - Entertaining WWII yarn concerning a squad of American marines romancing and training (in Paekakariki, New Zealand!) before heading off to action in…
Indian Fighter, The (1955)- Dir. Andre De Toth
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau… - Douglas plays a grizzled scout who must negotiate his way through hostile Indian territory on behalf of a wagon–train. Falling in love with a…
Robin Hood: The Movie (1955-1991)- Dir. Ralph Smart, Terence Fisher
Feat. Richard Greene, Leo McKern - A feature film colourized and edited in 1991 from episodes 1,2,3,5,8 & 27 of the 1955 TV Series. Notably, Will Scatlock who dies at the end of…
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