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High Society (1956)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra…
- On the button remake of THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, giving the skewed love–triangle tale a musical treatment. Score by Cole Porter.
Hollywood or Bust (1956)
- Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
- Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin try to crash the Hollywood lifestyle, in frenzied style.
Indestructible Man (1956)
- Dir. Jack Pollexfen
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney
- Homicidal maniac Lon Chaney Jnr is revived, post–execution, by a mad scientist, before going on a revenge–spree. Interesting entry for…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates…
- 50's sci–fi masterpiece about alien pods replicating and replacing American townspeople. Whether read as a Communist or McCarthyist parable, it…
It's Great to be Young (1956)
- Dir. Cyril Frankel
Feat. John Mills, Cecil Parker, Jeremy Spenser…
- A British musical comedy in Eastmancolor, starring John Mills as an inspirational high school music teacher who leads his students in revolt against…
Jubal (1956)
- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger
- Vivid Western melodrama from visually gifted director Delmer Daves (3:10 TO YUMA), telling a Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal between two…
Kanal (1956)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar
- The darkest chapter of dir. Wadja's WWII 'Trilogy', is an unremitting portrayal of the last gasps of the 1944 Warsaw uprising. With desperate…
Killer is Loose, The (1956)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
- Film noir about a bank robber who escapes prison and sets out on a revenge mission to bring down the cop the killed his wife. Leaning heavily into…
Killing, The (1956)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
- Brilliantly observed caper movie from the early career of Mr. Kubrick about an ex–con who organises a heist from a racetrack. You'll be glued…
King and Four Queens, The (1956)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes…
- Wily comedy–western with con man Gable ingratiating himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to…