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Subgenre Sampler

 
High SocietyHigh Society (1956) Recommended
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 BustHollywood 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 ManIndestructible 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 SnatchersInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Aro Favourite
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 YoungIt'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…
JubalJubal (1956) Recommended
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…
KanalKanal (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, TheKiller 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, TheKilling, The (1956) Aro Favourite
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, TheKing 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…

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