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Subgenre Sampler
Cockleshell Heroes (1955)- Dir. Jose Ferrer
Feat. Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley… - Fictionalised account of Operation Frankton, a British canoe–borne raid on Bordeaux Harbour during WWII.
Colditz Story, The (1955)- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes - A compulsive and tightly wound prison yarn, set around the supposedly unescapable German POW camp. Britisher John Mills unites prisoners of various…
Confidential Report (Mr. Arkadin) (1955)- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori… - A typically Welles–ian shaggy dog story, with Welles himself playing a possibly insane, Kane–like billionaire, who hires a detective to…
Conquest Of Space (1955)- Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy - Technicolor space adventure that redeems some of its contrived script with whimsical special effects.
Daddy Long Legs (1955)- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore… - An orphaned French teenager (Caron) endears herself to a playboy sophisticate (Astaire), who secretly sponsors her in an American private education.…
Desperate Hours, The (1955)- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy… - A bunch of escaped convicts, led by Bogart, hold a family hostage in this domestic noir thriller based on the Broadway play by Joseph Hayes.…
Doctor at Sea (1955)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot - Dirk Bogarde is once again the eligible MD, in this entertaining second entry in the series taken from Richard Gordon's novels. The crushing boredom…
Dreams (Kvinnodröm; Journey Into Autumn) (1955)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand - Early, flawed Bergman microscope on relationships focuses on two women – a photographer and her model on a fashion shoot – as they…
East of Eden (1955)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey - James Dean's acting debut electrifies the screen in this emotionally charged drama about two brother's rivalry for the love of their father. Based on…
French Can Can (French Cancan, Only the French Can) (1955)- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Michel Piccoli, Dora Doll… - Jean Renoir returned to France after 15 years absence to make this vibrant tribute to the Parisian world of his father, the Impressionist painter…
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