Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Hell Drivers (Hard Drivers) (1957)- Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Sir Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom… - Stanley Baker plays a hard–nosed trucker forced to take on a dangerous long haul, through which a bitter rivalry develops with a fellow driver…
Pride and the Passion, The (1957)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren… - A solemn epic set around Napoleon's campaign in Spain in the early 19th century – the cast doing their sincere best with a fairly passionless…
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…
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