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Subgenre Sampler
King and I, The (1956)- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno… - Lush screen adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's broadway show, Anna and the King of Siam. Yul Brynner is unforgettable in the title role.
Kiss Before Dying, A (1956)
- Dir. Gerd Oswald
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward… - The first and best version of Ira Levin's (ROSEMARY'S BABY) early novel, in which status–anxious student Wagner plots the murder of his…
Last Wagon, The (1956)- Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner… - Racially charged western with a vengeful Widmark and a wagon full of bigots under siege from Indians.
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…
Man Escaped, A (1956)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Francois Leterrier - Bresson's films are all extremely controlled in style: no suspense, no histrionics, flat acting, spare and simple camerawork, yet this is an…
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956)- Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March… - Adapted from the novel by Sloan Wilson, this powerful drama evokes the multiple crises of an Madison Avenue advertising executive (Peck), whose…
Man in the Vault (1956)- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. William Campbell, Berry Kroeger, Karen Sharpe - Tommy Dancer is an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary situation – a locksmith forced into a heist by a ruthless mobster and his…
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Doris Day - Hitchcock remakes his 1934 film and generally comes up trumps with James Stewart and Doris Day as the innocent victims of international espionage.…
Man Who Never Was, The (1956)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng… - Riveting adaptation of Ewen Montagu's book about the true story of a British Navy commander's involvement in a tricky scheme to fool the Nazis, by…
Moby Dick (1956)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart - Celebrated version of Herman Melville's classic novel, about a whaler obsessively pursuing the whale that bit off his leg, is flawed but brilliantly…
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