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Subgenre Sampler
Searchers, The (1956)
- Dir. John Ford
Feat. John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles… - A grand example of what made this such a popular genre. A disturbed John Wayne treks the untamed wilderness in a five–year odyssey to kill the…
Smiley (1956)- Dir. Anthony Kimmins
Feat. Ralph Richardson, John McCallum, Chips Rafferty… - An iconic, simple depiction of smalltown life in rural 1950s Australia, loosely revolving around the life of a young boy, whose father is a nomadic…
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Paul Newman - Paul Newman laces on the gloves in this round of boxing biography, playing NYC heavyweight Rocky Graziano with true Method–acting guts.…
Spanish Gardener, The (1956)- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sir Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack… - Curious father/son drama with Bogarde in the title role forming a close relationship with a young boy much to his father's envy. Narrative wise…
Star in the Dust (1956)- Dir. Charles Haas
Feat. John Agar, Richard Boone, Mamie Van Doren… - Psychological western with Agar as a sheriff caught between farmers and cattlemen who disagree the impending execution of a gunman.
Teahouse of the August Moon, The (1956)- Dir. Daniel Mann
Feat. Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo… - Dated culture clash comedy with Glenn Ford as an American GI charged with teaching democracy to the inhabitants of a small Japanese…
Ten Commandments, The (1956)- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter… - The director remakes his 1923 silent epic with improved results and Charlton Heston as Moses, who battles the odds to lead the Israelites to the…
The Buccaneers (1956)- Dir. C.M. Pennington-Richards
Feat. Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond, Paul Hansard - Frisky frolics on the high seas with Robert Shaw as a former pirate pardoned by the English King and now given to policing the Caribbean
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett - Resolute Sirk melodrama tugs at the heartstrings of a disenchanted family man whose chance encounter with an old–flame compels his children to…
Three Worlds of Jacques Cousteau, The (The Silent World, World Without Sun, Voyage to the Edge of the World) (1956-1976)- Dir. Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle
- A trilogy of award–winning documentary feature films from famed oceanogragher, Jacques Cousteau. The Silent World (1956) won the Palm D'Or…
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