Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3623 Films to Buy & Rent
Killing, The (1956)
- 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, 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…
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.…